In addition to providing travelers with a “renewed sense of passion and purpose,” the article says adventure travel, “will blow your mind without blowing your budget.”

Adventure Life is committed to providing quality small group tours that have a positive impact on the local culture and environment. Each tour is designed to present the best of each region, at the same time allowing freedom and flexibility for the unexpected and unpredictable that make each tour, each destination, unique.

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There are travelers that prefer nothing more than a large beach blanket and a deck chair...and then there are the travelers that prefer the Galapagos Multisport Tour!.

The story reads:

“[Skelton] and his company now lead the way in holistic and innovative approaches to restoring and enhancing fisheries and stream environments. He speaks reverently about his work in rehabilitating streams, lakes, rivers, wetlands and ponds in a natural way that achieves sustainable environmental health for the entire ecosystem. In the rural lands cut by rivers, it’s the landowners who gain a lasting legacy for generations to come.”

This link will take you to the story: Earth Protect Fisheries Enhancement.

‘Deliberate’, ‘poetic’ and ‘highly respectful’ are the words Shannon uses to describe CFI Global’s innovative approach.

Panama was named the #1 best places to travel in 2012.  Adventure Life offers an array of Panama tours that include amazing  snorkeling and diving, rainforest adventures, and picturesque islands. A Panama tour of Isla Bastimentos reveals an ecosystem budding with both land and marine wildlife, while a Panama Canal tour showcases the manmade “eighth wonder of the world.” Whether hiking through rainforests or enjoying the chill nightlife of Bocas del Toro, travelers will forever associate Panama with the best in natural and cultural landscapes.

If I had to pick one of Adventure Life’s Panama tours, it would be Discover Panama. Travelers explore the highlands of Boquete near the Costa Rica border, hike in cloudforests,  whitewater raft the Chiriqui River and spend  a couple days around Bocas del Toro, snorkeling,  kayaking and soaking in the sun.

Seeing the beauty of Panama leaves no question as to why The New York Times named it one of the 45 Best Places to Go in 2012

Another of The New York Times’ best places to travel in 2012 is the Chilean Patagonia. Patagonia travel reveals the diverse and remote beauty of southern Chile and Argentina and is as varied as the terrain. Adventure Life Patagonia tours expose travelers to an otherworldly landscape gushing with turquoise lakes, green hillsides, and ice-capped mountains. As if that’s not enough visual stimulation, Patagonia tours can also include leaping dolphins and cresting whales.

My favorite Adventure Life Patagonia tour is called Patagonia Panorama. Travelers embark from Argentina, where they lace their boots and take to the mountains for a 4-day Patagonia trekking adventure. The highlight of this trek is exploring  the glaciated Fitz Roy Range, arguably one of the most inspiring mountain areas in all the Andes. After warming up with a week on the eastern side of the continental divide,  you cross the border and enter Chilean Patagonia. From there trekkers spend 6 days exploring by foot the remarkable Torres del Paine National Park -home to the W Circuit, enormous glaciers, turquoise lakes, and verdant temperate rainforests.

The Chilean Patagonia was also named one of the Best Places to Go in 2012. Wow!!

This South Carolina waterfront home sits behind Night Heron Pond which guards the left side of the postcard-pretty 17th hole of Spring Island’s Old Tabby Links golf course.

The home offers a main house and guest house covering nearly 6,500 square feet with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, four fireplaces and the entire second floor (accessible by elevator) reserved for the master suite complete with private veranda.

To learn more about this South Carolina golf course home visit http://www.springisland.com.

There are few natural wonders as synonymous with Africa’s raw wilderness as the Chobe River, which divides Namibia’s Caprivi Strip from Botswana’s Chobe National Park.  Teeming with life, this National Park sprawls across the African bush and is home to the largest population of elephants in the world. Prides of leopard and lion, huge groups of buffalo, waterbuck, roan, eland, sable, giraffe, and the rare puku can also be seen. In the river itself watch out for hippo and crocodile, and keep your binoculars at the ready for spotting a rich selection of bird life.

The ship operates in 5-star opulence, and is all about pampering, indulgence, and superior comfort. Whether you are dining on our third level restaurant watching the animals gather at the water at dusk, game viewing or attempting to land your first tiger fish, the professional team will be on hand to meet your every need.

” The Chobe is the region’s lifeblood, the primary reason for its abundant game and birds, and as we rounded a bend and finally glimpsed the 138-foot Queen, gleaming white and beckoning us forward,” reads the Forbes Life article

For more information on this Forbes Life story or to book a trip aboard the Zambezi Queen, visit Adventure Life or call 800-344-6118.

After breakfast either choose a half day game drive or game viewing by boat. Return to the Zambezi Queen and cruise down the Chobe River.

Enjoy a water based game viewing activity or a cultural village tour by mokoro (African canoe)

The excitement surround the Russian Soyuz capsule returning from the International Space Station and touching down safely in Kazakhstan early Nov. 22,  provides a great opportunity to talk about one of the most unique space holidays in the adventure travel industry, MIR Corp’s Inside the Russian Space Program 2012.

This 10-day tour happening only once in 2012 affords guest an opportunity to witness the manned launch of the Soyuz spacecraft on one of  its missions to relieve the crew of the International Space Station, with unparalleled access to VIP viewing areas and briefing sessions.

After taking in the iconic sites of Moscow, guests experience  the live Soyuz-International Space Station docking at Mission Control Center, an event that very few get to experience in such an intimate way. If you’ve ever dreamed of space travel, this is one of the finest space holidays available. The itinerary includes all sorts of insider perks, including rubbing elbows with cosmonauts over dinners and events; and, for an extra fee, cosmonaut training.

For more information about our tour dates and price options, contact Douglas Grimes at 1-800-424-7289 or via email at douglas@mircorp.com.

U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum minutes after landing near the town of Arkalyk, northern Kazakhstan,Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergei Remizov, Pool)

U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa smile from inside the Soyuz capsule minutes after they landed near the town of Arkalyk, northern Kazakhstan,Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergei Remizov, Pool)

Russian support personnel work to help get Expedition 29 crew members out of the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft shortly after the capsule landed with Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum, and Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa on November 22, 2011 outside of the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan.

WildChina, the award-winning sustainable travel company, offers a fantastic tour to Anhui, China called the “Ancient Villages of Yellow Mountain Trip”. On this tour travelers catch the sunset and sunrise atop Yellow Mountain and explore the terraced fields and bamboo forests of this little known Chinese countryside.  Along the way, they explore a  multitude of ancient villages, from the photogenic Hongcun, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, to the less-frequented merchant town of Chengkan.

On this 5-day tour, travelers  meet visit local communities and learn to understand the different histories and traditions that give each village its own unique character. For more information on this Anhui, China tour visit www.wildchina.com.

Traditional bridge and Construction in Anhui, China.

Skelton writes:

“Many ranches have streams, rivers, ponds or lakes that are used primarily for agricultural operations. Through minor management shifts, these can be enhanced and developed into extremely productive fisheries that can deliver additional income through angling club leases and trespass rights, which allow anglers access to great live water or still water amenities.”

He continues:

“Some fisheries need only a little habitat tweaking and some fencing to prevent livestock from trampling the stream banks, while others require a more in-depth stream restoration or enhancement program to create a viable sport fishery.”

The entire newsletter can be viewed here.

CFI Global was also featured in a Denver Post business story entitled “Colorado firm CFI Global heals ailing streams, lakes, wetlands around world.”

Through innovative management techniques and design, CFI is able to create a fishing paradise in both still water and live water environments.

The article reads:

“Skelton… has developed a reputation as one of the more holistic fishery fixers in the country. Landowners — from municipalities to millionaires to developers — are lining up for his preservation-focused rehab work, which includes fishery management and consulting.”

Blevins details the unusual amount of time Skelton and his crew spend on the front-end of projects, via data gathering and software that evaluates every aspect of a stream’s hydrology, as opposed to “quick fix” stream restoration work like much of the competition. CFI has restored more than 200 miles of stream and 4,000 acres of lakes, ponds and wetlands in the past 14 years.

“CFI tends to utilize more natural techniques to improve fish habitat,” said Nathan Green, a regulatory project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers who has worked with Skelton on several fish-habitat improvement projects.

This hyperlink will direct you to the entire article on CFI Global’s  fisheries management and stream restoration work.

Shannon Skelton checks a rainbow trout he hooked along a stretch of Upper Bear Creek restored by his Fort Collins-based business, CFI Global. The stream was "a meandering disaster" before the slow, expensive process of making it healthy once again. (John Prieto, The Denver Post)

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Julia Dimon from Outside Television recently cruised to Antarctica with the Antarctic Dream.

Traveling aboard the Antarctic Dream’s classic 11 day/10 night Antarctic expedition, Julia and other passengers had the opportunity to see glaciers, elephant seals, massive icebergs, and LOTS of penguins.  The Antarctic Dream’s smaller capacity vessel provides guests with extraordinary, hands-on access to wildlife, glaciers and massive icebergs, allowing them to have a very personal encounter with the while continent. Passengers aboard The Antarctic Dream often experience up-close encounters with fur seals, humpback whales, leopard seals and orcas, and are able to explore the blue, icy land during two-to-three hour daily zodiac raft excursions and a minimum of three kayaking expeditions per sailing.

Julia’s Antarctic adventures are documented in a video on Outside Television’s website. Check it out!