How to Travel to Antarctica: The Ultimate Guide
Traveling to Antarctica is a bucket list item for a lot of people. And I’m lucky enough to have been to Antarctica – not once – but twice. On two occasions, I got to travel to Antarctica and cross a...
View ArticleWhat Travel Can Teach You About Rhino Conservation
I picked up the thin, nearly translucent shaving from the ground. It looked like a shaving of a fingernail. I examined it closely. I slowly did a rough calculation in my head. This little, tiny rhino...
View ArticleSometimes You Just Have to Let Go
When I saw the email from Linda, my heart sank. I opened it trepidatiously and read the first sentence…. “Not sure how to transition to this, but I think Kitty might be nearing the end.” Immediately...
View ArticleGetting Close to Alberta Birds of Prey
Granting freedom The golden, wheat filled horizon stretched out in both directions as far as my eyes could see. The horizon line blurred at the ends as I squinted my eyes trying to take in such a vast...
View ArticleOutnumbered on Macquarie Island
Welcome to Macquarie Island, a wildlife wonderland. There are 50,000 of them and 50 of us. We officially were in the minority now. The animals are in charge, we are the visitors, and suddenly have to...
View ArticleDon’t Skip Winnipeg!
Twelve thousand tourists visit Churchill Manitoba a year primarily to see polar bears. It’s a huge draw for a small town of 800 people. Since Churchill is remote and essentially cut off from any road...
View ArticlePolar Bear Town Where Bears Outnumber People
“Was he a big one?” the waitress asked. “Ohhh yes, he was beautiful,” the older man said as he paused slightly as if to reminisce about the image in his head as he went on telling the story. Edgar,...
View ArticleChurchill’s Fierce, Strong, and Playful Polar Bears
When I think about being exposed to different personalities, I always think about online dating. As I slowly rode the tundra buggy around in search of polar bears, I wondered what a bear’s dating...
View ArticleHow Does a Polar Bear Safari Work
Imagine a fish out of water, that’s pretty much what a polar bear is when the sea ice disappears for the summer. It’s a huge, furry marine mammal on land, not where they belong. They aren’t eating,...
View ArticleBreaking the Grizzly Bear Curse
One week before heading to the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast in BC Canada, I had this show up in my inbox: “The Chinook Salmon are showing good numbers but it is the Sockeye that the Grizzlies key in on. The...
View ArticleWhales that Do People Watching in Mexico
Ahab isn’t the only person who gets to look a whale eye to eye. Head to Magdalena Bay where you can have a close encounter with a Gray Whale – so close you can touch it. If there is such a thing as...
View ArticleAnimals in the Arctic Wildlife Photography
Close encounters…with our skilled expedition leaders He raises his nose in the air and sniffs at the air, trying to get our scent, but the wind isn’t cooperating with him. He knows we are there, but...
View ArticleBird Watching in the Russian Arctic
Puffin love. Meghan’s face comes alive as we approach the bird cliffs. She’s calling out bird species for the rest of the people in the zodiac and rattling off the extremely subtle differences between...
View ArticleDog Days of Winter
HIke! How would you like to have 182 people in your family? And what if all 182 of them were 4 years old? And had tails? At Snowy Owl Dog Sledding Banff the dogs are family. Yes, yes I know – everyone...
View ArticleWhales that Do People Watching in Mexico
Ahab isn’t the only person who gets to look a whale eye to eye. Head to Magdalena Bay where you can have a close encounter with a Gray Whale – so close you can touch it. If there is such a thing as...
View ArticleAnimals in the Arctic Wildlife Photography
Close encounters…with our skilled expedition leaders He raises his nose in the air and sniffs at the air, trying to get our scent, but the wind isn’t cooperating with him. He knows we are there, but...
View ArticleBird Watching in the Russian Arctic
Puffin love. Meghan’s face comes alive as we approach the bird cliffs. She’s calling out bird species for the rest of the people in the zodiac and rattling off the extremely subtle differences between...
View ArticleDog Days of Winter
HIke! How would you like to have 182 people in your family? And what if all 182 of them were 4 years old? And had tails? At Snowy Owl Dog Sledding Banff the dogs are family. Yes, yes I know – everyone...
View ArticleHow to Befriend a Reindeer in Alaska
Me ‘leading the herd’ from behind. This was a childhood dream come true! You know Daisy and Rufus and Jasper and Olive, you know Rocky Cupcake and Buttercup, But do you recall The most famous reindeer...
View ArticleWrangel Island Cruise Week in Review
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