Author: Lindsay Cope

I have long awaited to dive Anilao.  One of the exciting parts of my site transfer was proximity to this dive haven.  Over Holy Week, …

Above: The nursery in Lapu Lapu from our goral gardening training. Below: Same nursery, one year later. Significant growth in coral and fish recruitment!
Almost a …

Family Portrait at the Chocolate Hills
When I accepted my invitation to the Peace Corps they promised that they would visit me in the Philippines. After …

A young monk returning from collecting alms in Chiang Mai
Flowers, sold at the local market, used as offerings to religious statues and relics.
Outside one of …

Happy Holidays to all my friends an family back home.  Despite the overzealous christmas decorations and pop-music christmas carols, that start in September mind you, …

A starting motor startled me awake, I lifted my head to see the orange sunrise cresting over the mangroves, chasing away the black night sky. …

Calatagan, Batangas has efficient and effective programs for coastal resource management.  I spent my weekend near a dense mangrove forest just a couple hundred meters …

I finally regained access to my blog after several months of being locked out from the Middlebury server.  Wrote this back in October, more “new” …