Our last day at the Antarctic Peninsula, January 1st, 2025, was drizzly and damp. We spent it at the Orne Islands which are home to some large penguin...
King Penguins at St. Andrew’s Bay, South Georgia, home to the island’s (and likely the world’s) largest colony containing somewhere around...
While we’ve been away (attending my son’s graduation in Atlanta), the M.V. Hondius story has played out to a point where, assuming things went...
M.V. Hondius at anchor off Petermann Island, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024 with a colony of Gentoo and Adelie penguins in the foreground. Hondius is currently...
With M.V. Hondius in the news, I’ve been wandering through my photos from our trip on the ship back in December 2024. Here’s a photo from what...
I was heartbroken yesterday afternoon to read about the hantavirus cases on M.V Hondius as it sailed from Ushuaia to Cape Verde while relocating from Antarctica...
Contrasting architectural styles in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as seen on July 20th, 2025 during a walkabout we took while visiting the city for NxNW...
A detail of a log cabin at Barons Creekside in Fredericksburg, Texas, March 23rd, 2026.
We visited Trakošcan Castle during our first trip to Croatia in July, 2022. Built in the 13th century, it is considered on of the country’s best...
Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels’ “Cadillac Ranch” art installation near Amarillo, Texas as seen on October 23rd, 2020. The installation...
Low tide at Burntcoat Point Park, Nova Scotia. This park on the Bay of Fundy experiences some of the widest tidal swings on Earth with the sea level changing...
Mountains in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, reflected in the water at Schwabacher Landing shortly after sunrise on the morning of June 7th, 2016.
Our 2022 NxNW expedition took us back to Utah and one of my favourite locations – Factory Butte near Hanksville. This huge, eroded chunk of rock...
An ice spire created by a rotated iceberg seen at Cape Tuxen, Antarctica on December 31st, 2024.
A detail of a huge tabular iceberg seen near Cooper Bay, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024. I love the contrast between the smooth, ocean-washed sections...
Time for another change and some more icebergs. Here’s a large, tabular berg grounded just off the dramatic coast of Cooper Bay, South Georgia seen...
A couple of juvenile elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) playing in the water at the site of Shackleton’s Peggotty Camp in King Haakon Bay, South Georgia...
A glistening female Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) shortly after she emerged from the water in Fortuna Bay, South Georgia on December 23rd,...
A couple of boisterous juvenile Antarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) seen playing at the water’s edge in Godthul, South Georgia on December...
A proud-looking adult male Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) seen in Cooper Bay, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024.
