Travels in a Tin Can
the riverbank, but they proved rather uncooperative. Ibis, wood storks, great white heron, and lots of ‘gators lingered long eno ...
balance for the second. While we waited for the tram we sat in on another ranger talk. The topic this time was energy and food c ...
sighting, so after the tour we decided to tell him about our roseate spoonbill in an attempt to redeem ourselves as interesting ...
park, though considering the fact we had pre-booked the note seemed a little harsh. Next, our breakfast croissants were too salt ...
certainly felt in need of a cash injection. We spent the afternoon doing several shorts walks in the park, marvelling at the var ...
aluminium and open topped – as it were – with wooden planks to perch on, quite unlike the kayaks that Emma and I had used before ...
Inevitably the water soon became very shallow and paddling turned into dragging oneself through the wet sand using the paddles l ...
hook-up over spill spot in 'Pine Isle Park' or French Canada (or ‘Canadia’ as Emma was determined to call it) as it turned out t ...
23 - Walk on the wild side During 13 weeks on the road we saw a lot of different animals - and not just road kill either. From a ...
daylight. I am sad to admit it but they lost their appeal as their rarity value decreased. We were a little 'oh yeah, a mule dee ...
Well, I would like to see them time a shot on a moving boat pressed up against dozens of other tourists. Guess you had to be the ...
reaction? It walked closer, presumably having encountered humans before and expecting food, eyeing my hat hungrily. This was ver ...
are common in the area – in fact they are so abundant as to present a problem; second, they are called 'Nutria-Rats'. Lovely! On ...
after landing in short-lived lakes in the valley and then getting caught when the water evaporated. We had heard about them from ...
'animals do not fly, birds do'. Now she can tell the difference between blackbirds, thrushes and starlings, almost every time. I ...
24 - Keys-ze living By the end of January, having spent more than two months off work, we were ready for a holiday! Since mid No ...
prevented her from lowering her arms to her sides and which was described by Emma herself as the ‘jelly baby’ look), further enc ...
tank acclimatizing to the water and trying to calm her breathing as the cold, nerves and excitement were pushing her to the edge ...
preserved for posterity on our digital camera, to be replayed infinitely whenever we need a laugh. By the end of her session Emm ...
Everglades...the previous day. The swim had been booked for months, and dreamed of for longer, so a feeling of anticlimax would ...
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