The Ostional Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was created in 1984 to protect one of the world’s most important nesting sites of the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. I had been interested in visiting since 2017 as the beaches of Ostional are the location of a rarely seen biological wonder – an Arribadas. It’s hard to describe the supernatural feeling of standing on this beach, watching turtles arrive from thousands of miles away to lay their eggs and then vanish back…
2025 started with a spectacular three week visit to Madeira. We visited because we wanted to experience the famous Levada hiking trails we had read so much about and get away…
2025 was a particularly cold winter and spring, and the weather in Collingwood did not really warm up until early June, the same month I turned 70 and I decided that…
What started as a necessity six years ago (the Doctors told me I needed to lose some weight for surgery, so I started to run five days a week), has become…
Ratatouille is a traditional French Provençal dish of stewed summer vegetables that originated as a peasant food in the southern region of France. But I knew it better from the Disney…
Our bike trails really are Collingwood’s Jewel in Hiding. This is now my third full year of riding the trails daily for our groceries, a fun little challenge I gave myself…
We both continue to enjoy our lives in Collingwood in the Spring, Summer and Fall. It’s a beautiful place to live and is a recreational cornucopia. There are a ton of…
On my bike ride to do groceries on a late September day, I heard splashing coming from The Pretty River and realized the Chinook Salmon were spawning and wandered down to…
The Flamingo Tongue Snail is a small marine snail that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. For many years, I wanted to photograph one but never seemed to…
