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Here are some images from our time in Vietnam….. have a look and let us know what you think….
IMAGES OF VIETNAM

Oman is a special country and we have been treated to its beauty time and time again, and we have not left the capital Muscat yet. Yesterday we spent a day on Andy’s yacht (Andy works on dolphin and whale research, but more about all that later) and Rob’s semi-rigid boat looking for sperm whales. [...]

We have finally put together a quick clip of some of the images we acquired in China…. follow the link to have a look: Sorry for the quality, but to upload HD images it will take 8 hours for a 900MB clip, so we just reduce the quality for easy upload.
CHINA IMAGES FROM MOVING SUSHI
Our [...]

We left for Oman after getting the window fixed and then we camped just before the Omani border. The next morning we ventured to the border and once we got there it became apparent that having a right hand drive vehicle was going to be rather problematic because the last right hand drive vehicle to [...]

I arrived in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) in the early hours of the morning of the 4th of February 2010. The flight had been long and unfortunately some poor man had died on the flight and so it had been a rather drama filled trip. Once I was through customs I walked outside into [...]

Its 7 am and we have been up since 4. According to the ticket Elise and her bus should have arrived at terminal 1 at the airport at 4:15…..and so far all we had been privy to were streams of disembarking passengers and a few wary glances form the airport staff and we moved between [...]

Linda, Elise and I were planning to go to Oman today, which is only 120 km from Dubai, but yesterday while replacing my toolbox that went wondering between Japan and Dubai, and replacing 2 wheels on the car, I decided to overtake a parked truck and managed to get things horribly wrong. Basically I drove [...]

AFRICAN DIVER ARTICLE PUBLISHED FEATURING JAPAN
(www.africandiver.com) by Mike Markovina
(Follow the link at the bottom for the published version with pictures)
UNDERSTANDING CULTURES BEFORE MAKING JUDGEMENTS – lessons learned….
Abalone, a prized shellfish and considered an aphrodisiac in Asia is the subject to destructive poaching involving communities and corrupt organized crime units alike along the Western Cape [...]

RETHINKING CONSERVATION – by Mike Markovina (Pictures of China have been posted on the gallery page)

Dead fish showed hemorrhaging under the skin and multiple open lesions as they lined the high water mark alongside dead snakes, birds and a rat. Raw sewage poured out of the numerous outlets onto the beach and flowed directly into [...]

We have put together an article in African Diver magazine on our thoughts towards conservation in Japan.. Have a read and let us know what you think:
Follow this link:
African Diver Magazine Article on Japan
The sponsor report will be out in the next two days, we will post it once circulated.