If you've read some of the earlier posts you'll probably have seen the West Papua series - in fact the most popular posts on the blog...

They may be small (c. 66 square miles), but the Banda Islands have a very prominent position in world history through the spice trade,...

In addition to Yap and Palau, we were fortunate to be able to stop by Ulithi Atoll and Sorol Atoll, two of the outer islands of Yap in...

Northeast of the ‘Bird’s Head Peninsula’ in Papua lies a group of islands called the Raja Ampat archipelago. Known until recently by few...

Almost 150 years ago the British naturalist and explorer Alfred Russell Wallace arrived on an island called Waigeo in the Raja Ampat...

Well we did warn that internet can be a little hard to find in Papua! We’re now settled in the Raja Ampat archipelago and have had a...

We saw the above question on several t-shirts this week, and generally it’s pretty close to the response you get when you someone asks...

Sometimes you just get lucky with the conditions and it doesn’t even matter so much what the reef is like, you spend your time looking at...

In The Land of Fruit Bat Pie. After a very pleasant overnight stay at the Diamond Hotel in Manila we arrived back in the Republic of...