In 2015, I stood at the edge of the East Branch of the Penobscot River in the North Woods of Maine. Chickadees tittered in the trees above my head, hopping among the green leaves just barely tinged with the gold and red hues of the incoming autumn season. My husband and father waded chest-deep in…
Author: Erika Zambello
Erika Zambello is a writer, birder, and photographer living and working along the Emerald Coast of Florida. She has a master’s degree in environmental management, where she specialized in ecosystem science and conservation. Her love of the outdoors was inspired by a childhood in Maine, where she returned for her National Geographic Young Explorer grant. In addition to Maine, she has lived in New York, France, Washington, DC, and North Carolina. Erika believes in the power of communicating conservation and exploration, which was the inspiration for One World, Two Feet.
Florida State Parks – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
As a female writer, women authors have always been my role models. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Yearling” and “Cross Creek,” falls into that literary hero category, and I couldn’t wait to see where she wrote her most famous works. As she said herself: “I do not understand how anyone can…
National Parks Traveler – Alligator Gar Spotted Along Florida’s Gulf Islands National Seashore
Brian Whalen stood at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, staring out at bright green waves crashing along the Santa Rosa area of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Though it was the middle of the week, the beach was dotted with swimmers, sunbathers, and anglers like Whalen, enjoying a hot, sunny day in northwest Florida. Read…
E. Zambello Writing and Art 