Conservation
New Year’s Day 2019: What Outdoor Place Misses You?
My father never had the “urge for going,” as songwriter-singer Joni Mitchell calls it—the desire to travel. I place the blame for that fact squarely on the shoulders of World War II.
Good Nature Travel Blog
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Misty Morning Harbor Seal
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a misty Vancouver Island morning. Photographer Troy Wood captured the moment a harbor seal made eye contact as it swam by the camera. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Nature & Wildlife
Traveler Story: Emotional Depth on a BC Nature Adventure
“Just before our landing in Kitamaat, our Expedition Leader, Moira Le Patourel, gathered the guests in the wheelhouse of the Island Odyssey and asked each of us to express any particular feelings we had about our nature adventure together.
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Videos
Spirit Bear Videos: A Look into Lives of Peace and Harmony
According to legend, Raven went among the black bears and promised that every 10th bear cub would be born white as a reminder of the time when the world was pure and clean and covered with snowdrifts and glaciers.
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Travel Tales
Hello, Nature! | Olaf’s Corner
There is a story about the colorful character named Bob in the Broughton Islands. If you are lucky, you can see him for yourself. You just need to get into a kayak and go on an early morning paddle through the island group.
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Travel Tales
Majestic Spirit Bears of British Columbia
“As our trip was coming to its conclusion, the captain of our sailing boat, the Island Odyssey, passed around a ‘talking feather’ so each guest could make comments about what they enjoyed most during their voyage and adventure.
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News & More
Good News for Climate Change: World’s First Carbon-Capturing Plant Opens
In 628 months, there hasn’t been a cool one. That’s more than 52 years. “Global warming has made cold scarce,” writes Brian Kahn in an April 19, 2017, article published on the Climate Central website.
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Nature & Wildlife
White, Wild Animals and Why Difference Shouldn’t Be Wrong
A framed photo that hung on a wall of my grandfather’s large dining room is one of my earliest memories. Sepia-toned, it depicted a herd of deer, taken in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, near Boulder Junction. A few of the deer in that image looked different from the others; they appeared to be all white.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Spirit Bear
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a spirit bear in British Columbia. Photographer Joey Campbell was visiting the Great Bear Rainforest when this bear came out to fish. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
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Videos
Video: Emotional Overload on Encountering a Coastal Wolf
Almost every single one of you has had that “nature moment”; the instant when an animal encounter or a sighting of a natural landscape or phenomenon takes your breath away. The power of those brief minutes is so strong that you remember them for the rest of your life.
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Videos
Video: British Columbia Humpbacks May Soon Lose Ocean Quiet
In some of the last quiet, pristine waters on the British Columbia Coast, humpback whales are making a comeback. In the mid 1960s, when Canada stopped whaling on its West Coast, there were only about 1,500 of them left in the North Pacific.
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Travel Tales
Finding the Sound of Silence in Glacier Bay National Park
The quietest place you may ever experience is next to a little pond off the Forest Trail in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. Hiking there just a couple of weeks ago, I found myself feeling a little unsettled without quite knowing why.