Slow Boat

  Unlike their cousins, the boobies, gannets seem shy around people. This is the closest we got. First, our whereabouts: We're heade...

Walk the plank, mateys!  (It's for a good cause) From Oriental we pressed seaward on the wide Neuse River, then north up a narrow ch...

Earlier this week, we stopped at Jekyll Island, famous for the mansions of millionaires and for bike trails that wend atmospherically beneat...

About 50 miles back we started noticing signs at marinas:  "This is northern right whale habitat."  The signs included instructio...