Madagascar Wildlife-Part 2 My obsession with lemurs took me on an adventure where I spent 19 days in Madagascar. In a previous post, I wrote about the country and its people. This post will detail my trip and describe the flora and fauna I encountered in the dry forest region of western Madagascar. Clicking on […]
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Cruising the Tongass
Alaska’s Inside Passage. Part 1. I recently went in search of photogenic wildlife in the Tongass National Forest of southeastern Alaska. This post will focus on the ruggedly beautiful landscape scenery of Alaska’s Inside Passage. Clicking on the images in this post will enlarge them for a better viewing experience. Tongass National Forest, the nation’s […]
The Elusive Quetzal Quest
Costa Rican Wildlife – Part 3 This post will focus on some of the beautiful birds I photographed in the Costa Rican highland cloud forest. I encourage you to click on the images and graphics in this post to enlarge them for a better, more detailed viewing experience. After four days on the tropical Osa […]
Land of Sloths and Monkeys
Costa Rican Wildlife- Part 1. I had the privilege of going to Costa Rica in search of exotic wildlife. My trip included two very different regions, the Osa Peninsula and the highland cloud forest. This post will focus on some of the mammalian wildlife of the Osa Peninsula I saw. Clicking on the images in […]
In Search of Foxes – Channel Islands National Park
The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the southern California coast that are spread over a 160-mile region. The national park consists of 250,000 acres of land and ocean environment. The primary visitor center for the park is located on the harbor in Ventura, California although there is a small visitor center at […]
The Amazing World of Seals
Pinnipeds (“flipper-footed”) are marine mammals possessing both front and rear flippers that although they live in the ocean are able to come onto land for significant periods of time. Members of this group include seals, sea lions and walruses. The ancestors of our current day pinnipeds were land dwellers that over time began to spend […]
Easy to Reach Waterfalls Near Mt. Shasta
There are four beautiful and easy to see waterfalls in the Mt. Shasta region of northern California that can be visited in a single day. Three are on the upper section of the McCloud River in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and the fourth is in McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park. The McCloud River waterfalls and […]
Gold Butte National Monument
National parks are places that have been set aside to protect an environmentally or culturally important area. There are currently 63 national parks, and I have been able to visit 40 of them. Although everybody has heard of our national parks, many people have no idea that there are 129 other parks termed national monuments […]
An Oregon Coastal Spectacular – The King Tide
This weekend I went to the Oregon Coast to experience the power of the ocean during a phenomenon called the “King Tide”, a time of an unusually high tide. To understand this phenomena, it is necessary to understand why we have high and low tides. Why are there tides? Ocean tides are a phenomenon caused […]
An Adventure on the Rails-to-Trails “Crown Jewel”
Rail-Trails are flat or gently sloping paths created from decommissioned railroad corridors. The Route of the Hiawatha is a very scenic biking trail that follows an old railroad right-of-way traversing the Bitterroot Mountains near the Idaho/Montana border. This railway, known as the Milwaukee Road, was an important stretch of the last of the transcontinental railroads […]