I’m still recovering from our most recent trip, which was a cruise to Alaska. At one of the stops (Icy Straight Point), we did a nature hike. During the hike, we came upon this mama bear and her two cubs. Great experience!!
Beside the hike, I also did a polar plunge at this spot with over 100 other tourists.
By the way…. Why am I still recovering? Well, I came back straight into an extremely busy work schedule, plus having to catch up at work from being gone.
On both of our trips to Iceland, we hit up this spot along the Atlantic Ocean to watch Puffins. This photo is from our 2021 trip. This small peninsula has great views, tall cliffs, a lighthouse, puffins, and a large arch of volcanic rock in the ocean.
MJ and I had a wonderful ten minutes watching this guy during a safari in Swaziland (now called Eswatini). He didn’t want to move from the road, so we just sat in the truck watching him do whatever he wanted.
After the news about RBG, we’ll need all the happy thoughts we can get!!! To help you with that, I’m sharing this cute baby baboon photo which I took on our South Africa trip. A troop baboons (maybe 10 of them) wandered by our safari vehicle.
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Here is a photo from our trip to South Africa. This colony of penguins live at Boulders Beach on the Cape Peninsula. I didn’t count them, but I’d guess there was between 50 to 100 of these little guys.
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Simple photo for you on Sunday, so I’ll keep the comment simple as well. Beautiful Flamingo from the Bonaire national park.
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Look what we found in our yard this week. He/she looked very young…like it was born this week. Anyway, he hung out with us all Wednesday and left that night. Cute little guy/girl!!!!
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MJ, Blair and I were out in the yard this morning messing around. We found this American Robin nest in a small tree next to our house. Inside were three tiny little baby American Robin birds. I’m not a bird expert, so I’m guessing these little ones are only a few days old. Someone out there can probably help determine their real age. They were waiting for their mom to bring dinner. Every time I made some noise, they would lift their heads like this expecting it to be mom.
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I keep searching for happy photos to post since there is so much darkness in our world right now. So tonight, I’m posting this photo from our 2017 trip to South Africa. We came upon this White Rhino during one of our safari rides. Wow, 2017 seems like 20 years ago right now…
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I can’t remember if I captured this photo in South Africa or Swaziland. Regardless, it was the same trip…..anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
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I’ve been trying not to over load you with photos from our South Africa trip. As I’ve said numerous times, MJ would be happy with one safari animal photo after another. So today’s post should make her happy… Will it make the rest of you happy??? Its doubtful.
We found this Lion during one of our safaris. She was actually with another female lion. They walked right towards us and cross the road in front of us (maybe 10 feet away). A few minutes later, we watched them cross paths with a few Cape Buffalo, who turned and forced the Lions to keep going. I thought the Lions might win that encounter, but I was wrong. Apparently, a few of the Cape Buffalo can easily fight off the Lions. As you can tell from the big scar on her leg, she’s been in some fights before.
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As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been off the grid the last 10 days or so. Between work, work travel, my Baldrige volunteer work and some fun travel; I’ve been extremely busy. I started last week in Washington D.C. for work meetings and ended the week in northern Michigan to get some ship wreck scuba diving in around the Mackinaw Straits area of Lake Huron. By the way, the scuba diving in the Great Lakes is amazing. But I’ll leave that for another day.
Anyway, I had an old friend contact me to see if I’d photograph his hunting resort and ranch in Northern Michigan. He had no idea that I was going to already be in that area. So, I spent some time at his 605 acres ranch and resort photographing the deer, the property and the facilities. I have to admit, he has a wonderful setup if you just want some quiet time in the forest or you want to bag a trophy white tail buck. You can see more on his location here: http://www.valhallami.com/
Tonight’s photo is one of the bucks. We came up on this one by mistake and found it laying in the tall grass.
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During a recent trip to Florida, MJ and I went to the Everglades National Park for our first time. I have no idea how many times we’ve been to Florida in the past…. But the number of visits is way up there. Maybe 50 plus times….. I’m not sure… let’s just call it a bunch. So why it took so long for us to visit the Everglades is beyond me. We enjoyed the visit and I took this photo of this gator that climbed out of the water about 15 feet from us. It decided to sun itself and left us alone…and we left it alone.
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