San Simeon. Crisp, fresh Pacific air floating in just ahead of a looming fog bank. Meanwhile, taking advantage of the clear skies, elephant seals flop about, falling in and out of deep slumber. This...

To be seventeen again! Crazy enough, brazen enough, filled with enough moxie to propel oneself off this ragged stack of boulders close to eighty feet from the shallow swimming hole. This one kid with...

Now a week or so before leaving for High Sierra, I tried out one of the old classic swimming holes from my college days at UCSB. It had been possibly ten, eleven, maybe even twelve years since I had...

We're back! Just in time for summer heat and the vast array of outdoor sports activities that go along with living in California. One of the best ways to keep cool during these hot summer months...

The venomous snake, about half a metre long, is capable of changing its scales from red to white within minutes, according to the German researcher who found it in the wetlands and swamp forests of...

It was reported that a woman in Indonedia became infected with the bird flu virus from a chicken and spread it to the rest of her household. WHO confirmed that the entire family died. An investigation...