Hi all, more blogs on the way! Leaving the U.K. for Australia on monday Cheers, Paul [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone. i am on my way home now and excited to see all of you. i get back into houston late on the 28th and will be there for 5 days before heading back to fort collins. give me a call seeing as i no longer know how to opperate a telephone. i miss you all and i'll see you soon. ps. here are the pictures i promised from last time. [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone!, hope all is well in the states, i will be joining you back there in a few weeks now. Phase 12 here in seychelles is winding down. we have spotted a few more whale sharks since i last wrote you. the biggest was just over 7 metres (~25 ft). and my week on curieuse island was also a highlight although it was a bit crazy because i was in charge of a group of 4 volunteers on a remote island. while we were over there we were busy building the house which will eventually house the new GVI seychelles [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, Sorry its been a while, i have been keeping busy out here leading dives and hanging out with megafauna. We work 14 hour days here and don't get much of a weekend, but the diving and the people make it worthwhile. last week on the safety stop of a LIT dive i was leading, we spotted a 13 ft. manta ray cruising by. Other than diving me and karen the other intern have been busy preparing lesson plans for community work with the international school kids. I will be off to Curieuse island next week to lead my [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, Hope all is well back in the states, sorry i havn't written in a while, but i have been quite busy with this intern position. I have been leading about 8 dives a week with the new volunteers teaching them their fish and coral and they are nearly ready to be surveying. Last week on Anzac day, after a coral spot dive, we got to swim with and 8 foot manta ray that wandered into the bay, which is the highlight of this phase so far. Lately we have been busy fixing our other boat, Dexter Crabtree, which [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, i managed to return from kenya without being mauled or mugged. The safari was amazing and we saw everything i had hoped to. my favorite was maasai mara national reserve and seeing mt. kenya and kilimanjaro. comming home to the seychelles was refreshing but there has been a lot of work to do to get ready for the next phase. There are 24 new volunteers arriving tommorow, most of which have little diving experience so the first couple of weeks should be quite hectic. since i don't have much time here on the internet i will spend the [View Full Entry]

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hey all just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that i am still alive. Kenya has been amazing! we just finished our 7 day safari through Masai mara reserve and all the parks in the rift valley. We've seen so many amazing things : lions devouring a water buffallo, a cheetah with 3 cubs, elephants, leopards, rhinos, hippos, crocs, and have taken hundreds of pictures ( i'll send some of the best as soon as i can). We have rented an appartment on the coast for the rest of our trip ( for about 5$ a night) [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, Hope everyone is well and enjoying the spring weather. its hot as hell here, but i'm loving it. i havn't been in to town lately because i despise civilization and it is becoming a chore, but hearing from all of you makes it worth while. Silhoutte was just as beautiful as the first time. we saw 3 groups of turtle hatchlings which ranks pretty high on the most amazing things i've ever seen list. also the weather was beautiful and i got to climb every day. we are now in the interphase part where all the expedition members [View Full Entry]

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hey everyone, just wanted to write a quick entry to let everyone know i'm still alive. i will be heading back to silhouette for another week to hang out with the turtles. also GVI has asked me to stay on as an intern for the next phase and i couldn't pass it up. So after a 2 week trip to Kenya i will be back in the seychelles for another 10 weeks as staff (scary thought that i will be in charge of paying expedition members.) i apologize for the lack of pictures in this entry, but i promise plenty of [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody, just rolled into victoria for the last time in a while. i am leaving this saturday to spend a week on sillhoutte island doing turtle hatchling surveys and hangin out with the native giant tortoises hector, carl, and the rest. the previous groups have seen lots of nesting turtles so it is likely that we will see plenty of hatchlings. yesterday marked the end of the first five weeks and we had our five week bbq. Plenty of fried yard bird and hot dogs (the first meat we've had on base) rum punch, complete with pineapple that i gathered [View Full Entry]

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