Part 1 of my video short documenting my isolated island getaway off Thailand’s eastern coastline.

The experience was nothing short of phenomenal! Hope you enjoy. More to come…

The photo - and friend - that inspired me to go to Paradise

I’m realizing just how beautiful independence can be. So I’m going on a trip.

I was going to make this trip with Jeremiah, but as it often happens, things changed. I’ll be spending about a week going to Bangkok to see a friend and a few of those days on an island that’s not even on a map. I will literally be off the map for 3 days, snorkeling, kayaking, swimming, and relllaaxing in a small beach cabin to myself on an island I can navigate on foot in a matter of hours. No electricity past 11pm, no internet, and I even have to bring my own food to eat. I foresee dreams coming true, ladies and vagabonds. And the area I’m staying at on this pristine island is called Paradise. I will actually get to use the phrase, “I’m going to Paradise”. Hahaha!

See, man! Life is so good! No sense in clouding up all this sunshine with negative energy – mine or anyone else’s. It’s time for a release… in Paradise.

(Version française plus bas)

We all wanted to go to the Galapagos but the $1,000 weekly trip was definitely out of our budget. Instead, we went to La Isla de la Plata, a small island off Puerto Lopez and home to a few Galapagos bird species.

On our way to the island, we saw a few humpback whales who had come all the way from Antarctica to mate in Ecuadorian waters all summer long. At some point, three whales were swimming side by side. It was magical.

We hiked a few hours on La Isla de la Plata to watch blue-footed boobies, red-chested fregatas and piqueros enmascarados. I was really hoping to see an albatros, but those are shy birds and we didn’t see any, nor did we see sea lions and hammerhead sharks. It was a beautiful hike amid a landscape that reminded me of lot of the coastline of Quiberon, Brittany.

The coastline of Isla de la Plata

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