Category: Wildlife
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Valparaíso, Chile
As we returned from Rapa Nui we had one more Chilean city on our list to visit, Valparaiso. It is a unique and quite interesting city. For me the biggest attraction was the fact that nearly all the locals we met in Santiago told us not to bother with going there because it was dirty…
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Chilean Road Trip – Week 3
We chose to camp one more night in Chile before getting to the Argentina border at Jama. I am so grad we did. First, because it made the next days driving a bit shorter, but primarily because the sunset we experienced was simply amazing. The next morning we headed for the border. Then, came our…
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Chile Road Trip – Week One
We decided, after reading a blog post from some friends who are incredible world travellers, Ian & Nicky Mackenzie, that renting a vehicle and touring Chile and Argentina would be a great idea. So we contacted the same company they had used and secured a 4×4 Suzuki for a 3 week road trip. We utilized…
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Enjoying Okinawa
Our decision to visit Okinawa was two fold. One, we wanted to see a bit of Japan from the north to the south, and second was we had heard the diving was excellent here. Happy to report we had great success on both counts. We went for walk down to the waterfront promenade one evening…
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Okinawa Diving
There is more to share, but for now, here is just a taste of our diving on Okinawa, Japan. Choosing a dive shop in a new country is always a bit of a gamble, but once again we came up winners with Okinawa 39ers. Quality equipment and outstanding staff made our diving here a great…
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Diving Jeju Island, South Korea
Once we arrived on Jeju Island for our 4 week house sit we started checking out in more detail what we might do while we were here. As it turns out there is a fairly healthy diving community and to top it off dives are reasonably priced, so we were in. This was also the…
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Our BC Winter
Currently, Karen and I are looking after a lovely pup in Kelowna, British Columbia. It may not be the most adventurous destination, but it holds some definite advantages. The biggest one for me is reminding me that a winter in BC can be quite nice. We spent the month of February on Vancouver Island and…
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Celestún Day Trip
Once we had settled in Mérida we had the good fortune to meet up with two other slow travelling couples and do a day trip to the coast to visit the town of Celestún. If you are ever in Mérida for more than a couple of days I would say the trip to Celestún is…
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An 11 year Reminiscence
As I was relaxing on the back deck of our beautiful current house sit in Kelowna, British Columbia listening to a book, Karen commented to me that we were coming up on our 11th year of being ‘retired’ from our careers. This gave me pause to consider that statement. If you are a person who…
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Kenya Safari
After our brief rest in Zanzibar it was time to get back to the business of safaris. After a ton of research and reading we ended up booking a 4 night safari with Kameraz of Africa. What we didn’t fully realize is we had booked a private safari with our own dedicated vehicle and driver/guide.…