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Zip-lining Past Mt. Mayon
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 9 May 2010
This picture was a serious stroke of luck! (You should try composing a shot while someone is flying past an 8000-ft volcano.) Actually, the photo would have been better if Mt. Mayon had been erupting in the background, which would have been the case if we had been here in January. Bummer, a few months [...]
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Fireflies of Donsol River
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 7 May 2010
After diving with the whale sharks, visitors to Donsol should check out the surreal firefly trees along the Donsol River. What makes the fireflies here unique is that they collect by the thousands into specific trees creating a pulsing, shifting bio-luminescent spectacle straight out of Avatar. Our cameras were unable to pick up the trees in [...]
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The Whale Shark Encounter
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 5 May 2010
Visiting the whale sharks in Donsol is easily one of the world’s most incredible wildlife adventures. Known as the “whale shark capital of the world,” for once the marketing appellation holds up. No place on the planet boasts such predictable whale shark encounters. Understandably, Donsol is the holy grail for sea life enthusiasts. Indeed, Donsol is [...]
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Whale Sharks of Donsol
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 3 May 2010
Whale sharks are elusive creatures. You don’t just happen upon them. By 1986, there had only been 320 recorded sightings globally. With increasing research, including better tagging and counting methods, the numbers of sightings have steadily climbed, especially in the plankton-rich feeding grounds off Belize, Honduras, Western Australia and the Philippines. Today, the total number [...]
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The Gentle Giants of the Sea
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 18 February 2010
The Tarsiers were cute. The Thresher Shark was cool. But they were just a warm-up for the big one: swimming with whale sharks (or Butanding as they’re known locally). I missed them by a few weeks while I was in Utila – so there was no way I was going to make the same mistake [...]
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