Blog Action Day: Why you should rethink that cruise

This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, which this year is focusing on climate change. We’ve heard it all before. Air travel is evil. If your vacation involves a plane then you are burning the planet. While this may be somewhat of an exaggeration, it’s quite true that aviation is one of the [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 17 August

Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 3 August

Oh my! When I decided to do the ‘link love‘ posts every week, with travel and food on alternate weeks, I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I added quite a few blogs and a few of my favourite publications to my RSS feeds, as well as continuing to find great [...]

Close encounters with Arctic wildlife

Travel article for Australian Women’s Health on a kayaking trip to Spitsbergen in the High Arctic in 2006. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The seal reclined on the ice floe, its stumpy flippers looking slightly ridiculous against its tubby body. We stopped paddling and let the kayaks glide in silence for a closer look. The seal lifted [...]

Photo Friday: Polar bears and penguins

Bicheno, Tasmania; February 2007 In Bicheno on the east coast of Tasmania, you might run into fairy penguins – also known as little penguins. When I was there on a family holiday in 2007, we watched them huddling on a little rocky island about 15 metres off shore. Longyearbyen, Svalbard; August 2006 Up in the [...]

Photo Friday: Perpetual twilight in the High Arctic

Svalbard, Arctic; August 2006 In 2006, for my 30th birthday, I took myself on a holiday to the Arctic. I wanted to see polar bears in their natural habitat while I still could. I did that and a lot more besides. I took an 11-day boat trip around the Svalbard archipelago in the High Arctic [...]

Arctic voyage for Australian Women’s Health

The November issue of Australian Women’s Health is out, with my article on kayaking in the Arctic in the travel section. The idea was to write a blog-style piece with plenty of humour focusing on the wildlife. The photographs (with the exception of the one that I’m in) are mine as well.

Driving to the end of the earth: Alaska Part 4

This is the final day of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Haul Road with his father. To my surprise, GPS is a real advantage on a trip that follows a single, solitary road. For one, knowing the distance to the nearest petrol station is essential – especially if it’s hundreds of [...]

Driving to the end of the earth: Alaska Part 3

This is the third part of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway, or Haul Road, with his father. The Dalton is the gateway to the most remote regions of the interior and northern parts of Alaska and offers a rare glimpse of America’s Arctic – an opportunity to imagine what [...]

Driving to the end of the earth: Alaska Part 2

This is part 2 of Roger Norum’s four-part guest post on his road trip through Alaska with his father. Driving in Alaska is an experience amplified by the extended summer hours of near-Arctic daylight, an unsettling phenomenon that deceives the senses: driving without headlamps at 10pm; a glowing red sunset at midnight; waking up to [...]

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