Once again I am back home in Cairns, for a short time. Together with my friend, shark biologist and Emmy Award winning filmmaker Richard Fitzpatrick, we are setting up a foundation to protect our beloved Great Barrier Reef. 

Work will include shark tagging programs to further set up marine protected areas, manta ray and turtle research and a youth ambassador program I am extremely passionate about. And if that's not enough, we are also getting ready to film the new IMAX film about the Great Barrier Reef ! 

IUCN, Obama announcing the world's largest marine park and Parley's launch of the Deep Space Project, all happening at the same time. 
I was lucky to meet some real leaders in conservation and also deep sea exploration, including my favourite Ocean Hero once again, Sylvia Earle. 
But I was also fortunate enough to spend time with my friend Kahi, the founder of Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii. His organisation is working tirelessly on cleaning up the islands' beaches, but also educating, and working on solutions to eliminate plastics to wash up on our shores.

I have seen a lot of ocean plastic, but it was never so evident what micro plastic means, and how it just keeps breaking up into smaller pieces, eventually ending up on our own plate, in our own bodies, impacting our lives. Maybe this will make human's change, finally ? ...