Pineland gave way to rolling dunes, dunes so expansive that the ocean beyond went nearly forgotten. It was low tide and the waves were so far out that there were no crashing sounds to remind me I was seaside. Burrows riddled the hillside and I...
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...
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...
We’ve reached Antarctica, the final continent on our tour of nature around the world. And what’s important in Antarctica? The penguins would say its rocks.A lone penguin spots a rock peeking out from under the snow. It lowers its head and inspects the stone at...
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...