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How To Tell If You Are Looking at a Full Moon

October 11, 2019October 11, 2019

A lot of people see a big round moon in the sky and confidently call it a full moon. And then wonder, is it really?…

January 31, 2019January 31, 2019

In this image the three brightest objects in the sky are, from left to right, Venus, the moon and Jupiter. But look carefully to the…

January 16, 2019January 16, 2019

A fast introduction to my journey into natural navigation, how it works and why we need it, from a TEDx talk I gave in Calgary.

December 28, 2018March 18, 2019

I’m going to be brave and briefly discuss one of the trickier natural navigation techniques: the moon phase method or moon phase compass. If you…

November 30, 2018January 7, 2020

The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal – when you know what to look…

November 30, 2018November 30, 2018

The Nature Instinct has been published in the US! “A captivating guide to finding one’s way in the wild.” —The Wall Street Journal “An imperative…

November 6, 2018September 25, 2019

52 Keys that Will Open Your Eyes, Ears and Mind to the World Around You 🇺🇸 Published in the US as The Nature Instinct ‘Beautifully written… I…

October 13, 2018December 31, 2019

Welcome to the page where I have collected a few weather lore sayings and laid out the meteorological truth, or otherwise, behind them. If you…

August 27, 2018November 26, 2018

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…