I met Paul on Twitter. For anyone who tells me that Twitter is a waste of time, I tell them about the wonderful people I now know but have never actually met. The people who have made a difference to me and how they’ve enriched my world. But I’m veering off topic…. Paul hails from [...]
In the early days of the hit reality tv show “I’m a Celebrity…”, the so called “Bush Tucker Trials” were fairly entertaining. But, like all these shows, the producers have to keep the audience engaged and their solution to this has been to give the hapless celebrities more and more revolting things to do. This [...]
We got really frustrated a couple of years back when we were selling the London house. So many people just come to snoop, some come just to see how low an offer they can make and others come to fill in time because they are bored. We could always pick the time wasters as they [...]
The opportunity of a lifetime came my way. A chance to fly by helicopter to a remote coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef with award winning photographer and shark expert, Richard Fitzpatrick. A coral cay is a small sandy island which forms on the reef. Some are large enough to support inhabitants but many [...]
This is a lovely story about how Ken Thaiday turned from poacher to gamekeeper. I met Ken while I was in Queensland at Canopy Art Space, a gallery dedicated to exhibiting work by indigenous artists from Far North Queensland and Torres Strait Island. He told me how he was once a fisherman, catching sharks to sell [...]
Every so often, I read about seawalking and always wonder…. what is it really like? Is it a good introduction to the underwater world? Sea walking is a fairly new tourist attraction which is growing in popularity. The process is simple – a large glass dome is placed over your head and, as you descend [...]
As a diver, I’ve never been drawn to underwater photography. For many years, I’ve watched as divers prepare their cameras before getting in the water. It always seemed complicated and far too much like hard work. Confusing terms like ‘white balance’ left me cold. And many divers seemed so obsessed with taking that one perfect [...]
Sitting in just 11 metres of water, high above the Arctic Circle in Mercy Bay, lies the HMS Investigator. Mercy Bay, 800 km north of Inuvik in Canada’s North West Territories, is a punishing environment. 160 years ago, the Investigator, a British vessel, became trapped in the ice after being despatched to search for the [...]
Come on Australia, if you want divers to come, give us a break on our luggage allowances. I’m sat in Cairns Airport writing this after being charged AU$50.00 per kilo excess baggage by the local airline, Jetstar. Now, I wouldn’t mind if it was because I’d packed too many pairs of shoes but it was [...]
I’ve just met Ben Southall as part of a trip to the Great Barrier Reef with Tourism Queensland and took the opportunity to ask him 7 Questions. Born and bred in the UK, Ben famously won the “Best Job in the “World” competition and is now the official Ambassador for Queensland Tourism. 1. What inspired [...]
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