Hiking in Canada: Wallace Bay National Wildlife Area, Nova Scotia

Wallace Bay National Wildlife Area is a 585-hectare migratory bird sanctuary abutting the Northumberland Strait near the village of Wallace on Nova Scotia’s beautiful North Shore. Established in...

Six Months in South Africa: Oldenburgia Trail Hike

Each weekend (except a rainy one) that Vilis and I have been in South Africa, we’ve gone exploring on foot or by car. To date, all our excursions have been in Eastern Cape, within two hours driv...

Six Months in South Africa: Hiking Grahamstown’s Rietberge Fynbos

Grahamstown is surrounded by steep-sloped kloofs (ravines) and by dry, rocky hills – the Rietberge – covered with fynbos, which in the Afrikaans language means “scrubland having no trees wit...

Six Months in South Africa: Hogsback Hiking – Big Tree

On our third morning in Hogsback, Vilis and I looked out the kitchen window of the Little Dene cottage and saw samango monkeys high in bare trees, basking in the early sunshine. While we watched, a nu...