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The best turtle sighting I ever had was down in the Okefenokee. We came around a bend and there, sunning together on the same log, was...

75 here yesterday, 60 mph gusts overnight, snow today.

My last Grand Canyon trip was 2002, and that was before the release of the beetle as far as I know (around 2010? I'd have to look). On...

Glad to hear about the reduction of Tamarisk. It is still all over the Grand Canyon. Afternoon winds on the Green can be serious and...

There's basically no gradient on the lower Green. If I remember right, I think all the way from Green River town up at the I-70 bridge...

I've run the lower Green several times now, starting at Crystal Geyser once and Ruby Ranch once, but starting from Mineral Bottom...

Labyrinth Canyon at 24,000 CFS. June 14, 2023 This will be a quick trip report which may be of interest to those considering...

The river is very silty. We brought 5 gallons of water with us to start. Then we did filter, however we used alum to settle the silt out...

There are also white pelicans in south Florida for sure, especially in the Everglades. I have seen them in great numbers off Flamingo.

There are some large white pelican rookeries in Nevada of all places. One is at the Stillwater Wildlife Refuge near Fallon where I...

Here’s a shot of a pair of pelicans that barely cleared my buddies heads.

I believe the furthest north white Pelican colony is at Mountain Rapids on the Slave River in Alberta, just 3km south of Ft. Smith, NWT.

The coastal (e.g. Florida) pelicans are brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis). White pelicans (P. erythrorynchos) are common through...

No shortage of pelicans here in land-locked Iowa either. 20090903_008_16x24 copy_web by Alan, on Flickr I've seen them on Lake...

Thanks for the kind words. We originally planned on running the Little Missouri, however water levels were too low. Plan B was the...