The Golden Isles
Georgia Outdoors has a new video on the Georgia sea islands - check it out: 'Georgia’s golden coast was named for its beautiful saltwater...
Rising Tides
A friend of mine who lives in Charleston, South Carolina wrote me in mid-November that: "This week, we have tides of over 7 feet (for...
More Georgia Outdoors Episodes
Recent blog posts have featured three more video episodes produced by Georgia Outdoors, and hosted by Sharon Collins. All are well worth...
St. Catherines Island
The Georgia coast has sites of historical, as well as natural, interest. St. Catherines Island, just north of Sapelo Island, and about 50...
Lionfish: Beautiful, but Deadly, Invaders
Lionfish are strikingly gorgeous tropical reef fish, striped pink, red, silver and black with graceful frills decorating their fins. But...
The Day of the…Sargassum Weed?
In the classic 1951 sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids, made into a 1962 film, a strange meteor shower renders everyone who watches it...
Coastal 'Fleas' and 'Roaches'
If you turn over a mass of cordgrass stems washed up on the beach, bunches of flea-sized bugs will start hopping madly about. Poke around...
Island Dog
Soon after we returned to Sapelo Island in spring of 1981, following a year-and-a-half research sabbatical in Israel, we decided we...
Georgia Outdoor Episodes
The PBS show Georgia Outdoors, produced and hosted by veteran reporter Sharon Collins, has wonderful episodes on coastal wildlife and...
Soft Corals
Corals, related to jellyfish, are soft, tubular polyps with a crown of tentacles used to grab plankton from the water. The most familiar...