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Adventuress alongside at sunset, Mount Rainier behind
Adventuress alongside in Seattle. Photograph: Sound Experience.
7 to 9 August 2026Paddle
Blake Island, in August

A paddle over from Southworth, a camp on the pebble beach, a walk around an island living several seasons at once, and compositions of fern, shell, feather and stone returned to the place that gave them. Tune out from the channel of wanting.

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Kayaks and a paddleboard drawn up on the beach at Blake Island at dusk
July 2026Thought piece
A week in Pollica

A week on the Cilento coast, and what a single town shows about when this kind of partnership is possible.

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Dusk over the Cilento coast from Pollica
July 2026Pollica
Pollica, week three: the bootcamp

Students, fishermen, biologists, officials and the FAO in one room; a working dashboard and two simulators shown to the Mayor; a film; slogans by hand.

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Students around a long paper sheet of drawings and slogans for Posidonia
July 2026Pollica
The underwater Amazon

A seagrass forest two hundred millennia older than Poseidon, what it holds up, and what is coming for it.

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Posidonia seagrass underwater
July 2026Pollica
Pollica, week two

Preparing the campus for the students, talking Posidonia in the harbours, testing sensors in the sea, and a hike to Cape Palinuro.

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Lowering a sensor over the side of an inflatable into calm water
May 2026Bahamas
The Jumentos Cays, in the Bahamas

Learning to free-dive in the Jumentos Cays, sailing the Bahama Bank on a friends' catamaran, and what came up out of the blue holes.

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Two free-divers rising along a line through blue water

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