“Canned Rhino in a Bowl” Jambo, is a male rhino in the breeding sanctuary, Mkomazi, Tanzania. You need not feel bad for Jambo, he is safe and happy and pampered, under full time guard, along with three lady rhinos that…
Swimming With the Sharks!
The amazing thing perhaps is that I still have all my important body parts and appendages.. In order of size as I remember seeing them.. Dogfish – I used to work as a commercial diver, and sometimes schools of the…
The happiest day of my life?
Me, in my much younger days at the helm of Encounter. I sold my sailboat this week, and just handed over the keys today to the new owner. However I am not sure that old adage, “The second happiest day…
Polar Bear Games, Part 2 – Getting to Polar Bear Country
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…
My Carbon Offset for this Year
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…
On The Tiger Trail – The Video
How I spent my winter on Safaris in India, a short video to accompany my three part post on the subject.
On The Tiger Trail – Part 2
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…
On The Tiger Trail – Part 1
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…
Pragmatically Passive in Prague Due to Pathological Perturbations
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…
Brazil – Carnival in Rio, The Greatest Show on Earth
Its not that I have a bucket list, simply because the bucket would have to be bigger than anything in order to encompass “everything”.. but Carnival in Rio has long been on my mind as something I definitely wanted…
Patagonia Didn’t Kill Me – The Non-Hiker’s Overview – Part 2 – The Hiking
My decision about hiking in Patagonia, was very simple – “Not To”. Yet I didn’t escape hiking totally as I wound up doing some hiking on my own in the area around the Fitz Roy range in Argentina out of…
Patagonia Didn’t Kill Me – The Non-Hiker’s Overview – Part 1 – The Winds
If you want to understand my thoughts (and trepidations) about Patagonia before I got there, read my pre-trip post A Palanquin for Patagonia? – The Honeybadger’s Upcoming Trip to South America and Beyond.. Logistics My arrival in Patagonia was preceded…
Creepy, Crawlies, Things that Bite & Things that Fright – Happy Halloween 2017!
My annual list of things that bite and things that fright that I have seen over the last year on my travels around the world! Diving with Great Whites in Australia My what big teeth it has! Thankful to be…
My SCUBA Resume
The Wandering Honeybadger, Red Sea, Egypt, 2018 I was certified back in 1976 over here in Victoria, BC, Canada. I have been diving continuously since 1976, and in addition to putting more than 5000 hours underwater in a wide variety…
Into the Deep End of India – Part Eight, The Rann of Kutch
I had signed up for another photo tour with my pals from Indian Photo Tours, this time the trip was to the Rann of Kutch (in the State of Gujarat) which consists of a white desert of salt flats and…
Our Thai Food Creations
I did the photography for all these shots, and jointly did the styling with the other two chefs, Chef S. Prongthong, and Chef P. Thinnakorn, and I actually prepared a number of the dishes below as well.
Being Inside a Washing Machine on Spin Cycle
I was in New Zealand, Christchurch to be specific, and white water rafting was being advertised as one of the local specialities.. so I was game, and so was my lady friend based on the description of it that I…