My Trips
Exploring from an early age, although I didn't fully appreciate it at the time, my teenage years were spent exploring some pretty wild places!Back then, going to places like Mulu in Borneo was a big deal for a kid! Now people just fly straigh it, back then, it was a flight, hours on a river boat,
then into a dug out canoe for hours, then a huge walk into 'Camp 5', with the whole trip taking multiple days.
At the time, I would have rather been chasing girls in night clubs in Sheffield, but I very much appreciate these adventures now!
Trip log and main objective.
2026 March- Blue Mountains, New South Wales- tramping in the Blue Mountains and chasing down red Crayfish in mountain streams
2025 December- Beachworth, Victoria- Chasing down the Murray River Crayfish
2025 November- Mexico- visiting the cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula
2025 April- Samoa- The HMNZS Manwanui Disaster impact assessment
2025 May- Blue Mountains, New South Wales- tramping in the Blue Mountains and chasing down red Crayfish in mountain streams
2025 January- Anilao, Philippines- Underwater photography and blackwater diving
2024 September- United Kingdom, family trip and diving in the Scottish Highlands
2024 September- Tuvalu- Biosecurity Survey
2024 June- South Australia- The giant cuttlefish aggregation at Whyalla and Edithburgh Wharf
2024 April- Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida- Great Southern States road trip, Rolling Stones in Houston, Culture in Louisiana, springs, swamps and American Academy of Underwater Sciences Symposium in Florida
2023 October- Sydney- family and diving in Sydney
2023 June- Stradbroke Island- diving at Manta Dive- photography
2023 February- Anilao, Philippines- Underwater photography and blackwater diving
2020 October- Kermadecs Islands- photography and yachting
2019 September- Neptune Islands, South Australia- Great White Shark diving with Rodney Fox Expeditions
2019 June- United Kingdom, family trip and diving in the Scottish Highlands
2019 May- Lord Howe Island- Diving and photography
2018 September- California- American Academy of Underwater Sciences Symposium, diving, getting robbed and exploring the Siera Nevada, Joshua Tree and death valley!
2017 August- South West Pacific research mission on RV Braveheart- Fiji, Minerva, Kermadecs
2017 July- South Australia- South Australia- The giant cuttlefish aggregation at Whyalla and Edithburgh Wharf
2016 September- California- American Academy of Underwater Sciences and diving at the Catalina Islands and oil rigs
2016 July- United Kingdom and Singapore- United Kingdom, family trip and diving in the Scottish Highlands
2015 October- Florida- American Academy of Underwater Sciences and diving Florida Springs
2015 June- Tasmania- diving and exploring
2014 September- Alaska- American Academy of Underwater Sciences and diving in Sitka and Kasitsna Bay NOAA Laboratory
2013 October- Curacao and Bonaire- Joint European Underwater Science and American Academy of Underwater Sciences symposium- diving and photography in Bonaire and Curacao
2013 March- Kermadec Islands- expedition for photography to once of the remotest places on earth
2012 September- California- American Academy of Underwater Sciences
2012 July- Sydney- family trip
2011 April- Indonesian, Pulah weh and Malaysia- Flights on Air Asia X for $1!. Diving and photography and getting attacked by yak killer hornets!
2010 July- Niue- Diving and photography
2009 September- Tasmania- ADAS Diver Medic Tch training in Launceston then diving on the Tasmania east coast
2008 November- New Caledonia- Diving and photography, meet up with family
2008 August- Oman- Fisheries Survey for the Oman government
2005 April- United Kingdom, family trip
2004 2006- Windstar ship- Tahiti, Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Barbados, Granada, Jamaica, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Portugal, Italy, Tunisia and France working onboard as dive guide
1995 Costa Rica- - Exploring, caving, snorkelling
1994 Guatemala and Honduras- Exploring, climbing volcanoes, snorkelling
1993 Sulawesi- Exploring, climbing volcanoes, snorkelling
1992 Sabah and Sarawak- Exploring, climbing volcanoes, caving, snorkelling
1991 Indonesia- Bali, Java, Lombok- Exploring, climbing volcanoes, snorkelling
1990 Hawaii- Exploring, climbing volcanoes, snorkelling
Pre 1990- France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Scotland & Wales.