Sunday, June 7, 2015

Stop 1


So stop one is leading me to 2 areas, 1 has a bit of controversy about it and the second looks interesting.  
From First Stop I’m heading North West about 1.5 hours to one of the locations identified as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  For those of you not familiar with it, it’s what it sounds like.  This link takes you to the Wiki page  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch  
Now where the controversy comes in is the fact that since it’s not always locatable, because it moves and because it’s never been found by satellite that it’s not as big as thought.  No matter if it is real or not, we as a society should be working to save Earth and the creatures on it.  So please cut those soda can plastic holders up, dispose of your trash correctly and above all recycle first.

Back to First Stop and back toward the nearest landmass, Guadalupe Island. 
For those of my followers that are fans of Shark week, I’m sure Guadalupe Island is known to you.  It has been a seal sanctuary since 1975, drawing the sharks.  The weather year round has a median temp of around 65 degrees F and has attracted many groups to study the biosphere reserve that the Mexican Government has set up.  But really unless you are a scientist studying seal or shark habits or just a lover of either this area really is stark. 

And the next stop is…Lake Eyre in South Australia. 

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Traveling Virutally step 1

So recently I've wanted to get out and travel but my bank book says "Nope!".  So while watching a BBC special Explore Borneo, I realized that I could turn a boring evening, day, weeks, months and years virtually traveling the world. 

This is a twofold plus.  Not that expensive (just my power bill and my internet bill that I have anyway) and I'm learning something, not just sitting here clicking mindlessly on the next page or puzzle. 

That being typed.  My goal is to share with my followers my virtual worldwide traveling via here on the Eclectic Dame.  I'm going to use Google Earth to randomly pick my first location, kinda in a the way kids did with spinning the globe and where our finger landed we had to figure out where that was. 

so the first stop is...the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  Ok so maybe I should spin again...or not.  I'll keep you updated on where I end up going and if anyone has a suggestion, please let me know, I'd love to 'visit' your corner of the Earth.



Check back in a few days and I'll share what I learn about the First Stop.