Camper’s nice try
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- Camper’s nice try
- Hunt is on to beat drought
- Angler’s ten-year odyssey pays off with a tuna ‘grand slam’
Camper’s nice try
The Australian – Jun 23, 2007
According to professor Richard Kingsford of the University of NSW’s school of biological earth and environment sciences Australasian bitterns would be among the chief beneficiaries. These shy birds with "a talent for camouflage and a loud booming call" are thought to have been the origin of the Aboriginal legend of the bunyip. Donations to Tasmanian Land Conservancy P Box 2112 Lower Sandy Bay 7005. * * *IT’S not all that usual for five-star hotels to get behind worthy causes but Langham Hotel Melbourne is donating a portion of the tariff for its new Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed package to the livia Newton-John Cancer Centre Appeal. The deal from $330 for two until December 30 has a host of inclusions including breakfast parking late checkout and three toy bears all of whom would sleep much better in a Langham Blissful Bed than the furry creatures of Goldilocks fame. ne guest a package has a chance to win a Langham signature bed including all bedding valued at $4900. Quick someone alert the Ettingshausen girls.
Hunt is on to beat drought
NEWS.com.au – Jun 23, 2007
"It is considered prudent to evaluate the feasibility of such options and to assess their comparative costs and benefits including delivery timeframe risk-adjusted costs and reliability" he said. Mr Beattie said the Queensland Water Commission would look at the possibility of harvesting and treating water then transporting it to the southeast and doing the same with raw water. Ships the size of oil tankers could be used to bring fresh water across the Tasman from New Zealand from Tasmania or northern Queensland. He said the Tugun plant being built and due to be completed by late 2009 could be enlarged by one-third. "Everyone has got a great idea and we are going to take a look at them.
Angler’s ten-year odyssey pays off with a tuna ‘grand slam’
Times nline – Jun 23, 2007
The Royal Tuna Slam was one of angling’s last outstanding achievements andthe pursuit of it took Zyg Gregorek from his home near Holsworthy toPakistan Mauritius Florida the Galápagos Islands Ascension Island andMassachusetts. Mr Gregorek 44 took nearly a decade to catch all eight species – thelongtail dogtooth skipjack blackfin yellowfin bigeye northern bluefinand southern bluefin. He completed the slam on April 5 after catching an 187lb (85 kg) southernbluefin off the coast of Tasmania but it has taken until now for theInternational Game Fish Association to ratify his record. html”–>fficials in the United States have confirmed that he is the first man tocatch all eight species since records began in the 1950s and have inductedhim into their Hall of Fame. Mr Gregorek said that he had started on the slam purely by chance. “In the early days I was mostly fishing for marlin but caught the tuna as Iwas doing so.
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