International Exploration Society

05/18/2024

Read By Everyone Who Loves To Fly!

03/19/2024

Here is the link to The Write Review show airing earlier this week...

A live interview with The Write Review host Annie McDonnell and Exploring Wine Regions author and photographer Michael C. Higgins, PhD.

03/08/2024

Three more awards for my new book from Independent Press!

Exploring Wine Regions – California Central Coast has been recognized with three Independent Press Awards as the Best Travel Book of 2024, Best Coffee-Table Book of 2024 and Best Gift Books of 2024. It is a huge honor to receive this recognition and appreciation for all the extensive work creating such a substantial book.

09/12/2021

Veraison
A Beautiful Time of Year

This is a French word used in viticulture (wine grape growing) to describe the onset of the ripening of the grapes. Veraison is the transition from berry growth to berry ripening and is well marked by the change in color from green to purple. As seen in the photo, there becomes a rainbow of transitional colors ever so beautiful this time of year.

More about Veraison and other interesting information about wine, grapes and wine regions can be discovered in the book series Exploring Wine Regions. The books are available through books stores, wine shops and on the website ExploringWineRegions.com.

07/26/2021

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01/24/2021

Every year, turtles come back the the very place they were born to dig holes and lay their eggs. They can lay 100 eggs in hopes that one will eventually survive. The risk is several. The eggs can be dug up and eaten. The slow walk to the waves can experience birds feeding on them. In the ocean there are many predators until they reach a size to protect themselves better.

Here, at the tip of Baja Sur Mexico, these turtles have a much greater success of surviving because people have protected their eggs during the 45 days of incubation underground. People also and stand by while these precious little babies they make their walk to the ocean.

This is a very special treat of nature to experience up close.

01/26/2018

Ultimate Wine Luggage http://bit.ly/2rF4zXF

12/31/2017

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Argentina Trip - PHOTOGRAPHY http://bit.ly/2lwVERL

11/23/2017

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Join Me In Mendoza http://bit.ly/2Bg2rX9

08/01/2017

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An Epic Wine Adventure http://bit.ly/2vcFVyl

03/15/2017

Tony Robbins: I like to invest in things that can change people's lives

Exploring how Tony Robbins built a $4 Billion Empire...

‘Unshakeable’ author Tony Robbins on his successful career, being able to give back, his strategy for investing in businesses and the importance of saving to build wealth over the long term.

03/03/2017

NASA is exploring a new solar systems with the potential of planets with life…

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02/07/2017

ABC News

Exploring PLAYFUL OTTER fun.

Wildlife photographer captures adorable moment when a river otter decided to slide down a snowy hill at Yellowstone National Park. http://abcn.ws/2kAZgkZ

01/12/2017

They Released 14 Wolves In A Park. But No One Was Prepared For THIS. Unbelievable That Nature..

This is a beautiful heartwarming story about EXPLORING WOLVES....

The result has sent shockwaves across the world..

10/25/2016

Sandbrero

Interesting exploration deep underwater...

Meet the deepest place on earth and some of its inhabitants, the Mariana Trench. Thanks to all its researchers.

09/25/2016

The Perfect Gift For Wine Lovers.

Winner: BEST TRAVEL & WINE BOOK OF 2016! Exploring Wine Regions - Argentina wins the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. This is very exciting. Please spread the word. Available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, book stores and wine shops, or at ExploringWineRegions.com

09/24/2016

Beautiful Colonial Hacienda in Argentina.

Patios de Cafayate is a beautiful Spanish style hacienda, the former home of the Michel Torino family, founders of El Esteco Winery in 1892. Thirty-two bedrooms with private bath surround courtyards and elegant gardens of colonial beauty in what today is a luxury boutique hotel. Located adjacent to downtown Cafayate, a quaint little town in the middle of the primary wine region of Salta, Argentina.

09/06/2016

German shepherd saves his human companion moments before Italian earthquake struck - Pet Rescue Report

Sharing this world with our four legged friends.

In Italy, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake completely destroyed historic towns and cities this week, reducing them to little more than concrete, sand and rubble. It wasn’t long before the 4.1 magnitude aftershock hit, accounting for the loss of 250 lives and more  than 360 injuries in the hardest hit smal...

07/24/2016

Livingfy

Exploring WILD LOVE... Wild Animals need love too!

Never thought one could actually pet an owl!

07/03/2016

Exploring salmon filled rivers in Katmai Alaska through live wilderness cameras, experiencing fisherman and birds try to compete with the bears for the fish.

06/16/2016

NowThis Future

Exploring the creation of an entirely SELF-SUSTAINING community...

This self-sufficient community will grow its own food and create its own renewable energy

06/11/2016

Humpback Whales Exploring the Bay in Unprecedented Numbers

Whales exploring the Pacific Ocean...

For the first time, biologists observe multiple humpback whales swimming into the Bay to feed.

05/14/2016

Exploring how minerals reflect from the earth.

IN THE AIR... I am shooting at 10,000 feet as I fly myself directly over a massive butte in the four-corners region of New Mexico, USA. The spectrum of colors you see are the minerals naturally painting the landscape of the soil in this spectacular area where Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico meet.

03/20/2016

JetBlue offered an entire plane a free trip, but there was a catch

Can everyone come together and agree TO EXPLORE only one destination?

JetBlue recently offered an entire plane of passengers a free round-trip ticket to anywhere in the world. The only catch? The entire plane had to agree on the destination. They gave each passenger …

03/18/2016

BABY OWLS

Momma owl built her nest up high in the crevice of this tree for her little ones to be hatched in a safe protected place. Here she also put a dead rat up for her babies to eat.

03/14/2016

Exploring The Bridge Over Låtefossen Waterfall in Norway

03/14/2016

Exploring

Exploring The Magnificent Sky...

Lavender field under the Milky Way

01/23/2016

Frozen waves captured in Nantucket surf photos | GrindTV.com

Exploring an interesting phenomena of FROZEN WAVES produced from an unusually cold winter along the coast of Massachusetts.

The unusually cold winter of Massachusetts produced an incredible phenomenon 100 miles southeast of Boston on the island of Nantucket: frozen waves.