Posted in Caves on May 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
IMG_3202, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
In this photo I am inside the crevice at the bottom of the Hell Hole. I have in my hand a sizeable slab that I have managed to pry from the floor. The wall seems to be dipping away to the right of the photo and I have exposed a cavity [...]
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IMG_3200, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Back to our Saturday dig at the Hell Holes. We are a short drive north of Lake Ontario having followed highway 41 from Napanee.
Our descent into the largest known Hell Hole was filled with expectation. We trod carefully down an iron ladder the light fading with our progression. I suppose the first [...]
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Posted in Travel on May 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
P0000278, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here is my wife Maggie, peering around a huge bunch of bananas in the Garden of the Melia Caliari, the hotel that we stayed at while visiting San Jose.
Costa Rica is known for it's bananas and pineapples. I had sat next to a fruit company executive on the way back to [...]
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P0000122, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
We had been drawn down a side street from somewhere far less beautiful. San Jose fluctuates between colonial splendor and downright shabby poverty. The metal rollers still shutter the doors along the alley. As though from a walled channel we emerged into a park somewhere near the “Museo de Jade. Beneath [...]
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