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Bad attitude earns the big bucks.
Costa Rica 3 413, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
These are the bulls - the most ferocious in Central America. Guanacaste is famous for its bulls and these are the cream of the crop - killers every one of them. Guanacaste is especially well suited to raising cattle as its interior consists [...]
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Witness my wife being pickpocketed - it makes an interesting picture.
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This post had appeared on my other site - thetravelnet - but as it was too much to keep up I will repost it here for its informative value - would be visitors to the Mercado Central in San Jose - [...]
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Clothes ripped off by the bull - a greatly anticipated event - good humor!
Costa Rica 3 415, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
We were returning from a scorching afternoon on the Tempisque river, (I was gathering information for a travel article that is appearing at some time in the New Zealand Herald”. Our driver had a great [...]
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A Spanish lesson.
Costa Rica 3 255, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Up until this day, it had only threatened rain - brief sprinklings from a leaden blanket above - lilac flashes in the dry and dusty hills around Tamarindo but today it was different - the sky leaked water as though its belly had been slit - [...]
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Cloudburst in Tamarindo
Costa Rica 3 252, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
When it rains in Costa Rica - it really rains. At the beginning of the rainy season in Tamarindo the town quicky transforms from dry and dusty to wet and sloppy. After the first three rains the parched forest thereabouts begins oozing life from beneath the [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, articles, backpacking, bizzare, books, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, strange places, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on August 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dirty woman!
IMG_6954, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
From left to right - Marc (SQS), Greg (TCG) and Corneilie (SQS) all crouched around an area of flowstone on the floor. This is in the cave that we visited last weekend - a place of great natural beauty along the northern reaches of Ontario’s dolostone rim. Dolostone is not [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, articles, backpacking, bizzare, books, caves in Ontario, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on August 4, 2007 | No Comments »
We observe from a distance a fantasy land of stalactites, sodastraws and columns.
IMG_6957, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Beneath these stone draperies a tunnel leads from the bottom of the bone pit off into the “No Go Zone”, an area of incredible and delicate formations - the like of which are unknown to exist elsewhere in Ontario. [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, articles, backpacking, bizzare, books, caves in Ontario, caving, creepy places, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, mystery, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on August 4, 2007 | No Comments »
From Pre-historic times to present the urine of a thousand generations of bears has soaked the tunnel floors - or so it seemed.
IMG_7008, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Hidden beneath a cedar bush this tunnel entrance leads to some sizeable - stoop walking tunnel.
The passage is been broken open at this point and it runs on behind [...]
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