New Underwater photo gallery:
This gallery covers some new underwater highlights including the whale sharks from Donsol, a tiger shark from Tubbataha, a swimming monkey named Moy from Palawan, and, of course, some new clown fish photos. (Click here to see the photo essay--63 photos)
~ posted 8.20.2007
Northern India & Rajasthan:
Sometimes dirty, usually chaotic, and always interesting, exploring India can never be boring. Highlights included attending a teaching by the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, and hitching a ride with an Indian Army transport with Kris and Kristen after a Himalayan jeep road was washed out by heavy rain. (Click here to see the photo essay--75 photos)
~ posted 8.20.2007
Kathmandu to Annapurna
I spent July in Nepal with my friend Steve. He was in Nepal for almost two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, is fluent in Nepali and definitely knows his way around. Among the highlights were staying with his host family in a village named Dadhikot and hiking the Annapurna Base Camp trek. (Click here to see the photo essay--55 photos)
~ posted 8.20.2007

Apologies to Indiana Jones for borrowing his font and that quote, somehow it seemed to fit--I guess I've been listening to the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" score a little too much while trying to update the site.

Anyways, Indy's quote seems to somehow describe how busy things have been for me over the last nearly two years since I was able to get in an update of this site. That's all for the excuses--I've added some new sections of photos to cover some of the long overdue highlights. There's an updated version of the best underwater shots from around the philippines, a Palawan sea kayak adventure with Kris and Kristen which very nearly had us drifting to Malaysia and certain doom, a gallery of shots from the Tubbataha UNESCO World Heritage site, a month in Nepal with my great friend Steve, six weeks in India and finally a few weeks in Thailand that happened to coincide with the overthrow of the government.
~ posted 8.20.2007

Tubbataha Reef survey:
In April 2006 I was very lucky to be invited by Angelique Songco, the manager of the Tubbataha UNESCO World Heritage Reef, to join her staff aboard the WWF research vessel Minerva (thanks again Angelique!). This gallery includes highlights from our week in the middle of the Sulu Sea with Angelique and her amazing staff of Park Rangers who protect the reef from poachers who travel from from as far away as China. It's an incredible place with a huge variety of large pelagic fish, sharks, and more sea turtles in one day than I think I had previously seen in the past year. (Click here to see the photo essay--26 photos)
~ posted 8.20.2007
Bangkok Coup - September 2006
On the way back to the Philippines from India, I stopped off in Thailand for two weeks to work on a magazine assignment for Mabuhay magazine, learned to make cashew chicken at May Kaidee's wonderful cooking school, and finally got in a visit to the north and the area around Chiang Mai. As it turned out, I was also in Bangkok when a military coup overthrew the government. (Click here to see the photo essay--49 photos)
~ posted 8.20.2007

 

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