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We’re going on a bear hunt. We’re going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day! We’re not scared. – Michael Rosen We were going on a bear hunt – in search of grizzlies (Ursus arctos horribilis) in the Canadian wilds – from the safety of the water. I had booked myself onto a […]

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The heat; the soft chug of the motor; the sun glinting in the hazy sky and off the water; it was one of those iconic ‘Pinch me!’ moments. I was finally on the backwaters of Kerala in south-western India. The backwaters are a network of more than 900 km (560 mi) of waterways, stretching north-south […]

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Almost any city is nice in good weather – but you just can’t beat Sydney and its harbour on a sunny day. For all my years of being in and around Sydney, I have not spent enough time on the waters there. There is no excuse for it really – the public ferries that criss-cross […]

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The spring month of May in Nanaimo on Canada’s Vancouver Island was unseasonably cold and wet this year. I was living in a too-small-space in a boat on the harbour, and by the end of the month, I needed to get out! Fortunately, the weather improved somewhat, and Nanaimo has a lot of beautiful parklands […]

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It is nice when advertising slogans actually make sense and ring true! British Columbia (BC), Canada’s western-most province, has coined the phrase: Super, Natural British Columbia. And it fits. Wherever you go, there are natural spaces of the most incredible beauty. I had landed in Vancouver, and almost immediately headed for the woods and nature […]

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