I couldn’t wait. After spending hours completing an online course and two days in the pool, I was ready to scuba dive in open water. Scuba Tech instructors were leading the dive, and taking us out to East Jetty in Destin. After weeks of enjoying the above-water environment along the Emerald Coast, I felt so…
Day: June 18, 2016
Duke Nicholas School – Is Ecotourism the Natural World’s Silver Bullet?
In 1991, the New York Times ran an article entitled: “Ecotourism: Can it Protect the Planet?” You’ll notice that, fifteen years later, I am asking myself the same question. Eric Weiner – author of the piece – went on to write that “[a] new word has entered the lexicon of travel: ecotourism. Born of the…