What happens when you put a naturalist in a kayak, adrift in Africa? ‘There are no crocs around here,’ said a smiling bartender. I...
I started to bird from a kayak. Paddling around the Veliko Ratno Island Reserve in almost downtown Belgrade was such a liberating experience of...
Rainy Sunday morning, the type of weather that will keep most people in bed, but those who know the secret would have the entire...
Noisy wing beats, heavy landing behind the stern, water splashing everywhere and then, a hit of a heavy wing on my upper arm… A...
I think I was 19 when I made my first bucket list of things I’d like to do, from horse-back riding to sailing, rafting,...
Quiet morning on the Danube, paddling again after too long a time. It is a workday morning and despite being inside the city of...
Since I have started to bird by kayak, it took me a lot of time to realise that paddling is not the synonym for...
This past weekend was another upstate weekend, and one couldn’t have created a more beautiful Labor Day weekend if one had a weather machine...
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