British Couple Spends £15,000 Converting double-decker bus into Private Retreat

A British business man has spent £15,000 to convert an old double-decker bus into their dream holiday home because he’s is too tall for caravans. The British man Andrew and his wife Lisa Jane Powis bought the Lleyland Atlanteen bus off eBay for just £2,500 and have transformed it into an exclusive camper van with an ample kitchen, wood burner and three beds. Therefore, they’ve created their own holiday home after becoming fed up with cottages refusing them because of their big dogs, and due to the point that caravans offer an uncomfortable stay for 6ft 5in Andrew. They’ve spent 6 weeks in renovating and decorating the Cliff Richard Summer Holiday style bus, and use it for breaks with their three children and two great Danes (Nick name Betsy Blue).

The bus is also being hired out to the public for £105 a person per night; hence they ripped out all of the seats and installed furnishings, including a cooker, oven hob and fridge. There’s a bathroom on the lower level, bedrooms on the top deck, and relaxing hot tub just steps from the bus front door. The 43 years old Andrews says, I’m struggling alone in a caravan, and let alone with three kids and two Great Danes charging about. You know, most of holiday cottages are pretty dog-unfriendly too, and we are always found it really hard to find somewhere that would have us. Then we got an idea to build our own super-size caravan? 

Though we don’t have much experience with this sort of thing, but ultimately we decide to go and make it happen. We worked out there and now my entire family loves it very much. They hoped it was just for us, I think they’re a bit gutted that we keep renting it out. We’re extremely glad that our friends and other visitor are stunned when they see the converted bus. Without any doubt, this was a marvelous experience and feedback has been amazing too.  The exclusive bus is admiring every visitor and loads of space, little things like the hot tub and the log burner make a big impression too.Source: Charismaticplanet.com

Mythical Looking Pink Dolphin is Spotted near Louisiana's Coast

Have you ever seen a Pink Dolphin? Probably you answer will be “NO”. But here, you can see Pinky dolphin is a mythical-looking creature that is nippily capturing the hearts of millions of people around the world. However you are used to see dolphins naturally having a blue or grey tint, Pinky is actually an attractive pink! The marine mammal's rosy glow seems like an incredible impossibility, but she's certainly not the only one. We’d like to bring in your knowledge that, Pink dolphins are most often seen in the Amazon River, where they are either a carnation pink or light grey. Nevertheless, they do have other habitats in freshwater areas, which help account for Pinky's presence close to Louisiana's coast.

Few biologists are also of the opinion that Pinky is coping with a genetic condition that causes her blood veins to be directly underneath her skin. Therefore, if we look into back in 2007, Pinky Dolphin was first spotted by Calcasieu Charter Service's Captain Erik Rue when she was just a baby swimming alongside her mom. Now, more than 8 years later, it seems that Pinky may soon be a mom herself. Once again, Captain Erik Rue was the one to spot her and he said that she would be mating with a male dolphin. Since summer season is coming to an end, this may be the last time that the captain sees his favorite dolphin friend, but who knows? Maybe Pinky will make up for her absence by bringing some loveable baby dolphins with her next time.

Thoughtful Idea Finds the Perfect Way to Repurpose Leftover Crayons

A thoughtful dad “Bryan Ware” was inspired to make the Crayon initiative while watching his two sons color during a birthday dinner. I was really wondered, what happened to these crayons after we leave if we don’t take them with us? Later on, Bryan asked a restaurant employee this same question and was distressed to hear that all the crayons are thrown out after they leave even if they are left untouched. After thinking a lot to change the crayons' wasteful fate, Bryan Ware started to take them home because he was sure he could find a way to give these surplus coloring tools to a kid in need. Therefore, from this simple, yet awfully considerate idea, the Crayon Initiative was born.

This nonprofit organization's objective is to re-cycle old crayons into new life for the children at California-based hospitals. To make his project successful he collects useless crayons from all over, i.e. restaurants, schools, Family and friends. Then, he starts to melts them down and converts into a special mold to form the fresh drawing utensils. Hence, the special mold is the important key because it was developed in collaboration with an occupational therapist to make it at ease for special needs children to hold. Since its conception, this nonprofitmaking has donated over two thousands crayon boxes to children's hospitals. This month, the initiative will perform its very first out-of-state donation to a New York City hospital. In doing so Ware hopes to continue expanding as he helps the hospitalized youth all across the country.  He says, from my viewpoint, the main goal is to give them an escape, and I can’t even fathom what these kids are going through. If these crayons give them an escape from that hospital room for 10 minutes, we’ll thought, we did our job.

70 Men Keep 4,000 Year Old Art of Hunting Foxes and Wolves with Birds of Prey Alive

Tariq Zaidi a photographer has travelled to the isolated Altai Mountains in Gobi Desert, to capture a spectacular set of pictures displaying the 4,000-year-old art of eagle hunting. So far, only 70 Kyrgyz and Kazakh eagle hunters remain in the world. This rare ancient tradition can be traced back more than four millennia in Central Asia, but is start to die out nowadays. Although they’re enough capable of killing young wolves, but eagles hunt mostly foxes and other small animals. In January 2014, he decided to quit a senior corporate job, to follow his vision of becoming one of the world’s most respected fine art travel portrait photographers with the aim of capturing the dignity, purity and soul of people, within their environment. More than 90 of Tariq's pictures have already won numerous major international photography awards.

He travelled the world to photograph some of the most remote areas and their cultures. He expresses his experience, that disbelief and amazement is just two words I would use to define the Kazakh eagle hunters. As far as Kazakhs living in Western Mongolia, hunting with eagles is an honored art and one of the highest expressions of their cultural heritage. I thought, it has been one of most attractive and primal connections between man and animal. For these remaining few, it is not simply an important tradition or an astonishing sport - it is their reason to live. The hard training of eagles starts when they’re just chicks and continues every day for three to four years.  Each eagle can only have one handler their master who can never fully control the bird they can only nurture a bond between man and animal, teaching it how to hunt more efficiently. Although the benefits of eagle hunting have decreased in the ever-modernizing world, the Kazakhs living in Western Mongolia have preserved the tradition, due to their physical isolation. The hunters could, if they desire, hunt with rifles but they opt to use eagles in its place, as it is seen as the highest form of art and dedication. For some, their entire worlds revolve around eagle hunting - riding out in bitter winds and harsh conditions to help ensure the bird captures its prey. In 2010, an area in Western Mongolia where eagle hunting is still prevalent was listed as a UNESCO site of intangible cultural heritage, serving to protect the eagle hunters.

Eagle hunting overwhelms their lives completely and is what makes their hearts beat and eagles having a life expectancy of up to 40 years they basically become a member of the family. If an eagle hunter has died, you’ll still find him hunting in the mountains, and not at the funeral, as nothing keeps an eagle hunter at home. They live together in this life, and, according to the hunter's tradition, after death master and eagle will meet again.  You can find Tariq's other works at his website www.tariqzaidi.com