Amanda and I had a great week of diving with the Great Hammerheads with the Neal Watson Dive Centre team at Bimini in February ’25. We’d especially like to thank Sean Williams who gave us time to share his extensive knowledge about shark diving in Bimini, and how the Great Hammerhead dives came about. –… Continue reading March 2025 – A Great Week of Diving With The Great Hammerheads in Bimini, Bahamas (“Hammertime”)
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April 2025 – Branscombe, But Not Alderney
Over the Easter weekend, we were supposed to be in Alderney, but thanks to the airline Aurigny, we were cancelled and therefore unable to get there in any reasonable time to make our visit worthwhile – it was very, very disappointing, and incredibly poorly managed by their “management”. There were a lot of pissed off… Continue reading April 2025 – Branscombe, But Not Alderney
May/June 2025 – Motorcycling In Europe – Spain, France, Andorra & Portugal
A great ride in Northern Spain, across the Pyrenees (France/Spain/Andorra), Barcelona (for the F1 Grand Prix), South/Central Spain, Extremadura, the Spanish/Portuguese borderlands, and back to Northern Spain to finish up in and around the Picos de Europa. I was pleased with my riding throughout the trip, with no big moments despite covering nearly 3500 miles,… Continue reading May/June 2025 – Motorcycling In Europe – Spain, France, Andorra & Portugal
June 2025 – The Purple Emperor Season at the Knepp Wildlands
Fuzz and I made another pilgrimage by motorcycle to the centre of the Purple Empire, namely the Knepp Wildlands, the ground-breaking re-wilding project in the South Downs. The reason for our visit, of course, was for the Purple Emperor flight season. We got the first Knepp sighting of the season (two sparring males) at the… Continue reading June 2025 – The Purple Emperor Season at the Knepp Wildlands
September 2025 – The Weather Turns In Scotland
The Basking Shark is turning into a bit of a “bogey” species for me, having looked for it twice in Cornwall, and now Scotland without success. The reason for this in Scotland was the turn of the weather, as Summer very much became Autumn once we arrived over on the island of Coll. Nonetheless, we… Continue reading September 2025 – The Weather Turns In Scotland
September 2025 – Stolen in Bristol
On the 25th September, outside the Spicer & Cole café on Counterslip in central Bristol, my BMW R1250 GS Adventure Trophy edition (HV24 XYJ) was stolen at 11.24 a.m. from a busy location in broad daylight. At the time of writing on the 27th September, two days after the event, it hasn’t been found and I’m unlikely… Continue reading September 2025 – Stolen in Bristol
February 2025 – At Last – Our New Website Is Live & The Content is Coming Together!
Its’ taken rather a long time, though there’s still much to do in terms of adding content! I lost interest in “developing” the old website some years ago with the aim of creating a new one shortly thereafter, and last made a single update to it back in late 2018, though most of it had… Continue reading February 2025 – At Last – Our New Website Is Live & The Content is Coming Together!