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Our Explorations of the 7th Continent

Posted on May 25, 2012 by definitionofsanity | 4 Comments

Featured Writer: Cheryl Harwood When I first suggested a trip to Antarctica, the rest of the family thought I was unhinged. But it was the only continent that we had yet to visit so we read anything we could find, packed everything we could fit, and thought we were ready for anything the continent could throw at us. But nothing could have…

Ecuador’s Eco Adventures

Posted on May 22, 2012 by AudreyRose | 0 Comments

Featured Writer: Audrey Rose Goldfarb I gave Wlady no restrictions when it came to setting up our eco-adventures – just told him I love animals and want to see as many different ones as possible and that I REALLY wanted to meet some monkeys. He gave us the plan, we proceeded accordingly… First was Punay. Joined by two other Americans,…

Gentle Giant Interaction at Sea World

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Lesley | 7 Comments

Beluga whales are the gentle giants of the sea and at SeaWorld San Diego, I had the opportunity of a lifetime to interact with these beautiful creatures. Between 12 and 14 feet long and weighing about 2000 pounds, belugas are roughly twice the size of bottlenose dolphins. These attentive animals played and interacted with their surroundings and us, seeming almost…

Battembang- Crocodiles, Bats and Killing Caves

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Jennie | 0 Comments

Featured writer: Jennie McKie After an extremely long day of travelling, I arrived in Battembang, Cambodia. (Pronounced Bat-dam-bang) It is a small city two hours from the border of Poi Pet and is often overlooked by tourists who head straight to Angkor Wat in Siem Reap or the capital, Phnom Penh. On our first day in Battembang, we decided to rent a…

Gorillas in the Mist

Posted on April 20, 2012 by mepalmer | 0 Comments

Featured Writer: Megan Palmer The mountain was entirely enveloped in mist as we crouched just metres from a family of wild mountain gorillas, in an island of lush green vegetation. If I had reached out, I could almost have touched their human-like hands, felt their leathery faces, whose intelligent eyes peered curiously at us. They seemed entirely unconcerned about our arrival,…

Here kitty, kitty…A Trip to the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Park

Posted on April 16, 2012 by mountainmissy | 2 Comments

Featured Writer & Photographer Melissa Laundre I have been sick and basically living on my couch this week. I haven’t been sick all winter but of course, when it’s nice weather, I get a sinus infection that knocks me on my arse for the week. Ugh. I’ve been meaning to write about our trip to the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Park in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The…

Houston, We Have a Problem

Posted on April 15, 2012 by talesfromthemotherland | 2 Comments

Featured writer: Dawn Quyle Landau I probably shouldn’t waste that title. God knows I could use it for other posts, but that’s what I found myself saying throughout the day, this week, as the U.N toured the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Anyone who hasn’t lived under a rock for most of their lives, unless, I guess, they are from a foreign…

How Many Turtle Eggs Fit in a Bra?

Posted on April 14, 2012 by KelliRenee | 8 Comments

Featured Writer: Kelly Little (Kelli Renee Photography) The second largest town in Barbados is in the North-West, Speightstown (pronounced – ‘spike-stong’); a small village town that boasts one of my favorite West Coast beaches, Godings. It was nesting season for the endangered hawksbill turtle and this beach, like many others, is one of their nurseries. At this time of year…

Twin Centre Honeymoon: Sri Lanka

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Chelle | 0 Comments

It’s been five years, but our honeymoon is still the bar by which we measure all other holidays. Everything else has come up short. We chose a twin centre holiday: one busy week of a Discover Sri Lanka tour, followed by a week of relaxation in the Maldives. It was perfect. There were a few reasons that made it so….

Chiang Rai, White Temple, Superheros, Laos and Tiger Bits

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Jennie | 3 Comments

Featured writer: Jennie McKie With a Friday off school for the Queen’s birthday, I though I would make the most of the long weekend and explore more parts of the North of Thailand and Thailand’s famous ‘White Temple” as well as the city of Chiang Rai. Me at the Hot Spring- Chiang Rai On the Friday afternoon, I took a…