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Florida's Butterfly Season
Zebra Longwing on Mexican Sunflower with Coleus BackgroundThe Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) is the state butterfly of Florida. Aptly named, it is quickly identified by the yellow-white...
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When Will Florida's Rainy Season Begin?
Floridian's are wondering when or if we'll get a rainy season as even huge lakes like Lake George (above) start to run dry. For years the rainy seasons have been unpredictable or absent. 2017 has...
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La Florida and The Fountain of Youth
De Leon Springs in Volusia County is a 2nd magnitude spring with a flow of about 19 million gallons of 72° F water per day.On April 2, 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León and his crew became the...
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Anatomy of a Florida Heat Wave
Though Florida is known as the Sunshine State, it could also qualify as the “Hot State.” Each summer, millions of residents and tourists enjoy the warm weather and sunny beaches, but most are unaware...
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Rogue Waves
Ten-story high, near-vertical walls of frothing water. Smashed portholes and flooded cabins on the upper decks. Thirty-metre behemoths that rise up from nowhere to throw ships about like corks, only to...
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Alaskan Summer: Midnight Sun
Summer in Anchorage, Alaska is supposed to be cloudy/rainy/cool but we were gifted with relatively warm temperatures (in the 60°s/30°s) and mostly cloudless skies.Located at 61° N Anchorage receives...
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Alaskan Summer Nights
Sailing east on the Regent Seven Seas Mariner from Seward to Sitka the sunsets were amazing. I would rush up top when it was supposed to be sunset to try and capture the event, always forgetting that...
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Ring Around the Moon
Its another warm night in Central Florida as this year without any break from the heat continues. Dense cirrus clouds stream across the night sky obscuring most stars and create a halo (or ring) around...
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Seward Gateway to Alaska
While our "Gateway to Alaska" was Anchorage, our first embarkation was in Seward, and this was the view. Extreme luxury aboard the Regent Seven Seas Mariner. Regent is owned by Norwegian Cruise Line...
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Invisible Animals
We’ve all heard of squid and octopus using pigments to blend in with their surroundings, but what about becoming completely invisible? To become actually see through, and appear as if you aren’t there,...
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Turtle Rescues
Whenever I'm driving the truck I rescue any of the slider turtles that are on the move across Florida roads. They are not likely to survive road crossings as there is a general disregard for wildlife...
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Wolves Return to California
In other western states wolves get no respect, but in California the return of a second pack to the Northern California Wilderness has wolf lovers howling with joy, especially over this little cub's...
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Gulf of Alaska
Day 3 of our Alaska excursion was spent sailing east in the Gulf of Alaska from Seward to Yakutat. It is an air distance of about 400 miles that by car would take an incredible 41 hours of circuitous...
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Honduran Fish Rain
Can it rain fish? or frogs? or alligators?This weather phenomenon was probably best imagined in the movie Magnolia (1999, clip below).When studying weather phenomena, it's a good idea to assume — at...
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Florida Mosquito Season
It is always mosquito season in Florida, but late summer to fall is particularly painful in recent years. Why? Partly due to Republican control of Florida and their small government ethos which...
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Hurricane Season 2017 Heats Up
A tranquil Lake Istokpoga could use the waters from a few tropical storms as Florida's 5th largest lake's level hovers around 4.0-feet, barely navigable.The Madden-Julian Oscillation Suggests Possible...
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Invasion of the Lone Star Tick
I enjoy reading instagram posts where writers expound on the virtues of exploring Florida's woods and swamps. I agree that there is spectacular beauty to be found in the remaining natural areas of...
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Grizzly Bears of the Khutzeymateen
These are a few of the hundreds of photos I made recently while cruising in the Khutzemateen Inlet and the Khutzeymateen Provincial Park near Prince Rupert, Canada. The Park is also referred to as the...
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Can the Queen Conch be Saved from Extinction?
A slow-moving, long-lived marine snail, the queen conch (Strombus gigas syn. Lobatus gigas) inhabits seagrass beds in Caribbean and western Atlantic Ocean waters, including those around the Florida...
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Lake Istokpoga
Lake Istokpoga, at 27,692 acres (43¼ square miles, 112 km²) is the 5th largest lake in Florida. The lake is generally shallow (4-8 feet deep) and kept that way most of the year as part of an ill-fated...
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