Tree Trunks Lean Away From Buildings
Tree trunks lean away from the shade of buildings and towards the light. This habit tends to override the normal biases towards southern light, because…
Tree trunks lean away from the shade of buildings and towards the light. This habit tends to override the normal biases towards southern light, because…
Sometimes natural navigation is more challenging than others. I’m often asked, “What is the most difficult place to navigate using nature?” I think people expect…
This morning I was walking into wind and surprised a deer. After a couple of quick hops away it then froze and stood motionless. This…
The paperback of The Secret World of Weather is out today – in the UK! I am very excited by that and this morning’s weather…
Whenever a wind is forced through a narrow gap it accelerates. This is true of all fluids, gas and liquid, it is the reason we…
If you are trying to work out what calm water is doing, it is sometimes tempting to feel like nothing interesting is happening. There are…
Or… The Art of Staring at Blue Skies This video is a time lapse of a couple of hours of looking out over the western…
We can navigate using both snow and the absence of snow, zones known as ‘snow shadows’. There are two types of snow shadow, those caused…
This is a video for readers of the book How to Read Water. Notice how a cross-hatch pattern forms where the waves meet on this…
The following short video was made specially for the Royal Institute of Navigation.
My favourite signs always combine simplicity, elegance and practicality. They are often so effective that technology can’t improve on them. Cats’ Paws, the ruffled patterns…
This is a time lapse of daisies opening and orientating themselves towards the sun. It was filmed over a couple of hours and compressed down…
I hope you’re all keeping safe and well in these strange and challenging times now. I know some people a little bit worried that we’re…
I have written in the past about the basics of using the weather to navigate. Here I’d like to offer a couple of tips to…
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…
I’m always keen to try new ways of sharing the joys of natural navigation and outdoor clues and signs. I’ve done loads of long audio…