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Mesa Arch @ Canyonlands National Park
Mesa Arch Mesa Arch Mesa Arch TrailRound trip hike: 30 minutes; 1/2 mile loop (0.8 km)This short relatively easy trail leads to Mesa Arch, one of the most scenic and accessible stone arches in the Island of the Sky District … Continue reading
Monitor & Merrimac Buttes @ Canyonlands
Monitor and Merrimac Buttes Monitor and Merrimac Buttes * Canyonlands National ParkVery prominent landforms within Canyonlands National Park that tower over 600 feet above the Navajo sandstone base. These buttes were named after the civil war ironclad battleships of the … Continue reading
Canyonlands National Park (Moab, Utah)
Canyonlands National Park Canyonlands National Park * http://www.nps.gov/cany/ * Canyonlands National Park * 2282 SW Resource Blvd. * Moab, Utah 84532 * (435) 719-2313 In the heart of Utah near the resort town o Moab lies one of North America’s … Continue reading
Seals
Seals at Bar Beach * Narooma New South Wales, Australia Seals The Common Seal is a semi-aquatic Pinniped (fin-footed marine mammal). Seals have several families, including Odobenidae (walrus), Otariidae (eared seals, sea lions, fur seals), Phocidae (earless seals). The common … Continue reading
Manta Rays
Sting Rays at Bar Beach * Narooma New South Wales, Australia Sting Rays: Manta Rays* Animalia * Chordata * Chondrichthyes * Elasmobranchii *Myliobatiformes * Myliobatidae * Manta * M. birostris * : aka: “Manta Ray, Sting Ray, Devil Fish, Manta” … Continue reading
Vegemite
Vegemite On my first trip to Australia, the subject of “Do you like Vegemite” was one of the first things an Australian asked. On a road trip with a fellow Australian adventurer, I was educated about Vegemite as we passed … Continue reading
Opossum
possum, Lentil as Anything restaurant, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. April 15, 2011. Common Name: Opossum Nicknames: Possum, Oppossum Taphonomy: Animalia; Chordata; Mammalia; Marsupialia; Didelphimorphia; Didelphidae; various species: (Virginia Opossum) “Didelphis virginiana”. Bishop’s Slender Opossum (Marmosops bishopi); Narrow-headed Slender Opossum (Marmosops cracens); … Continue reading
Emu: Dromaius novaehollandiae
Tidbinbilla Nature reserve*Canberra, Australia Capital Territory, Australia * EmuDromaius novaehollandiae One of Australia’s largest native birds, the Emu is the only extant member of the genus Dromaius and is the second largest extant bird in the world by height next … Continue reading
Wombat
WombatCommon Wombat (Vombatus ursinus) Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat or Yaminon (Lasiorhinus krefftii) Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) One of the unique creatures in Australia next to the Kangaroo is the “Wombat”. A wombat, like the Kangaroo, is a marsupial. It is … Continue reading
Cornwall Witchcraft Excavations 2011
Cornwall Witchcraft Excavations 2011, a set on Flickr. Via Flickr: Assisting with the Saveok Water Archaeology Fieldschool for the summer of 2011. Photos from my time there – June 1st through August 16th, 2011. www.archaeologyonline.org