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Underwater encounters – soft coral, skull caves and bioluminescent birdwatching

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 26th Aug 202025th Aug 2020
  • Travel

Skulls caves, waterfalls, bioluminescent birdwatching. Sometimes the most amazing diving is not the most memorable part of an adventure. A trip to Tawali Dive Resort in Papua New Guinea helped me discover one of my […]

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Underwater encounters – Octopus gardens and shark stacks

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 19th Aug 202015th Aug 2020
  • Science communication

“It was winter and the water was a chilly 14 degrees. I inhaled sharply as it soaked through my wetsuit, 7 millimetres of neoprene doesn’t stop you getting goose bumps. Ignoring the cold, we kept […]

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Underwater encounters – Can you make friends with fish?

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 2nd Aug 2020
  • Science communication

To some people, fish seem completely devoid of personality. You’ve seen one fish you’ve seen them all. In my experience this hasn’t been true. A few years ago, I volunteered at the research station on […]

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Underwater encounters – dancing sharks and moody fish

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 24th Jul 2020
  • Science communication

For the second post in this series I interviewed a special guest. Let me introduce Paul Baskys, a dive instructor who lived and dived in Papua New Guinea for three years. I sat down with […]

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Underwater encounters – shallow water secrets

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 17th Jul 2020
  • Nature

I’d like to share a little secret. One of my favourite encounters occurred in water that didn’t even reach my knees. Let me explain. I was on holiday last year at Lissenung Island, a speck […]

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Gotta catch ‘em all! – Rainy day citizen scientist fun

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 4th Apr 2020
  • Science communication

All images in this post are screenshots from the website, please visit https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/birgus2/western-shield-camera-watch to find out how you can participate in the Western Shield project Now I don’t know about you guys but I’m struggling. […]

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Road Tripping- South West WA: Part 3

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 28th Mar 202028th Mar 2020
  • Exploring WA

Our last two days in WA were full of exploring and food – what’s not to love! Waking up early we headed to Busselton Jetty for a stroll. Only locals were going for their morning […]

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Road tripping – South West WA: Part 2

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 9th Mar 20209th Mar 2020
  • Animals

We found an unexpected aspect to tourism in West Australia. For every couple of natural places free to explore, there is one human made heritage feature locked away. We first encountered this at Cape Naturaliste […]

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Road tripping – South West WA: part 1

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 23rd Feb 202023rd Feb 2020
  • Exploring WA

We were back on the road together at last, heading south along the West Australia coastline. There’s no better feeling then eight days of exploring ahead of you! Mitch’s flight arrived around 3pm so it […]

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Exploring Ningaloo- week 9 (last week!)

  • by swimmingwombat
  • Posted on 15th Feb 202015th Feb 2020
  • Animals

Today marks the start of the last week of my internship. I was up at 5am to go look for turtles at Five Mile, hoping to see some hatchlings. A cyclone was building further to […]

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