Odyssey

It's interesting how things fit together. As I mentioned in another thread last spring, although I've been paddling off and on for...

Lake Kanawauke, Harriman S.P., NY-- first lake (Little Long Pond). I needed an excuse to try my newly made paddle: Campers from the...

Beer, huh?

It's beer o'clock

And let's not forget muskox coming within 100m from camp. Kazan River, Nunavut.

Here's an interesting one, related to the prior. There were hundreds of these columns of flies (as far as the eye could see) on the...

I had a hitchhiker on today's paddle.

Yesterday, I portaged my canoe a short distance into a remote pond in the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, in hopes of getting...

Indigo Bunting, dragonflies, and a damsel fly that I spotted today along the Millers River in the Birch Hill Dam Wildlife Management...

Shephaug reach of Lake Lillinonah, CT. May 23, 2026 Class time - An adult Bald Eagle perched about 20 yards away had stashed a Great...

I think I camped in the turtle nesting area at WPASCR. I nearly tripped over these girls Saturday morning (they weren't very happy but...

This is a blinded sphinx moth (I had to look it up) that showed up on my canoe cover the other day. They have a 4" wingspan and are...

A newly emerged clubtail dragonfly (Gomphidae) that climbed onto my Duluth pack to fully expand, dry, and harden its wings on a recent...

I believe this dragonfly is a Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa), a member of the skimmer family (Libellulidae). The picture was taken on...