With isolation from connected continents over millennia, the region’s animals and plants adapted uniquely to their geography and climate and thus evolved distinctly differently from those on other continents. The Silver Fern is not only New Zealand’s national...
The Walleighs’ experience north of Sydney with their “local” friends was different from other parts of their trip. What they saw near their friends’ home in Terrigal were glorious beaches, surf, rocky coastline, and some additional unique animals in...
Sydney and the central eastern coast of Australia were the only places Rick and Wendy visited. Unfortunately they had no time to visit “the Outback” nor the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, which recently had been badly flooded by weeks of rain and then...
JANUARY 1 – 29, 2011 . On Mon., Feb.21, 2011 a shallow quake of 6.3 (in Sept. 2010 there was a 7.1) occurred right under downtown Christchurch, collapsing buildings, killing—as of Feb. 24–nearly 100 and trapping up to 200 in many buildings’ rubble. 7 weeks ago...
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