In March 2004 an article I wrote was published in the award winning environmental and conservation magazine, Africa Geographic, about the Maxine, Science, Education and Awareness programme (M-SEA), an AOCA initiative, in collaboration with the Two Oceans Aquarium. Soon thereafter Maxine was satellite tagged and released. Now five years later another article I’ve written has…
Monthly Archives: Aug 2009
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Aug
Aug
Sleeping in is difficult for me in general and more so on a beautiful day. “Jeremy, Lesley here, get your butt out of bed, it’s a stunning day and the ocean beckons!” Was the sum of my call to my good friend Jeremy Jowell, well known and talented photographer and journalist. Windmill Beach it was,…
10
Aug
Aug
It was a wild week, meeting after meeting, one demand of me after the next, new creative awareness ideas taking shape, others needing more money than there is, running late for some deadlines, squeezing in an interview with Juliet Eilperin from Washington Post for a book she is writing about sharks, and to top it…
03
Aug
Aug
It’s a beautiful day in False Bay and I’m on Mike’s boat (of Pisces Divers), heading for the seven gill shark dive. I confess I live here but for various reasons I have not done the dive yet. As a shark conservationist it has got to the embarrassing stage: “What, you haven’t dived with them…