About perlgurl.org / Laurie Darcey  

I spend my copious free time traveling the world and am an avid nature photographer. My work has been published in books and newspapers around the world.

In South Africa, I dove with 4 meter long great white sharks and got stuck between a herd of rampaging hippopotami and an irritated bull elephant. This inspired me to start an online African Field Guide. I've been attacked by monkeys in Japan, gotten stuck in a ravine with two male lions in Kenya, gotten thirsty in Egypt, narrowly avoided a coup d'état in Thailand, walked part of the Great Wall of China, and written a completely unrelated novel (almost two).

My husband and I circumnavigated the planet for our honeymoon and I still haven't gone through all 80+ GB of pictures. I've also started dabbling with wildlife and nature videos. Short ones, often available on my sometimes on, sometimes off, nature podcast.

I grew up in California, Switzerland and New England before heading to school in Santa Cruz, California, where I spent time stalking wild sea otters and hiking at the Northern Elephant seal rookery at Año Nuevo State Reserve. In my spare time, I got a BS in Computer Science, have had a successful career in software development and started a mobile software company with a philanthropic spin named after a brain sucking monster of Xhosa and Zulu tribal mythology, the Mamlambo.

I recently moved back to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.