Finding Land with Help from the Birds
“It was our first and only experience in 50 years of cruising of navigating by gannet!” My thanks to Christopher for this lovely email and…
“It was our first and only experience in 50 years of cruising of navigating by gannet!” My thanks to Christopher for this lovely email and…
Grey Mare’s Tail is a nature reserve near Moffat, Southern Scotland. The reserve is named after a very beautiful 60m waterfall. In August I hiked up…
My thanks to Ruth Street for taking the Beginner’s Guide to Natural Navigation Online Course and for feeding back about her ‘Graduation Expedition’: Having done…
From an entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary on Saturday 19th August 1665: So to Stanes and there by this time it was dark night, and…
Ann Cleeves, bestselling author of crime novels and creator of characters, like Vera Stanhope, that are now familiar to millions more through their TV adaptions,…
There is a simple method for finding your way out of a maze or labyrinth: Touch the wall or hedge with the hand nearest to…
After giving a talk to a lovely audience at the Poly in Falmouth last week, I stopped at that famous haunt of smugglers, Jamaica Inn,…
Below is a short extract from Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s classic of exploration literature, The Worst Journey in the World. This passage contains several valuable and interesting…
On courses and at the end of talks, I regularly get asked about how we can use our watch as a compass. There are two…
The Winter Clues Competition draws to a close tomorrow (still 24 hours to enter). For reasons I will explain in a few weeks, I’m not…
Something a bit different today. My thanks to Gary Gray for sending on this joke about being lost. Time is like a river. You cannot…
I am often asked about the tendency of people to walk in circles when lost. Here is an explanation of what happens. 1) If people…