Posts in Tag: Hiking
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Valle de Cocora – Unique Wax Palm Landscape
This is my ninth post from a recent trip to Colombia with my favourite travel company, Vancouver based Adventures Abroad. In the last post, after traveling by plane and bus to the remote town of Salento, we visited the nearby El Ocaso coffee farm and I finally got a taste of just how good real, fresh coffee can […]
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Santa Cruz Island – A Quick Visit
Everyone knows the saying, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” and that’s exactly what I’m about to do as I head out to Santa Cruz Island for the day. One of the main reasons I have headed to Oxnard, California for the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) annual conference is to spend the […]
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Elora Gorge, Mennonite Country and Fording the Conestogo River
This is the third post from the 2014 RV trip that my son Dale and I took to the Kitchener/Waterloo region of southern Ontario. So far we have canoed the Grand River, explored downtown Kitchener and visited the pretty little town of St. Jacob’s. Today we are scheduled travel through Mennonite country to Elora Gorge […]
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Three Sisters – Two Ways to Visit These Amazing Sea Stacks
Cape Chignecto Provincial Park is the largest and wildest in the Nova Scotia park system. It preserves a stretch of rugged coastline that is studded with numerous unique rock formations, many of which have specific Mi’kmaw legends related to the demi-god Glooscap as to how they came to be created. The most famous is without doubt […]
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The Fairmont Orchid – Finding Green Turtles and Green Sand
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I took a few years ago to the four major Hawaiian islands. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we toured the Kohala Coast and visited Pu’ukohola, the site of King Kamehameha’s rise to power. […]
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ATVers Cannot Exist on Trails with Walkers, Bikers and X-Country Skiers
This was the first post I ever wrote on my Maritime Explorer website. Since then it has been followed by almost five hundred more from eight provinces, nineteen states and thirty-three countries. It was kind of disappointing that my first post on the Maritime Explorer was a negative one, because the vast majority of subsequent […]
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The Kalalau Trail – Hawaiian Hiking at Its Finest, Centipedes be Damned
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip to Hawaii’s four main islands Alison and I took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. On day three of our stay on Kauai we flew over it and on day five we were going to hike […]
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Diamond Head Madness – The View Makes Up for the Crowds
This is the second of twenty-five posts from a trip to the four main islands of Hawaii a few years ago. All have been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the first post I extolled the virtues of staying at Waikiki’s Pink Palace aka the Royal Hawaiian. In this one we’ll start our exploration […]