Colca Canyon in southern Peru is a remarkable place. At over 10,000 feet from top to bottom it is one of the deepest canyons in the world (almost twice as deep as the Grand Canyon). Colca Canyon is as deep as the Pyrenees are tall. We spent a few days enjoying the incredible scenery and … Read More
After spending a week in Uppsala for a DNA barcoding workshop as part of my PhD I decided to delay my flight home by five days so I could do some hiking and nature photography in Sweden. I rented a car on the Friday afternoon after the workshop ended and drove 500km north up to … Read More
From my time exploring New Zealand and Australia last year, seeing Dingoes on K’Gari was definitely the most goosebump-inducing experience! K’Gari, also known by the colonial name of Fraser Island, is the largest sand island in the world. K’Gari is a word from the local aboriginal people’s language that means “paradise”. With hundreds of kilometers … Read More
Last July, a friend and I went on a wild camping road trip around southern Norway. The highlight was definitely seeing musk oxen in Dovrefjell. Spending a couple of days watching and photographing these animals in the wild was an experience I’ll never forget. Musk oxen, which are more closely related to sheep than cows, … Read More
There are lots of places in Australia where you can see captive koalas, and in Queensland you are even able to pay a few dollars to hold one, but we had no interest in this. We were desperate to see a wild koala in its natural habitat! Our Australian road-trip took us up from Sydney … Read More
Last month my girlfriend and I hired a car in Barcelona and drove up to the Spanish Pyrenees for a few days of hiking and bird watching. We stayed in a small campsite in Valle de Bujaruelo beside Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. We decided to spend one of our days in the mountains … Read More
Glendalough, in the Wicklow Mountains National Park, can be a very busy place, especially in summer. One way to avoid the coaches packed full of people and the traffic jams on the mountain trails, is to visit… at night. After work one evening I looked up the forecast and the moon phase for the coming … Read More
The West Highland Way is Scotland’s oldest long distance walking route. It starts in Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, and finished 151km later at the base of Ben Nevis in Fort William. Every year, thousands of people from around the world complete the route. My corkonian companion, Sam, and I spent seven days at the end … Read More