It’s been some months since I had the opportunity to venture to the Galapagos Islands, but I’m still sifting through all the shots I took of this spectacular and unique place. One of the more special aspects for visitors is openly swimming with the four shark species there—whale shark, hammerhead shark, Galapagos shark and [...]
Endemism in the Galapagos has brought the world some pretty cool creatures. Iguanas that can shrink their bone size when food’s scare. A tropical penguin. And a blue-eyed bird with scrappy, unusable wings. The flightless cormorant (Phalacrocorax harrisi), a Vulnerable species, is greatly isolated compared to most other birds, having only two [...]
A mobile-application taxicab service that has drawn scrutiny elsewhere in Florida for allegedly not following the law – even leading to the impounding of drivers’ cars – is considering a Gainesville expansion. [...]
A Love’s truck stop and convenience store is set to replace the closed Cracker Boys’ Country Café on U.S. 301 in Hawthorne. [...]
Whoa, is that dog not on a leash? That’s what I said at first during my recent trip to Germany, but I got used to it pretty quick. Actually, most German dogs don’t require leashes and just follow their owners about the town. They’ll also wait on you outside the grocery [...]
— Berlin, Germany’s capital city and the second largest in the European Union by population with 3.5 million inhabitants, has visibly lifted itself out of the darkness of the past century. Restoration projects have repaired or rebuilt much of what Allied bombing raids and the Battle of Berlin wrecked. But in [...]