As another sunset approached our anchorage at super-wild Isla San Pedro Mártir, and the birds began to return to their roosts for the...

terrible (adj.): late 14c., "causing terror, awe, or dread; frightful," from Old French terrible (12c.), from Latin terribilis...

I swear, I was just minding my own business, doing my early-morning, power swim around a rocky point off the Seri people’s now...

Do you remember the children’s story, The Three Billy Goats Gruff? Basically, three goats are longing to feast in the greener grass on...

I failed at something not only important to me but to my sense of identity as a citizen-scientist and environmental educator. I’ve been...

One of my operative rules for myself when writing is to be profoundly honest even if, no, especially if it is difficult. Well, this one...

Yep. That’s how I reckon I’ll go out of this absurd world: in a fit of uncontrollable guffaws that become my final gasps. I’ve had some...

I’m writing under a chlorophyll-filled canopy of redwood trees, but my mind is on something I found on the beach near La Paz this spring....

I’m afraid to write this. I’m worried that if I’m not writing about a jaw-dropping, edge-of-your-seat encounter with large and loveable...

Keep Reading To Find Out What This Is It’s been an interesting few weeks since my underwater dance with a humpback whale (plus escape...

This blog post is coming from Paul at Triplefin's helm. He has a breathtaking story to tell about something that just happened. You may...

Yep. That's me dancing with a Humpback. Smooches Gracias to Frida for capturing the most sublime and wondrous moments of my life!...

Paul's pic of a couple tranquil whitetip reef sharks The sharks are coming, sailor's promise, but first it’s time to reveal my vulnerable...

A pack of wolves, a rabble of gnats, a murder of crows, a flock of birds, a tower of giraffes, a stand of trees, a quiver of cobras, a...

Our eyes met and we shared a brief watery waltz along the steep-edged boulder bank of Isla Carmen’s Punta Perico. I was wearing my drab...

Triplefin's dingy at the ready along Isla San Jose's wild East coast It’s been a long year of social isolation for Paul and me aboard...

One warm May night while anchored in Bahia Santo Domingo, the gateway to Baja's Bahia Conception, I dragged Paul away from boat work to...

This past April we sailed Triplefin around the Sea of Cortez' wild side of Isla Carmen and anchored in colorful Bahia Cobre (Copper Bay)....

If you leave your boat to travel inland, into the wildly mountainous regions of Mexico’s heartland, you may find yourself among some...

Unlike most of my posts, the following is NOT suitable for kids or the highly sensitive among us. Adults, please enjoy my frighteningly...