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I moved to Iceland for a new job. Why did I change jobs?

As you might know I work as an ORCA Ocean Conservationist on different ships, where I educate guest on the wonderful world of whales,...

The following blog post was originally written for ORCA and posted on https://www.orca.org.uk/. What would you do if at two weeks’...

Wouldn’t it be absolutely amazing to be able to set foot on the seventh continent; Antarctica?! To me this always seemed like the...

The following blog post was originally written for ORCA together with my colleague Nina and posted on https://www.orca.org.uk/. Hello...

A new year and time for some new blog posts. And let’s start the year with something that is happening to the beached of the coast of...

Puffins! My absolute favourite seabirds are Puffins, specifically the Atlantic puffin. I think that everyone knows these little black and...

Sometimes when you walk on the beach you might see more animals, or should I say parts of animals, then you think. One of these animals...

Is it just me, or does the sound of waves crashing onto the shore something that makes you feel relaxed? The sounds of waves is the sound...

There are dragons living in our seas and oceans, not the mythical fire breathing kind, but the beautiful and graceful almost fairy...

On the 14th of March 2021 something strange happened at the west coast of Ireland. There was a Walrus sighting and last weekend the 21st...

Wait, whale poop vs. climate change? How does that work? Let me try and explain. Whales, especially the larger deep diving species like...

Sharks have the stereotypical perception of being killers that eat everything that they come across and see. They got this perception...

The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is probably one of my favourite cetacean species. (Cetacean = whales, dolphins and porpoises.)...

My home town is the town of IJmuiden. IJmuiden is a fishing town at the North Sea coast of North-Holland and is surrounded by a steel...