Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Travel Tips

    Places, Good and Bad

    Apr 26, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    We humans seem to have a great need to anthropomorphize; that is, we tend to want to ascribe human characteristics to inanimate objects, nonhuman animals and natural phenomena, such as the wind, rain or sun.

  • Videos

    Video: Beluga Bath Time

    Apr 14, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Stunningly white in a blue sea, beluga whales are ethereally beautiful creatures when spotted in their natural habitats. Not only are they a treat for the eyes, but hearing them is something you’ll never forget.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Churchill: Home of the Pizzly?

    Jan 25, 2011 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    As the Arctic continues to warm, it comes as no surprise that cold-adapted species, such as polar bears, are moving north in an effort to survive, while those that favor more moderate temperatures are expanding into regions that have now become hospitable habitats for them.

  • Travel Tales

    Nature Revisited

    Jan 5, 2010 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    It was fall when I saw the little town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, for the first time. Like most of the other visitors there at that time of year, I went to see its polar bears. That trip also marked the first time that I ever set foot outside the United States.