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Not Quite Swimming With Dolphins

As a child, I always wanted to swim with dolphins. And if I’m honest, as an adult as well.

Swimming with dolphins has become a cliché in the repertoire of half-formed dreams, wishes and wonderings of those who realise that their time on this earth is limited. Yet…

Gold Dust & Magic Mud – A Glacier Tour in Alaska

Bright white and blue – that’s the typical image of a glacier, isn’t it? Milky glacial water, iridescent ice and a sky full of sunshine or perhaps the swirl of falling snow.

The Baird Glacier in southeast Alaska has a rather different chemistry…

Camouflage in Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana

I’m offline in the ice of Alaska at the moment (I know, poor me) – but here’s a photo for now: an impala in the Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana

The Safari Symphony- The Okavango Delta, Botswana

Despite the stillness of the water, there’s no sound of silence. Insects skim across the reeds with a soft buzz and woodpeckers…

Does Size Matter? Inside Europe’s Largest Aquarium…

The Oceanográfico forms part of the spectacular City of Arts & Sciences complex in Valencia. As the largest aquarium in Europe…it makes me uneasy.

Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright – How and Where to Find You

“We’ve been here all week,” say the first couple we meet in Sawai Madhopur, when we ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind.

Hot Springs for Stressed Monkeys, Japan

Japan has no shortage ofonsen, natural hot springs where people dip in and out of skin-scalding pools in order to soak, scrub and just relax and say ahhhhh.

Yet in Jigokudani Yaenkoen, macaque monkeys got there first.

How Whales Saved Fishermen

Pedro Martina’s sun-worn face lights up as he grabs my shoulder and points into the distance.
“Three of them are under the water now,” he says. It’s certainly not the first time Pedro has hunted whales…

Tracking Panda Bears in China

With only 2000 pandas left on the planet, they can be tricky to track down. In Chengdu

Turtle Safaris – Saltwater & Scepticism

These days, I take promises of viewing exotic wildlife with more than a pinch of saltwater. Particularly endangered species. To find pandas I had to travel for days. To glimpse a tiger, I shivered morning and night under a blanket of frost.
But to see turtles in Barbados? I only needed to…