This is my second blog about Providence, the last one was April 2017. What an extraordinary amount has taken place in the past seven years for all of us, but it has been like time has stood still at Providence or has it? Last time, I travelled on the MV Dugong, it was an altogether different experience on a bigger …
Milkfish Mayhem
“It’s gone,” Toby said with a melancholy look on his face. We had been well and truly defeated. “Did we make the wrong call on which way to go around the coral head?” I asked. The answer was there in the expression on his face. Toby had just hooked and, thirty minutes later, lost his first milkfish. Veteran guide Wayne …
Alphonse comes of age…
I have a long history with Alphonse Island. I wish I had known what we have all learned over the past 20+ years about fishing the extraordinary atoll when we were bobbing about living on the catamaran Tam Tam before any hotel had been built. When I was there recently, a small part of their presentation was about how much …


