Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Travel Tales

    Wayfinders Wanted

    Apr 27, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Before you decided where you were going to go for your next travel adventure, you probably researched different locales online, picked up brochures from several travel agencies, read books on the areas from the library and carefully sorted through various itineraries from a few tour companies.

  • Travel Tales

    The Things You Carry

    Apr 13, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Spirit Airlines will become the first carrier in U.S. history to charge fliers for putting carry-on bags into its overhead storage bins when it institutes its new fee schedule on August 1, 2010.

  • Conservation

    100 Amazing Places to Protect

    Apr 12, 2010 · Wendy Redal

    Well, if you guessed that you could see them all with Natural Habitat Expeditions, you’d be right, but that’s ultimately not the most important trait they share. These wild animals, along with a host of geological and cultural features that comprise some of Earth’s most distinctive places, are facing dramatic impacts from climate change.

  • News & More

    Nature Makes Us Good-Natured People

    Mar 23, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    You’ve probably read oodles of stories, articles and personal anecdotes on the transformative powers of seeing Churchill’s polar bears. And you’ve most likely read a lot of them here, on Natural Habitat Adventures’ website and in its blog columns.

  • News & More

    Please Don’t Banish Bumpy Roads

    Mar 15, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    I like bumpy roads. Not the ones permeated with potholes big enough to break an axle or skew tires out of alignment, but the “washboard” ones that make your teeth rattle, your words vibrate and your backside tingle when you drive over them. I like bumpy roads because they force us to slow down.

  • Travel Tips

    Geotourism: Preserving the Wonder of Places and People

    Feb 18, 2010 · Wendy Redal

    The hallmark of Natural Habitat Expeditions is a passion for adventure. While there are few adventures on earth as exhilarating as a kayak expedition in remote Greenland or trekking to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro or encountering a polar bear in the wild, it’s an equally grand adventure to discover the world’s diverse cultures.

  • Conservation

    NHA Founder Ben Bressler Interview on Eco-Tourism

    Feb 12, 2010 · James Dziezynski

    Our own Ben Bressler was featured on Fox 31 in Colorado to share his thoughts on eco-tourism! We’re sorry, this video is no longer available from Fox 31!

  • News & More

    The Age of Adventure

    Feb 9, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    If you were to believe much of what you read in newspapers, magazines and ads, or what you see and hear in electronic media today, you might conclude that adventure is mostly for those in their 20ss or younger.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Bear Power: Up Close & On the Ground | Olaf’s Corner

    Nov 23, 2009 · Olaf Malver

    At Explorer’s Corner, we don’t shy away from getting out there and possibly encountering a bear on the ground while taking proper safety precautions…Some people call it being “one with nature,” but we call it alertness and exhilaration.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Face to face with polar bears in Churchill

    Nov 18, 2009 · Wendy Redal

    Guide Steve Selden has been posting regularly from Churchill during polar bear season — but here is a field report from another vantage point: that of Good Nature contributor Wendy Redal, who saw the polar bears through the wide eyes of her children. I can still feel the Arctic air, sharp and clean.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Live from Churchill: Nov 14, 2009

    Nov 14, 2009 · Steve Selden

    Local Mike Macri was down at the “flats” just outside town on the Churchill River working on his bungalow; “Hacienda”,as he fondly refers to it; when he glanced toward the water and saw a Polar Bear floating in the water on thin grease ice.