9 & 20 June 2010 The strong culture of Papua New Guinea shines through during a sing-sing - a gathering of performers from a village who sing and dance to show off their ethnicity and their traditional rituals. It is powerful, as all earthy performances are and we have been so fortunate to see two performances from [...]
5 - 15 June 2010 We have been on idyllic Lissenung Island Resort since June 5 and have spent wonderful time catching up with our friends Dietmar and Ange Amon, the owners and operators of this lovely little dive resort in the Pacific. In the past, Dietmar and Ange have house sat for us while we were [...]
13 May - 3 June 2010 Restorf Island, Kimbe Bay Dickie's Place, Witu Islands The many shoals and sea mounts in Kimbe Bay are popular to many divers in the lookout for sharks, schooling fish in the blue and some tunas passing through. But one type of dive that's not everyone's cup of tea and [...]
25 May - 3 June 2009 Brandford Shoal, Kimbe Bay Kilibob's Knob, Father's, Kimbe Bay Dickie's Place, Garove Island, Witu Islands Sporting an all new white look, the famous liveaboard FeBrina is anchored inside the inactive Witu crater of Garove Island where cryptic creatures awaited us underwater Alan Raabe is the well loved captain [...]
13 – 25 May 2010 Walindi Plantation Resort Australians Max and his wife Cecilie were agriculturists when they bought an oil palm plantation in West New Britain, PNG in 1969. The Benjamins' plantation is an 800 acre property along the western shore of Kimbe Bay. Running through the property is a creek called Walindi in the local [...]
Many thanks to Tansy Bliss' text below, we are able to tell you through her writing and Yogi's photos how brilliant this local NGO is at the heart of Kimbe Bay, West New Britain. Tansy is a naturalist and the Eco-tourism Officer of Mahonia Na Dari. By Tansy Bliss The Mahonia Na Dari sign [...]
13 - 25 May 2010 Walindi Plantation Resort Restorf Island is our lunch place and one of our most favorite dive sites. it is muck heaven as well as having awesome underwater landscapes This is Yogi's fourth and my third time in Walindi Plantation Resort. Needless to say, we simply adore it here. After [...]
27 April 2010 Woodland Resort, Donsol We have not been to the Butanding Festival since 2003. It was exciting to be here again during the festivities and the fluvial parade was not to be missed. Woodland Resort. The very resort where we hosted our German guests when we used to run whale shark tours from 2000 [...]
24 - 27 April 2010 Woodland Resort, Donsol WWF Research boat with our big Panda flag at the "mast" as we go forth and look for whale sharks in the waters of Donsol Bay To address some important questions about where sharks spend their time and what habtitats are important to them, a [...]
18 – 22 April 2010 Dimakya Island, Club Paradise Night shot of Club Paradise restaurant. Right in front of this is the house reef where the dugong was waiting for us in the seagrass bed! Some thirteen year ago, Yogi already had a very special relationship with people working in Club Paradise resort, Busuanga, Northern Palawan, [...]
