Above: Las Guacamayas Biological Station inside the Maya Biosphere Reserve–one of the most important masifs of wet forest in Mesoamerica.
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In 2015, I quit my bank job and got rid of the bulk of my possessions to travel the world and photograph wildlife. From the Amazon to Borneo, the Sinai Peninsula to Raja Ampat, my goal has been to see and live in the world’s remaining biodiversity hotspots.
I want to help people make travel and gear decisions so that they can get out there and enjoy our natural world and its remaining beauty as humanity continues to effect massive planet-wide ecological change.
Nature and wildlife travel on a budget is usually quite difficult to do well. I’m not talking about staying at some “eco” hotel or piece of farmland where the owners have decided to throw a couple of “eco huts” up around a man-made lake. I’m talking about visiting significant expanses of well-preserved habitat located on
I’m tough to please when it comes to snorkeling tours and trips (and wildlife travel more generally). I’m the kind of person who cringes when I see a dive shop, snorkeling safaris or a travel blogger use a stock image of fish from the Indo-Pacific while marketing an experience in the tropical Atlantic, or describe
The Caribbean Sea is iconic for having some of the clearest water in the world. This is due to a lack of plankton and other suspended particles, combined with the relative shallowness of the Caribbean compared to other large tropical seas and oceans. While not nearly as biodiverse as their counterparts in the Indo-Pacific, and
