by Anthony Perez | Apr 23, 2022 | Palau
After four years of zero international travel, three of those years through a pandemic, Iʻve finally booked my next trip to my next Pacific Island nation, PALAU. Disclaimer: I totally went to Belize twice to see family. After all these years, I will finally be taking...
by Anthony Perez | Sep 4, 2021 | General, Marshall Islands, New Zealand & The Pacific, Videos
I’m pretty sure you’re familiar with this image! Pretty incredible right? You’ve probably seen historic footage of nuclear testing done on an isolated tropical landscape in movies. What if I told you that behind the layers of those man made marvels of destruction came...
by Anthony Perez | Apr 10, 2020 | General, New Zealand & The Pacific, Tuvalu, Voyages
“Tuvalu mo te Atua” For a country that popped up on my radar in such a short time span, one year that is, I would find my self in love with a place way before I would arrive. There is only one other country where this has happened and that was in Greece....
by Anthony Perez | Mar 30, 2020 | General, Kiribati, New Zealand & The Pacific, Videos
Swimming with local kids in North Tarawa Mauri, Mauri!! Kiribati was a country I dreamed of visiting for several years. I can’t remember what and why that was? Tabon Te Keekee’s overwater buias or the relics of war still scattered across Betio Island. All I know, is...
by Anthony Perez | Feb 5, 2020 | Fiji, General, New Zealand & The Pacific, Voyages
I didn’t visit Fiji with any expectations. In fact, I didn’t know much about Fiji other then it’s a popular tourist destination until a few months until I actually went. Thanks to a library membership in my Auckland home, I picked up a couple of books and gave me the...
by Anthony Perez | Feb 1, 2020 | General, Nauru, New Zealand & The Pacific, Voyages
A tiny dot in the Pacific is a common phrase to define most of the small islands in the biggest ocean in the world. But tiny Nauru seems to really define that very well. I mean the island is near round and is small enough to drive around in 30 – 33 minutes by...
