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I arrived at Jonathan Dickinson State Park with no real agenda. It had been the closest camping spot I could find to Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge where I intended to take pictures of sea turtles early the next morning for my forthcoming book Wild...

08 February, 2020 /

How do you approach a polar bear? I confess, it’s not a question I spent time contemplating until I began exploring my options for a polar bear expedition. Canada’s Churchill in northern Manitoba, otherwise known as the polar bear capital of the world and possibly...

01 July, 2019 /

For an entire week of travel in Africa, we had heard nothing other than how the wildebeest migration wasn’t happening. Rains had come to the south, grasses were dry in the north, and prescribed burns in Tanzania were said to be dissuading these famed antelope...

19 April, 2019 /

It started as a rustle in the carpet of dried leaves, a distant whisper in Rwanda’s foothills barely audible above the squeaks of towering bamboo as woody neighbors rubbed against one another in an unsynchronized symphony. One of our guides paused, staring intently into the...

04 February, 2019 /

It was my second day gorilla trekking in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park and I thought I knew the gig. My first hike, in the medium difficulty category, had been an easy stroll through bamboo and montane forest into an open glade where our assigned gorilla...

16 November, 2018 /

My heart sank at our boatman’s words, “I can’t get you any closer than that!”The backlit blob thirty-something feet above, mostly hidden by vegetation, was hardly the photograph I wanted of a Pygmy Sloth. Two plane rides and a 50-mile boat ride to see a...

22 February, 2017 /

After three stories each from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America and now Antarctica, we come to the end of my "official" tour of nature on the seven continents; though I assure you that the travel tales will continue. I end with a...

26 September, 2016 /

We’ve explored nature in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America on this tour of the continents. Our final destination, Antarctica, is a continent like no other. One of the hardest to reach, ice and penguins dominate this land. Adelie Penguins marched across the...

06 September, 2016 /