Posted in Featured tours, Snorkeling, Wildlife on Mar 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
Just how large is a whale shark’s mouth? Abraham Cantu, who lives on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, found out first hand, during one of his many experiences swimming with the world’s largest fish.
Cantu shared with WWF this stirring video he made while observing whale sharks feeding underwater near Holbox Island.
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Posted in Snorkeling, Wildlife on Feb 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
President and CEO of WWF-US, Carter Roberts, shares thoughts on his experience swimming with whale sharks.
We left Isla Holbox at dawn, transported by a local fisherman at the helm of a 20-foot skiff. We were off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where some of the world’s largest concentrations of manta rays and whale [...]
Posted in Snorkeling on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Casey Marker describes visiting Taveuni Island in 2008 aboard the Clipper Odyssey.
Today we visited the “garden island” of Fiji, so named for its high volcanic ridge, waterfalls and indigenous plants and animals (found here due to the lack of introduction of the mongoose).
We began our day with water sports, snorkelers and divers alike getting into [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Snorkeling on Oct 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Naturalist Rafa Robles traveled to Corcovado National Park during a Costa Rica and Panama expedition in 2009. Here’s what he wrote about this biologically diverse preserve in Costa Rica:
“The morning found us going ashore for some excursions at our morning destination: ‘Caletas Beach,’ near by the Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula. Several nature walks were [...]
Posted in Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Oct 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Bobbie Martin, a Program Manager for Zegrahm Expeditions, WWF’s tour operator for our Rain Forests and Reefs expedition, shares her thoughts on the voyage, which she accompanied in 2009.
What was the highlight of the expedition?
Panama! I am completely taken with this country. From the beautiful beaches of Escudo de Veraguas, and its endemic humming bird, [...]
Posted in Snorkeling on Oct 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Gina DeFerrari is a Senior Policy Advisor for WWF.
Gentle giants. That’s what pops into my head each time I think about being in the water, swimming alongside a whale sharks. The first time I did it – two summers ago – it was the experience of a lifetime: Swimming six feet away from one of [...]
Posted in Snorkeling on Oct 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Paulina Grove traveled on 2008’s Rain Forests & Reefs tour to Central America. Here’s what she wrote about Half Moon Caye and Lighthouse Reef off the coast of Belize:
Just after breakfast, the divers of our group had an orientation with the dive master, and soon were headed out to one of Belize’s amazing natural wonders, [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Oct 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The third in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Thomas & Natalya Baechtold/Raw Perspectives
Of the wide-ranging variety of subjects you could photograph on a nature tour, marine life may be the most daunting. In fact, only 10 percent of all travelers take photos underwater on snorkeling and scuba diving tours, [...]
Posted in Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
How many travel experiences can honestly, truly be defined as “surreal?” Few come close to the extraordinary experience of slipping into a quiet, dark lake with millions of marmalade-colored jellyfish on the rock island of Eil Malk in Palau.
Known locally as Ongeim’l Tketau, the isolated saltwater lake was once connected to the ocean by a [...]
Posted in Photography, Snorkeling on Sep 19th, 2009 No Comments »
“The trip leader Ron Leidich took this photograph of me providing scale to the some of the enormous table corals that we encountered at the Mergui Archipelago. This area was off-limits to foreigners until recently and has seen little activity beyond fishing. The many small islands provide shelter and myriad current and wave conditions – [...]