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| Shanklin Sailing Club - Catamarans Ready |
“Do you sail?”
Fiona Trowbridge: Travel Writer Travel with me and him on a humorous journey as we go through life on foot, push-bikes and rickshaws, kayaks, camels and white water rafts and an old Bongo campervan!
Dawn Chorus Walk 2017
There are few people for whom I would gladly get up at 4am, but I would make an exception for Ian Boyd, Director of Arc Consulting, a non-profit company that promotes the re-utilization of public spaces and buildings for the benefit of the community, both humans and wildlife.
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| The Infectious Enthusiasm of Ian Boyd |
Top Tips for May
Australia's Natural Wonders
I was a bit of a weird child. Like many of my peers, my grandmother looked after me during school holidays while my parents went out to work. But unlike my friends who were content to play with dolls and prams and have imaginary tea parties, I fantasised about far off countries. Places where adventures took place with mountains and wild animals and lots of caves to explore. Of course, I hadn't even been out of the UK by then and it would be many years later before foreign travel was not the norm. But I'd heard about Australia, a relative had moved out there. I knew of its vast red deserts and its incredibly warm climate, the kangaroos and koala bears and I was enthralled by the book Walkabout, which we all read in school.
I was a bit of a weird child. Like many of my peers, my grandmother looked after me during school holidays while my parents went out to work. But unlike my friends who were content to play with dolls and prams and have imaginary tea parties, I fantasised about far off countries. Places where adventures took place with mountains and wild animals and lots of caves to explore. Of course, I hadn't even been out of the UK by then and it would be many years later before foreign travel was not the norm. But I'd heard about Australia, a relative had moved out there. I knew of its vast red deserts and its incredibly warm climate, the kangaroos and koala bears and I was enthralled by the book Walkabout, which we all read in school.
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| Wild Seas - Tasmania |
Reptile Centre - Reptilarium & Terrapin Sanctuary at Fort Victoria
The opening day of the Isle of Wight's newest reptile attraction at Fort Victoria, The Reptilarium and Terrapin Sanctuary, saw the staff nervously excited and the visitors curious and interested as to what lay ahead of them in the old fort's tunnels.
Through an unassuming entrance lies 4 rooms of biodiversity: Desert, Jungle, a Terrapin Pool and a Nocturnal Room with reptiles as rare and diverse as Moroccan Uromastyx to Painted Wood Turtles.
Through an unassuming entrance lies 4 rooms of biodiversity: Desert, Jungle, a Terrapin Pool and a Nocturnal Room with reptiles as rare and diverse as Moroccan Uromastyx to Painted Wood Turtles.
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| Entrance to Reptilarium and Terrapin Sanctuary |
A New Willow Wetland Walk in Sandown
Where there’s a willow there’s a way.
Determination will overcome any obstacle says the saying and that’s certainly what Arc Consulting have done when they enlisted the help of the Community Payback Service to create the Willow Walk, Sandown Bay’s newest wetland walk.
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| Winding Woodland Walk |
Wyatt & Jack Upcycled Bouncy Castle Tote Bag
When Wyatt and Jack asked me to road test their bouncy castle tote bag, I literally jumped at the chance.
The white PVC tote (also available in 13 other colours including tangerine, cherry and purple) arrived in a strong brown paper envelope with no extra packaging to throw away, no plastic bags or bubble wrap around it - a feature, I was to discover, in keeping with the reusing and recycling message promoted by the company.
The white PVC tote (also available in 13 other colours including tangerine, cherry and purple) arrived in a strong brown paper envelope with no extra packaging to throw away, no plastic bags or bubble wrap around it - a feature, I was to discover, in keeping with the reusing and recycling message promoted by the company.
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| Other colours of Totes are available |
Yestival – A Festival for Adventurers & Adventurous Thinking 20th - 22nd October 2017
Have you ever fancied going on an adventure but don’t know where
to begin? Do you dream of living an
adventurous life but are too scared to take that first step?
Yestival could
have all your answers. Yestival started in 2015, the brainchild of adventurer, TED Ex speaker and author, Dave Cornthwaite, following a summer
of SayYesMore campouts where total strangers met at an agreed location, chatted
around a campfire, spent the night out in the wild and left as friends the
following day.
The first year of Yestival saw over 30 experienced adventurers share their secrets and tales and dish out help with the same
amount of enthusiasm as they put into the adventures themselves.
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