nature
The Science and Nature of Wanderlust, tourism, landmarks for nature buffs and more.
Earthquakes?
There seems to be a lot of Earthquakes around the world, and ever since I arrived here in 2011 people have been saying that we’re due for the big one. I’ve gone through a few reasonably minor ones and they’re not fun but compared to the hurricanes and tornadoes that the southern states go through I’ll stick with California any day. Here’s another excerpt from my book ‘Hollywood or Bust’.
By Len Davies5 years ago in Wander
Top 10 Fly Fishing Mistakes/Tips
We’ve all done it. You spend days and weeks (sometimes longer) waiting for a fishing trip or a weekend on the river with grand ideas of trout as fat as footballs. And then we hit the water…only to realize that we forgot a crucial piece of gear, left our lunch sitting on the kitchen counter, or god forbid, found someone else sitting in our fishing hole. Sometimes the only way to avoid these problems is to make sure they don’t happen in the first place. This is obviously easier said than done but, a small amount of preparation and pragmatic thought can set you up for success.
By Sam Lavigne5 years ago in Wander
Fowl Water
Anyone that has spent time around hunters or fisherman have heard stories about days so good they’d make Hemingway blush. The story usually starts with something like… “the birds came pouring into the decoys so fast we hardly had time to reload shotguns”. Tall tales that are typically lit by neon or campfire flames and hyperbolized by alcohol and atmosphere. I’ve heard stories for years from wing shooters and fisherman alike and I always thought that they were laced with a certain amount of bullshit. Portions of these stories had to be true though, right? This guy at the bar wouldn’t just lie to me like that, would he? Maybe there are some things you just have to see to believe.
By Sam Lavigne5 years ago in Wander
A First Snowfall
After stepping outside where suddenly the warm air escapes your lungs and leaves you crisply breathless from the cold… I just found an old journal entry of mine from 2009. I was 21 years old, wide-eyed, in between schooling and spending the New Year holiday in glorious New Hampshire at my Aunt’s house. My journal entry recounts such a beautiful memory, and a dream turned real. This year I got to spend my winter building snowmen, making snow angles and sledding with my younger cousins. And the best of all, seeing snow fall in light, fluffy flakes from the heavens, for the first time ever! The greatest type of rain in my opinion. Having lived and grown up in Southern California, snow was a thing made for the movies. I had seen snow before. A few winters when I was younger, my family went up to Big Bear—a mountain town in California. We learned to kiddy ski, go sledding and have the most epic of all snowball fights. But there was always one thing missing, at least for me. SnowFLAKES. While I had had the opportunity to be in and see snow, I had never actually seen snow fall from the sky. It either snowed the day before, the day after we left, or at night while I was sleeping, and I ALWAYS missed it.
By Rose Rocket5 years ago in Wander
Why Is Littering Bad For You?
This autumn Ian and I have started a new habit. Every morning, we go out for a little walk because it’s healthy and pleasant, provides us a nice wee breath of fresh air, and gives Sophie, a lovely, even if sometimes a bit sulky, husky dog an opportunity to see cows, sheep and other friends and get some exercise with the company of her small pack. Usually we don’t go far, just a few kilometres from home, walking on a quiet country road. Well, actually it’s not always that quiet as we happen to live quite close to a quarry, and pretty much every day, apart from weekends, dozens of lorries drive in and out, turning a quiet country road into a rather noisy, smelly and a bit dangerous highway.
By Saara Tolvanen5 years ago in Wander
Autumn Colors
Fall in New England brings tourists who will travel thousands of miles combined and spend up to $3 billion dollars every year to see the brilliant colors that mother nature provides to the region. For many in the area it is the annoyance of traffic on a weekend day, others will use the income from these visitors to help make it through the winter financially.
By Bradford Manton II5 years ago in Wander
Breathtaking. But not in the way you'd hope.
By the time I get to the viewpoint, my lungs are aching. Not because this is a particularly challenging hike (in fact, by BC's standards it's a pretty easy one), but because of the lingering byproduct of wildfires from the South and to the East, steadily making its way over to us.
By Mike Houldsworth5 years ago in Wander
