While on my US West Coast Adventure I got some cool news! Since I started blogging a few years ago I kept seeing many of my favourite travel bloggers nominated for this award and I always thought wouldn’t that be awesome, but never did I actually conceive of myself being nominated. Then a strange…
From what began as a road trip through 4 states, exploring 4 big cities and visiting 4 new zoos and describing those zoos, their history and their amazing animals through a small, unknown blog Lady of the Zoos, I began to help me compile my work on a book I hoped to writer about Zoos Around the…
For those of you who don’t read my travel blog – The World As I See It, you might not know but today Lady of the Zoos leaves for my biggest zoo adventure to date! I leave today and am flying into San Diego and it’s from there that I’ll start my US West Coast Zoo…
For the past few years I’ve loved the concept and message behind Earth Hour and have participated every year. Strangely enough this year the day and time of Earth Hour – Saturday, March 29 8:30 – 9:30pm – I’ll be in the air flying to San Diego for my big US West Coast Trip, but…
Down through the ages people have passed along their fears, phobias and misconceptions concerning animals. Most fears and phobias stem from a sense of the unknown; a fear of what you don’t know or understand. In turn, misconceptions are drawn. And so I’ve chosen from the plethora of animal myths that I’ve faced over the years…
Across the globe there is a wide assortment of environments. From the searing heat of Africa’s desert to the numbing cold of Antarctica’s wide open expanse. Within these extreme environments, as well as relatively calm ones, there are certain species that have evolved extreme adaptations to eke out an existence there. EXTREME Dads Probably the…
Queue the Jaws theme song, add heart pounding excitement and a splash of awe and that’s what you’ll find in the depths of the Dangerous Lagoon at Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada. The Dangerous Lagoon is the largest exhibit with almost 2.5 million liters, a football field length of glass viewing tunnel and a moving sidewalk…
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