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...

Back on land at No Pants Ranch near Tucson, I overlap my SOMA (Sittin' On My Ass) beer time with the evening emergence of our Brazilian...

My fanciful paper cutting and cyanotype print of a scorpionfish skull and creosote bush disguised as a living scorpionfish hiding among...

Student Work: UnderSea Applique Quilt Detail Yes, our land-based, vacation-rental home (take a tour) in the Tucson Mountains is locally...

Last week brought the sad news of a lifetime justice-fighter conceding his long-fought and final battle with cancer. This made me think...

Did you know there is a super-predator on the loose? As darkness falls and we humans turn to our screens to view cute, cat-fail videos...

. . . relative to body size AND is a hermaphrodite? Welcome to a new and multi-faceted appreciation for the common barnacle. So why would...

This is my pinked-up illustration of the mysterious object found on a rocky beach. It is a leathery, warm-black, spiral form with an...

(above) Cardón trunk essentialist drawing, Chica Jo 2020 I’ve come to regard the cardón, or elephant cactus (Pachycereus pringlei) of...

As a kid, heck, even now, my go-to nature fantasy was to live in surreal symbiosis with other species. Perhaps I was inspired by that...

Have you ever considered your relationship to abundance in nature? Asked yourself why you seek it out? Why is it we drive out of our way...

The Tuna Tapestry is STILL getting around New Zealand…amazing! Here she is being viewed at the recent EcoWest Festival at Auckland’s...

It was a wild, rainy, cold, and windy day in Wellington…… just perfect for eels, but not so for the average person planning to protest...

Today for National Children’s Day and Sea Week Tanya Batt and other Waiheke folks celebrated their native long finned eel/tuna through...

What an inspiring and invigorating day we had this past Thursday when John Davis, on his Trek West journey met Sewing Spots Together in...