I confess that I’ve been less active these days than I was in years past. Back in the day, I routinely took five-mile walks around our area and led Newcomer’s Club friends on once-a-month …

I have become fond of finding benches to rest upon while observing the world passing by. One never knows what entertaining scene one may witness. On Amelia Island we are fortunate to have many …

Keep Nassau Beautiful and local graduate student Rhin Jones recently coordinated an event at Main Beach April 26, “The Last Castle on the Beach.” Small crowds gathered to watch …

A few weeks ago, I was chasing a single small, innocuous brown butterfly along a path in Fort Clinch State Park. I didn’t know the species, I was curious, as always, and the best way I know to …

One could say I have a love affair with shrimp, and they would not be wrong. Plus, I know I am not the only one who feels this way. Food can connect us to a place when we appreciate how it is grown …

Bucko and I drove across Florida to the Big Bend area, south of Tallahassee, where the panhandle starts, to enjoy the Sopchoppy Worm Grunting Festival …

It makes me laugh just to say it: Sopchoppy Worm Grunting Festival. And it has made all our friends and acquaintances do a double-take when we mention that we are going there. We’ve had a lot …

As the 2024-2025 North Atlantic right whale calving season ends, I am grateful for the 11 baby whales delivered this year in the warm waters of the coastal southeast. Four of the calves born this …

Low tides are my favorite times to go to the seashore, wherever I am. On the West Coast of the United States, the pools left behind the retreating tides are full of anemones, urchins, sea stars, and …

Whenever I get a hankering for fresh live caught local shrimp I wait for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday mornings when Martin Holton is manning his pickup truck on Eighth Street near T.J. Courson Road. …

Recently, I moaned about the three “P’s" - pollution, politics, and policies in an article I wrote. Today, I find myself still moaning about the three “P’s” as we are …

I just returned from our special place in Belize with my heart and soul filled with the tropical beach scenes there. But here I was at home again on Amelia Island, it was low tide, and I started my …

Join Amelia Island Whale Ambassadors to celebrate our babies on April 10, 2025, at the Florida House Inn, Mermaid Bar, from 5-7 p.m. 

Ever since we started routinely going to Belize, I’ve been wanting to eat an iguana. As all my friends know, I love to try different exotic foods — tarantulas in Cambodia, monkey stew in …

Typically, I do not write about the three “P’s”: pollution, policy and politics. The reason I steer clear of writing about the three “P’s” is because politics and …

I knew about this even before Bucko and I arrived in Placencia, Belize, this time: there would be a “Lionfish Shootout” when we were there, and I was eager to photograph the action. …

I’ve been a friend of Amelia River Cruises ever since I moved here nearly 30 years ago and met Kevin McCarthy at a talk I was giving on right whales. Kevin introduced himself to me and invited …

Last November, I was invited by Carol Ruckdeschel to photograph the Cumberland Island Museum Collection before it was transferred to the National Park Service for inventory. I was thrilled to spend …

On a whim, I stopped into Sam’s Flying Frog Ranch pet store in Yulee recently and couldn’t be more impressed with the collection of animals contained therein. It was about four years ago …

Last November, I received an invitation to visit the Cumberland Island Museum on the north end of Cumberland Island. Carol Ruckdeschel asked me to photograph ...