
Last winter after a series of storms wore away the dunes in Corolla, NC, a strange wooden structure became visible from the beach. We noticed it several times, and even snapped a few pictures but never thought much about it. Turns out, that this may be the remains of the oldest shipwreck ever recovered off [...]

I was recently reading about famed photographer Carleton Watkins who took a lot of the famous early photographs of the National Park System, and I came across this shot “Yosemite Valley from the Best General View” from 1866. I noticed that it was taken from a similar vantage point as one of the photos [...]

Filmmaker Ken Burn’s latest documentary about America’s national parks airs starting tonight on PBS/WHRO. It is a twelve hour documentary that will be shown in two hour installments starting tonight, and ending Friday. While twelve hours might be a bit much, I am sure it will be great even in small doses. The documentary tells the [...]

The day after it was announced that a man was probably killed by a shark in the Outer Banks, my brother-in-law Ryan caught this 250lb “Dusky”, casting from the beach in Corolla. He was out drum fishing, but threw out an extra line with some bloodied Bluefish where he caught this monster in chest deep [...]