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WWF CT Business Summit Photo Exhibition in Manila
19 – 20 January 2010
Sometime early November last year, we got an email from Dr. Lida Pet-Soede, WWF Coral Triangle Programme Leader to discuss an idea of having a photo exhibition of our expedition in Manila during the first WWF Coral Triangle Business Summit in January 2010. We knew this was going to be a [...]
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Sick Boys and Tuna Underwater
December 27
With hardly any sleep for both of us, by 5:30am with still very faint light in the horizon, our boat crew caught a yellowfin tuna. I woke Yogi who by this time was an angry bear. We had been waiting for this – for our boat crew to catch a big tuna. So I [...]
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Let’s Catch Some Tuna!
December 26
The crew on our ship went fishing by 9:30am. As in all of them! We just got here! They tethered our boat to the rakit and the other smaller outrigger pump boats already in the area tied to us.
Now it was a game of waiting. And endless waiting. I swear, Yogi & I will [...]
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Working Christmas
December 25
N0 30.734 E123 03.761 – Gorontalo Harbour
What?! Working on Christmas? Sadly, yes. But we had our fill of pre-Christmas in the 3 days we spent with friends in Kuala Lumpur for our visa run. Every two months we have to leave Indonesia and come back to continue our shoot.
And on Dec 23, it was [...]
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A School in North Sulawesi
24 October 2009
We spent a most interesting day with Simone Gerritsen and her kids from her school Kehidupan Anda or “Your Life.” The goal of Project “Kehidupan Anda” is to improve the education of the children in the village Tongkeina and the surrounding villages.
We visited the school, which is a stone’s throw away from Thalassa [...]
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