A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
It was hard choosing an island to visit during our short four day stay in tropical North Queensland. Really hard. First World problems, I know. On one hand there was Green Island, a sand island with white sand beaches and offshore snorkeling. Then there was the larger, mountainous Fitzroy Island with its rainforest walking trails […] Read more…
I had been excited to visit Key West ever since I heard that it is full of social outcasts that don’t fit in anywhere else in the US. It even has the nickname ‘Key Weird’. People are accepted here for who they are, eccentricities and all, and that appealed to me. Along with the island’s […] Read more…
Volunteering on Denman Island only became part of our plans at the last minute because of our bad experience at Osoyoos. It is funny how the unplanned parts of your travels, and in life in general, can sometimes turn out to be the most satisfying. After arriving by ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo on Vancouver […] Read more…
Prince Edward Island is famed for its beautiful beaches, abundant seafood, bucolic farmland, red soil and cliffs and of course: Anne of Green Gables. I never read the books myself but obviously a lot of people did as everywhere you look in PEI there is some reference to Anne. In fact the main reason that […] Read more…
After the 1.5 hour ferry crossing from Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, we arrived on Grand Manan Island, and we loved the island from the very beginning. Grand Manan Island is truly stunning. Making our way past houses draped in colorful buoys and fields of wildflowers, we arrived at the Hole in the Wall Camping ground, […] Read more…
Our first glimpse of Belize was our 30 minute stop on Ambergris Caye to clear Customs and Immigration. It is the first country I have been to where you can go through Customs with bare feet; the building is a shed and the floor is sand. On arrival on Caye Caulker, we were greeted by […] Read more…