This morning I took a Western-style beach ride on Jekyll Island. One of Georgia's Golden Isles, Jekyll has a lot of history and natural beauty. I rode out to Driftwood Beach on Pretty Boy, a Paint horse who seemed to have gotten into the pace of island life. I would classify the riding on J...

I just got back from riding with Stacia Hendricks, a naturalist on Sea Island, who took me out for a nature ride on the beaches and into the varied ecosystems of Sea Island. I rode Charlie, a very large Belgian Draft horse. At almost 18 hands high, I would certainly be getting a bird's eye vie...

For our first adventure on the Big Island, we headed from the airport in Hilo to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Lots of people venture here to see hot molten lava flowing. We did too, but that lava flows here are unpredictable, so that wasn’t in the cards for us. We did explore the park any...

Something that makes the rides at Kahua Ranch different is that if you are an experienced rider, you can ride fast. We’d do a bit of that meeting up with Maile of Na’alapa Stables. Na’alapa Stables, who runs a ride that we will take in Waipi’o Valley, also runs rides here a...

So I still have this song in my head from tonight’s luau and festive musical extravaganza, the Gathering of the Kings on the grounds of The Fairmont Orchid. This is quite a production, complete with dancers, torch jugglers, people on stilts and all sorts of acrobatics. It tells the story of ...

Parker Ranch is an institution on the Big Island. Karoll of Cowboys of Hawaii took us out to ride a PART of the ranch. Touted at one time as the largest privately owned ranch in the United States, Parker Ranch is huge. The distances here can be deceiving too. Out in the distance, I spotted a ci...

I just got back from my first day of horse camp at Meadowbrook Stables. It was a lot of fun! I'm in horse camp for adults, mind you. It's a week long after work thing. We start each night with an educational session-- a lecture-- and then have a group riding lesson. Tonight Diane introd...

Day four of horse camp at Meadowbrook Stables began with riding. Dirk was great, and I'm feeling more and more confident on our jumping courses. It was really hot, so I gave Dirk a bath after riding and walked him to some grass, before he had a session with Full Circle Equine Service, an North...

It was my final night of horse camp at Meadowbrook Stables. Sad... I rode wonderful Dirk for our group lesson, where we did some flat work, worked on getting five strides between two jumps, which Dirk had no problem doing, and then were able to design our own jumping course. Dirk can do flying lea...

Another adventurous session of adult summer horse camp at Meadowbrook Stables. Today the equine dentist came to visit and gave a really interesting lecture/demonstration. If you think that it's weird to have a horse dentist, think again. Unlike our human teeth a horse's teeth are continuo...