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Paddling 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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Beneath the Waves: Diving Tasmania’s Sunken History

My mate Richard mentioned a cool kelp forest he’d recently found south of Dover, Tasmania. Initially there were to be three of us, but the dive grew legs and before long there were nine. Some of the...

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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...

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Galápagos

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....

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Windsurfing 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...

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The Definitive Guide to Surfing on the North Devon Coast

As most people know, Newquay has become the surf hub of the UK. The allure of the famous Fistral Beach, coupled with the bustling night-life and ample camp-sites, attracts surfers from all over the...

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My 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...

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Beneath 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...

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From 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...

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Canoeing 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...

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Wildlife 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...

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Coastal 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...

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Beneath the Waves: Diving Tasmania’s Sunken History

My mate Richard mentioned a cool kelp forest he’d recently found south of Dover, Tasmania. Initially there were to be three of us, but the dive grew legs and before long there were nine. Some of the...

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Paddling 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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