Environmentalist Robert Redford calls for action. There is a bill pending in the Senate. US citizens Let your senators know how you feel.  Help prevent future oil disasters, create jobs for US citizens and a cleaner future for our children and grandchildren.

Check it out here

It IS Time to think about our planet!!

Goodbye General Motors

I am a fan of Michael Moore but even if you are not a fan he makes some really valid points in this letter and has some great suggestions for what we, the country, can do to turn GM’s failure into a positive for the future.

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For all my surfing friends out there; here are some absolutely awesome photos from Surfline.com.

Thanks Daniel for passing this link along. Anyone who appreciates good photography will love these! A picture is worth a thousand words and now I understand “green room” as it applies to waves. If I was just a little younger…. Anyway what a great non violent high adrenaline extreme sport that always challenges your personal best!

Also here is a video I made of my son Daniel and his friends surfing in Bocas Del Toro.

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I live here now but sure wish I had found this before I moved here. What a great opportunity for exciting travel and study. Check it out HERE: This is a special two-week travel course. The course is open to all students, but students enrolled in regular ITEC courses have priority.

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University of Virginia Environmental Thought and Practice Majors Travel to Panama As Part of New Panama Initiative

See article here: http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=4716

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Panama is just full of natural wonders and wildlife and many of us who have adopted this country watch closely as the environment is under attack again from the current administration. In recent years Panama has been more progressive in the area of protecting the environment but just like the rest of the world often times short sightedness runs rampant. I live in this lovely country and all the amazing wildlife is one of the greatest pleasures of living here. This is a travel blog and I am encouraging you to visit this fantastic place and will also share from time to time the challenges facing those who live here and want to preserve this great place. This may instill in you a sense of urgency to travel to Panama and see this great place before it changes too much. Hopefully maybe some of you will be a part of environmental organizations that might be able to help in some way. This headline in Panama News caught my attention this morning:

Ban on purse seining in waters off Coiba lifted See the full story here In The Panama News

Coiba and its surrounding islands make up an amazing national park and when you travel to Panama you should visit for snorkeling, scuba diving, hiking through the virgin rainforest or just enjoy the beaches and boat ride there and back. In 1990 this area became a designated marine park, one of the largest in the world and more then 80% is oceanic. The park includes the second largest coral reef in the Central-Eastern Pacific. On our snorkeling adventure we saw more varieties of fish than I have even seen in my life and hump back whales on the return trip were the icing on the cake. Check the guidebook for much more on Coiba but this uniquely beautiful island that was previously a penal colony is now famous for its fantastic reef teeming with fish, unusual coral and beautiful beaches.

Coiba - Panama Pacific Island

From Santa Catalina in Veraguas Province it takes about 1 hour to get to Coiba and the trip is extraordinary. It takes about 2 hours by boat from David.

You might want to Travel to Panama as soon as you are able just in case the Panamanian government doesn’t regain the vision of the future soon. Let’s hope they do and that they revert back to the ban on purse seining in Coiba National Park and that they realize the value of a sustainable approach to fishing as well as tourism.

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