What is cold water swimming and why am I obsessed with it?! Cold water swimming has gained popularity in recent years and for good reason, it has a huge array of benefits, both mental and physical!

What is cold water swimming and why am I obsessed with it?! Cold water swimming has gained popularity in recent years and for good reason, it has a huge array of benefits, both mental and physical!
I’m 29 and I’ve been married 0 times… Getting engaged in front of sea lions and whales!! When I was in high school I was pretty convinced I was going to be alone forever. I distinctly remember telling my best friend at the time, I must have been about 14 years old, that I was going to become a nun…
Drybag or Backpack? …What if you didn’t have to choose? Something that both our jobs (working aboard an expedition ship) as well as our daily life (doing things like paddle boarding, diving, hiking and living on the west coast of BC) all have one common theme… A whole lot of fun! Well, more seriously (and relevant to this article)…water. Water…
10 days. 2 people. 800 square feet… …and one awesome whale watching deck If you’d read my earlier post about the Great Bear, you’ll know that our plans to build a deck were postponed earlier in the year due a weather event that thwarted the delivery of the materials. Myself and Steve are not ones to leave a job unfinished so…
What would you do with 42 hours of daylight in Iceland? Now this blog must be prefaced with the fact that we did not fly all the way to Iceland for just 2 days and similarly, we are not advocating that you can ‘see it all’ in two days. This is simply all the time that we had after we…