Mavericks Podcast
In May I travelled to Camp Glen Dye in Kincardineshire to lead a natural navigation walk and short water-reading course. Whilst there, I was honoured…
Category: How To Read Water
A Beautiful Catalan Edition
I think the Catalan edition of How to Read Water – Com llegir l’aigua – may be the most beautiful yet. The images above and…
New Paul Kirtley Podcast Interview
My thanks to Paul Kirtley for taking the time to interview me for his podcast recently. I was one his early ‘victims’ about four years…
Pacific Island Navigation
There was a near perfect ripple map on a very windy West Wittering beach yesterday. The different wave patterns on each side of an island…
How to Find Your Way with Tree Leaves
Earlier I showed how it is possible to find your way using the colour of tree leaves. Now I’d like to show you how to…
The Beach ‘Step’
The ‘step’ is the line where the beach gradient steepens and the water suddenly gets a bit deeper. It is marked by a line of…
No River Runs Straight
No natural river or stream will run straight for longer than 10 times its own width. If you see one that does, like this one…
How to Read Water – New Animation!
Here is the first of a short series of animations that I will be publishing over the coming weeks. Hope you enjoy!
How to Capture the Sun
I’m just back from Kincaldineshire. A big thank you to the extraordinary Charlie and Caroline Gladstone for inviting me to run a couple of mini…
Reflections and Ripples
We see the most detail in relatively calm water when we look at the places where light and dark reflections meet. Look at the line…
Navigating the South Downs with Everyday Adventure
A fun day of natural navigation and outdoor clue hunting in the South Downs recently with the Everyday Adventure team. You can read all about…
The Effect of Wind on Breaking Waves
The way waves behave is a big subject. But here we’ll look at just one simple aspect, the way the wind shapes breaking waves at…
Water Reading Courses in the Maldives
I have just returned from an extraordinary visit to the Soneva Fushi resort in the Baa Atoll region of the Maldives. I was there to…
New Video Interview with Mike Douglas
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Mike Douglas of the Maine Primitive Skills School. We talked about natural navigation, of course, but in a…
Cluespotting in Puddles
My thanks to Omar and Fran for braving the elements on the course last Friday. I knew they were in the zone when they stopped…
A Brief Introduction to Cloud Clues
Supercomputers churn mounds of data and give us a more accurate weather forecasts than our ancestors could manage. But there is something more satisfying about…
Wayfinding with the Polynesian Voyaging Society
Something a little different today – a guest blog. I am very grateful to Hye Jung Kim and all the team at Project Wayfinder for…
The Supermoon and Tides
Tides are at the greatest range near a full or new moon and these are called ‘spring tides’. This is when the sun and moon’s…
How to Read Wave Patterns at the Coast
I took this photo from the South West Coast Path in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, a few days ago. In it we can see…
Adventure Sports Podcast
I recently did a podcast interview with Mason Gravley of the Adventure Sports Podcast in the US. (Interview begins about 5.40 mins in.) There are…
Temperature Inversion in Yellowstone
My thanks to George Bumann for sending over this great pic of a temperature inversion in Yellowstone Park. During temperature inversions cool air becomes trapped…