It began with an impulsive flash of inspiration, when in 1991, the first ball was struck onto the floating green on the 14th, and Duane Hagadone's vision was on its way to becoming one of the best-loved icons in golf. The Coeur d'Alene Resort is a luxury resort hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States situated on the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, the Coeur d Alene Resort is well-known for its amazing 18-hole golf course, a piece of which is perched on a movable artificial island is the middle of a lake. Coeur d’Alene’s celebrated 14th hole is situated on a boat and it well moves around Lake Coeur d’Alene, never to stay in one place for more than a day. The surroundings here are hard to beat, with the sights of Lake Coeur d’Alene, the Famous Floating Green and the gorgeous Resort Golf Course grounds. You can arrive by car, boat or Coeur d’Alene Resort shuttle. It is built on a barge on submerged tracks; the green is moved daily by computer. Hitting the turf is tricky since the distance keeps varying. Water taxis transport golfers to and from the hole. The golf course is simply the best, and nothing is spared to deliver the ultimate golfing experience. It is best known America’s most beautiful Resort Golf Course by Golf Digest. If you’re a golfer, then you can reach its meticulously manicured fairways with a ride in a sleek mahogany boat, and that's just for starters. With the attention of your personal forecaddie, the comfort of your luxury custom cart, gorgeous lake views on every hole, and every item expertly attended to, you're in for the golf game of your life.This luxury golf course and floating green is designed by Scott Miller, and the course opened for play in 1991. It has since been ranked between the best resort golf courses in the USA by Golf Digest, Golf Magazine and others. The award-winning round comprises a wooden boat ride from The Coeur d’Alene Resort, over-the-water driving range, personal forecaddie, custom golf cart and plenty of incredible views.
Friday 22 November 2013
Friday 8 November 2013
Amazing: Goats Climbs Argan Tree in Search of Food
This
happened in Morocco, Goats climbed Argan tree in search of food. It's
hard to believe that animals with hooves could be so adept at climbing
but
these images are 100% real. Food is fairly sparse in this region, so
they
have to grab it when they can even if it's high up in a tree! The
secret to their ability to climb lies in the shape of their hooves. The
keratin reinforced hoof
wall adds strength, while the soft textured sole provides traction and
grip. It's also capable of deforming inwards to counter irregularities
in the terrain. Their toes are capable of operating independently giving
them more of a "grip". These hooves evolved to permits the goats to
climb rocky, mountainous areas but they have shifted ecosystems to the
trees! I'd like to add one more interesting fact: Actually the poo (droppings)
of this goats contains grain seeds that locals are used to press and
grind into oil. This oil has many uses including culinary and cosmetic,
and even if maybe this sounds disturbingly for you and you might want to
skip over the versions sold by locals for something more known, i'd
like to inform you that quarter-liter of this product costs from 15 to
50 USD.
Wednesday 30 October 2013
World's Most Scariest Runways
Arriving
at any international air terminal is rarely a memorable occasion. All
the more reason to book a flight touching down at one of these hairy or
awesome air strips.
11. Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten, Caribbean
Vacationers
flock to the Caribbean for a laid-back vacation. But arriving at the
region's airports can have the opposite effect the compact, rugged
nature of many of the islands forces runways to be built in inventive
locations. Maybe everything sense all the more serene after landing. On
St. Maarten, Princess Juliana Airport named after Dutch royalty has
people gnawing their fingernails in the air and on the ground whenever a
plane lands. The runway begins just meters from the edge of the ocean,
with aircraft coming in almost low enough over the beach to spike a
volleyball set. Princess Juliana airport was started as a military
airstrip in 1942, but converted to a civilian airport in 1943. In 1964
the airport was remodeled and relocated, with a new terminal building
and control tower. Airport facilities were upgraded in 1985 and 2001.
The airport is probably best known for very low-altitude flyover landing
approaches due to one end of its runway being extremely close to the
shore and Maho Beach.
10. Courchevel Altiport, France
Not
like Caribbean-bound passengers, skiers and snowboarders touching down
at Courchevel are typically geared up for an adrenaline fix. They would
better be. In winter, the tarmac air strip at the French resort's
altiport, over 2,000 meters above sea level, is often the only thing not
covered in snow. Aircraft fly in through a channel between mountains,
landing on a short, steeply sloping runway, complete with vertical drop
off, that could almost double as a ski jump. The sight is so
spectacular, and it was special featured as a stunt location in the
James Bond movie "Tomorrow Never Dies."
09. Matekane Air Strip, Lesotho
There's
modest chance of extending this runway very far it ends suddenly at the
edge of a 600-meter drop. Only light aircraft make use of the airstrip
on this isolated tabletop plateau in the tiny southern African kingdom.
Planes sometimes fail to ascend at the end of the runway, conjuring
images of a Wile E. Coyote hover and fall before, thankfully, achieving
flying speed and soaring away.
08. Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, Saba, Caribbean
Rivaling
St. Maarten for Caribbean airport excitement, Juancho E. Yrausquin
Airport, on the island of Saba, has one of the world's shortest landing
strips, wedged on a rocky outcrop at the foot of a mountain and with the
finish of the tarmac plunging into the sea; touchdown melodramatic
experience here.
07. Gibraltar International Airport
You
just hope that your pilot has landed at Gibraltar before flying toward
an enormous limestone monolith on a landing approach is never easy on
the nerves, but in the 6.2-square-kilometer British overseas territory
of Gibraltar there's nowhere else to put an airport except in the shadow
of the Rock. In adequate apace on the southern tip of the Iberian
peninsula that the runway bisects the territory's main highway. As
aircraft get priority over automobiles in the vehicular pecking order,
most amazingly the road is closed every time a plane takes off or
arrives.
06. Barra International Airport, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
Where
else in the world can you pick cockles on a runway? Rather than think
about where to build a tarmac airstrip when you are limited of space,
the Outer Hebridean island of Barra took a different approach it didn't
bother with one. Pilots wait until the tide is out and then land on the
beach reportedly the only airport in the world where scheduled flights
touch down on sand. In between flights to and from Glasgow, the public
have open access to the beach-runway.
05. Paro Airport Bhutan’s
Bhutan's
Paro Airport deserves an award for beautiful airport surroundings. If
there were awards for remote airways surrounded by remarkable scenery,
the Himalayas would be filling a shelf. In pride of place might stand
the only international airport in the mountainous kingdom of Bhutan
Descending into a slender, high-altitude bowl amid 6,000-meter peaks,
pilots who have to be particularly trained to land this difficult
airport bank their jets in a sharp right turn before swooping in low
over farm houses?
04. Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan
Landing
on an aircraft carrier seems thrilling, but you usually have to link
the armed services to do it. You may familiarity a good second best at
Japan's Kansai International Airport, where the 2 runways appear to
float on the water way out in Osaka Bay. Actually positioned on a
purpose-built artificial island, to minimize noise pollution for city
residents, the runways are in fact sizeable affairs both over 3 KM long
and connected to the mainland by a four-kilometer bridge. But from the
air, this is the best way to get that "Top Gun" feeling on a commercial
carrier.
03. Harstad Airport/Narvik, Norway
On
the approach to Harstad/Narvik Airport in the region of Evenes, planes
skirt through fjord-land, over frozen lakes and between snow-covered
mountains. Arriving at the settlement of Hammerfest, in the country's
extreme northeast, feels like touching down on an ice rink at certain
times of the year. Atlantic turbulence and a runway extended on stilts
make for a touchy touchdown in Madeira.
02. Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal
Madeira's
international airport seems as if it's been cheating in a tricky-runway
competition. Sandwiched among a steep hillside and the sea, its
radically short tarmac strip is extended on stilts over the water to
make it long enough for a safe touchdown. Throw in incessant Atlantic
turbulence and you have got an arrival striking enough to make the
calmest passenger reach for the fortified wine.
01. Malé Airport, Maldives
Malé
Airport seems a perfect drama, built on its very own atoll, Hulhulé,
the runway is a only six feet feet above sea level. After descending
over the 26-island Maldives archipelago, undercarriages feel so close to
the sea on touchdown it's as if they are skimming along the water.
Monday 28 October 2013
Opal – World's Most Tremendous Gemstone
Opal is known as one of the most beautiful of gemstones, which can
flashes in every color of the spectrum with a intensity that can even
exceed that of diamond. The worthless opal stone ranges from clear
through
white, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, magenta, rose, pink,
slate, olive, brown, and black. Of these hues, the reds against black
are the rarest, while white and greens are the most frequent. A few rare
specimens make dazzling color flashes when turned
in the light. For example, a new Opal was unearthed in the Welo
district of Ethiopia freshly that took the gem world by storm.
Discovered in the Welo Amhara Regional State Highland plateau 2.500 –
3.200 meters above sea level, this novel gemstone looks like
a miniature underwater scene from the ocean when held against the
light. Opals such as the Welo Opal can command prices per carat that
rival the most luxurious diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
Sunday 27 October 2013
Psychotria Elata or Hooker’s Lips: The Most Kissable Plant
Wow, you might be never
seeing this plant in your life, because this is most elegant pair of
red, luscious lips belong to a plant well-known as Psychotria elata, a
tropical tree found in the rain forests of Central
and South American countries like Cost Rica, Colombia, Eucador, and
Panama. Lovingly, Psychotria elata is called Hooker’s Lips or the Hot
Lips Plants. However; this beautiful plant has apparently evolved into
its present shape to be a magnet for pollinators
including hummingbirds and butterflies. According to Oddity Central,
the bracts are only kissable for a short while, before they spread open
to expose the plant’s flowers. So if you wanted to plant this amazing
Mother Nature, find yourself a Hot Lips plant
and do it while you still can, but make sure the bracts are only
kissable for a short time.
United States Company offering Space Travel of 30 km-high balloon flights
Such a mind-blowing idea of space travel, and you don’t have pocket deep
enough, Arizona based space travel company World View Enterprises plans
to offer a trip to the edge of space in a luxurious eight-seat capsule
for $75,000 per ticket. A balloon trip to space and back might be the
somewhat affordable includes three days of training and two and half
hour in space. The capsule will be lifted by a high altitude balloon
that will go up up to about 98,425 feet or almost
20 miles (30 Kilometers) and stay aloft for two hours before returning
back to Earth. That is not as high as Baumgartner's jumping point
128,100 feet or around 39 kilometers last year but much higher than one
can usually reach the average altitude for commercial
flights is about 9 to 10 KM above ground, or 30,000 to 40,000 feet. So
passengers will be in the midst of the few to have seen the curvature of
the Earth with their own eyes, can gaze at the astounding views, the
blackness of space, the brilliance of stars
and the thin veil of atmosphere enveloping our planet. Most interesting
the first flight is planned for 2016. Component testing has already
begun and sub-scale testing will soon be carried out as well. The space
capsule will be build up by Paragon Space Development
Corporation, which is developing technology for Inspiration Mars, a
501-day mission around Mars
World's Smallest Monkey
The pygmy marmoset is a petite monkey
that is native to rainforests of the western Amazon Basin in South
America. About just 100 grams, the pygmy marmoset is well-known to be
the smallest species of monkey in the world. Pygmy marmoset is averages
about 15cm in height with a 20cm long tail behind it. The tiny pygmy
marmoset has sharp claws which make the pygmy marmoset superb at
climbing trees and the long tail of the pygmy marmoset gives this little
monkey unbelievable balance when jumping between tree branches.
The
low weight of the pygmy marmoset permits to get to the canopy tree
tops, a place where a lot of larger species of monkey cannot reach. They
are also having ability to turn their heads 180 degrees, an adaptation
which permits them to scan the environment for predators while
vertically clinging to a tree. Pygmy marmoset lives on on a specialized
diet of tree gum. It gnaws holes in the bark of suitable trees and vines
with its specialized dentition to elicit the production of gum. When
the sap puddles up in the hole, it laps it up with its tongue. It also
lies in wait for insects, particularly butterflies, which are fascinated
to the sap holes. It supplements its diet with berries, nectar and
fruit.
The pygmy marmoset has been
progressively more well-liked as an exotic pet, but they are extremely
hard to keep. Therefore; when a baby pygmy marmoset is taken away from
his family it can commonly die quickly due to depression. Baby pygmy
marmosets also require feeding every two hours for their first two weeks
in the world so they can be very time-consuming pets. Pet pygmy
marmosets can take a grave dislike towards their owners and some have
been known to bite their owners and throw feces at them, as a form of
attack.
Thursday 24 October 2013
Beautiful Sea Creature “Nudibranch”
The bottom-dwelling, jelly-bodied
Nudibranch might look an unlikely canvas for Mother Nature to express
her wildest indulgences of color and form. But these shell-less
mollusks, part of the sea slug family, bear some of the most mesmerizing
shapes, sumptuous hues, and complicated patterns of any animal on
Earth. There are over 3,000 well-known species of Nudibranch, and newest
are being recognized almost daily. They are originate throughout the
world's oceans, but are most plentiful in shallow, tropical waters.
Their scientific name, Nudibranchia, means naked gills, and explains the
feathery gills and horns that most wear on their backs. Usually oblong
in shape, Nudibranchs can be thick or flattened, long or short, ornately
colored or drab to match their surroundings. They can grow as small as
0.25 inches or as large as 12 inches long.
They
are carnivores that slowly ply their range grazing on algae, sponges,
anemones, corals, barnacles, and even other Nudibranchs. To recognize
prey, they have two highly responsive tentacles, Named “rhinophores”,
situated on top of their heads. Nudibranchs get their coloring from the
food they eat, which assist in camouflage, and some even retain the
foul-tasting poisons of their prey and secrete them as a defense against
predators. Nudibranchs are instantaneous hermaphrodites, and can mate
with any other mature member of their species. Their lifespan are varies
generally, with a few living less than a month, and others living up to
one year.
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