You don’t have to be rich and famous to spend your next family vacation on a private island, longing for peace and quiet in the middle of the ocean. With 14 miles of shoreline, the Isle of Scalpay in Scotland counts only two guest cottages that you can book for week-long stays. It’s you and a [...]
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As a mommy blogger who writes about the outdoors, I rarely think about good health as a pre-requisite for the outdoors. The outdoors just is. It’s out there. It’s out there and yet sadly, it’s not accessible to everyone. When I was contacted by SeriousFun Children’s Network to raise awareness about their cause, I was both humbled [...]
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“There goes the tail!” said the naturalist on board of our whale watching boat off the Farallon Islands. The kids were glued to the sides of the boat, waiting for Moby Dick to resurface and wave at us with its giant fin. Think about that – the largest mammals on earth, barnacle-encrusted animals who travel [...]
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In the movie The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, my favorite scene is when Captain Barbossa turns to his crew towards the end and grins as he announces, “Boys, time to take a hike!” In the next shot, dozens of skeleton pirates walk on the sandy bottom around Isla de [...]
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Pools, slides, palm trees and floating rings pretty much sum up water parks but they usually come with brutal heat, crowds, strict rules, germ baths and chlorine. Swimming holes, on the other hand, offer fresh water pools, total adventure, rocky slides, big boulders and local trees but they also come with cold water, remote access, [...]
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