Families and Friends Gotta Stick Together!

Animals of all kinds have always been deeply embedded in my heart. I remember growing up and my brothers hurting a sparrow and how completely sick I felt. I cried for hours.







I've always had zero tolerance for any living creature being hurt or killed.

Taking a wonderful shot of an animal, bird or reptile with a
camera is the ONLY way to shoot.

Once an animal is gone.....it's gone FOREVER. Nobody else will ever get to witness its beauty and uniqueness.

These are pictures from Kenya, Africa and thank God, in Kenya, they choose eco-tourism over hunting as a way to make money. If a poacher is seen in many areas there, he can be shot on sight! My kind of law.
It's still not happening in enough places in Africa or around the world for that matter, and that's why I've decided to make this one of the TOP PRIORITIES in my life today.


To see different cultures and they way people lived was why I started traveling many years ago. As time went by, I started learning way too many things about the places I visited and what was really going on. We'd go to Costa Rica and find out about the quetzel being nearly wiped out to extinction, because of it's magnificent feathers. They were killed (I mean overly killed) and sold for money. We actually got to see a quetzel and our tour guide said "that was a miracle, she hadn't seen one in years!"


It's just everywhere we went, we'd hear about innocent animals and birds being killed by humans. Not for food.....not for survival.......but for MORE more MORE more MORE more money!! Ya know.....the stuff you just can't get enough of in this world of ours.


We were cruizing in a small canoe down the Amazon River and didn't see one monkey. They'd all been killed. NOT ONE MONKEY in one of those trees. That was just mind blowing to me, and so so disappointing to be all the way in South America and not see a monkey while cruising down the Amazon.


Unfortunately, my pictures of the dolphin pods I shot on the Sea of Cortez didn't come out. The dolphins were too fast for me! They were amazing, simply breathtaking to watch. The way they race each other and play all day was just one of the most amazing sights I'd ever seen.

Right now, our dolphins are being ripped away from their families. Like us, dolphins mate for life. A dolphin is a whale, and I'm sure you know by now that whales mate for life.

Dolphins are being captured by humans and being help in captivity to make money for businessmen and women. They are put in pools to do tricks and put in roped areas so people can swim with them. This is a billion dollar business. The dolphins sell for $150,000.00 a piece in Taiji Japan and are killed if they are not sold.

Dolphin meat CANNOT be eaten. It contains too much mercury. They are being killed just to kill them.........everyday from September to March every year in this village in Japan.

A worldwide protest is taking place this Thursday, October 14, 2010 at the Japanese Consulate in downtown Detroit on Jefferson in front of the Renn. Center. We will start picketing with our "Stop the Japan dolphin slaughter" signs at 4pm.

I volunteered to start the protest in Detroit and it's listed on the Save Japans Dolphins website along with all the other Japanese Consulates around the world. This is going to be a huge event in some places. Not so sure about in Detroit but I have been getting emails and hopefully those who have contacted me will be there with signs too.

There is so much work that needs to be done, and this is not an easy cause to get much satsifaction in. It's hard to convince countries who kill their animals for money to STOP killing them.

We all need to help educate whenever we can about Ecotourism. People will always pay to see whales, sharks, dolphins, lions, exotic birds, monkeys, elephants, etc....in their natural environments. There is NOTHING more thrilling than watching mother natures creatures in their own habitat, doing their own thing. Living the way God intended them too.

And again.....if you're free this Thursday (Oct. 14) from 4-6....I'd love to have you join me for the worldwide "Save Japan's Dolphin's" protest in downtown Detroit Michigan at the Japanese Consulate.