Isn’t it amazing how easily we fall back into our old routines! I’ve been back from Mozambique a week and it honestly feels like I never even went. I’m looking at my pictures and thinking is that actually me there, doing that? The time flew and with only four weeks til Intro Week I’m trying [...]

I’ve finally managed to pull my finger out and arrange another charity screening to raise some funds for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Whale Warrior: Pirate for the Sea is a biographical film of the most daring and adventurous marine environmental activist ever… Captain Paul Watson.
Come along to learn more about his early campaigns protesting the [...]

Raising sponsorship is a lot harder than you think… seriously. I started out by simply talking about my plans for Mozambique and asking for sponsorship. It worked to a certain extent, a lot of people are interested (that’s for sure) and it’s been great to start talking more about whale sharks and why I want [...]

In August I’m jetting off to the beach village of Tofo in Southern Mozambique to volunteer on a whale shark marine conservation project. It’s a collaboration between All Out Africa, Tofo Scuba, the Ecocean global whale shark database and the Foundation for the Protection of Marine Megafauna (that’s Andrea Marshall’s [...]

Jim Toomey’s comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon has been going for about 15 years, appears in over 150 newspapers but he had to kill off his main character to make a point!