August 22 2009 William writes:
Please suggest sites that have drastically expanded your boundaries of understanding.
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August 16 2009 William writes:
Grizzly Man - This film reveals much about the nature of man and bears.
March of the Penguins - Animals acting as an organizm with only enough time and energy to survive.
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May 16 2009 William writes:
A short urban adventure led us through a tributary of Ballona Creek. This is one of the many storm drains in the area.
Ballona Creek is the waterway that drains the Ballona Watershed. In the 1930s it was straighted, carved, lined with rocks from Catalina Island, and cemented by the Army Corps of Engineering to prevent flooding damage to the bordering cities (ballonacreek.org). Now there is a pleasant county maintained bike path running along side of the creek that crosses my daily bike to work.
One day after work 2 coworkers and I explored a tributary storm drain of Ballona Creek. We used bikes to stay above the 3″ deep water and had small headlamps to keep us away from the black widow invested walls. The graffiti on the walls led us to believe that we were not the first people to venture through the catacombs of Culver City. Below is a map of our approximate path.
View Ballona Creek Tributary in a larger map
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