Even Elephants Like To Swim.

Above is a great photo by Steve Bloom of an elephant swimming in the Andaman Islands.
I love swimming. When I lived in Hawaii full time I would swim before I went to work and then
again at lunch. Unfortunately it's a tad but chilly in the waters off of San Francisco and I'm not
a fan of chlorinated water so I don't get to swim as much as I used to.
In case you thought the photo above was photoshopped here is a video for your
viewing pleasure.
You've got to love swimming elephants.
Hat tip to Bits and Pieces. See more at the Daily Mail.
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UFO Crashes In Forest!
Hey Joe

Have you seen my goldfish?
Tags: odd, take me to your leader, skin diver, fishbowl
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Friday Fishwrap.
Swimming to Nowhere.
(Via Craig.)
A Briton who ran across six continents is planning to try to swim 25,000 miles across all the world's oceans and seas, in an odyssey lasting up to six years. Read more about Aquaman at the Beeb.
I wonder, do you think he will look like a prune after his swim?
Would you go to see poop at a museum?
(Via Yahoo News)
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have yet to show their baby daughter off in public, but eager fans were given an unusual preview with the chance to see a bronze cast depicting her first solid stool........
"A bronzed cast of baby's first poop can be a meaningful memento for the family," gallery director David Kesting said, adding that he hoped the work would attract bids of up to 25 or 30,000 dollars. Read more about the bronzed dodo at Yahoo.
I'll I can say is, YIKES!
There be sharks in that thar sea.
(Via SurferMag Message Board)
A surfer who survived a shark attack off the Oregon coast, in Florence, Ore., said it was an event that "every surfer dreads."
Tom Larson, now recovering from eight puncture wounds, said he was riding the waves with friends on Tuesday when he spotted a fin in the water.
The shark clamped down on Larson's foot and pulled him under, but Larson grabbed his surf board and fought back, beating the shark with his board until it released his foot. "It felt like a vice, or a bear trap, even, right on my foot, and he started shaking it, and I knew it was a shark by then, so I started screaming shark as loud as I could because my friends were in the water, and I wanted them to get out," Larson recalled. "And it didn't really hurt, there was just pressure, and I mean the fear and the adrenaline was amazing because you see that fin -- I didn't see his face, but I saw that fin -- so I knew what was happening, and every surfer dreads that."
Hey Bobby! (inside joke)
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Relax.Hallucination Video
Try this out, and experience natural hallucination. Stare at the center, keep your eyes still & look away when instructed. Don't worry, this isn't one of those lame "something pops up & scares you" videos.
WARNING: USE AT OWN RISK. Heart patients should not use this video.
Tags: hallucination, illusion, video
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Houseboats
This floating estate was spotted on Long Island Sound last summer.

Richie Sowa's Spiral Island.
Richie Sowa is a British carpenter who dreamed of living on his own private island. So he spent 4 years building one out of 250,000 plastic bottles. Spiral Island, which measures 66ft by 54ft, weighs 60 tons and has three sandy beaches. The mangrove-covered paradise is anchored off the coast of Mexico near Cancun.

Forbes Kiddoo's Island aka Forbes' Island.
Forbes Kiddoo built this originally as his floating home. He had it anchored in Richardson Bay. However the residents of the newly built Strawberry Point homes objected to it since it marred their veiw of San Francisco. If you have been in the Bay Area long enough you will remember that Richardson Bay was once filled with 2 large barges and several derilict boats that the "Sea" people lived on. These were all demolished by the Army Corps of Engineers due to the complaints from the "Strawberry" folks.
Forbes moved his island up to the delta and then to San Francisco where he turned it into a restaurant.
It's not a bad place for food, plus you can watch fish swim by the underwater portholes. The restaurant is located at Pier 39 in San Francisco. If your lucky Forbes will greet you at the dock and take you out to the island on his launch.
Inspired by Live Sail Die and Strange Watercraft.
Tags: Forbes Island, Houseboat, Houseboats, Unusual homes, Richie Sowa, Spiral Island
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Sailor Tries To Sell New Zealand On eBay

A group of typical Aussie sailors.
Mischievous devils.....Yaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggggghhhhhhh...
Over the years southern hemisphere tricksters have offered the Sydney Harbour Bridge for sale, now it seems that an Australian sailor’s bid to sell New Zealand has come unstuck.
Advertising on eBay Australia, with a starting price of just one cent, online interest was keen for for the nation of four million, with a similar number of sheep and a few reasonable sailors, and the price rose quickly to $A3,000 with a total of 22 bids before eBay stopped the real estate auction this week.
Sorry, we are not for sale today. Come back next week with a better offer and a bottle of tequila. The maybe, just maybe we'll talk.
'Clearly New Zealand is not for sale,' eBay Australia spokesman Daniel Feiler told the New Zealand Press Association, adding that 22 bids had been made before the company acted.
'There are the occasional quirky items put up,' he added. 'We have a look at them and if they are OK we leave them. But if it is something that can't be sold, we take them off.'

Kiwis started heading for the hills when they thought that their country was about to be sold to the Outback Steakhouse Restaurant Group. A spokesman for the Outback said, "It's only a rumor. However we are interested in expanding our menu to include lamb and mutton dishes."
The Australian eBay seller, who has not been identified, gave away his sailing background and perhaps a little bitterness that Australia is no longer in the forefront in the America's Cup when when he advertised NZ as having the ‘dodgiest America's Cup win ever ... and very ordinary weather’.
Did the bidders' smell a rat, as they bid for the Land of the Long White Cloud?
Well as one one eBay regular commented, 'The freight terms were Pick Up Only, so not so. If they had quoted an airfreight cost, that would have been indicated it was definitely a sham.'
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