In typical quirky Aussie style, just before Premier Lang officially opened the bridge, a uniformed man on a horse rode up and slashed the ribbon with his cavalry sword. He was promptly arrested.
Exploring The Great Barrier Reef
Sea turtles and reef sharks can be seen as well and we had a curious white-tipped reef shark cruise by to check us out.
Big Spiders In Oz!
The Golden Orb is also known as the “bird eating spider” because the webs are large enough and their hungers big enough to cope with sparrow-sized birds.
Isle Haute
Explorers Club director, Dale Dunlop, narrates a fascinating video which gives us a bird’s eye view of the island and insight into its secrets.
Should People Be Patented?
There are laws going back millennia dealing with the “ownership” of DNA. The concept is called “slavery”.
Dracula’s Home Town: Sauntering Through Sighisoara
Transylvania is full of surprises. Not only does England’s Prince Charles keep an estate there, here, he also proudly boasts of being a direct descendant of Transylvania’s Vlad the Impaler, better known as the real Dracula.
Have a Rollicking Good Time in Brandon, Manitoba?
Let’s face it. Brandon, Manitoba, the second largest city in the province, is not on most people’s vacation radar. It wasn’t on mine until I went to visit a friend who had just take a position at venerable Brandon University, one of the older and finer such institutions in central Canada.
Mrs. Burden and the Dragon
“The creature was less than five yards away, and the subtle reptilian smell was in my nostrils. Too late now to leap from hiding, I closed my eyes and waited…”
Touring A Cursed Island
Oak Island is one of 360 islands that dot Nova Scotia’s Mahone Bay. It is unique in that it is the only one blanketed with oak trees…and it has been linked to everything from the Holy Grail to Captain Kidd to William Shakespeare.
I Have a Rose Garden
“…her words have disappeared, (but) her meaning is still with me…”
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