Oh my, this is ridiculous…..Ridiculously beautiful. Not my idea, but the decision was taken by the camp’s coordinator to stick to the original plan. I was to meet all the volunteers on Sundaymorning and take the boat to Nosy Komba. Leaving the frustrating job of locating my lost luggage, organising the transfers and communicating in…

I am staying in a village in Nosy Be called Madirokely. This reminds me so much of the Sri Lanka I lived in during 1998 and 1999. There are many similarities. Notably the tut-tuts jostling along the roads like go-karts on a race track, the ‘peep peeps’, sounds of motorbike engines, smell of diesel fuel,…

I am now on my way to Nosy Be by turbo prop plane courtesy of Tsaradia. A service scheduled to leave at 16.00 today, then switched oddly to 05.00, then 14.10 and then, on the day, given a new time of 16.20. I will be taking one of their three planes manned by their seven…

I don’t remember when Madagascar first came on to my radar as a place I needed to visit. Maybe it was a seed planted by one of those early influencers ( in the days before Instagram), Jacques Cousteau or David Attenborough… I only know one person who has ever visited the island. A colleague, from…

I now realise that the most stressful part of any trip is the preparation and packing before you leave. The trip itself is the easy part. I had hoped that my Namibia list would quickly steer me on what packing was needed, but the truth was very different. Going from a dry desert location to…

I was born in the month of July which, in theory, makes me a zodiacal water baby. So, why is it that this particular crab is so frightened of water? The next project on my UN sustainable goal list is Number 14. Life below water. So, as I ‘grasp the next nettle’, working all day…