Posted in Adventures, Costa Rica, Family Stuff, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Travel, animals, backpacking, bizzare, books, central America, cute, eco tourism in Costa Rica, environment, exploration, geography, hiking, holiday in Costa Rica, howler monkeys, my life, nature, photos, picture of, strange places, wierd, wildlife in Costa Rica on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Real cute little guy - Costa Rica
Costa Rica 3 185, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
A mother and baby howler monkey in what we came to refer to as “the monkey tree”.
One really hot day when Maggie only wanted to relax on the beach I ventured further inland up a dusty road. I reached this tree that [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Scuba Diving, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, adventure in Ontario, animals, bats, bizzare, books, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, creepy places, diving, diving in ontario, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Ontario cave with a scary past.
IMG_4403, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
The picture is a little blurry but I thought that I would post it today in memory of a time not so long ago when I was able to go outside without my nose almost freezing solid.
This is Donald of the SQS - a Quebec caving [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Tamarindo, Travel, animals, backpacking, bizzare, books, central America, crazy things, eco tourism in Costa Rica, environment, exploration, geography, holiday in Costa Rica, my life, nature, people, people in Costa Rica, photos, picture of, science, strange places, tours in Costa Rica, visiting Costa Rica, wierd on January 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Costa Rica 3 068, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Maggie fans herself with a pamphlet in the heat. We are in the Tamarindo estuary with Meeener as our guide. From the main channel we weave in deeper through the mangrove roots. There are plenty of alligators, sting rays and birds of every variety. We eventually reached a [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Costa Rica, Costa Rican bull fight, Education, Guanacaste, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Tamarindo, Travel, animals, backpacking, bizzare, bull fighter, bull fighting, central America, crazy things, environment, extreme sports, geography, hiking, holiday in Costa Rica, my life, nature, photos, picture of, sports, strange places, vicious bulls, visiting Costa Rica, wierd on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
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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Posted in Costa Rica, Costa Rican bull fight, Education, Guanacaste, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Tamarindo, Travel, animals, articles, backpacking, bizzare, bull fighter, bull fighting, central America, crazy things, culture, eco tourism in Costa Rica, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, hiking, holiday in Costa Rica, humor, nature, people, people in Costa Rica, photos, picture of, sports, strange places, vicious bulls, visiting Costa Rica, wierd, wildlife in Costa Rica on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
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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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Family Stuff, My Book, Personal, Photography, abandoned, abandoned mines, adventure in Ontario, animals, bizzare, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, creepy places, cryptozoology, culture, cute, environment, geography, geology, haunted places, humor, industrial archeology, my life, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rockhounding, rockwatching, urban exploration, wierd on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
His blue eye and white claw lead me to that conclusion.
IMG_6301, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
There we go - “Bad Old Chester”. Chester - the new “Rockhound”.
Sadly Shaka passed away in October. He had a tumor on his spleen - virtually unsaveable as the ensuing operation revealed. You may remember him from the post “Cave Police” (July 2006) and [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Hamilton, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, animals, backpacking, bizzare, books, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, fossils, geography, geology, hiking, my life, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on July 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Fossilized creatures of the Devonian Age still lie along the ancient Lake erie shoreline.
100_1896, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Anyway … To continue with the narrative about our “Caving off the radar”…
The Devonian Age rock (360 -408m yrs in age) first cuts the surface in Ontario as far east as Brantford. This is but a short drive [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, animals, bigfoot, bizzare, books, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crazy things, creepy places, cryptozoology, culture, environment, exploration, geography, geology, haunted places, hiking, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, mystery, nature, occult, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sasquatch, silver, silver mines, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd on July 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Locals call him “old yellow mane”.
IMG_1821, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Though Doug Shier tells me that all roads in the area lead back to Cobalt, I am warned by an older gent in the Silver Load Hotel’s restaurant to be careful out there if I am exploring the ore piles. It was a little cryptic; you might [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Interesting, Las Vegas, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Photography, Travel, animals, bizzare, environment, exploration, geography, geology, my life, nature, photos, sandstone, strange places, wierd on June 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Looking for Lizards in the Valley of Fire - Sounds psychadelic - something Jim Morrison might come up with.
old pics 143, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Maggie and I won a free trip to Las Vegas some time ago. We rented a car and drove up the side of Lake Mead into the valley of fire.
Amongst the [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Canada, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, adventure in Ontario, animals, bizzare, books, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crystals, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, nature, ontario, photos, rock collecting, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching on May 31, 2007 | No Comments »
IMG_1272, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
The Sarnac Zircon mine was undoubtably one of my stranger “rockhounding experiences in the Bancroft area. The approach was through the bear-ravaged Monmouth County Dump. Tripping down a stinking wave of torn blue garbage bags we wandered along what could only be describesd as a “bear’s highway”, all scat-strewn and gouged [...]
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