Hiking Travel

    Hiking Old Baldy

    Old Baldy is located in Beaver Valley and is part of the Blue Mountains which is the highest section of the Niagara Escarpment. Were it not for this escarpment, there would be little in the southern part of Ontario that even resembles a hill. The Niagara escarpment runs from Niagara Falls and zigzags northwards up to the Bruce Peninsula where it disappears under the waters of Georgian Bay only to re-emerge on Manitoulin Island (the largest freshwater island in the…

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  • Scuba Diving

    Hawksbill Sea Turtle

    I love turtles. I love being able to swim with turtles in the open water. Not particularly large compared to other sea turtles, Hawksbills grow up to about 45 inches in shell…

  • Scuba Diving

    Queen Parrotfish

    Queen parrotfish are herbivores that graze the reef, using their beaks to scrape plants and algae from the reef surface. This habit involves ingesting corals and sometimes other animals as well,…

  • Scuba Diving

    Flamingo Tongue Snail

    The Flamingo Tongue Snail is a small marine snail that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. For many years, I wanted to photograph one but never seemed to…

  • Travel

    St. Thomas, USVI

    St. Thomas is the gateway island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean but we used it as our launching point to the British Virgin Islands and to enjoy our…

  • Scuba Diving Travel

    The Wreck of The Rhone

    The Wreck of The Rhone lies within the Rhone National Park off the western coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands. The area is teeming heavily with marine life…

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    British Virgin Islands

    A year after Yim and I left Belize, our friends, Stu and Fran, who chartered Two If By Sea, had also left and made their way to the British Virgin Islands,…

  • Hiking Travel

    Bruce Caves

    The Bruce Caves were formed by the wave action of post-glacial Lake Algonquin – 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. The cave formations are dramatic illustrations of the weathering processes and impresses…