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We're Alesha and Jarryd, the award-winning photographers, writers and founders of NOMADasaurus, Australia's largest adventure travel blog.

We are Alesha and Jarryd, an Australian couple travelling the world together since 2008. After falling in love in a hostel bar in Vancouver, Canada, we set about creating a life for ourselves that would keep us on the road for as long as possible. After 7 years we've managed to sustain our lifestyle and inspired countless others to do the same! Our biggest passions in life are travel, photography,

adventure and documenting our experiences with new cultures and in off-the-beaten-path destinations. What started as a personal blog to document our four-year trip backpacking overland from Thailand to South Africa without flying, has now expanded to become one of the most popular adventure travel blogs on the internet. Besides writing for NOMADasaurus, we also work for and are regularly featured by a whole range of media publications, such as BBC Travel, CNN, Yahoo! Travel, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Forbes, The Daily Mail, News.com.au and plenty more. If you are looking to partner with us please get in touch: [email protected]

Also connect with us on:

Twitter - bit.ly/1sUjSAE
Instagram - bit.ly/11f2Oh2
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02/03/2026

Hello everyone, you can see we have been MIA for a while. This has been on purpose and we have been taking some time for ourselves.

Over the last 12 years we have created an incredible life with NOMADasaurus. The brand has allowed us to meet so many amazing people and travel to so many great places. We are so appreciative and so grateful for this and have cherished every moment.

Doing this full time since 2013, NOMADasaurus has gone from a little travel website to one of the world’s biggest travel blogs, evolved into a tourism marketing brand and even became a tour company. We have loved seeing it grow and have loved doing this together.

Last year we both were extremely burnt out. We lost all energy and motivation for the business. We stopped taking jobs as we felt we would not be giving 100% or delivering the quality our clients deserved. We knew we would not be giving the 100% honesty and quality you, our amazing followers, deserve.

The pressure got too much to always be online and publishing, and we put our mental health first.

We have been concentrating on ourselves and what we want to do. And of course that still means travelling! Jarryd has been working in the polar regions as an expedition photography guide and loving it (some of you have even met him on the ships). I joined him down in Antarctica as well working as a manager on one of the ships. It has been a nice change to step away and have a change for a while to reevaluate. I think we both were so lost for a while and needed to find our passion again. Which we are on the right path now.

Just thought I'd share this with you all to let you know where we are at in life. And especially to identify when you are not ok and addressing ways to help you through this time and ways to fix it.

We’re still here, still travelling, still capturing photos and still telling stories. We’re still running tours and the website is still alive and well. We’re just not quite as present on social media as we have been.

Thanks for being part of the journey over the years and we look forward to coming back when we’re recharged.

01/01/2026

Jarryd and i hope you had a great Christmas and we wish you the best New Year to you all.

Happy New Year from Antarctica, where we both are working right now.

We thank you so much for 2025. We appreciate your support for NOMADasaurus. We've been a bit quiet this year but we will be back in 2026.

19/10/2025

Wow wow wow! So much has happened in the last month we are overwhelmed with joy and excitement.

We had another amazing and successful tour to Botswana and Namibia with 8 incredible people.

We had such a blast and walked away with new friends. We spent a night in Victoria Falls, 3 nights on a magnificent houseboat on the Namibian side of the Chobe River and 3 nights in a beautiful lodge on the Botswanan side. We did 12 safari tours all together - 9 water safaris on the Chobe River and 3 safari game drives in the Chobe National Park.

The wildlife experiences were insane!.

On the first day we had an incredible encounter with 5 lions drinking at the water. We had so many close encounters with elephants (literally a metre away!!!). They were so curious of us and came over to check us out. It is a magical feeling staring in the eyes of a large majestic animal. We saw hippos and crocodiles fighting. We saw elephants, giraffes and zebras in the sunsets which makes you really appreciate just how special this world is.

We couldn't have had these encounters without our incredible guides and drivers, Ray, NJ and Kim, who we've had the pleasure of working with for the past 3 years. These three locals know the area like the back of their hand. They know the animals and their behaviour so well. They position the boat and vehicles where the best shots would be. They made this tour so much more special and Jarryd and I thank them from the bottom of our hearts.

The accomodation was incredible and the staff on the houseboat and lodge were so friendly. We were so appreciative of each one of them.

Stay tuned for details of the next NOMADasaurus Safari Tour happening very soon! This time, somewhere different...

We cannot wait to show 8 more legends around this part of the world!

Alesha and Jarryd xx

23/09/2025

Those magical Chobe sunsets. 😍🐘

Captured on our most recent NOMADasaurus Safari Photography tour with the most incredible group of travellers.

~ Sony A7Rv
~ Sony 100-400GM
~ f/9
~ 1/640s
~ ISO 2500
~ EV -1

07/09/2025

We really do live in a wonderful world.

Such a truly mesmerising and humbling experience watching tonight’s Blood Moon fall into a total lunar eclipse.

Captured on the Sony A1ii with 400-800G lens, resting on a cushion on a houseboat on the Chobe River because I forgot to pack a tripod.

f/8 | 1.3sec | ISO6400 | EV -2

04/09/2025

Just a little bit freaking excited to be flying off to Africa tomorrow for the next month.

We’re kicking things off with our NOMADasaurus Safari Tour in Botswana and Namibia with a group of 8 legends, then spending a few weeks exploring a new region for us on a part holiday/part scouting mission.

Stay tuned for a whole bunch of images and adventures from one of the most epic places on the planet.

03/09/2025

What a way to end our tour of Svalbard - at this gorgeous place.

We visited the shores of Alkhornet, which is one of the most stunning spots on the western coast of Spitsbergen — the largest island in Norway’s Arctic Svalbard archipelago.

This towering 428m mountain rises dramatically above the fjord, and the views from the hike are absolutely next level. We wandered across tundra covered in tiny wildflowers, with glaciers in the distance and the sound of seabirds echoing off the cliffs. But the highlight? Reindeer.

They were everywhere. Dozens of them grazing around us, totally unbothered by us being there. It was so magical.

Alkhornet is was such a great spot to visit on a Svalbard adventure. We were able to get off the ship and go for a walk and stretch our legs. We also saw puffins, beluga whales, an Arctic fox and so many kittiwakes. We are going to miss this place.

Thanks for coming along with us on this adventure to Svalbard. This place should be on everyone’s travel bucket list. It is incredible.

On our instagram we have a few videos of the ship and a typical day in Svalbard. Hope you have enjoyed our posts and we will see you on the next adventure....... which starts in a few days. 🙂

Aurora Expeditions

29/08/2025

We saw 13 polar bears on this trip!!

You know those moments that make you stop and go, “Is this real life?” Well that was us on this expedition.

We could not believe we spotted 13 polar bears and they were all healthy. We spotted them on the ice, on land, just doing their thing, in their own environment. Absolute bucket-list stuff!

You get mesmerised by the way they walk, how big their paws are, the way they smell, the way they look.

Here are some fun polar bear facts we learned along the way from the amazing expedition guides onboard:

- They’re the biggest bears in the world — adult males can hit 700kg. That’s like having a small car wandering around on four legs.
- They’re marine mammals because they spend so much of their lives on the sea ice hunting seals.
- Their sense of smell is next level — they can sniff out a seal nearly 1km away. It was crazy because when we spotted them and the wind was blowing their way, they knew we were present.

Watching these incredible animals in the wild is something we’ll never forget. The Arctic is pure magic.

Photo captured with a telephoto lens following all wildlife viewing regulations for Svalbard.

Aurora Expeditions

25/08/2025

We have never seen so many birds!

This is Alkefjellet in Svalbard - Huge sea cliffs that stretch for kilometres along the icy Hinlopen Strait in the north east of the archipelago.

The cliffs are home to tens of thousands of Brünnich’s Guillemot. Every summer, these small birds cram onto the ledges to nest, turning the place into one of the noisiest and most incredible wildlife spectacles in the Arctic.

It’s absolutely wild to see. You're literally surrounded by thousands of birds all around you. Exactly the kind of experience that makes travelling in the Arctic so unforgettable.

Aurora Expeditions

24/08/2025

Nothing can stop me!!! Not even a cardiac arrest! I did the Polar Plunge in the Arctic!

Even though I have a heart condition and a defibrillator pacemaker, that doesn't stop me from living my life at all. I just have to adjust the way I do things and check with my doctor if it is a little out of the ordinary.

Doing the polar plunge again after my event was something I was so eager to do, however my cardiologists originally said I never would be able too.

But over the past few years I've really focused on my health, and my condition has improved. So much so that I got the thumbs up to do the polar plunge again.

Rather than jumping, I just slid my body in to get used to the water slowly so there wasn't a huge shock.

So when the Aurora Expeditions team announced we were all doing the "polar plunge" above 80 degrees north, I was ready. The water was about 6 degrees!

Since that life changing night I have now done the plunge in Antarctica in March and now the Arctic in August. I am very proud of myself.

If you put your mind to it and work hard, you can do anything. Don't let anyone tell you that you "can't" do something you want to do. Give it the best go and see if you can do it.

Next for me to get back into - Scuba diving and alpine hiking :♥😍

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