Child of the Planet

I don't usually take holidays where I sit around on a beach all day, getting sloshed on cocktails, and working on a tan. Work is pretty inane, so a break for me is to do something useful, so I thought it was pretty cool when my mate discovered Earthwatch last year. She spent two weeks in Madagascar studying Limas. The year after I decided to sign up to participate in a Dolphin research mission in Spain. I found out about the Oceania project when Trish (the research lead) posted a comment on one of my videos that I had posted on YouTube from that Spanish trip. I boarded the Moon Dancer, a 12-meter catamaran, early on Sunday morning and got to meet the crew and the other interns. as well as the couple who where leading the expedition, we had a couple of British high school kids, an American girl studying underwater audio, and a volunteer marine biologist from the UK, The crew was the guy that owned the boat, and the son of the research leaders. There was plenty of room on...

Great big ‘teabag coloured’ luna arcing across the sky. Last time I saw that I was in York, where I climbed a mound erected by William the Conqueror with a gay girl and a tall blond wanderlust infected Kiwi guy. The bloody churches where ringing the crap out of their bells as though each was weighted down with a mad monk or two. This means I’ve seen a blood moon in both hemispheres.