South Africa

If you just didn't get enough Great White Shark high-flying action during Discovery Channel's recently concluded "Shark Week," you're in luck. This video was taken last month off the coast of South Africa (which, by the way, has taken the number one spot on my list of places to NEVER GO SWIMMING, narrowly topping the entire continent of Australia)...

Talk about a horrifying live television moment. From Fox News: Australian Mick Fanning was competing Sunday in the finals of South Africa’s J-Bay Open when a familiar-looking fin popped up behind him. “I was just sitting there, I was just about to start moving and then I felt something grab…get stuck in my leg rope,” the 34-year-old Fanning told FoxSports...

I guess this week has been a sort of warm-up act for "Shark Week." Yesterday, I posted the video of two paddleboarders who encountered several great white sharks while off the coast of California (ICYM, click here), and of course, there have been several shark attacks off the coast of North Carolina this week, bringing their summer shark attack total to 7 people...

Maybe our focus on "hero dog" stories is too narrow. It would appear we need to expand our focus to include "hero elephants," especially after seeing the video below. To set the scene, at Kruger National Park in South Africa, a baby elephant, walking down a road, appears to become weakened and disoriented...

It shouldn't come as any surprise, especially to anyone who has done even a modest bit of travelling...tourists can be really stupid (also rude, but that's a post for another day). Just in the last few weeks we've gotten stories about folks who've chipped off pieces of ancient sites for a souvenir, others who've attempted to carve their initials into the Roman Colliseum, and, of course, tourists w