Friday, December 24, 2010
Queenstown,New Zealand
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial process, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains.William Gilbert Rees,along with fellow explorer Nicholas Von Tunzelman, were the first Europeans to settle the area. Rees was in search of pastoral land, and after an initial visit returne in 1860 to establish a high country farm in the location of Queenstown's current town centre. However the Rees' farming lifestyle was to be short-lived. In 1862 gold was discoverd in the Arrow River, a short distance from Queenstown.
Ganges River,India
Ganges River, Hindi Ganga, great river of the plains of northern India.Although officially as well as popularly called the ganga in Hindi and in other Indian languages,internationally it is known by its conventional name, the Ganges. from time immemorial it has been the holy river of Hinduism. For most of its course it is wide and sluggish stream , flowing through its importance, its lengh of 1,560 miles is relatively short compared with the other great rivers of Asia or of the world.Rising in the Himalayas and emptying into the Bay of bengal, it drains a quarter of the territory of india, while its basin supports hundreds of millions of people. T he Gangetic Plain, across which it flows, is the heartland of the region known as Hindustan and has been the cradle of successive civilizations from the mauryan empire of Ashoka in the 3rd century bce down to the Mughal Empire, founded in the 16th century.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Humpback Whale Calf (na kohola) Endangered Maui Hawaii
To Hawaiians, the whale is a representation of the Hawaiian god, Kanaloa - the god of animals in the ocean. A large percentage of the North Pacific Humpback whales migrate to the main Hawaiian islands during the winter months, November through May, each year. The round-trip distance they travel during this annual migration is approximately 6,000 miles, one of the longest migration distances of any animal species. During their stay in Hawaii, they do not feed, but rely upon stored energy. Near the islands, the whales devote most of their time to mating and giving birth to their calves. This mother and her calf were in my "backyard" for over 2 hours. The bond that the mother displayed toward it's calf will live in my memory forever.In the first photo below note the size of the mother compared to it's calf.
Maui Dreams - Surfboard Fence_Maui Hawaii
Source:http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmcneal/3488254261/
Friday, April 10, 2009
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