I thought she was going to touch me
An eye to eye moment with a killer whale and how this can change us forever and save the ocean. WILD WEDNESDAYS EP. 2
Maya | Closer to Wild ✍🏽
I’m a biologist, wildlife photographer & expedition host who has spent the last 12+ years with a job most people dream about: traveling the world. I write about the animals I meet, the places they live, and what it takes to find them.
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I study the ocean for a living, but nothing prepared me for this
One of the wildest hunts in the sea and the second time it nearly got physical
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What this is, and why I'm writing it
This changed how my clients saw me
And it might change yours as well
The color that broke the green
What I found after leaving the trail in the Amazon
What separates two people who come from the same background, yet one thrives and the other doesn’t?
I had $0.89 in my bank account. Here’s what I did instead of giving up.
The hardest truth I ever accepted
And how it set me free
"They’re nothing more than black-and-white gentle giants"
Field notes from the water
The most valuable thing I learned to become successful:
Don’t overthink.
On Coming Back to Words
I’ve always loved to read. Back in school, I remember feeling electric about the books I read by Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics) and Machiavelli (The Prince), so excited that I’d come in the next day wanting to debrief with my history teacher, because she was the only one who’d listen.