Shark Bay "A Marine Wonderland"

Advantages: View of Monkey Mia Beach
Disadvantages: Quite expensive for travel

...Shark Bay is a large, shallow inlet located at the westernmost point in Australia, some 650 kilometres north of the city of Perth. In 1629, Dutch explorer Francois Pelsaert branded this desert area ?a bare and cursed country, devoid of green or grass?. Later visitors recorded their impressions with such names as Hopeless Reach, Useless Inlet and Disappointment Loop. Today, though, over 120,000 people flock to Shark Bay annually. So remarkable are the attractions of this remote region that it was placed on the World Heritage List in 1991. ***Meadow Bursting With Life*** Pelsaert would have found his grass meadows if he had looked under the water, for Shark Bay contains the largest and most diverse sea-grass meadows in the world, over 4,000 square kilometres in all. The Wooramel Seagrass Bank alone stretches 130 kilometres along...

quan 12.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Shark Bay, Perth

BADGE TAKES ON THE VEGAS SHARKS.......

Advantages: Sharks inside a hotel, wide range of species, interesting layout, petting pool and guided tours, very few queues
Disadvantages: Entry prices and actual size

...I've been to Las Vegas twice over the past year and many people will be aware that each hotel resort has its own attraction. The Aladdin has an indoor rainstorm, the Luxor its IMAX cinema and the MGM Grand has real lions on the casino floor (behind glass I might add). The Mandalay Bay, located at the top of the famous strip has an indoor aquarium that boasts the only Hammerhead Shark in the United States of America and after seeing a number of leaflets advertising the 2 million gallons of water and 1200 species of aquatic life I knew I had to pay a visit. Shark Reef is located on the ground floor of the Mandalay Bay and is only accessible via the casino floor. Open from 10 a.m. until 11p.m. the entrance is a considerable distance from the main doors so ensure that you have your comfortable walking shoes on. I like the people we...

Badger_Boy 27.02.2006 (17.07.2006) · Read review
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Review of The Shark Reef at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas

Sharks?? - What Sharks

Advantages: Scuba diving sch, Clean, comfortable, private beach & friendly service
Disadvantages: Steep beach steps

...Hilton hotel in sharm El Sheik in Egypt Sharks Bay My Boyfriend and I booked this hotel when my boyfriend was on his RnR (Rest and Recuperation) from Iraq and we wanted to have something lovely to look forward to when he had finished his tour off duty. A holiday where it would be just the two of us and lots of sunshine. His tour finished in the early November and we were told that Egypt had a lovely climate/weather that time of year - great we thought lets book this hotel, we book in the middle of July. As my boyfriend was saving a lot of money being out there he decide to treat me and pay for our holiday: we booked a 10 night All-inclusive package with COSMOS online. This cost us £1600 that works out at approx £800 each. Which we thought was a great price compared to the Caribbean and it is after all the Hilton hotel franchise...

HotBlonde 17.05.2007 (15.05.2007) · Read review
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Review of Hilton Sharks Bay; Sharm El Sheik, Egypt

Sharks On The Strip

Advantages: The only Hammerhead Shark in the US. Lots of facts about various Fish and Crocodiles
Disadvantages: Prices are quite high, pretty similar to Sealife centre

...When it finally sank in that I was going to Vegas for Christmas I started to research the city and find places I?d like to visit. One of the first to catch my eye was the Shark Reef at the Mandalay Bay hotel at the top of The Strip. I?m fascinated by sharks and thought this would be worth seeing, especially having read on a website that they had a full size Great White. It did seem to be slightly unlikely but after all this is Vegas and nothing would have surprised me. So on the Monday morning we set out along The Strip with the Shark Reef as our destination and the cocktail bar as a sidetrack. It was about the middle of the day we actually reached the Shark Reef and the queues weren?t too bad. We waited for about 2 or 3 minutes to actually buy our tickets and then a little while longer to be handed our information wand and have...

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Review of The Shark Reef at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas

My Bay

Advantages: tasty addition to stews and cassorole
Disadvantages: maybe to strong for your taste

...Bay is an everygreen herb which grows like a shrub, it can be grown in open spaces or in tubs. The flowers of the bay are yellow and it will flower in may. The best way to get a bay plant is to buy one from a garden centre for around 99p depending on the size. I also like to get my herbs from bootsales where you can pick them up from 25p so saves money. When your bay plant is well established in the pot re-plant it outside. It likes to be in a sunny but shaded place in the garden. They may die off in the winter but should throw new shoots during the following spring. Bay is a native to the east mediterranean but have been grown in europe for years. They are a very popular herb to grow in your herb garden as they have a good use in cookery. You can use the leaves dried or fresh. Bay leaves have a very strong aromatic...

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Review of Bay

Nature at Bay

Advantages: Accessible, attractive, atmospheric
Disadvantages: Covers too small an area

...As you walk west towards the sunset along the beach at Le Crotoy, the rattle of shingle soon gives way to the soft crunch of seashells in the sand beneath your feet. Before long you are away from the town and the only other sound to be heard is from out in the estuary, a mixed chorus of gulls, geese and sandpipers. They rise and fall in flurries amid the creeks in the grey-green mud. Dusk descends, and a red navigation light flashes out to sea. When you turn to retrace your footsteps, a trail of luminescent dots discloses the habitations on the far side of the bay of the Somme. * Why go, and how? * Even the most enthusiastic advocates (like me) of overnight shopping/eating/drinking trips to France have to admit that the area around Calais and Boulogne does sometimes become a bit overrun with English visitors (like me...

torr 10.03.2007 (23.09.2008) · Read review
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Review of Bay of the Somme

Shark Tale

Advantages: good sunday family fun
Disadvantages: none really????

...Zellweger) he manages to get the money together and is on the verge of paying his debt when he is tempted by darker forces to double his money, gathering the attentions of a gorgeous fish named Lola, a Lion fish, (voiced by Angelina Jolie)?. But things go slightly wrong and his life becomes somewhat more dangerous. Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, there lives a criminal gang of sharks who run the sea like gangsters.. There only problem being that Lenny, (voiced by Jack Black) doesn't want to follow in his families footsteps by becoming a blood thirsty killer. When the head of the sharks family, Don Lino, (voiced by Robert DeNiro) sends Lenny out with the intention that he learns to become a killer by his brother Frankie, (voiced by Michael Imperiol) an unforeseen situation leaves Frankie dead and Lenny missing. The only person to...

blissman70 03.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Shark Tale (Animated) (DVD)

The Lost Shark

Advantages: Missing presumd dead, a legend found at last
Disadvantages: Technically illegal

...There are some movies that seem like mythology; to some degree you must resign yourself to never seeing them, because in order to do so would mean a quest or at least the breaking of several laws. The Last Shark or L' Ultimo Squalo to use its correct title is very much one of those movies, you'll probably never get to see it, and after a five year quest I finally got to see it, but it was a tough search. Why is The Last Shark so difficult to see? Because if followed on the tail of and was pretty much a rip off of another shark movie known as Jaws. Spielberg and Paramount quickly saw the resemblances and the movie was prosecuted, prosecuted to such an extent it was deleted. The Last Shark vanished off the face of the earth in 1982, and it stayed missing for 20 years. In the meantime the company that released the movie in the US went...

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Review of The Last Shark

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY

Advantages: Beautifully preserved and evocative
Disadvantages: STEEP

...I've always wondered why Robin Hood's Bay was in North Yorkshire and not in Nottinghamshire. One explanation might be that Nottinghamshire, being landlocked, is not over-endowed with bays. Another is the sheer logistics of moving it from one county to another. Robin Hood's Bay is around 5 miles south of Whitby, and some 15 miles north of Scarborough on the North Sea coast of North Yorks. I've researched a little, and I can find no explanation of why this place has such an interesting name - it doesn't matter anyway. There are records dating back from 1536, apparently, of a small settlement of around 50 houses and 20 fishing boats but nothing about its namesake. Besides, the locals prefer to call it Bay Town. There may be some tenuous connection to the 'Prince of Thieves' though. Fishing has always been the mainstay of this...

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Review of Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire

Shark Attack! (Fooled You!)

Advantages: Teaches children not to lie
Disadvantages: none

...Over the next few weeks I am going review some of my sons favourite books, my mum bought my son this book from a book club in school where she works she paid £8.99 but you can buy it on Amazon for £5.99 with free delivery. The Little Fish who cried SHARK! This is a hardback book with pop up pages, on the front of the cover is a picture of a orange and yellow fish who is called Sprat. You can also see lots of small fish with coral. Sprat is a naughty little fish and likes to play tricks on the other sea animals by shouting "Boo!" to scare them. One day Sprat decides to play a joke on the other creatures by shouting "SHARK!" he creeps up on crab and gives a big yell, poor crab quickly hides in his shell and of course there is no shark. Besides crab we get to meet clam, octopus, eels, and lots of fish in the story...

lazytowner 21.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Little Fish Who Cried Shark! - Trish Phillips