Throw back to 2012, where 18-year old Mae first touched Mexican soil and dived into it’s beautiful waters on the East Coast Yucatan Peninsula. It was here that I first embarked on my journey to becoming a diving professional undertaking my PADI Divemaster. I had one of the best adventures I could have asked for, […]

There is something special about sipping a coffee as the sun rises over the calm Sea of Cortez. Combine that with a pod of playful dolphins joining us at the bow, sides and stern of the boat as we rub our sleepy eyes, I doubt there are better ways to wake up. Mel, the 2017 […]

As I left the land of the kangaroos and entered the islands of the Kiwis, I channelled my inner Hobbit. My journey in New Zealand was centred around seeing what was happening to rid the oceans of an evil plague, more evil than Mordor could summon. Plastic pollution in the seas. The issue of plastic […]

I have fallen in love with the Neptune islands of South Australia. Sitting south of Port Lincoln in the Great Australian Bight, these islands look like freckles on the face of this haphazard sea. A sea which is unforgiving with cold, exhilarating, brisk sharp winds sweeping up from the south that carve the mounds of […]

“I want to see a mantis shrimp….” I tell William and Ben. They look at each other and laugh. “Well, Mae, you’ve given us an easy week then!” Here I was in Lembeh, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, with one of the best macro photographers in Asia and the best dive guides in Lembeh strait who could […]