Isla Isabel

  We stowed our sails and with the Yanmar thumping below, watched in fascination. A quarter-mile away thousands of frigate birds soared above the island ahead, […]

San Simeon Bay

35° 38″ N, 121° 11″ W  Discover this quaint and historic California community  (published May 2013) I’d been here before, as a kid. My 10-year-old eyes […]

Victoria, British Columbia

48.4222° N, 123.3657° W  (published February 2014) In Coasting, Jonathan Raban makes a distinction between continental people and island people. For most of us, the continental […]