User:Shaya Laughlin

Shaya Oceane Laughlin is a young journalist for the Gold Coast Bulletin. She is completing her journalism studies at Bond University while living on the Gold Coast.

Shaya has a keen interest in expeditions and sailed the Amazon River with world-known explorer Mike Horn in 2012. Later that year, Shaya and her best friend Jeremy Basset cycled the length of New Zealand. Both expeditions were documented extensively. In 2014, Shaya undertook her first solo expedition to Tibet and reported what she saw in rural areas.

She is Swiss, Australian and Spanish and her family comes from a scuba-diving background.