Tuesday, May 4, 2010
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. http://www.pikeplacefish.com/
Underneath the "Space Needle"
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair. The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high at its highest point and 138 feet (42 m) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Needle
View from the Space Needle.
Safeco Field.......Home of the Seattle Mariners
Safeco Field is a retractable roof baseball stadium located in Seattle, Washington. The stadium, owned and operated by the Washington-King County Stadium Authority, is the home stadium of the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB) and has a seating capacity of 47,116.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Calgary Stampede!!
The Calgary Stampede, which bills itself as The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth, is a large festival, exhibition, and rodeo held in Calgary, Alberta for 10 days every summer from early to mid-July, attracting more than 1.2 million attendees (averaging 120,000 per day). It is one of Canada's largest annual events, and the world's largest outdoor rodeo. It features an internationally recognized rodeo competition, a midway, stage shows, concerts, agricultural competitions, Chuckwagon races, First Nations exhibitions, and pancake breakfasts around the city, among other attractions.
Athabasca Glacier
The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Ice field, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier currently recedes at a rate of 2-3 meters per year and has receded more than 1.5 km in the past 125 years and lost over half of its volume. The glacier moves down from the ice field at a rate of several centimeters per day. Due to its close proximity to the Ice fields Parkway, between the Alberta towns of Banff and Jasper, and rather easy accessibility, it is the most visited glacier in North America. The leading edge of the glacier is within easy walking distance; however, travel onto the glacier is not recommended unless properly equipped. Hidden crevasses have led to the deaths of unprepared tourists.
One of the crevasses in the glacier
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Columbia Ice field "Ice Explorers" take passengers around the Glacier
http://www.explorerockies.com/columbia-icefield/
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Columbia Ice field "Ice Explorers" take passengers around the Glacier
http://www.explorerockies.com/columbia-icefield/
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