Now in its fourteenth year, the 2016 Sharks of Southern Africa expedition once again delivered its share of various shark species, marine mega fauna and the excitement of each days unexpected surprises. The weather for this years expedition was...

When someone talks about the weather it is often perceived as being boring and mundane but I beg to differ. Weather can be truly thrilling in its unpredictable wildness. It is ever changing and can be ruthlessly spectacular. When you come to thi...

As you know most of my blogs are about our wildlife experiences. This time round I am not only going to write about Pumas, but I will also relate a personal experience of ours that centres around the joys of travel and of what can go wrong if youd...

Antarctica, the great white continent, is a place of grandeur and magnitude. For all those lucky enough to have visited the coldest, windiest and driest continent on earth, the sheer overwhelming size of everything is difficult to put into word...

Its a funny thing when were on the ocean we crave the bush, and when were in the bush we crave the ocean! I guess our two great passions for the sea and the land are in constant competition with each other and this creates opportunity for many adv...

Mana Pools Elephants If a magnificently beautiful area and wild dogs are not enough of an attraction to Mana Pools, the possibility of walking and spending time with fairly habituated wild elephants must surely make you want to visit this specia...

This years Sardine Run included plenty of Sardines. It is not always the case given the name of this spectacle, however our boats fish finder, the sounder showed huge schools of fish moving through at depths of between 40 to 60 meters; too deep fo...

Im here! Our boat riding the waves of False Bay towards the beautiful sunrise, the salty spray of the sea in my face full of anticipation, this feeling of accomplishment after imagining this moment over and over again for such a long time. Im here...

March 2015 After a very long 36 hour journey from Cape Town to Stewart Island in New Zealand it was not very heartening to hear the words of our taxi driver If you cant cuddle them, kill them! This was his general feeling for wildlife in New Z...

The two February 2015 expeditionsmarked the 14th year that these expeditions have been run by Apex and once again the key feature of this trip was to find as many different species of sharks as possible whilst still also enjoying any other marine ...