Road trip to paddle
Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Put the canoe on the wagon and go. We did, and drove on up to the Congaree National Park near Columbia, South Carolina, the state's only national park. On Cedar Creek you can lay back in the canoe and just ...
Oh, blackwater
Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in Wild animals and places | No Comments »I swam with at least one eye open the summer I was 12, looking out for alligators. That was the year I spent most of the summer at the houses of my aunts, uncles and cousins in Conway, SC. They ...
Mr. Biggerstaff and his honey
Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Wild animals and places | No Comments »His business cards read, “Honey is my hobby,” and 72-year-old Robert Biggerstaff isn’t kidding. Since 1967 he’s been building bee boxes, tending hives and collecting honey – all under the oak trees in his sideyard that backs up to a ...
Rainforest flights
Friday, May 1st, 2009 Posted in Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »"Take your hands off the grips, lean back and fly," the Kittitian guide, Kenny, told me. I was working in St. Kitts earlier this week, and tried out the zipline course that's just opened in the jungle above the ruins ...
Snorkel, then supper
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Food, Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Along one of the coral dust and gravel lanes of a campground that's just a few miles past the seven-mile bridge to the Lower Florida Keys, we pitched our tent. A few feet away was the site's (number 57) wooden ...
Hot talk of summer
Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Wild animals and places | No Comments »The drought continues this summer in South Carolina, particularly in the upstate counties. For the July issue of Charleston Magazine, I wrote a feature piece about the squeeze on the state's drinking water sources. Other parts of the ...
Bees’ life
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in Home & garden, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, People, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Robert Biggerstaff, 72, looks in complete ease in his wide-billed cap as he leans against his garage wall and points out a cedar bee box a few yards away. A few honeybees buzz in and out, stopping at a ...
Bird fights makes cover
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in In print/published, Wild animals and places | 1 Comment »My piece about the El Yunque rainforest, Bird fights in Puerto Rico, gets cover billing and a nice layout in the current issue of Garden & Gun: 21st Century Southern America (March/April 2008). Photography is by Peter Frank Edwards. We ...
A red wolf so rare
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 Posted in Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Wild animals and places | No Comments »In research for a story about the native wolf of the South, I spent a couple of afternoons last month watching a spry 14-year-old female who’s lived most of her life in captivity. Her wildness was still there, very ...
Rainforests, rare parrots and Old San Juan
Thursday, July 12th, 2007 Posted in Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »I’m working on a piece about El Yunque, a mountain rainforest in Puerto Rico. We flew to the island in June and stayed five nights at the amazing La Galleria in Old San Juan, www.thegalleryinn.com. Here are some of Peter ...
Diving for big bugs
Friday, June 15th, 2007 Posted in Food, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Thought I’d share an excerpt from an upcoming article… had a great day on the water, watching Mike and Lou dive, and then seeing them cook everything. Yes, Lou has his own outdoor pizza oven. The complete story, recipes and ...
After two years without a backyard hatchery…
Friday, February 9th, 2007 Posted in Home & garden, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Peter Frank ordered some eggs and turned on the incubator a couple weeks ago, and this week we had a nice hatch of bobwhite quail at the photo studio. I took one little guy home for a couple of days ...