Cresta Lodge, in the heart of Mount Buffalo National Park, has been destroyed by fire. DSE incident controller Rob Caddell said fire investigators were examining how the fire broke through containment lines and structural firefighters were being sent in to protect the park’s chalet. “We were doing a bit of burning around the lodge yesterday,… Continue reading Goodbye Cresta Lodge
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Fascinating Natural World
This thing is being reported all over, Google Maps and Google Earth are fast becoming a spotters paradise, I have to admit this is the best by far. While The Age reports it as, “This iPod User Rocks“, it is a wonderment of Nature. Of course the fact that he has a road up his… Continue reading Fascinating Natural World
What’s Happening in the White House?
Enjoy your “Democracy”, for his next Executive Order your President will waive your right to vote and make it so that if your name isn’t “Bush” you can not be President. In America they now have the right to hold you indefinitely without charge, to hold you in a secret location without having to notify… Continue reading What’s Happening in the White House?
Big Cats in Big Trouble
TWENTY-ONE lions are dying in a zoo in north India after across-breeding experiment to boost the park’s attractions went wrong. In the 1980s, officials at the Chhatbir Zoo in the northern city of Chandigarh, bred captive Asiatic lions with a pair of African circus animals, resulting in a hybrid species. Within a few years, it… Continue reading Big Cats in Big Trouble
Poor Squirrel
To my friends in the states… watch out boys! Friday August 18, 2006 A family in Cheltenham, England, returned from holiday to find their house had been trashed by a rampaging squirrel. It had tried chewing through window frames, torn curtains and a settee to shreds and knocked over pot plants and ornaments in its… Continue reading Poor Squirrel
Pitt: I can’t marry Angie
Good looking and politically minded, Angelina got a good catch. Pitt: I can’t marry Angie September 9, 2006 – 12:13PM Actor Brad Pitt says he will not marry Angelina Jolie until restrictions on gay marriage are lifted, the star said in an interview released today. Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh in May after… Continue reading Pitt: I can’t marry Angie