Jeff Shea

This website illuminates my life and adventures. My longing for freedom has led me to over 2600 of the world’s 3978 provinces, to every country on earth and to the summit of the highest peak on each continent (thank heaven for good weather!). In my travels, I learned to respect the intelligence and ingenuity of people of all races and callings both past and present. Come see the world as I see it: as a peaceful place, full of nature and beauty. With the right spirit and intent, we can make our world a virtual Garden of Eden.

DISTINCTIONS: BBC 2017 Travel Pioneer • Journal Articles • Explorer’s Club Flag Expeditions
World Parks Project • Walk Across South America • Jeff Shea Travel Map

Vietnam, ThanhHoa Prov, Street Vendor Bike - The vendors in Asia load up their bicycles and motorcycles with a plethora of goods.
Argentina, Jujuy Prov, Hobbled Ground Salinas Grande
Papua New Guinea, Jeff Shea Crossing Stream To Kutubu, 1983 - Here, I cross a stream on the way to Lake Kutubu. These types of stream crossings were common.
Easter Island, Buried Moai at Rano Raraku, 1997 - Most photographs one sees of Easter Island's Moai (stone scuptures) show a standing row of them. What was more incredible to me was Rano Raraku. In thiis Easter Island site, there are many Moai which have yet to be unearthed. What makes them amazing is that some, based on the size of the head sticking above the ground, are believed to be far taller than those which are standing. This photograph shows some of the heads sticking above the ground.
Vietnam, Son La Prov, Six Legged Albino Cow(!), 2008 - This is just an optical illusion, one cow behind the other. But they are indeed both albino.
England, Slough Prov, Smart Car
Slovenia, Hrpelje-Kozina Prov, Insect On Flower Closeup2
Turkey, Mardin Prov, Man At Morning Tea
Slovenia, Kranj Prov, Downtown
St. Kitts, Bobby Daley, 2000 - While circling the beautiful island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean, we met an old Rastafarian. I wrote, "Continuing on to the north, we attempted to get close to the mountain on a track. There we met Bobby Daley, a chattery old Rasta with white and blonde dreadlocks. The was one of the most amiable people I ever met. We shook hands, and I felt his warmth. He didn't want me to take a photo, because he said he couldn't see it. But I said he could see it in my video, so I shot a digital video."