The Outdoor Weblog

Okay, Okay. I'm probably pushing my luck with this one. But, with the rare albino mountain goat post yesterday, I couldn't resist.

On June 5, a rare dwarf hippopotamus was born at the Paris Z…

I can't resist posting on the ultimate expedition taken by explorer Anousheh Ansari, the first female spaceflight tourist. Ansari was on the trip of a lifetime as the Soyuz rocket carrying Expedit…

Despite having some relatively serious big wave experience, and going fearlessly into waves as large as fourteen feet in the past, I was approaching this surf session with quite a bit more caution tha…

Humbled fully by my experience watching our earth be created right before my eyes, I returned to South Kona, the agricultural paradise overlooking the sea. The entire drive home my eyes were consumed …

Later, marching towards the active lava zone we had to cross the inactive lava zone, it was all black rocks, harder than cement strewn about in the haphazard fashion of a flow. Inconsistent grades, sw…

lava. One word retains so much power in it. That one word connotes the essence of life, the building blocks of our terrestrial existence. I was lucky enough to be able to visit the most current geogra…

Returning to the beach after nearly an hour exploring the reef with the aid of snorkel (allowing me to fake like a sea mammal), I was ready for a rest in the sun. Hawaii! I could not believe how clear…

Being only able to withstand the bright sunshine and morning heat for a few minutes, I made my first forage into the water at a reef south of Kona. Instantly my eyes bugged out of my head with the maj…

Pele has convinced me that she does not want me to surf good waves at this time in my life. How did I come to this absurdly blasphemous conclusion you ask? Well, the first time I was on the Big Island…

Up on the farm my perspective was from up high above the blue plateau of the ocean stretching before me. I was pondering the various vegetation, the massive Mango trees, the poinsettia, the jacuranda,…