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South Australia has (in my opinion...) some of the best diving in Australia and one of the very best locations is Edithburgh at the tip of the Yorke Pennisula. The pylons of Edithburgh's jetty are intensively coated in dense, rich and vibrant sponges, while the general flotsam and jetsom under...

It has been called “the premier marine attraction on the planet”... A touch of hype perhaps, but I can vouch for the fact that of all the big animal encounters I have personally experienced, the annual aggregation of Giant Australian Cuttlefish is up there in my top five! It happens from...

These rather strange but quite unique creatures live in rivers across western and south-western Japan. As its common and Latin names (Andrias japonicus) suggests… They are an endemic species of Japan that are both protected under Japanese federal legislation and formally nominated as a special...

About 5 years ago I went on my first "big animal" trip and got well and truly hooked.... I ended up working my way through an ever evolving bucket list. The thing is that conversation with other people on the specific trip (usually over an adult beverage or two) almost always turns to where else...

I spent nearly two weeks diving the Witu Islands in PNG's New Britain Province in December and have written a full trip report on it on my site. Here is the link to Diving the Witu Islands All the wide-angle images were taken with a Nikon D500 and 8-15mm lens in a Nauticam housing with the...

I recently purchased a pair of the new high-end, Italian ONEUW One160X strobes and used them everyday on a two-week road trip in South Australia to dive the magnificent jetties and revisit the incredible annual aggregation of Giant Australian Cuttlefish. I was very impressed with them, so...

I am looking at two liveaboard trips next year to the deep south of Sudan. Unfortunately I cannot get back-to-back trips and it looks like I will have to spend 4 days in Port Sudan in between the trips. So I was thinking about doing some day diving and so far I have found one shop that seems to...

In March last year I made the epic journey to the Ogasawara Islands to photograph the northern hemisphere humpback whales that visit the archipelago every winter. The Ogasawara Islands are one of the most isolated and remote parts of Japan. Getting there requires a 24-hour journey on the...

South Africa has been on my personal wish list for quite some time and in the last year or so I have made three trips there - two to experience the sharks of the Protea Banks and the third for the incredible Sardine Run. The Protea Banks are located about 8kms offshore from the town of Margate...

Last year I made the marathon journey from Sydney to south-east Mexico, near the border with Belize, to photograph the American Crocodiles of Banco Chinchorro. It was what you might call an intense experience, but one that I really enjoyed! I documented the whole thing in an extensive six-page...

The current issue of X-Ray dive magazine features a comprehensive article of mine on the annual Australian Giant Cuttlefish aggregation at Whyalla in South Australia - plus I got front cover, if that is the right terminology for a PDF format downloadable mag.... The annual aggregation is an...

As some of you may have seen I have been working on a personal project to document what I have learned from my trips to Papua New Guinea over the last 19 years and started with a post on Understanding PNG that linked back to an anchor page on my site that provided insight into the country...

I have been working on a personal project to document on my site what I have learned from my trips to Papua New Guinea over the last 19 years.... It's a complex and often misunderstood country that suffers from a terrible reputation, but one that (in my opinion) really rewards the regular...

Spent the last couple of days updating my site and creating a comprehensive guide to cage-diving with the Australian Great White Shark. I have done numerous trips since my first one back on 1998 when we spent a week out at the Neptune Islands and did not see a single shark... Been back many...

Last year I spent nearly three weeks in Tonga to swim with and photograph the humpback whales that migrate there every southern winter. It really was an all-round incredible experience and being in the water with these huge "gentle giants" was simply amazing. We had lots of encounters ranging...

I have just completed a complete update of the Australian Grey Nurse Shark section on my site. The Grey Nurse is a large and iconic Australian animal that suffered so badly during the 1960's from the perception it was a man-eater that on the east coast it was persecuted to the point where its...

Last year I went back to Timor Leste after a 4 year gap to spend 10 days diving Atauro Island in the Ombai Strait, about 30kms north of the capital Dili. I had some great dives and have finally gotten round to finishing the editing of my images from that trip and putting together a location...

The latest issue of Anima Mundi magazine has an 18 page article of mine detailing my experiences with the Manatees of the Crystal River. My favorite image from the trip also got the front cover.... You can use this link to download the Manatees of the Crystal River article. I have also...

X-Ray magazine has just published a 10 page article of mine that documents the incredible diving in New Britain's Kimbe Bay and the extensive efforts being made to protect and conserve it. You can download it on this link to Papua New Guinea, Kimbe Bay – The Coral Crucible Don

I have finally finished updating the location guide to Tufi in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. Less well known than Milne Bay and Kimbe Bay, Tufi is actually one of my favorite locations in PNG as it offers really good diving at certain times of the year combined with spectacular above water...