Look around the website and you will also find lots of family photographs, and travel photo albums. There are streaming videos of old 8 mm family and friends going back to 1971. There are newsletters that I wrote while sailing the Caribbean islands from Trindidad up to the US Virgin Isles. So have fun and enjoy!!!

First up are my fishing adventures, from the Sutton River at Hudson Bay in Ontario, Canada to a small private bass lake in the Brazilian Highlands in South America. I enjoy all types of light tackle fishing(but primarily flyfishing) including smallmouth on ultralite while canoeing the James River in Virginia, catching 4 pound brook trout with a 1 weight Sage on dry flies on the Sutton River at Hudson Bay, and flyfishing for trout in the Yellowstone and Thoroughfare in the Grand Teton Wilderness. I've had many trips flyfishing for bonefish, tarpon and barracuda on the saltwater flats of Andros. This is, by far, my favorite fishing of all time. I have fished all of Andros Island(including getting lost behind kayak mangrove on the southern tip).

My second passion is sailing and going on sailing adventures. I have a 33 ft Hunter sloop, the "Kalik Time" which I keep on Lake Michigan and use during summers. It's named after the Bahamian beer which I have consumed more than my share of. I'm now starting to enjoy blue water cruising and wanting to do a cruise each year. My first was a 3 month sailing trip from Trinidad to St. Johns with two other gentlemen, a Kiwi and a Brit. I've also spent 3 months sailing from Key West to San Andres, Columbia and toured the Mexican Yucatan, Belize, Guatemala, and the Honduran Bay Islands. I spent the winter of 2006 aboard the sailing vessel Infinity touring Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.

I've just come back in 2009 from 5 months sailing on "Saga", an Allures 44, in South America. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro 6 weeks before Carnival and stayed through the celebration. It was an amazing experience, and a blast largely due to my friends whom I met on couchsurfing.com. After Carnival, we sailed south towards Buenos Aires with stops in Isla Grande, Paraty, Florianopolis, Punta del Este, and Montevideo before arriving in Buenos Aires in April. We returned to Rio in May and met 3 Dutch girls in Rio Grande who wanted to go sailing with us and made very good Dutch pancakes. Click here for videos of the trip on YouTube.

I am now enjoying scuba diving and have my advanced PADI certification as well as certifications in Nitrox and Cavern Diving. I originally spent a month on Utila, one of the Honduran Bay Islands, getting my Open Water, Advanced, and Nitrox certifications, diving each day, and really enjoying cave and night dives. John Fraser and Stefan Olsen were my instructor and dive master and I had an unbelievable adventure there.

Panglao Island in the Phillipines and Hermit Island in PNG were favorite diving spots aboard the Infinity. The fish sanctuary near Panglao was loaded with scorpion fish and sea snakes. At Hermit Island we called up sharks with Bob.

The caverns and cenotes on the Yucatan Penisula were an unbelievable experience.

I've also now dived and taken videos of critters on most of Palancar reef in Cozumel. This year, I have found two great new dive buddies, Kathy and Mary, while diving in Bonaire. Doing land based drift diving techniques, we visited most of the reef and filmed many underwater adventures such as a daytime octopus in the open, large tarpon, and an extremely large nurse shark....over 10 feet.

I spent 4 weeks in 2008 diving in the Visayas in the Philippines. It was a tremendous experience. We dived at 10 islands around Cebu Island including Pescador Island, Dauin on Negros Island, Apo Island, Cabilao Island, Pangangan Island, and Malipascua Island. There we saw many new things for the first time. The lion fish, blue-ringed octopus, and thresher sharks were the highlights.