Pura Vida Just a short blog of my mini break from camp. 5 nights in a Best Western in Liberia. Claudia dropped me off in La Guardia from the camp, then public bus into Liberia, had to stand all the way, 30 mins, as the bus was full. The driver kept sorting his change out as we were driving so little bit scary lol. Checked in and first stop hot shower then down shops to pick up some flora de cana, rum. Also bought myself a new phone so may be able to message when back at camp. Also bought the camp some gifts! Tea towels and some clothes pegs lol we needed both. Booked a day trip to Vida adventure park which was an hour drive then seven zip lines, hour horse riding and a ... read more

Hola! Made it safely to Liberia and picked up by Javi the project lead at Cabuyal Leatherback project, he is from Southern Spain. We stopped for some food and a beer before driving 40 mins to the camp, the last leg of the journey included an unsurfaced road, a river crossing and the final section a muddy trail to the camp entrance, only reachable by 4 x 4. Four other people already at the camp, Emma (volunteer) from Seattle, Claudia (Turtle research assistant) from Mexico, Adam from California and Kelsey from Ohio, both the latter completing their theses for their Biology Masters serving as research assistants. Emma heads off similar time to me in early Dec and the others are all here until March! There is a larger Leatherback project a couple of hours away on ... read more

Time for another adventure! I have been planning this since Dec 2016, sold my franchise end March, then 6 months of painting and house projects. Plus travel bookings and purchases. All gone well except a slight leg injury in last week!!! Tackled by a clothes horse.... So just a short blog to test and relearn how to use this site, plus give a plan of my next 8 mths. For those of you who followed for my 2010 travels, you know that you will receive an email with a link to latest published blog. Like this one! NB I wont have daily access to the internet most of the time so either a weekly or bi weekly blogs. So I fly out to Costa Rica on 4th October direct flight from Gatwick. Then 6 hours of ... read more

G 'day all, Just a short blog as I am finally leaving Baldivis, time for a holiday break! lol Leaving here tomorrow evening to catch the train into Perth (Peggy catching with me), then the bus to the airport for my overnight flight to Cairns, arriving around 4 in the morning! The last few weeks I have been basically doing same as last blog, working outside or inside the house doing jobs then stopping mid afternoon for a beer in the sun and maybe a dip in the pool! Fixed the indoor spa which was leaking, well fixed the leak then the pump would not work! So fixed the pump too! Had to fix Andis repair to the wooden pool fence (he put a screw into irrigation pipe!), we also spent the morning digging out some ... read more

G'day all, hope you all well. Mary, Dennis and Ant dropped me off in Darwin City centre where I would be staying for a couple of days, a rest after working hard for two weeks! Left my backpack in the hostel storeage as can not check in until one and yes you have guessed it went for a wander around Darwin. It was only nine in the morning and it was already really hot getting into the thirties at midday. First visit was a macdonalds Mcmuffin and a coffee and some free wifi before walking through town and down to the harbour waterfront. The harbour or wharf area has lots of new buildings mainly residential flats , restaraunts, wave pool and a sandy cove for safe swimming away from jellyfish, sharks and crocs. I visited some ... read more