Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Quetzal

    Mar 30, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a quetzal in Costa Rica. Photographer Ling Yoong saw this breathtaking bird while walking through the cloud forest of Cerro de la Muerte. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Think I’ll Take a Little Nap

    Mar 16, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a napping brown bear in Alaska. Photographer Charlene Ferguson was visiting Brooks Falls when she came across this snoozing Ursus arctos. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Glass Butterflies

    Mar 9, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a moment out of Costa Rica. Photographer Marianna Armata found a group of small glass butterflies gathered around a piece of fermented fruit at the Butterfly Conservatory.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Play with Prey

    Mar 2, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a moment from the Chobe River in Botswana. Photographer Ravi Tennakoon watched as this kingfisher tossed up its prey before swallowing. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Cubs Stare Down Prey

    Feb 23, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose lion cubs in Okavango National Park, Botswana. Photographer Don Ellingsen watched a pride of three females and six cubs feast on a fresh zebra kill.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Classic Howling Coyote

    Feb 16, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a coyote in the mist. Photographer Glenn Mai was photographing Yellowstone National Park when this coyote let out a howl and posed for him.

  • News & More

    Emoji: the New Language of Adventure and Travel Writing?

    Feb 13, 2018 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    In case you can’t read the sentence in the image below, I’ll translate it for you: “I love the snows of Antarctica and the glaciers of Greenland. And so, my adventures in ice began.” I wrote that statement with the help of an online emoji translator.

  • Asia & The Pacific

    Videos: The Sun Bear, “He Who Likes to Sit High”

    Feb 6, 2018 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It’s ironic that an animal whose name includes the word sun would be a creature of the night. But once darkness descends, the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus)—the smallest member of the bear family—lumbers through the dense, lowland forests of Southeast Asia, snacking on berries, birds, fruits, insects, lizards, rodents and roots.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Howling

    Feb 2, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a howling wolf.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: Silverback Gorilla in Africa

    Jan 26, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a silverback mountain gorilla striking a pose. Photographer Benjamin Thomas took this photo in Rwanda at Volcanoes National Park.

  • Nature Photography

    Wildlife Photo of the Week: White Watcher

    Jan 12, 2018 · Kendal Bower

    Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a polar bear in Churchill. Photographer Charlie Curtin captured this moment while out on the tundra off the Hudson Bay. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?

  • Europe

    Video: the Aurora Borealis over Scotland

    Dec 7, 2017 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The northern lights—also known as the aurora borealis—have been around since the Earth formed an atmosphere more than four billion years ago. The dinosaurs saw them, early humans certainly gazed at them, you may have wondered at them and they will probably mesmerize your descendants, as well.