Wild Things: Trash pandas of the Florida Keys
It was a lovely boating day, a little windy, but not too choppy in Jewfish Basin because it never is. We pulled up next...
Wild Things: A modest sportsball naming proposal
I think my favorite sports team names come from weird places. Of most recent high visibility are the New York Knicks, an abridgment from...
Wild Things: Taking the long view
Whenever I take the ferry out to the Dry Tortugas, especially during the high heat of summer, I always worry, what am I going...
Wild Things: Getting Reacquainted in the Tortugas
You think you know a place, and then you don’t visit for eight or nine years, and things start to feel a little foreign.
I’m...
WILD THINGS: HARD HEADS & RED BELLIES
I was at Fort Zachary Taylor, hiding in the afternoon shade of the canopy, near the blacksmith’s shop, when I had a clear look...
WILD THINGS: WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN (GOOSE)
When we got our first German short-haired pointer, Coffee, I thought she would have a more journalistic relationship with birds than, say, a retriever....
WILD THINGS: A NEW SPECIES FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS
Damn I love the rivers that run through the Mud Keys. They are just the perfect distillation of the raw beauty of the backcountry,...
WILD THINGS: DESTRUCTIVE TO AMBITION
A tiny piece of plastic broke in our CR-V’s brake pedal, which meant the brake lights didn’t shut off when we parked it at...
WILD THINGS: IT’S A WIZARD. IT’S A BIRD. IT’S AN APP.
The Cloisters, we figured, were up there somewhere, though we weren’t totally sure where. Intermittently, as we walked, we could see part of a...
WILD THINGS: DAREDEVIL MIGRANTS & SPA DAYS
I watch a lot of bike racing. For some reason it is the only sport I’ve ever consistently cared about. The early part of...
