Naturalist

Welcome, I am Bill Grimes, writer, photographer, naturalist, and jungle guide. I live and work in Iquitos Peru, on the rivers, and in the rainforests. I am also the owner and president of Dawn on the Amazon Tours and Cruises, a small but cozy adventure ...

Oh, how we loved Ruchomechi!  This beautiful camp is located on the banks of the Zambezi river near the border with Zambia and located within Mana Pools National Park.  In order to get here we had to fly from Harare to Kariba and then take a ...

... were somewhat of a show and the naturalist knew exactly what was going on. But judging from our multiple conversations with the naturalist about India's many problems and how to fix them, we got the impression he knew nothing out of the ordinary had ...

... " around here. We were happy to find elephant an our first safari and were on our way back when suddenly the other naturalist got really animated and made the driver reverse.  He pulled out his binoculars and spotted a leopard sitting in a ...

... open water diver.  So we signed up for two local dives with a small instruction piece.  We did a deep dive and a naturalist dive. Open Water certifies you to go down to 18m.  A Deep Adventure Dive allows you to hit 30m.  The ...

... experience, adventure, and learning opportunity all at the same time, and we got looked after so well by our crew and naturalist guides. The Galapagos Islands truly are a unique location, but if my epilogue hasn’t been enough to convince you to ...

... lasted for 3 hrs. The afternoon safari would start around 3pm and last until about 6pm. We would have a different driver and naturalist for every drive, as they rotated so each guide/driver got a turn. They were supplied by the National Park and were a ...

This was the Naturalist Dive.  I had already done a naturalist dive in the PADI course but everyone else was doing Naturalist so I just thought that I wouldn't be awkward.  I am so glad I did though.  It was brilliant.  Obviously ...

... as we progressed through a string of large & small islands, passages and inlets.  Along the way an onboard naturalist--a Clipper Vacations tour guide--pointed out interesting facts about the landscape and helped to identify some of the sealife, ...

... good—not dry and just enough sauce, cheese and toppings. After lunch we went to another wildlife lecture given by the naturalist. This one contained information about plants, animals and glaciers. Tonight we went to dinner at 5:45pm and there was no ...

... his English is poor, and when you're a guide for an English speaking audience, that's kind of important.  He's classed as a Naturalist II, which apparently means that if you have any knowledge of the islands at all and need a job, you're ...

... become this ultra-serious activist and have given up my "scampy" side, I must tell you about Juan Marcello ("Cello") , our naturalist guide who translated for Ruben. Cello is a highly educated 26 year old, working on his PhD in Mechanical Engineering ...

... reminded of the writings of naturalist Thomas Barbour. A year before his death in 1946, he published his wonderful and melancholic A Naturalist in Cuba, which captures "the smell of smoke at dawn" and the flowering trees "brought into their first flush of ...

... as they seemed to know every word. The next day we dived at Steves bommie twice doing the course dives for photography (G) and Naturalist (r) and then in the afternoon at Flare point we did a drift dive which was great, no effort, just being carried ...

... and thousands of gulls all around us and always protecting one to three of their little newborn babies.  According to the naturalist we were especially lucky to see something extremely rare as three of the babies started to rear up and attempt to ...

... pampered by a crew of seven, and kept on our toes - and literally on the marked trails - by our knowledgeable naturalist guide, Diego. A thousand kilometres west of Ecuador, the Galápagos are a very isolated group of volcanic islands on the equator ...

... Auke Bay, to the North of Juneau.  At Auke Bay the boat Big Blue was waiting, together with its Captain and a naturalist (actually a student posted here for the season) who would be explaining the area and the wildlife we were seeing.  The boat ...

... said it looks that way from rocky debris embedded in the glacial ice. While everyone was outside taking pictures the ship's Naturalist was over the intercom talking about the area and pointing out wildlife. We did see some orca and various birds flying ...