So they actually have not just regular gators (and not from Gainsville), but special ones– an albino gator. And if that’s not enough to put you off your lunch, there are poison dart frogs, that look beautiful but are deadly…. Were that not enough… jaws shows up. Here are the teeth from a great white, or is it Jonah’s whale? Read more
There are of course many other sorts of fish at the Aquarium…. And yes there are predator sharks who eat them as well….. Yes they have a hammer head, and then this guy above smiling for the camera. There are also rays or skates… This guy could have come out of my creek in my backyard, but not the guys below. It takes a lot of maintenance to keep these tanks clean… and healthy for the fish. They’ve even made... Read more
Ah Nemo. Well he’s not hard to find in this aquarium, in fact he and his cousins are all there. And there are plenty of other colorful fish to see as well, in these well constructed artificial reefs… And there’s a fish that wins the best Halloween costume award… see if you can remember the name of this one…. The idea that all this variety and colors of fish could just happen by an impersonal abstract process called natural... Read more
Way out beyond Carolina and Kurie Beaches is a road to nowhere, well the end of this part of N.C. where Fort Fisher once was. What’s there now is a very nice aquarium which has been getting continual upgrades over the years. So, though we visited this many years ago, it bore another look, especially since, our relatives thought it was spiffy to have their wedding there, but that’s a story for another day. The Museum is not large, and... Read more
If you are old enough to remember a novel called The Firm, which lets you millenials out, since it showed up in 1991, only the second lawyer thriller by John Grisham (a Time to Kill) being the first, then this provides a long over due sequel. But it stands on its own well too, as the continuing saga of Mitch and Abby McDeere, from good ole Kentucky. Grisham must have some kind of record for having more than 20 novels... Read more
Lindsey Davis is now the most prolific of all the novelists who focus is on ancient Rome, and that is saying something, considering we are also talking about Colleen McCullough, Stephen Saylor, and Robert Harris to mention a few. There are now an even dozen novels about the sleuth Flavia Albia, adopted daughter of Falco, and counting. I did not much care for the first of the novels in the series as it portrayed Flavia anachronistically as some sort of... Read more
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On our first day in Paris we went for a walking tour in the Luxembourg Garden and adjacent streets, with the plan to end up where Yuliya teaches, namely the Sorbonne. This is an enormous garden/park, and Parisians spend a good deal of time in these places– doing exercise, playing soccer, reading a novel, eating lunch etc. Here’s the fountain.. At the other end of the park there is what once was a palace. There is even a triumphal arch... Read more
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