006 - Stories of whale encounters across the world with Patrick Dykstra - Part 2
In this episode I am following on with the first part of my conversation with Patrick Dykstra, a marine mammal expert, BAFTA winning cinematographer and wildlife TV presenter. Patrick has spent the last 15 years filming and working with some of our worlds most iconic ocean dwelling species and today he will be sharing some of his craziest encounters and how he became wildlife filmmaker and presenter!
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006 - Stories of whale encounters across the world with Patrick Dykstra - Part 1
In this episode I am talking with Patrick Dykstra, a marine mammal expert, BAFTA winning cinematographer and wildlife TV presenter. Patrick has spent the last 15 years filming and working with some of our worlds most iconic ocean dwelling species and today he will be sharing some of his craziest encounters and how he became wildlife filmmaker and presenter!
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005 - Coming face to face with pumas in Patagonia Chile!
This episode has a slight twist and is the first of a new series of episodes I will releasing over the next few weeks!
Today I will be telling you a story about one of my favourite adventures and that was filming pumas for the epic Netflix series "Night on Earth". We ventured to Torres del Paine National Park in Chile Patagonia to try and film one of the worlds most elusive cats... the puma. This is my story of how I came face to face with an adult female puma and more importantly ... what happened next!
Welcome back !
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004 - Learning to speak grizzly bear with Drew Hamilton
In this episode I welcome the awesome Drew Hamilton, wilderness guide, conservationist, wildlife photographer and bear expert. Drew has been working with bears in the wilds of Alaska and Canada for over 20 years. We discuss how Drew became a wilderness and bear guide, breakdown some of our close encounters in Katmai National Park filming for Netflix, some of his coolest encounters with these charismatic animals and much more!
Young male bear comes a bit too close: https://www.tiktok.com/@exploretheroad/video/7083528089459772677?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7325120661456782880
Drew sitting next to Huge male bear: https://youtu.be/rbE53XUtVw0?si=OWPeuVUjeEN5s4tu
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003 - The Making of Planet Earth 3 with Estelle Cheuk
In this episode I welcome the incredible Estelle Cheuk, an assistant producer who worked on the incredible Planet Earth 3 series with David Attenborough. Estelle shares with me how she got into the BBC Natural history unit, her experiences working at the BBC and explains a little more about how these massive series are developed prior to filming.
Estelle also shares stories from filming on location for Planet Earth 3 for the Coastal episode and Heroes episodes. Sharing tales of flamingo chicks struggling against storms, rhinos taking helicopter rides and becoming a match maker for a frog.
As always please do feel free to ask me questions ,or if you want me to interview anyone specifically just let me know and I will see what I can do.
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