“Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.” – Edna Jaques The point of taking our little ones with us on our travels is not to tire them out. Not…
The GoPro is the adventurer’s best friend. Unlike the DSLR, it doesn’t mind if you knock it about or drop it in a river. Provided the river is not too murky, because finding your GoPro might be an issue. Having seen many travellers drop these hardy snappers into dense mangrove territory…
“You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there.” – Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking It often takes a little shake-up for us to notice the little things. Everyday things, like walking. Like…
Sometimes in life it is desirable to be overwhelmed. To be so overpowered by something that you find yourself like a shaky-legged new-born calf trying to find your bearings. Unsure, uneasy, and out of control. It’s this feeling that you get standing metres from the Victoria Falls – called one…
There’s nothing like the changing of the seasons to remind us of our place in nature, of what pulls the strings in this relationship between man and earth. It is inescapable, part of each of our lives, whether in the city or the wild, affecting our moods, what we do,…
There is a scene in the film Into the Wild, when Emile Hirsh (playing Christopher McCandless) jumps into a canoe and heads down the Colorado River, riding bubbling rapids through Mexico to the Gulf of California. He goes with no training, no guide, no permit, only desire and a dream. Maybe…
