Aloha Kauai 2010 was the year we visited Kaua’i… Wow ! When we were doing our research on where to stay and when to visit, the north shore town of Haena sounded perfect to us and the books we read all said it rained considerably in the winter so we chose July and rented a small VRBO cottage about a five minute walk to Haena Beach. Kaua’i is the oldest of all the main Hawaiian Islands, dating back some 5.1…
One of North America’s largest and best marine facilities, the Vancouver Aquarium, houses more than 70,000 critters, including white beluga whales, sea otters, Steller sea lions, and Pacific white-sided dolphins. During…
On the Southwest coast of Vancouver Island, around a 2-hour and 15-minute drive from Victoria, lies the Juan de Fuca Provincial Park and one of its most exciting treasures: the biodiverse…
While driving home from my sister’s wedding in northern California in 2008, we stopped at a place we had stopped in at several years earlier while on our road trip from…
Uclulet is a spiritual place. Directly translated Ucluelet means Safe Harbour. It was from this small town that we boarded a Zodiac all by ourselves to spend a few hours looking…
I was very unhappy at being back in Montreal after leaving Belize. We had bought ourselves a nice two story rooftop condo right on Lake St. Louis but in January of…
After we returned from Belize, I was fortunate enough to work with several non profit organizations, which I found very interesting and rewarding. My favourite work was for Doctors Without Borders…
A coral polyp is a spineless animal. Coral polyps can be the size of a pinhead while others are larger, sometimes a foot in diameter. One coral branch or mound is…
Bula In 2006, we visited Fiji. After we returned from Belize, I really wasn’t happy to be back in Montreal. The first winter back was bad and the second was worse.…
The Indians are four unique shaped rocky pinnacles in the British Virgin Islands right next to Norman Island. These easy to spot rocky pinnacles rise about sixty feet above the water…
The Gladden Spit (above) and Silk Cayes Marine Reserve is a protected area of the Belize Barrier Reef, which has become world-famous for its whale shark migration. The Silk Cayes are…
