Horned Lizards of Santa Monica
I found myself staying in Los Angeles for a couple of nights for a business trip. Meeting and flight times […]
Bornean Chorus Frog – Life in the Pitcher
The dark, wet rainforests of Borneo provide the perfect habitat for amphibians. The problem for an amphibian fanatic and photographer […]
Singapore’s Downtown Otter Family
The unforgiving sun beat down on the skillet-hot concrete. My business attire was uncomfortably inappropriate for these conditions. Another trickle […]
Proboscis Monkeys – A Borneo Drama
The little green boat gurgled and spluttered her way along the sleepy backwater that fed Borneo’s mighty Kinabatangan River. The […]
The City State Saltwater Crocodiles
It was over a decade ago that I first heard rumours about wild crocodiles living in Singapore. There had been […]
The Pelicans of La Jolla Cove
The conference in San Diego was at an end and I woke up with a morning to kill ahead of […]
The Hunt – Equatorial Spitting Cobra
The jagged edges of the crushed stone track stabbed painfully into my knee. I felt the sting of yet another […]
The Wildlife of the Kinabatangan
The twin Yamaha 150 horsepower engines gurgled and spluttered to life, as the boat chugged away from the Sandakan dock […]
Harbour Seals of Monterey Bay
The waters of Monterey Bay are a veritable stew of wildlife. The great and the good of marine biodiversity swim […]
The King and I – Search for the King Cobra
The little island of Singapore has an abundance of wildlife. The government strategy is to evolve from a Garden City […]
The Cemetery Squirrels – European Red
It was a scorcher of a day in Munich. I had arrived in the great Bavarian city after a long […]
Black Cockatoos in Sydney
I first encountered Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos entirely by accident. Full disclosure; I didn’t even know these majestic birds lived in […]
Tropicbirds of Grand Turk
I stood on the deck of the tiny vacation home and gazed dreamily at the turquoise ocean that rolled out […]
Where to See a Sea Otter
It was daybreak on a chilly morning in Northern California. The rising sun was painting her first golden strokes across […]
The search for a Water Dragon in Sydney
My mission was simple; to find and photograph the Eastern Water Dragon. I was on a short trip to Sydney, […]
Where to See Whales
The boat spluttered out of Elkhorn Slough, nosing cautiously into the open water of Monterey Bay. A chilling cloak of fog […]
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