The creatures of Sea challenge you to understand their Thread of Awareness from the viewpoint of each phrase, and as a threaded message connecting all the phrases.
The best way to explore This Magic Sea is to follow the links from the text above but it is more entertaining to use the Magic Sea "menu" with photos.
This site is a bit unusual to say the least. There is no "consecutive" order to the pages and there are cross links throughout the text on all of the pages. You "follow your curiosity" through the menu. If you see a term or phrase you don't understand immediately, click on the link for more information. Each term in the menu is a highly compact summary of a whole area of understanding.
As you read the "message" you will quickly discover that it is about what life is, how it evolved, and what it's all about. It is not a philosophic essay, it is a scientific exploration. If you click on the images you will be taken to a page about when and where that photo was taken and the process of discovery that was happening at the time I took that photo.
Frederique, whom you will see in many of the photos (including the one on top of this page) has put additonal links in the website pages that are not really relevant to the text. They go to a variety of web sites that I have developed over the last few years - mostly for friends, but a few for commercial reasons.
So please forgive these occassional forrays out of this Magic Sea if you should come across them.
But, again for practical reasons, I'm going to rattle on a bit about our current internet projects.
You really shouldn't be wasting your time reading this and I'd recommend you go back to the menu above and dive into This Magic Sea. Much more interesting.
Right now the Moira is in New Caledonia where Freddy and I have more or less settled down. We have created a series of tourism and cruising guides based on satellite imagery and aerial photos.
The idea for these projects came from my experiences with community science in the South Pacific and an interest in tourism as a sustainable industry for the small Pacific Island states. I had thought about it for years but was too involved with protection of the marine environment of the South Pacific. As a diving scientist I had witnessed, personally, the demise and destruction of coral reefs all over the world - and I felt this very personally. You can check out my efforts from the link above or other projects such as inshore and river conservation and renewable energy in the Pacific Islands. In 2000, with the collapse of world hope for protecting the oceans of our world (at least for 8 years) I realized that - then 60 - and despite my long association with the UN and Pacific Island Governments - I could not do much of anything over the next 8 years to make serious strides towards slowing or reversing the destruction of the world's coral reefs. Since then the world has slowly accepted the reality of global warming and the danger to many of the planet's ecosytems, including and especially the coral reefs. But I fear we have missed the last window of opportunity and that the results will be every bit as unpleasant and sad as was predicted at the turn of the century.
So I decided to concentrate on sustainable tourism and created the "Rocket Guide to Vanuatu".
This was a world first presention of the tourism capability of the entire Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu - it was also the first time the whole tourism community participated in creating a utility to teach travel agents and wholesalers about Vanuatu tourism.
The CD-ROM starts off with a NASA satellite view of Vanuatu taken from orbit. You can rocket from one island of Vanuatu to another almost instantly and click on an island to see what's there and what Vanuatu activities are available.
Vanuatu is a popular cruising area for yachts, each year hundreds of blue water yachts from around the world come to Port Vila to tie up to Yachting World's marina and moorings. Many of these are super yachts, but most are small cruising yachts that stay for up to 4 months, visiting the outer islands of Epi, Malekula, Ambrym, Pentecost, Maewo, and the Banks Islands. Superyachts cruising Vanuatu can make all arrangements via South Sea Shipping. The best Vanuatu marine weather site to watch is on www.cruising-vanuatu.com.
Order a copy of the Vanuatu cruising guide for the very best cruising guide available for any sailing destination. This is, like the Rocket Guide to Vanuatu, based on satellite and aerial imagery of Vanuatu.
The first step in planning a New Caledonia Vacation is deciding what KIND of a vacation you would like. There are several possibilities.
Anse Vata, in Noumea, is the International travel centre of New Caledonia. This is where you'll find the big Noumea hotels and resorts, fine restaurants, and a zillion things to do. Within a very small area - you can stroll along the waterfront promenade from Le Meridien to Le Mocambo in about 15 minutes and within this area are all the major hotels, all the New Caledonia conference venues, the majority of the New Caledonia restaurants, the best beaches, the Aquarium, shopping malls, Noumea weddings coordinators, new caledonia tours agencies, and casinos.
But there is so much more to New Caledonia than Noumea and any visitor to New Caledonia should consider a short 20 minute domestic flight to the Ile des Pins (Isle of Pines). Isle of Pines New Caledonia hotels, resorts and other accommodation range from very expensive to camping. The Rocket Guide to New Caledonia shows all the accommodation of Isle of Pines on high resolution photographs, both from the air and on the ground - including 3D virtual reality tours of many of the resorts.
The Loyalty Islands are only a 40 minute domestic flight from Magenta airport in Noumea. There are three Loyalty Islands, Ouvea, Lifou, and Mare. Lifou is actually larger than the island of Tahiti and has only a couple of thousand people living on it. These are great holiday destinations and well worth a visit.
On the Rocket Guide website you can even check on the long term new caledonia weather forecasts - because the weather in new caledonia makes all the difference between a good vacation and a great vacation.
There are a wealth of activities for visitors to New Caledonia - the French people of New Caledonia adore sports of all kinds and are very active. Which means that visitors will find all the facilities they could wish to enjoy themselves. For some sporting ideas see Sporting Events New Caledonia,New Caledonia Horseback Riding andNew Caledonia golf courses.
If you would like to see some photos of New Caledonia you might wish to visit the Rocket Guide to New Caledonia online photo librarys. These are divided into the following libraries of professional stock photo images (available for free downloading)
You can cruise the south Pacific and earn money at the same time as the captain or crew on a magnificent superyacht. Not only would you get to travel in luxury surroundings with great food, you would be paid, too. You could be a superyacht deckhand, a steward or superyacht stewardess, a cook, or first mate, or the captain. It all depends on your training and qualifications. The best place to get your training is at Club Sail's Superyacht Crew Academy, based in Sydney Australia. You will need to take a stcw95 course , which is now required for all crew on superyachts - even private ones. You'll learn basic but necessary fire fighting and other skills. You can start out with no qualifications at all with Superyacht Crew Academy's Fastrack programs. If you take the fastrack professional crew course, you can, in one concentrated training semester, go from zero experience to a qualified superyacht crew position or even all the way to a superyacht captain position qualification. If you already have some sailing qualifications you can get qualified as superyacht crew member or superyacht captain posting in a much shorter course. Once you are qualified, the Superyacht Crew Academy will help you in finding a superyacht position.
