A week in the Corpus Christi area: chasing seabirds offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, then back on land to knock out a few more counties for the Texas Century Club.

Nature Travel Wanderings

A week in the Corpus Christi area: chasing seabirds offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, then back on land to knock out a few more counties for the Texas Century Club.

On my way back to Texas, I spent a week in one of my favorite areas to bird, the sky islands of southern Arizona. What are sky islands and why are they a major draw for birders? Arizona’s sky islands…

Joshua Tree National Park and the Salton Sea area were new to me. Harsh beauty that’s not my ideal, but interesting to explore. I camped at Lake Cahuilla, a cement-lined reservoir filled with water diverted from the Colorado River. The…