Frozen Planet!

[artdemole]

Got round to watching the HD sky box recording.It Is Brilliant and keeping the recording to watch again.

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by JeffH

And I had exactly the same thought too Pauline

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers, Barn Owls and Avocets)

According to someone on another forum when Bison are in a panic they just put their heads down + run for it + woe betide anything that gets in the way. I don't believe it had intended to mow down the youngster, but certainly it helped save its own bacon as a consequence!

[tom00_uk]

Originally Posted by Billabong Karen

Oh, that's too bad... Are you going to let us see the image of the sea cucumber???

its not a very exciting image, just a purple blob

[Billabong Karen]

Originally Posted by tom00_uk

its not a very exciting image, just a purple blob

Oh, go on. We like purple blobs.

[nikolai_avenger]

Episode 1 of Frozen Planet was superb, spectacular, stupendous. Loving the camera work and very much looking forward to the rest.

[tom00_uk]

Originally Posted by Billabong Karen

Oh, go on. We like purple blobs.

ill have a hunt on my flickr profile and see if I still have an online copy to reuse

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by nikolai_avenger

Episode 1 of Frozen Planet was superb, spectacular, stupendous. Loving the camera work and very much looking forward to the rest.

I agree the camera work is amazing I would love a calender of the stills they could make a fortune from them..
The whales were a bit close for comfort though I got the impression they were eyeing up their prey...being the cameramen..
I loved the end too letting you know how they got the shots.

I was in NY last week we went for a meal in China Town they had very odd things on the menu one was sea cucumber..
I had a chicken dish..

[Jim Ford]

Another excellent episode this evening (2nd Nov.)

Scott was briefly mentioned in the part where a team was camped in the Antarctic on Cape Crozier, and 'The Worst Journey in the World' was also mentioned. This is an account by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Scott's expedition, which he was on.

The account is well worth reading and can be downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg, here:

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Project Gutenberg

The trials of Scott's expedition in the Antarctic are well known, but the sea journey by the 'Terra Nova' to the continent is a hair raising epic in itself, and Cherry-Garrard's description is worth reading for this alone!

Jim

[JeffH]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

According to someone on another forum when Bison are in a panic they just put their heads down + run for it + woe betide anything that gets in the way. I don't believe it had intended to mow down the youngster, but certainly it helped save its own bacon as a consequence!

Thanks for the clarification aeshna5

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers, Barn Owls and Avocets)

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

Another excellent episode this evening (2nd Nov.)

Scott was briefly mentioned in the part where a team was camped in the Antarctic on Cape Crozier, and 'The Worst Journey in the World' was also mentioned. This is an account by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Scott's expedition, which he was on.

The account is well worth reading and can be downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg, here:

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Project Gutenberg

The trials of Scott's expedition in the Antarctic are well known, but the sea journey by the 'Terra Nova' to the continent is a hair raising epic in itself, and Cherry-Garrard's description is worth reading for this alone!

Jim

I concur, Jim, it is a marvellous book, Cherry-Garrard found Scott and his companions and describes that very movingly.

On the BBC news web-site at the moment there is an article about 5 things that Scott found on his expedition, number one is the Emperor Penguins eggs that were the object of the trip described in the book. It implies that the eggs and what they showed were the basis of much of our modern understanding of the evolution of birds. Very sadly, if you read the book, Cherry-Garrard describes taking the eggs to the museum who they were destined for and finding no-one wanted them or knew why he had brought them, and some years later when he enquired, he found they had been put aside and disregarded. In his later life he did become quite a bitter man, but his book is quite light, considering the privations the party underwent. The title is not an exaggeration.