Category: Wildlife
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Life as a Voluntary Castaway
Our current situation in Panama is interesting, familiar, and yet new and exciting. In the last six years of our life this will be the longest we have stayed continually, in one place (we’ll be outdoing that next year, but you’ll have to stay tuned for that story). Four and a half months voluntarily removed…
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Enjoying the World Around Us
We have settled into our new location in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Though this isn’t really a house sit, per se, it certainly has a lot of similarities. Karen and I have embraced the quasi-isolated nature of looking after this property and are very much enjoying it. As well, our Spanish language skills are improving nicely.…
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Time to Switch it Up
After 3.5 years exploring SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific we have leapt at an opportunity back in Central America. However, to reach this opportunity took a bit of work. The biggest challenge without a doubt was flying Air China and Air Canada. Air Panama turned out to be the most reliable…
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Giant Pandas
When we were planning our trip to China and examining the options, there was one that jumped out at Karen, volunteering with the Pandas. At the Dujiangyan Base for research into Giant Pandas they have a program where you get to do some work near the Pandas. To be clear, you no longer get to…
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Local Sights
As our monsoon ended here in northern Queensland we were then treated to the very edge of cyclone Oma, off the east coast of Australia. Though some areas were hammered by winds and flooding, we were fortunate to just see a couple of blustery days and some heavy rain.
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Blackbird Babies
While doing a house sit in a suburb of Adelaide we have been treated to a wonderful experience. Before departing, the home owners told us of blackbirds nesting in the hedge in their backyard and that there were some eggs in it. If you follow my Instagram feed you will have seen most of these…
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Relocating….Again
After enjoying three great house sits over three months in Perth it was time to change locale once again. One of the main reasons we returned to Australia for another year was that we never got out west in the first year we were here. But, as well, we didn’t get to spend much time…
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Rottnest Island
We have heard we are currently experiencing the worst winter in Perth in a number of years, so we counted ourselves lucky to be able to get out to Rottnest Island on one of the few sunny pleasant days. Other than a few isolated areas in Western Australia, and a few islands off the WA…
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Birds Anyone?
The two most outstanding aspects of our newest location so far, is the sunsets and the birds. Being on the west coast, of course, pretty well guarantees a number of gorgeous sunsets every week. One of our favourite evening activities is to take the dog for a walk along the waterfront and enjoy the setting…
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Diving New Zealand
As we settled into our final house sit here in New Zealand we could not deny the fact that one of the top dive sites in the world was a 40 minutes drive from our house. Jacques Cousteau rated The Poor Knights as one of the top 10 dive sites in the world, who are…