DRIFT Travel Winter 2018
ISLAND OF DISCOVERY - MAGIC ON THE ISLAND OF KAUAI - BASKING IN THE GLORY OF OIA, GREECE - THE BUSTLE OF URBAN CHINA - SAILING THE CARIBBEAN - WELLNESS RETREAT IN RURAL PUERTO VALLARTA
ISLAND OF DISCOVERY - MAGIC ON THE ISLAND OF KAUAI - BASKING IN THE GLORY OF OIA, GREECE - THE BUSTLE OF URBAN CHINA - SAILING THE CARIBBEAN - WELLNESS RETREAT IN RURAL PUERTO VALLARTA
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Sewage surfer by Justin Hofman, USA<br />
Finalist 2017, The Wildlife Photojournalist Award: Single Image<br />
Seahorses hitch rides on the currents by grabbing floating objects such as seaweed with their delicate prehensile tails. Justin<br />
watched with delight as this tiny estuary seahorse ‘almost hopped’ from one bit of bouncing natural debris to the next,<br />
bobbing around near the surface on a reef near Sumbawa Island, Indonesia. But as the tide started to come in, the mood<br />
changed. The water contained more and more decidedly unnatural objects – mainly bits of plastic – and a film of sewage<br />
sludge covered the surface, all sluicing towards the shore. The seahorse let go of a piece of seagrass and seized a long, wispy<br />
piece of clear plastic. As a brisk wind at the surface picked up, making conditions bumpier, the seahorse took advantage<br />
of something that offered a more stable raft: a waterlogged plastic cottonbud. Photo credit: Justin Hofman / Wildlife<br />
Photographer of the Year.<br />
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