It’s Coming Soon! The thirds book in the Junior Rangers Investigative Club Novels will be coming out this year!

Treasure of Biscayne Bay!

An adventure staring Justin Case, Rudy Scheer, Lucy Benitez, Amelia Zhang, and Bethany Caulfield. For now, All I have for you is the back of the book blurb, and some of my own amateur art, (plus the mock-up of an early cover design.

However, there will be more to come soon!!!!

Can we bring back the Mammoth? Should we?’

I had just gotten off the plane from Africa, and attended the wedding of two best friends, when I first heard about attempts to bring back the Woolly Mammoth within the decade. It’s been more than a decade. Where’s My Mammoth?

Well, I’ve written a series of articles about it. This is the final one. Read the others, or not. Links this time at the bottom of the article. And before you check it out, let’s address the elephant in the room: Wooly Mammoth, Whoolly Mammoth, Woolly Mammoth, online articles and spell check seem confused. So am I. All are viable. And that won’t be the only spelling error.

Do you know what 17.1 fold cover read sequences means? I do now, and because I read and absorbed more genetics than I needed for this article, I decided to let the grammar go for the day.

For this series, I’ve been doing brief fictional intros. This one ran a little long.

Feel free to skip if you don’t like sci-fi.

I’ll finish my thoughts on De-extincting the Woolly Mammoth Tomorrow.

Mammoths went extinct while the pyramids were being built. We missed our chance to see them. But, just because they are gone, doesn’t mean they cant come back. Can we bring Mammoths back? Well, I’m not going to do it, but let’s talk about efforts to do just that.

While experts still discuss the ifs, hows, whys, and should we’s of bringing Wooly Mammoth’s back from extinction, I’m more interested in talking about how we should name them. Actually, this is the 3rd part in my series of bringing Mammoths Back from teh dead. (read the title. ) The beginning is fiction. You can skip it, the meat of the article happens after the italics.

What does Mammoth Meat taste like? Well… They’ve been dead for 3,700 years at least, and the frozen ones we find are often over 30,000 years old. So, id imagine it probably tastes like freezer burned leather. And that’s ignoring the risk of pathogens, and the loss of scientific data. Supposedly someone made a mammoth meatball recently, but that’s something we’ll discuss next week. This week, a short story, and a lot of links to fun articles I found about Mammoth Popsicles. Which is a scientific term, I assure you.

Mastodon’s and Mammoths. Where did they go? Should we bring them back?

Yes, No, Maybe?

What do I think? Read more to find out! (pt. 1)

It’s a holiday for some of the most special people in our lives. Here’s an anecdote about the one who is so special to me.

Visiting Mammoth Cave, but looking for other things to do while you are In the Area? I have a few suggestions. Check out my 3 part special on other things you can do when you head out to visit Mammoth Cave. Including, of course, other caves. (It’s a Karst region after all.)

This is the last in the series, scroll back in time to see my other reccomendations.

This week I write about more awesome activities to fill your time when you go to visit Mammoth Cave. Places to stay, things to see, other caves to haunt, and more!

Mammoth Cave National Park has tons of things to do! However there are many other exciting options in the region. Check out the blog to learn about a few!

As an apology for my long blog absence, how about some animal photos.

More would follow, but I don’t want to be considered a pet blogger, besides these bums aren’t 1/2 as cute as they think they are.

Oh, also I am amazed by how there are always new things to discover in National Parks. More on that in the comming weeks.

There are so many Awesome National Parks. I’m here, today, to highlight some of the Amazing Places we too often forget to mention.

here are 3 more of my favorite National Parks.

I’m back! To recap the events of the burder witnessed on Big Pine Key. (Bird-Murder.) And the subsequent investigation, done, very lazily, (by me.)

There’s a link this time. Also I’m not a birder, so I’m only 90% confident in my identification.

All in all, I think I fail to come to a point in this one, and for that I am proud.

Stay tuned, posts should be back to normal. (It’s the bird that’s fleeing, seagull in talon, but I’m sticking around with more stories to tel.)

When the true crime is a bird crime, the expect a lot of bird puns. Why is this the blog series I chose to go with? I don’t know. Want something better, with cooler illustrations, check out my books instead. The 3rd Junior Rangers Investigative Club Novel is coming. In the mean time, I’m just goofing off.

I’m having fun, I hope you will too!

The continuation of my short “true Crime” story about Birds on Big Pine Key.

Recently, dad and witnessed an interesting feeding behavior of a broad-wing hawk. And I decided to write a parody series about it. There’s also a fun picture of a Key Deer hanging out with a bunny. Live action Bambi casting directors. Call me.

Feather down came drifting through the breeze, the mark of a surprising attack. There were two birds in the branches across the street. One of them was already dead.

How did this happen? What events could lead to such a crime? A burder (bird murder) had been committed, captured on a NikonD90. Even so, would there be justice?

An author who would rather turn a chance encounter into something ridiculous, than continue to edit the book he’s working on now: a second bird at the scene of the crime. A confluence of events which would shape the future of a small island at the end of the Florida peninsula. Would the skies ever be safe again?

(probably, this is just a silly blog after all, don’t read too much into it!)

Today, is a big editing day. So to entertain myself, and hopefully you, I’ve built a vocabulary list which will be useful in the upcoming JRIC novel The Treasure of Biscayne Bay. The book should be out in time for this years talk like a pirate day. Use this as a reference to talk like a pirate never really would.

Everyone has a story. What was your story for 2023? What will be your story for 2024?

Here I mostly just want to share my new skill. (check out the gif) but I also lay out a bit about plans for this coming year, while being all vague and cool about it to avoid spoilers. Big things are coming! And big things happened in 2023. I wrote about those too.

This Holiday weekend I was distracted by Volcanoes.

Hope you all are doing well!