Hiking in America: West Maui Mountains, Hawai’i

Maui’s West Maui Mountains offer easy to challenging hikes with stunning views of razorback peaks, plunging valleys, and lush coastal scenes.   Today’s post is the second of three about hikin...

Australian Birds: Laughing Kookaburra

An Aussie icon, the laughing kookaburra greets the dawn with maniacal chortles and flies ritualized trapeze flights to defend its home group’s territory.   This week’s featured bird i...

Canadian Birds: Grey Jay

Fluffy and friendly, the handsome grey jay is the voice of North America’s vast coniferous boreal and subalpine forests and has an amazing memory.   For this week’s “bird of the...

Exploring Canada: St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador – City on the Eastern Tip of North America

Quirky city on The Rock, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, blends brilliant colour with rugged coastlines and a history spanning five hundred years on North America’s eastern tip. Joi...