This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 At this point in the trip, we were pretty exhausted. We had done two weeks of hiking, snorkeling, climbing, etc., last part at altitude. I think it is safe to say that we were pretty done. But after flying back to Lima,…
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This is part of a series called Chile 2019 After a very “hot” time in Santiago, we were ready for some cooler weather. And we definitely got it when we arrived in Cohaique, the capital city of the province of the same name, in the Aysén Region of Patagonia. This area is surrounded by snow-covered…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 One of the things we wanted to see while in Nova Scotia was Louisbourg Fortress, a reconstructed historic site that serves as a living history museum, re-enacting life as it would have been for the French soldiers and townspeople in 1745. The drive over was…
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This is part of a series called Antactica Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2018 As we left South Georgia Island, I became aware of the mixing that goes on in the southern seas — whether vertically as the cold Antarctic waters mix with the warmer Atlantic waters or horizontally as the ongoing counterclockwise current around Antarctica…
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This is part of a series called Antactica Dec. 2017 – Jan. 2018 We just finished two days in the Falkland Islands — initially in the largely unpopulated islands off West Falkland and then into Stanley in East Falkland. The Falklands are interesting in many dimensions. Originally the islands broke off from the South African…
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As our time in Australia was coming to an end, we had yet to see one of the places on our bucket list — the Great Barrier Reef. Of course that covers over 1400 miles of territory, so we had to figure out where to go. After a little research, we decided on Hayman Island….
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