It isn’t 26 miles across the sea. It’s 20 miles. The subject of Catalina naturally takes…

If your child ain’t all he should be now’…just punch him around a bit!  …

On February 23, 1942 a 365 foot long Japanese submarine surfaced a hundred yards off the…

Pacific Voyages is about strange and wonderful things of the Pacific.  So I thought we’d revisit…

How is it you have not heard of Rosie Swale-Pope? I can’t explain it but…

Let’s see if we can find it shall we? My great friend Dr. Ken “liver…

The very first time the Atlantic flowed all the way from Brooklyn to the Pacific Ocean…

Not in the Pacific…yet My pal Leslie Stepp turned me on to these islands which…

The Big Sur coast is best explored by Zeppelin, or alternatively, in a 1965 VW…

Let’s create our own country! We can make all our own rules! We can take…

It’s complicated. We all know about tides and waves. They are just one aspect of…

Some remarkable adventurers have fallen under the radar. Take Lope Martín, for example. Though the…

Huguette Clark died in 2011 at the age of 104. Huguette was the sole heir…

Nemo, The Pole of Inaccessibility In 1992 a survey engineer, Hrvoje Lukatela, calculated the most…

34 sq. miles, 850 people and a cloud forest. Ascension isn’t in the Pacific but…

The aliens have landed. The Pacific and the other oceans (welcome newly named Southern Ocean)…

Like much of rural Japan the village of Inakadate has a declining population. The main…

This is a departure from my usual reporting on things related to the Pacific. But…

250 years ago it was rough service to be sent to that wasteland called California.…

Often overlooked but punching far above its weight is this small museum overlooking the Pacific…