Fresh from a morning of paddling, strolling around palm-fringed beaches, and snorkeling on surrounding coral reef, our group of 11 sea kayakers sat under a cane shelter on the edge of a large white sand beach on an island in… Read More ›
Environmental Issues
Watching Energy in Ice: Nature’s Version of “Frozen”
A winter walk taps into engaging energies of renewal, focus, and just plain wonder! ________________________________________________________________ Today, as I often do, I went for a walk in the nature of the preserve next door. I can, if I choose, walk the… Read More ›
Practicing Patience is for the Birds, at Cape St. Mary’s, Newfoundland
The fog at Cape St. Mary’s, Newfoundland, doesn’t so much gently roll in as it stampedes like a crowd of Black Friday shoppers through just-unlocked doors of a big box store. Like shoppers rushing and pushing their way through store… Read More ›
A Rastafarian Stair-step Through History on the Caribbean Island of Dominica
Rastaman live up. Rastaman don’t give up Keep your culture. Don’t be afraid of the vulture. Grow your dread lock. Don’t be afraid of the wolf-pack. (Bob Marley – Lyrics from the Song Rastaman Live Up) ________________________________________________________________________________ I was in… Read More ›
A Conundrum In, And Of, The Wilderness
If a wilderness area is heavily used by people, can it really even be called wilderness? I looked up the definition of wilderness as a starting point to answer this question. According to the Wilderness Act of 1964, Wilderness is,… Read More ›
A Glimpse of the Future in the Old City of Venice, Italy
Symbolic of a glorious and prosperous past, Venice also is symbolic of the world we’re poised on the brink of – maybe it could be called the Engineero-zoic Era? ______________________________________________________________________________ Part One: The road to insight is paved with water. … Read More ›
Me and My Sparrow – Birds & Saltmarshes Behind Off-limits Signs on Monomoy Island, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Me and my sparrow Taking the high road Where ever we go, everyone knows, It’s me and my sparrow (*) _________________________________________________________________________________ (*) With deference to the late great Harry Nilsson, and his song “Me and My Arrow” The boat drops us… Read More ›
The Wondrous Glacier Perito Moreno, Argentina, Has a Chip on its Shoulder
They say that nature talks, but humans rarely listen. After a day of trekking on Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier, in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, in southern Patagonia, I sat down on a boulder on the land to the side of… Read More ›
Canoeing the Wild & Scenic Rio Grande River – A Wild West River Adventure
Standing buck-naked in the Rio Grande River, a river-bend upstream of our overnight camp at Lower Falls in the Lower Canyons section of the river between Texas and Mexico, I braced against the current and started wringing the Dr. Bronners… Read More ›
Paddling an Unnamed River in the Wilderness of Labrador
We watched the vintage 1950 Otter float plane lift off the water and loop over us, leaving us with our three canoes and a rainbow assortment of dry bags and paddles tossed ashore in a nondescript shrub and spruce thicket. … Read More ›
VENTURE OUTSIDE BLOG: THE PUMA DIARIES 