tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post4906520053054496667..comments2023-11-02T01:55:28.254-07:00Comments on A Canuck Amuck: The SHIN AwardsGlennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766968264733510251noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post-15142992988772426592008-05-19T07:36:00.000-07:002008-05-19T07:36:00.000-07:00Hey, Victor,Nigeria does have some of the safari f...Hey, Victor,<BR/><BR/>Nigeria does have some of the safari favourites, but they are in very limited numbers and most can only be found in the wildlife reserves. I've yet to see any of the animals usually associated with Africa and probably won't, unless I make my way to one of the wildlife parks. Domesticated animals have taken over the range from their untamed cousins, but somehow, the excitement of seeing a cow just isn't the same. If it had been set in Nigeria, I'm sure Disney's biggest hit would have been called "The Goat King".Glennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17766968264733510251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8573382596442861899.post-67508666557552745492008-05-18T17:10:00.000-07:002008-05-18T17:10:00.000-07:00Greetings from Vancouver as I bounce my way across...Greetings from Vancouver as I bounce my way across Canada. Last week it was Old Chelsea, Gatineau, Quebec, just as the black flies were beginning to appear on the scene. This week it was a flight from frost in Toronto [yep, frost] to sunshine in Winnipeg to steamy heat in Vancouver [30 plus to be followed tomorrow by rain of course]. As I read your SHIN awards [liking the dead man heavier than the broken heart reference], and looked at your wonderful pictures of the water falls, I asked myself whether you had seen any wild life in Africa other than scorpions and lizards and roaches. We all have this impression, fantasy, wish to see lions, giraffes, hippos, rhinos, elephants, cheetahs, wilderbeests and so on...but you nary mention one of them....are there none around? or are you simply in a part of Africa where these types of creatures are so well hidden as to not exist? In my apartment in downtown Shanghai, which is located in a Chinese section of town [one would say that's obvious, but it really refers to a section where there are no expats -- I'm the local interest to the locals]....the roaches are so big and bold that they can move furniture....and I strongly think they re-arrange my living room on those hot humid breathless nights. One thing I noticed in Chinese apartments is that people do not use area rugs too often...the floor is left bare, which we Westerners find a bit barren...but I learned quickly that you don't want a pattern on the floor where the roaches can easily be mistaken for something woven into the rug... you want to see the not-so-little suckers as they scuttle under the refrigerator after giving you the middle finger as a parting gesture.....so tell me about lions and such....victorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com