Posted September 23, 2008
Day 2 – Mid Day
But it’s hard to tell when it’s cloudy because there is 24 hrs of daylight. I’m 72°.46 N on the Northern end of Baffin Island. It’s been a bit of a ride just getting here. First we lost 2 days to rain and wind when we landed at Pond Inlet. On [...]
Posted July 10, 2008
Day 1
I sit looking out over a beautiful Colorado Rocky Mountain valley vista. It’s threatening lightening and I have no shelter, just a big piece of canvas and my horse blankets. That’s right I said horse. My two horses are grazing away at their evening meal. Flint, my riding horse and Remington, my pack horse. [...]
Posted May 21, 2008
Day 2
Well, so far this survival ordeal in the Sierra Nevada has been a little easier on me than usual. For this first shoot of the season, I’m not far outside of the town of Oakhurst, California, somewhere in the bush, a short ways after crossing Willow Creek, a popular hiking trail. Due to an [...]
Posted April 7, 2008
Wednesday Apr 2, 9:07 pm
Hi all,
I’m just now on a plane back from South Africa, where we were shooting Surviving Sharks, the last installment of shark encounters for Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, U.S., produced by Gurney Productions. We were doing a series of experiments with the great white sharks in ‘shark alley,’ just [...]
Posted December 26, 2007
Wednesday Dec. 26th, 2007
I’ve tried to get to the blog before now but we have been so busy with the sharks, shooting both day and night, that I just couldn’t manage it. Ok, disclaimer over with.
It was a fantastic time in Nassau. We went to the same dive shop that pretty much most, if not [...]
Posted December 16, 2007
Sunday, Dec 16th 2007, 3:45 pm
The seven-hour boat ride to Walker’s Cay was smooth and easy and lulled us all to sleep so that we arrived rested. We shuttled over to the island in a small boat and hung out on ‘bull shark beach,’ which is actually formed of jagged coral with no sand to [...]
Posted December 14, 2007
Friday, Dec 14th 2007, 11:32 am
The rest of the day yesterday went off without a hitch. We spent the time scuba diving with the lemon sharks and getting the footage we needed to create the show. Last night was our last staying in the hotel. Now, we’re back on the boat and after today’s filming [...]
Posted December 13, 2007
Thursday Dec 13th 2007, 7:55am
What a difference a day makes! The last two days have been incredible. We headed out at midday by speedboat to meet up with the Dolphin Dream, our ninety-foot boat that we will use as our filming base. As we pulled up to the larger vessel we could see a [...]
Posted December 11, 2007
Tuesday Dec 11th 2007
The first day was not good for yours truly. Boats that run on diesel gasoline can be hard on the stomach at the best of times. Throw in some rough seas, really smelly chum (dead fish bait) and you have a noxious mix of smells that will challenge the hardiest of shark [...]
Posted December 10, 2007
Monday Dec 10th 2007
Currently, I am flying over the Gulf of Mexico on my way to the second location shoot for Feeding Frenzy ll for the Discovery Channel. The ink is still wet on the contract I signed with Discovery to host the second installment of this special on sharks. I hosted the first [...]
Posted July 23, 2007
Day 2
I am sitting on a cobblestone beach about a quarter mile long. Behind me is a four hundred foot waterfall and just in front of it is a very active bald eagle nest with the two adult eagles guarding it intently. In front of me a sea otter is playing in the ocean water [...]
Posted July 11, 2007
Day 1
It’s minus ten degrees Celsius.
I am in the middle of the wild Labrador woods. Behind me is a sparse forest of small black spruce trees and a few birch spaced out here and there. Underneath me is a green army sleeping bag. Underneath it is about 6 inches of balsam and spruce bows and [...]
Posted March 13, 2007
Day One
At this very moment I am sitting on the top of a huge red Kalahari Desert sand dune. Above me, a nearly full moon shines down, spreading it’s moon-glow all around and the result is a desert equally as beautiful at night as it is during the day. A few miles off in the [...]
Posted March 12, 2007
Location scouting week
It has been one week since my production partner Dave Brady and I landed in Africa. At midday in late January, we sit shaded from the intense sun under a thatched roof shelter in the Kalahari desert. A major thunder storm is rumbling off in the distance – which is rare. Thousands of [...]
Posted February 4, 2007
February 4th
Well, here I go. In short order I will be up in a hot air balloon gliding over the African landscape to get me in to seven days of survival. The training experience has been fascinating. My instructors: Douw, Lee, Koos and Raphael have put in long days showing me the plants, animals and [...]
Posted January 16, 2007
The Beginning
It’s been a lifelong dream to head into the deep and dark Amazon jungle. It’s a place of legends. Impenetrable. Dangerous. Yet here I am. Living with the tribe considered to be the most violent people in the history of the world, where death rate was due to, up until just 40 years ago, [...]