I’ve always found “Lion Safaris” in Canada a little odd. Not because I don’t love giraffes, zebras and big cats, (after all, who doesn’t?), but more because of the incongruity of seeing these African animals out of their natural habitat. I keep thinking that people from other countries would probably love to come here and see our own wildlife if they had the chance to go on a Canadian Safari….
Four years ago, I saw a photograph in a Toronto newspaper, looked at Henk and said, “We are GOING to Montreal to see this! The photo was of “The Green Man”, a giant, living sculpture installed at the Montreal Botanical Gardens that was unlike anything I’d ever seen….
It seemed like a bit of a misnomer…going to visit what is essentially a zoo called “Wild Florida”. But after learning that this central Florida attraction is actually a sanctuary for rescue animals, abandoned exotic pets, and even misguided...
It rises like a natural watchtower hundreds of feet above the surrounding hills and lakes, a giant granite monolith with a vertical crevice splitting it down the middle, seemingly held together with a 659-step ‘zipper’ that zig-zags up the crack.This is El...
