Hola from Costa Rica. Arrived at the turtle project which is about 50metres from a very long and empty palm fringed beach. Not the usual white sand, its dark, but a lovely beach all the same. It's hot and humid and often misty looking along the beach. There's hardly anybody on the enormous beach and I'm generally having a dip in the ocean to cool off 3 times a day. During the daytime I have been helping with building a new hatchery for the turtle nests. The bre...

Hi folks, hope all´s well with all of you. Thanks for all your various messages. Well it was sad to say good bye to friends from Utila and to leave the island after 4 good weeks. The past week for me has been a journey to travel through Nicaragua (to get to my next project in Costa Rica) but to try to see bits of the country on the way too. It has been good but tiring and has gone something like this; 1 minibus day trip, 1 car journey, 12 taxi rides, 8 bus jour...

Hi everyone - just a quick update as I´m about to leave Honduras and spend this coming 10 days travelling through Nicaragua before starting my turtle project 29th June for 4 weeks. Had a great time in Utila for 4 weeks, did loads of diving and really enjoyed it, loved the variety of things we did eg sea grass transects, fish surveys, mangrove research, fun dives, an amazing night dive, great crowd of people, really friendly island, lovely weather, great and che...

Well, another fabulous week gone by and done some great things. Had a couple of great fun dives last Sunday. Saw porcupine fish, balloon fish and spadefish, all new things for me. Saw a huge lobster too. This Sunday´s fun dive I saw sea horses for the first time. We're scheduled to go out on the dolphin boat Monday, Wednesday and Friday but it was too windy on Monday to go, so instead we had a visit to the Iguana breeding station where they're aiming to grow t...

Greetings from Utila, one of the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras. I left Guatemala last week end and visited Copan Ruins on the way over here. Copan isn't the biggest of the Mayan ruins in Central America by any means, but it really is beautiful in lovely grounds. It was really peaceful and I really enjoyed relaxing there, which broke up the journey nicely. I then travelled on to San Pedro Sula to meet the rest of the group for the marine conservation proj...