The Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise hide on Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat is reached after a 30 minute to one hour hike uphill in the morning (0.29752°S, 130.94156°E). It is a pretty hard walk uphill and consequently we arrived sweaty to the hide before dawn. As it was best not to be more than three people in a […]
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Polar Bears at Franz Joseph
Polar Bears at Franz Josef Land We went on an Oceanwide Expeditions trip to Franz Joseph Land in the Russian part of the Arctic. Few have been there, but it’s a great spot to enter the ice north of the archipelago. Here we found more than 20 Polar Bears. We found this female which had […]
Jaguar in Iwokrama, Guyana 19 January 2012
One of the highlights of our trip to Guyana was two sightings of Jaguars on the road between Iwokrama and ATTA. A young male appeared at the roadside 40 meters from us on his way through the area. Our guide Smith was able to keep it at bay on the road for five minutes by […]