Baja California: The Gray Whales of Magdalena Bay
An opportunity to see grey whales (and their calves) was one of the finest experiences of my life.
An opportunity to see grey whales (and their calves) was one of the finest experiences of my life.
Cape Town is a special and beautiful place in large part because it's framed by the bulky sandstone mass of Table Mountain. Table Mountain is a wilderness area set in an urban environment, a flat topped mountain frequently...
I enjoy birds, though I don't consider myself an avid birder. I think swans are elegant, graceful creatures but before this year I'd only rarely seen them in the wild. During a recent trip to Vancouver Island, I visited this bird...
This photo was taken just at the crack of dawn in Serengeti National Park. We were already on safari, looking for wildlife, when we came upon this soda (alkaline) lake. A group of flamingos was slowing wading through the water looking for...
The oldest known organisms that still live on the planet are stromatolites, rock-like structures built by an algae known as cyanobacteria. Stromatolites have an extensive fossil record in Western Australia dating back some 3.5 million...
(Black sand beach in Vik, Iceland) Many think South Iceland offers the island’s most spectacular scenery. It’s hard to argue with this except to say that we found all of Iceland to be filled with...
Palouse Falls is a beautiful 200′ (60m) waterfall in southeastern Washington state, situated in the rolling grasslands, wheat fields and eroded lava formations of the Palouse. I enjoy exploring this region, especially in the...
We had spent the past week slowly working our way up the slopes of Kilimanjaro via the Shira route. Today was the day we would summit the mountain, before beginning our descent.
We had ascended the western base of the volcano this past half week, had hiked through jungle and moorland, and were now entering Kilimanjaro’s alpine desert region.
Mt. Kilimanjaro has fascinated me ever since I read Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro“. Little did I know as a schoolboy that I would...
Cape Point is a peninsula extending south of Cape Town, ending in the Cape of Good Hope (where old mariners from Europe used to take a sharp left as they headed to the Far East). On the shores of this peninsula is a small town where you...
(Lake Manyara, viewed from the Serena Lodge, Tanzania) The last safari destination we visited in Tanzania was Lake Manyara National Park. We left our camp after breakfast and drove the Ngorongoro Crater Rim Drive through...
In all my travels, visiting the Ngorongoro Crater remains one of my most precious experiences.
It takes a l-o-o-o-ong time to fly from the western USA to Tanzania, at the limits of my travel endurance really. But I’m about to head out on one of my greatest adventures.
(Oxara River, Thingvellir National Park, Iceland) Thingvellir National Park is of great historic and geologic importance in Iceland. This was the site of Iceland's first parliament more than 1,000 years ago. The Icelandic...