As the Explorer Club’s Regional Director, BC/Yukon, Canadian Chapter, it is with great pleasure I can now confirm “Explorers Talk” in Vancouver is all systems go! Tickets available here: Explorers Talk Tickets The Vancouver Aquarium Theatre is booked for the evening of November 5th! A call for three presenters from the Explorer Club’s BC...
Fish Photography: The Ultimate Undersea Skill
Our latest Third Age Expeditions column about “Fish Photography: The Ultimate Undersea Skill” was published today by Luxe Beat Magazine. It was also selected as an Editors Pick Feature. Approach tactics Use whatever cover the reef terrain provides and keep the sun behind you. As you slowly creep forward, use as little extra movement...
Welcome to Nikon Professional Services!
Nikon Canada Rocks! Happy to receive a note from Nikon Canada today advising that we are among an elite international group of special Nikon photographers and that we are now a Nikon Professional Services Member.
Realm of the Giant Pacific Octopus: Published!
Luxe Beat Magazine has published our most recent Third Age Expeditions column about octopus called, “Realm of the Giant Pacific Octopus.” Three Hearts, Nine Brains, & Blue Blood? Giant Pacific octopus are about 90 percent soft-bodied muscle except for two small plates anchoring their heads, together with a beak used to grasp and bite...
Expedition Svalbard 2019 with Jett & Kathryn Britnell
“Interested in stories about underwater photography and protection of our oceans’? What are you doing 14-24 August this year? I am so pleased to say that our friends across the sea, both fellows of the explorer’s club and much much more, are joining us on board the M/S Quest these dates! Come join Jett...
Fear and Loathing of Sharks: It’s a Love Story!
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” ~ Alice in Wonderland Not so much fear and loathing of sharks, but more of a love story about an apex predator that I have both admired and studied for the past 55 years. Yes, I was the kid who chose...
The President and the Lady: World’s Greatest Diveable Intact Shipwreck?
Luxe Beat Magazine has published our latest column, “The President and the Lady: World’s Greatest Diveable Intact Shipwreck?” You can read it: Here The Fog of War Bathed in a shroud of dim pale blue light the silent steel hulk looms up from the shadowy depths. An enormous ship at 654 feet the SS...
It’s Our 11th Wedding Anniversary!
“Blue skies of Hawaii smile. On this, our wedding day.” ~ Hawaiian Wedding Song. Today, April 2nd, is our 11th wedding anniversary! It was a stupendously gorgeous sunny day 11 years ago when Kathryn and I posed together for wedding pictures on Waimānalo Beach, with our toes in white sand framed by the scenically...
Pyramids, Plazas and Temples
Travel Thru History has published our story, “Three Ways to Visit the Ruins” about Mexico’s Mayan ruins on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Pyramids, Plazas and Temples While many people flock to Riviera Maya solely to drink cold Coronas while sun worshiping on white sand beaches splashed by a crystal-clear turquoise ocean, there are many who...
Help ban the sale of elephant ivory within Canada
Oh, Canada! If you are Canadian, here’s how you can honour and protect wild elephants in less than a minute! Please go “here” and enter your name, email and postal code. That’s all it takes to automatically send a pre-written email to your local Member of Parliament, asking for a domestic ban on the...