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Revenge of the Water Buffalo
Nail biting drama doesn’t come any better than this folks. Lions ambush buffalo family…Lions catch baby buffalo…Lions begin to eat baby buffalo…Crocodiles steal baby buffalo from lions…Lions steal back baby buffalo from crocodiles…Baby buffalo’s extended family seek revenge on lions…Lions get pwned…Baby buffalo is rescued… Baby buffalo lives happily ever after. Don’t believe me?
Giant devil fish, rays and panic attacks
Ever since I was a kid I have been fascinated by rays… PaislyeJade has been terrified by them. She remembers an obviously doctored photo in an old local surf shop of an areal view of a dingy dwarfed by the shadow of a giant manta swimming beneath it. The imagery that fuels nightmares. In our [...]
The Mair Park Bigfoot pays off
Many moons ago while surfing Amazon’s Listmanias I came across an author by the name of Jeremy Robinson. To cut a long story short, he was running a viral video contest to promote his new book, Pulse. I bribed my good buddy Lesmondj into spending a Saturday afternoon in the bush and what eventuated was [...]
Narnia and Me
Our Whippet puppy, Narnia, is 7 months old. Although I love her to bits, sometimes I really do wonder if it’s worth it. Let me give you a run down on the finer points of life with a Whippet… 1. Narnia was created by God to bring embarrassment to an otherwise happy life. 2. Narnia [...]
B1509: The Hand Of God
The ‘Hand of God’ taken by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Satellite. A 13 mile wide pulsar known as PSR B1509-58 (B1509) is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. B1509 makes one full rotation every 1/7 of a second. Think about that for a second. An immensely heavy star neutron star, [...]
Google is the Antichrist
Now that I have your attention… We have a sign on our church building that says ‘Jesus is the answer’, but I wonder if we unconsciously believe that ‘Google is the answer’? I must confess, that if I want to find out anything about anything… where do I go first? Google. In fact, anything I [...]
Mair Park Ghost Footage
About this time last year, I wrote of the time when my parents had a close encounter with the urban legend known as ‘The Mair Park Ghost. The original post created quite a stir, and you can read the subsequent shenanigans here: The Mair Park Ghost Haunted houses, ghosts and demons Ghost mystery solved… or [...]
Revenge of the Weta!
New Zealand Giant Weta A year ago I confessed to blogosphere that I was scared of spiders. Over the space of three months, I willed myself to tolerate them, and now actually like them in a warped kind of way. You can read my journey from considering spiders eight legged freaks, to eight legged furry [...]
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