Time-lapse video of the night sky from the bottom of the Grand Canyon
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Rafting down the Grand Canyon
Selected highlights of our recent rafting trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon:
Online version of our travel slideshow
Penguins, People and Pademelons, a slideshow about our recent trip to the southern hemisphere is now available online in four parts: New Zealand Australia Subantarctic Islands Antarctica Use the spacebar or the arrow keys to advance the slides. Click on NOTES in the lower right to read the narration. Click the icon in the far […]
Slideshow July 27
Join us Sunday, July 27 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm at the Clyde Theatre in Langley for a slideshow of our recent trip to New Zealand, Australia and Antarctica. This will be a live narrated presentation of photos and video clips with time for questions.
Coming around full circle
Lunar eclipse April 15, 2014 from Melbourne, Australia Yesterday was our last day in Melbourne and while having dinner at a Thai restaurant we heard on the news a total lunar eclipse in progress. After dinner we went back to our hotel to fetch my camera and caught this image of the full moon rising […]
Arriving in Melbourne
As our plane descended through thick clouds to land in Melbourne, raindrops battered the small windows of the airplane and everything looked quite green. When we emerged from the plane we were greeted by temperatures in the high 60s and misty spring rain and I knew we were beginning our journey homeward. Although this is […]
Meteorite??
I have always wanted to find a meteorite and I was especially hopeful during our trip to Antarctica as I had read about discoveries of chunks of cosmic iron and stones on the ice, including meteorites traced to the moon and Mars. In many ways, Antarctica seemed like the closest I was ever going to […]
Exploration of Shark Bay
David and I have participated in numerous activities here in the Shark Bay area including viewing the stromatolites at Hamelin Pool, visiting Shell Beach—a huge beach consisting entirely of tiny shells, some of which have been cemented into beautiful blocks that once served as primary building material, seeing dolphins being hand fed from the beach […]
Stromatolites
Shark Bay, at the westernmost point of Australia is known for white sandy beaches, abundant marine life and exceptional fishing. But for me the greatest attraction is the stromatolites. Stromatolites don’t look like much—clumps of bumpy dark brown or black rocks poking up from the salty waters of a shallow bay, but they have a […]
The marvelous southern sky
Seeing a clear sky on a moonless night in central Australia was a startling experience. The Milky Way is prominent, with bright areas of star clusters and dark blotches of dust. The Large and Small Magellenic Clouds (sister galaxies of the Milky Way) hover like clouds of smoke. The sky is filled with thousands of […]