Kayaker Being Trailed by a Great White Shark!

This photo is rather old (2006) but still interesting to look at and no it is not fake :

This photograph by Thomas P. Peschak is genuine and was taken from a September 2005 Africa Geographic article titled "Shark Detectives," about researchers studying Great White sharks off the coast of South Africa. As the article described the circumstances under which this picture was snapped:

Sitting in a 3.8-metre sea kayak and watching a four-metre great white approach you is a fairly tense experience. Although we had extensively tested the sharks' reactions to an empty kayak and had observed no signs of aggression, this gave us little comfort as we eyed a great white heading straight for us, albeit slowly. Just a metre or so from the craft it veered off, circled and slowly approached from behind. It did this several times, occasionally lifting its head out of the water to get a better look. Then it lost interest, and as it continued on its way we were able to follow a short distance behind. Once we'd come to terms with having nothing between ourselves and a four-metre shark except a thin layer of plastic, our kayak made an ideal research platform for observing great white behaviour in shallow water. Its advantages are twofold: it is inconspicuous and appears not to cause the sharks to alter their behaviour for long, and it allows us to watch them in a natural situation, as it is not necessary to attract them to us with food.

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Platanus Trees

This is Vanak st, usually a crowded one in weekdays but quite peaceful in this lazy Friday afternoon (I took this photo using my mom's camera, a Sony DSC-W150.) ^-^

Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt

This is so sick to see some so-called humans can this easily and relaxingly slaughter hundreds of thousands of defendless cute baby harp seals the most cruel and savage ways just for their fur or skin >:-(

And what a shame that Canada is involved in this crime too.

Here are some of the actions suggested by the Humane Society International that you can take to hopefully stop this commercial savageness :

Sign the pledge to boycott Canadian seafood until the hunt is over. Then ask your friends and family to sign, too. The more you share the pledge, the stronger our message to Canada's commercial fishing industry that its bottom line will suffer as long as seals do.
Ask Clearwater, a major seafood company in the sealing provinces, to use its influence to end the hunt.
Show your love for seals on Facebook. Watch cute seal videos, play games, and share with your friends.

Quote of the Day

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes.

Albert Einstein

Green Grass Sprouts and an Orange Flower

My shots of our Norooz Grass Sprouts and an orange flower whose English name I've forgotten.

Poor Apricot Tree

I took this photo last year of an apricot tree in our complex yard. It was really beautiful and eye catching with all those pink blossoms. But the people planting it seemingly didn't care for its beauty but only its fruit! It didn't bring any fruit at all and so was condemned to have all its branches cut off! This year it's standing there with only one extending-to-the right branch and no blossoms at all and I dare say it's no longer a beautiful tree but a sad one to look at, or at least I feel that way :(

White Cottons in a Blue Background ^_^

Late Winter Blossoms

Believe me or not, I really don't know what type of tree this is as I had planted some different fruit seeds including apple, peach, cherry, plum some years ago and have no faintest idea which on of them had germinated and grown to this little tree blossoming ^.^

And it was so hot in the late winter that all its buds bloomed once! and soon they all fell off and were replaced with new green leaves even before the Spring comes! And then Spring came and so did the cold weather and we suddenly had a snow storm and a dark cloudy sky ever after.

Happy Belated Nowruz!

Wow! It's been quite a looooong time since my last post in here! Gosh, the time really hurries by!

And Happy Belated Norooz (meaning new day and is the Persian New Year starting from the very first day of the Spring) to all you people. Hope you had a great holiday and 13bedar too :))

I'm not sure when my next post would be but I am still alive and this blog isn't orphaned yet!!

From Persia with Love