About the Author
John
Geary is a freelancer
writer, photographer, editor and communicator. His professional background in
journalism includes several years as both a freelance and salaried broadcaster,
a weekly newspaper editor and daily newspaper sports editor/features writer. In
1999, he turned his talents to writing about his first love, the outdoors and
all the adventures one can experience in them. His stories and photos about
nature, conservation, the outdoors and travel have been published in Canoe &
Kayak Magazine, Canoe Journal, Paddler, Wildlife Conservation, Family Camping,
Airlines Magazine, Ski Canada's Outdoor
Guide, Nature Canada, Mountain Life, Calgary Magazine, Where Calgary, Our
Alberta, Synchronicity, Odyssey, the Wildlands Advocate, Coast, Business in
Calgary, Calgary Outdoors, Voice of the Friends and Calgary Psittascene. Two of
his stories appeared in the 2003 book, More of Canada's Best Canoe Routes.
His travels have taken
him horseback riding in the Alberta Rockies, the Zimbabwe bushveldt and the
Central American savanah; hot-air ballooning in the Serengeti; spelunking in
Belize; sea kayaking in the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific; canoeing in five
Canadian provinces; rafting in B.C. and Africa; kayaking and whitewater rafting
in South America. and hiking through rainforests
in Central and South America and Central Africa.
For more information
about his professional skills, visit The Bear
Lair , a site detailing his journalism.
You can also view
another of his other websites:
The background image
on this page is copyright John Geary. The author photos are property of Ann
Kidston.
