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The Halifax Explosion
Today is the 89th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, which, up until the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima, was the biggest man made explosion in history. In fact the Halifax Explosion was studied by some of those architects of the Nuclear Age at Los Alamos. Probably the chief lesson they took from it was to make…
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part three.
Link to part one. After he left I continued to try and get some background information on Michael J. and not knowing where else to look I again called the Sheriff in Incline Village. “Am I ever glad you called back.” He said. “I never wrote down your number. That warrant is for $20,000.00 for…
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Peace on Earth
I’m sitting here watching the light grow in the south, and although the sun won’t show today, or indeed for another couple of months, the light is incredibly beautiful. The horizon is shaded in pinks and yellows, and a light blue which gradually deepens to an incredible indigo to the north. The hills and ocean…
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December’s First Friday
Here is my entry for this month’s First Friday, over at Wild Bird On the Fly. First Friday is a fiction writing contest. You should consider a submission, the rules are pretty simple. Simply write a short piece of fiction 500 words or less with a birding theme. The birds can not be anthropomorphized. THE…
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I and the Bird #37
I and the Bird #37 is up over at Five Wells. Do stop in and browse through this collection of the best bird blogging in the blogosphere. Oh, and it’s my brother Larry’s birthday today. Feel free to wish him a Happy Birthday (turnaround is fair play).
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A Thought on “The Plane”
This past week Jennifer of Nunablog posted some thoughts on "The Plane". An excellent post on what most of us think about the arrival of the plane. It reminded me about a conversation I had shortly after I got here. I was talking to a person from Arctic Bay, and I was all excited because…
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Birdman Blog – new to the sidebar
Thanks to that new father, Charlie Moores, I’ve added a new blog to my sidebar. Birdman, the blog of James Wolstencroft, a birder/tour leader from Tanzania. Check out this description of an emergence of flying ants from his latest post Mes Amis – Amurs. "The plain is blanketed by a low-flying mist of ants emerging…
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part two.
Link to Part one. I headed back to the office and, as we now knew where he was staying, Mark and Kevin headed to the Friendship Centre to get the numbers from the BC plate on the boat. I’d already run him on the computer and nothing had come up, so I needed to look…
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part one.
La Ronge in April is a great spot. Spring is giving strong hints that it is coming, the promise of summer is in the air. It is not, however, a great time for boating. I was on days off when I first saw it. A new white Ford Bronco pulling a 22 foot Lund Tyee…
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What’s up with Arctic Gulls?
Every once in awhile I got a whole bunch of hits from a single search term. Now I’m not talking about hits on Purple Saxifrage which I get on a daily basis… from all over the world. I still have no idea why so many people are searching for it, but I digress. Today it…
