The Wild Passage
This Steller sea lion was no different from any of the hundreds of others that I had encountered already on my 1,200-mile Inside Passage kayaking adventure. I would typically first spot one a few boat...
View ArticleGalápagos
I landed in Lima alone and with no fixed plan. Back home, I’d toyed with the idea of heading to the Galapagos Islands but remained undecided about the ethics of my impact on such a fragile ecosystem....
View ArticleWindsurfing with Sea Urchins
The last time I tried windsurfing I wasn’t able to even stand on the board, let alone hold the mast. A friend’s response to my grumblings was brutally visual. He let a pencil stand vertically on his...
View ArticleMy First Sailboat
CC Image Courtesy of Q Family Some sail to travel, others travel to sail. The lake near where I was staying did not figure on a local map but this wasn’t about the lake’s size. Always a crew member on...
View ArticleBeneath the Sea in Isla Culebra: A Puerto Rican Snorkeling Adventure
I am an awful swimmer. As a kid, my younger sister learned how to jump, dive and splash through the water long before I did. Of course, I can swim. I can paddle, do simple strokes and stay afloat, but...
View ArticleFrom Europe to Asia: Swimming the Hellespont
I stopped swimming to poke my head above the waves, trying to figure out where I was. As I tread water, I was met with a horrifying sight — nothing. Through the spray of the 30-knot winds coming off...
View ArticleCanoeing Canada’s Barren Lands
West of Hudson Bay in Canada’s Arctic, an enormous triangle of roadless tundra, twice the size of Alberta or Texas, stretches north to the polar sea and forms the largest single wilderness remaining in...
View ArticleWildlife Encounters: Kayaking the Inside Passage
I was two days out of Shearwater, BC and paddling my kayak north through the maze of channels along the west coast of British Columbia and Southeast Alaska that form the famous Inside Passage. My...
View ArticleCoastal Adventure
Standing on a dock in an old Georgia fishing village with a small sailboat high and dry in the mud and our guide cursing herself because she had packed not a complete pair of shoes, but one of her...
View ArticlePaddling Alaska – The Inside Passage by Kayak
Photo by Sarah Greenwood The Inside Passage stretches from Seattle, Washington to Skagway Alaska. Many consider it the sea kayaking equivalent of the Appalachian Trail, though it doesn’t offer the...
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