Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
"Skinny-dipping with strangers at midnight is only done on a New Year's Eve celebration in Thailand when one has had a fair amount of Singha beer."
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
"Skinny-dipping with strangers at midnight is only done on a New Year's Eve celebration in Thailand when one has had a fair amount of Singha beer."
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
"I watched with fascination the flashing lights ahead of me. Except for our torches, which cast a narrow corridor of light along our path, darkness enveloped us and I mimed to my buddy Neil, to switch his torch off."
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
Gripped with anticipation, we glided over the silky, indigo-blue sea towards the school of dolphins.
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
Despite its accessibility from SA, Mauritius is not for the adventure-hearted, right?
Text and photographs by Lesley Rochat.
The school of hammerhead sharks could be anywhere so pay attention.
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
The Red sea and its desert shores offer innumerable options to those with a love of antiquity and a passion for adventure.
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
So you thought Mauritius was all palm trees and resort-style diving?
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
The Magnificent Brothers. Anything that pegs itself as the 'ultimate' is surely setting itself up for disappointment, not these Brothers... By Lesley Rochat.
Cover and main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
From the depths of the Red Sea's infamous Blue Hole to the top of Mount Sinai, and 3750 steps back down I exlpored Egypt for a cover feature article for Getaway magazine. I was part of a documentary film crew that journeyed to unusual dive and desert locations on Egypt's Sinai Peninsular.
"Transfixed, I felt the spirit of the ancient, biblical desert and could almost hear the hot wind whisper the secrets of the sands. At once I understood why pilgrims who reached the Sinai in centuries past declared it to be their nearest encounter with God."
Main feature article. Text and photographs: Lesley Rochat.
The islands off the main land of Malaysia offer a world of exotic names, luminescent fishes and underwater jewels. Lured by the adventures of Jacques Cousteau, I packed my wetsuit and travelled to four different islands where I learned to muck dive for this main feature article for Getaway Magazine.
"...a tropical paradise where nature has, over aeons, meticulously woven a colourful and complex tapestry…blinding white beaches sprinkled with tropical trees that bow down to a dazzling turquoise sea.”
