Albert Einstein once said... "look deep into Nature and you will
find the answer to everything!" I have spent a lifetime doing
just that.  The exploration and experiences have been magical,
frightening, revealing, and dramatic to me.  I have learned over
a million things about people, nature, our planet and the
resources we so often take for granted in our day to day lives.
 Stories develop.  Fascinating stories told by the animals and
habitat they live in.  It took me years to understand what was
being said.  It took even longer to translate it into words and
images that made sense to people I would talk to.  It is at that
point that I became an interpretive marine research naturalist.
You never stop learning.  It is almost an instinctual thing.
 Fascination leads to discovery which results in new found
knowledge.  Sometimes that knowledge is handed to you, sometimes
it takes personal fortitude to gather it.  I have been blessed
with both situations.   My time at the University of Idaho back
in the 1980s w