Mummies and me

A while back I was looking around the deserts of southern Peru when I came on this small military outpost. I stopped at the mess tent to ask the soldiers questions about stuff they might have seen on patrols into the desert. I noticed that they had a young condor tied by the foot that they would feed scrapes of meat from the cook tent. In the picture you can see the bird jumped up on my leg thinking I might have something for it to eat. I did not but the bird thought the image printed on my t-shirt might be worth a bite. In one and a half seconds that little buzzard grabbed the cloth an inch below my collar and ripped the entire front of my t-shirt off. Now for the other shots. I asked the guys what kinds of interesting things they had run into out in the desert back towards the mountains. They told me about a lot of stuff but when one of the guys told me had seen through his binoculars what he thought was mummies he got my attention. The guys were at the end of there day patrol and hadn't had a chance to walk the extra five miles over to check out what the guy with the glasses had seen. I pulled out a map and had the guy show me where he had seen the bodies. I drove to a nearby town and found a guy who would rent me a dirt bike.

Whales and skiing in Alaska

I was once hired by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to conduct aeriel surveys for marine mammals over the Bering Sea to establish abundance and distribution. I spent a year flying 10's of thousands of miles of transects at 750 ft. I've also done thousands of miles of aeriel surveys over the sea from Halifax, Canada to Key West, Florida. I saw some incredible animals in the Bering and the Aleutian Islands but the time and distance between sightings made the Bering boring. The area off New England was my favorite. I have an outrageous collection of photos of whales, walrus, seals, turtles and fish.