Interpreting the American Coastline
Interpreting the American Coastline
News-Press - Maybe it was in the stars that Sherry Rohl and Patricia Fay would both end up with artwork in “On the Edge: Artists Interpret the American Coastline.” They’re both water signs. A Pisces, Rohl spent childhood summers along Lake Michigan. Most of her
Celebrating his life in photography
Green River Star - A picture is worth a thousand words and produces just as many memories. The family of Dan Andrews worked through their grief by compiling a tribute to him through his photography. Andrews’ wife Karen gathered five years of travel photography into a
Lost whale is perilously close to Strand
Age - An unlikely visitor has drawn crowds to the Thames, but its future does not look bright. Caroline Davies reports from London. Animal lovers were battling yesterday to save a whale swimming lost and disorientated in the River Thames in central London
underwater sanctuary Layang-Layang
New Straits Times - Terumbu Layang-Layang is one of the few last bastions that offer the experience of a perfectly healthy ecosystem. AMIDST the carnage left behind by the devastating tsunami throughout Southeast Asia that damaged coastal regions and reef systems
Culture Vulture: Utahn’s infectious humor wins caption contest
Salt Lake Tribune - Brandon Griggs For the second time in five weeks, a Utahn has won The New Yorker’s weekly caption contest, which invites the magazine’s 1 million-plus readers to submit their own captions for a blank cartoon. Park City-based journalist T.C. Doyle
FLUKE IN LONDON
San Francisco Gate - London — As urban pursuits go, it had the ring of the strange and the short-lived: whale-watching on the River Thames. Of course, London’s great stream is no stranger to the bizarre and fascinating. There have been bodies hung from bridges, seals
Baths at Virgin Gorda
Think & Ask - When they say fast ferry, they’re not kidding. The traditional ferry makes this trip at about seven knots, around 10 mph, but this twin-hulled ferry is screaming along at 30 mph. While I’d really prefer a ride on our own boat –40-foot Newporter
British divers try to rescue Thames whale
ABC News - LONDON (Reuters) - Divers began on Saturday a critical operation to examine and if possible rescue a Northern Bottle-nosed Whale that has strayed up the River Thames in central London. With thousands of people lining the banks of the river to watch
Lost, hurting - and maybe on river of no return
Scotsman - The plight of the three-metre-long whale has drawn concern from marine experts, who fear it is injured. THE eyes of the nation were on a seven-tonne whale yesterday after it swam up the River Thames past Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament