David and the Goliath Grouper
-a short story by Steve Eilenberg Lola was my first. Not L-O-L-A, Lola, but a 400-pound *goliath grouper. She greeted us on » Read more
Animal
Iconic Iceland, Part 1 (April 2023)
Iceland: an island country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, small in size, but with a lot going on. Volcanic activity » Read more
Gray Whale Grooving, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja (January 2023)
Finally! I have wanted to visit the gray whale nurseries of Baja Mexico for literally decades, ever since the 1990s, when we » Read more
2022 Highlights
As 2022 unfurled, we adapted to the realities of coronavirus endemicity. This was the year of make up trips (not 1, not » Read more
Back to Baja: October 2022
Friday, October 7, 2022 No good adventure begins uneventfully, or so it seems. 2022 was a year dominated by pandemic make-up trips, » Read more
Brrrr! Back to British Columbia (September 2022)
Port Hardy is a small fishing village at the northern end of Vancouver Island, a one hour flight in a small plane » Read more
Namibia, June 2022 (Part 6, Etosha National Park)
The final phase of our Namibia trip was devoted to wildlife, centered on Etosha National Park, in northern Namibia. Etosha means » Read more
Namibia, June 2022 (Part 5: A visit to a Himba village)
Tuesday June 7, 2022 After our “vacation within a vacation” at Walvis Bay, with too numerous to count flamingos and pelicans for » Read more
Namibia, June 2022 (Part 4: Walvis Bay)
Martin Bailey bills this photographic expedition as his Complete Namibia Tour and it is indeed comprehensive and very well organized. One week » Read more
Namibia: June 2022 (Part 3-Sossusvlei and Dune Dreams)
Thursday June 2, 2022 By four days into the first of our 2 weeks in Namibia, this trip had already exceeded my » Read more