This is a silly looking, but common pose that polar bears go into. They may even snooze a bit when like this, or push themselves along the snow like a snowplow to clean their tummies. The pose has even been…

This is a silly looking, but common pose that polar bears go into. They may even snooze a bit when like this, or push themselves along the snow like a snowplow to clean their tummies. The pose has even been…
Polar Bear Conservation Like many species around the world, polar bears are facing loss of habitat due to shrinking sea ice in the Arctic. “Over the 41-year satellite record, the Arctic has lost about 1.9 million square kilometers (734,000 square…
While they look very cuddly, some people make the argument to fear the polar bear. Indeed, polar bears can be very dangerous. Bears wandering into town are common, and people keep their doors unlocked so that people being cornered or…
‘Ooh Rah’ – Here Come The Marines of the Animal Kingdom – Ursus Maritimus The science behind polar bear hairs is quite interesting, in that their fur is transparent. Those long guard hairs are essentially hollow, with a multitude…
Like most marine mammals, polar bear milk is supercharged, in that it’s about 30% fat content. The cubs nurse for as little as 18 months, up to as long as 30 months when they eventually leave their mothers. The main…
By nature, polar bears are very inquisitive, and I found them delightful and entertaining to observe! When not snoozing, or hunkered down low to the ground to keep warm in the wind, the bears were much more active, the cubs…
A regularly scheduled flight to Fairbanks was the first leg, but the second half of the trip required the use of a smaller bush plane, which actually made the this leg of the trip more interesting as we flew through…
The Polar Bear Commute – inbound and outbound to the local whale bone pile. What I learned about polar bears, during and after a recent visit to the…
See images from my most recent trip around the North East side of India here, with safaris for tigers and rhinos, and being amoung tens of millions of pilgrims in one crowded location… (Kumb Mela 2019), plus interesting stops along…
Time to do more than talk the talk, its time to walk the walk. Since I retired in 2014 and started traveling the world (taking photos and sharing them on social media etc. etc.), I reckon my air travel generates…
Perhaps a silly premise, who could ever possibly get tired of tigers? Ha ha, but it is worthwhile to note that India has more than just tigers in terms of exotic animals. While my winter safaris in India were most…
How I spent my winter on Safaris in India, a short video to accompany my three part post on the subject.
This is Part 3 of “On The Tiger Trail” “How I Spent My Winter on Photo-Safaris in Northern India” “Pussycat, Pussycat, Where are You” To paraphrase part of the 1960’s song called What’s New Pussycat, the challenge of actually finding…
This is Part 2 of “On The Tiger Trail – How I Spent My Winter on Photo-Safaris in Northern India” Where to Go India has the largest population of tigers (two thirds of the global total), and the most accessible…
This is Part 1 of “On The Tiger Trail – How I Spent My Winter on Photo-Safaris in Northern India” It wasn’t my first time on a tiger safari, nor my first trip to India, but this time it was…
It’s called “Kumbh Mela“, and it happens over the course of 2 1/2 months in one of the four different holy locations in India that periodically host this festival on a rotational basis. During that time, more than 130 million…
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The photo gallery from my recent trip to Indonesia (Island of Java, scuba diving Komodo National Park) is now online at http://thewanderinghoneybadger.com/indonesia-image-gallery/.
Images from a few days touring around the temples within the Angkor Wat Complex, near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Its a completely amazing place, built from the 8th to 12th centuries, and is in fact the largest religious complex in the…
The Wandering Honeybadger – Benevolent Paparazzi Photographer to the Monkhood? Maybe a new title for my resume? So I recently spent a number of days in Cambodia in Siem Reap in order to tour the Angkor Wat complex of temples. …
Same Same But Different… A phrase you sometimes hear in Thailand, usually when someone is trying to sell you something close to what you asked for, but not exactly the same. After a few years away from the Land of…
Tout, Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt The backstory about the photo above…. I was wandering around the Temple of Karnak, minding my own business, taking photos and this man approached me: Tout: Sir take my photo Me: No thank…
Just completed a week long scuba diving trip to the Red Sea, something that has taken me about 40 years to get around to, so I thought I would pass on some Wandering Honeybadger Tips… So my target location to…
Available at http://thewanderinghoneybadger.com/turkey-image/gallery
Out for a Saturday morning stroll in Selcuk, Turkey, I scoped out the local farmers market that was being held today for any possible photo ops… while these two presented themselves… … the real reason I was in Selcuk was…
Since I tend to travel two to three months at a time, the issue of getting a haircut in a foreign country comes up usually at least once on each trip. In this case, I had an inkling that I…
Images from my Tanzania Safari are now online at http://thewanderinghoneybadger.com/portfolio/tanzania-image-gallery/ with Lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, Elephants, Hippos etc. plus a few landscapes
The initial batch of Kenya photos are now on available on the Kenya Image Gallery page.
I saw a Gary Larson Farside cartoon online over coffee on my last full day in Masai Mara, and almost snorted out my coffee from laughing so hard… it was so perfect for the situation! So my two Masai Guides…
Disclaimer – This post is as much about staying healthy while on the road traveling (or to be precise when getting ready to travel), as it is about visiting Prague. My travel target was actually Africa (the last continent for…