Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Dream Places

Everyone has their dream places that they want to visit. Most people like to go to the Caribbean cuz they are in to the beaches and stuff, but not me. The places i want to go to are for photographic reasons. Google images is my best friend when it comes to places i want to go..

These are my dream places.. in order of importance.!!

Tasmania - A protected environment, raw landscapes, unseen places.

Pictures of Tasmania:




Iceland - Extremely different mountains, volcanoes, everything about the place is amazing.

Pictures of Iceland:






Iceland is sooo amazing!

Ireland/Scotland - Grass covered cliffs, cliffs in general, perfect looking villages, castles, the giants causeway!

Pictures of Ireland:



Pictures of Scotland:





Norway - The best mountains in to lakes ive ever seen!!!

Pictures of Norway:





Suck a beautiful place!!!



Madeira- an island off the cost of Portugal - red volcanic rock!

Pictures of Madeira:






I think thats it for now!!


Next.. is France, Canada and Antarctica!!!!!



<3 daniiiiiiii

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Free Willy.. aka Keiko

So.. i was listening to music on my foobar and Michael Jackson - Will You Be There came on. It reminded me of free willy the movie. So i imdb-ed it just to read stuff about the movie i may not have known before... cuz i loved free willy!!
But i came across this little tidbit of information that made me very sad...



Biography for
Keiko

Date of Birth
1976, Iceland

Date of Death
12 December 2003, Taknes Bay, Norway (pneumonia)

Mini Biography

Keiko, a Genus Orca whale, was born in 1976 and captured off the coast of Iceland in 1979. He was sold to the marine park industry, and lived a normal life for a captive whale until 1993. In that year, he was cast as "Willy" in the movie "Free Willy," capturing the hearts of millions of children and adults worldwide. Afterwards, he was virtually forgotten until he was found living in horrible condition in a Mexican aquarium. An international pledge was started, and enough money was raised to have him sent to the Oregon Coast Aquarium; before being airlifted back to Iceland in 1998 to prepare him for a return to the wild.

He was trained to survive in the wild and released in July of 2002, but he longed for human contact. He swam 870 miles; eventually ending up in Helsa, Norway in September of 2002, where local residents played with him often; so much so that animal protection authorities banned anyone from approaching him. He was looked after by whale keepers for the last year of life, suddenly coming down with pneumonia on December 10, 2003. He died a day later.


I feel sooo bad for Keiko. He just wanted to be around people.. but they kept people away from him. I bet his feelings were hurt..

I'm gonna watch Free Willy 1,2 and 3 this week just cuz i can. i have the dvds.

<3 daniiiiiiiiii

Saturday, February 14, 2009