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With the official start of summer arriving in just a little over a week, our thoughts are naturally turning to the world’s beaches. We won’t be the only ones, however, who’ll soon be populating the sands. Sea turtles are found in almost every ocean basin throughout the world.
Nature & Wildlife
Costa Rica is about the size of West Virginia yet contains about 5 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Accompanying a Costa Rica adventure with WWF and Nat Hab, I saw enough to fill my camera’s memory card.
Conservation
Almost a year ago, in July 2014, Washington state experienced the worst string of wildfires ever in its history. The first fire began on July 8 near the Entiat River. Then, on July 14, a lightning storm started dozens more across the eastern Cascade Range.
Galapagos Islands
The outdoor fish market is one of the first things you’ll see when you disembark from your Galapagos cruise boat in the town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz.
African Safaris
Most people go on their first safari because, understandably, they want to see Africa’s famous big animals — lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and the like.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a sleepy grizzly on Alaska‘s coast. Photographer Steve Dodd captured this photo after wandering through the meadows of Hallo Bay on a trip to Alaska with Nat Hab.
Travel Tips
Every few months, it seems that we travelers get hit with increasing airline fees and baggage costs. And as seat space and overhead bins get smaller and smaller, it’s a wonder we can still travel comfortably with any luggage at all. Packing space is extremely limited.
Galapagos Islands
Yesterday the Galapagos National Park Directorate released this spectacular nighttime footage of Wolf Volcano, which began erupting on May 25th. The volcano, which last erupted 33 years ago, is on the northern tip of Isabela Island, the largest in the archipelago.
Conservation
Life in the Amazon flows like café con leche: creamy and smooth, masking the electric life underneath. The Amazon River is a cup that you want to share with a friend. The caffeinated, energetic Amazon River floated our boat away from Iquitos, Peru and into the Pacaya-Samiria Reserve.
News & More
One of the many joys of returning from a trip is being able to relive the experience by sorting through your vacation photos. Chances are that you managed to get a few really good ones among the hundreds—made possible by the ease of digital photography—that you erase.
African Safaris
Pretty much everyone has heard of the Great Migration. And most people have a pretty decent sense of what it is — a bunch of wildebeest and zebra running across the plains trying to not get eaten, right? Well, yes, but it’s so much more than that.
Galapagos Islands
Conservationists are breathing a collective sigh of relief this week in response to the news that the Galapagos pink land iguana, one of the world’s rarest and most endangered reptiles, seems to have survived the recent violent eruptions of Wolf Volcano on Isabela Island.
