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Enormous T. rex has enormous hissy-fit at Oak Bay Marina
Discriminatory food service was the apparent cause of a thunderous ruckus near the Oak Bay Marina on Saturday morning, when an enormous Tyrannosaurus rex threw an enormous temper-tantrum – all because of three plump seals and some frozen fish from the Marina gift shop . … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, cycling, dinosaurs, garmin, gps, gps art, Oak Bay Marina, strava, strava art, T. rex, Tyrannosaurus rex, victoria bc
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Anglerfish blamed for Monday a.m. absences at YYJ high school
To explain a spike in unexcused absences among its student population this morning, administrators at Victoria’s Oak Bay High School are pointing fingers at a giant Strava art anglerfish seen lurking near the school grounds. “It’s that fleshy growth at the … Continue reading
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Tagged anglerfish, animals, creativity, cycling, Fernwood, fish, garmin, gps, gps art, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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Foraging stegosaurus tramples Victoria neighbourhood
Just two days after a huge Tyrannosaurus rex terrorized Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park, a massive stegosaurus wandered into the city and made an almighty mess of the Fernwood neighbourhood while foraging for leafy greens. Bearded hipsters dove for cover and scrambled to … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, cycling, dinosaurs, Fernwood, garmin, gps, gps art, stegosaurus, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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T. rex terrorizes Beacon Hill Park
They say Tyrannosaurus rex – “king of the tyrant lizards” – roamed throughout what is now western North America from around 67 million to 65 million years ago, when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event wiped out the land-dwelling dinosaurs. Well, “they” … Continue reading
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Tagged Beacon Hill Park, creativity, cycling, dinosaurs, garmin, gps, gps art, strava, strava art, T. rex, Tyrannosaurus rex, victoria bc
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Kangaroo with a flair for irony
If you’ve seen my doodles on Strava.com, you’ll know that many appear upside down – my Strava giraffe, mermaid, armadillo and sea serpent, for example. (Here on my blog, I’ve flipped them over for ease of viewing.) The reason is simple. As a … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Australia, creativity, cycling, garmin, gps, gps art, kangaroo, marsupial, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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How does the Easter Bunny stay healthy?
He gets oodles of ‘eggs-ercise’ as he hops to and fro delivering Easter treats. So does Victoria’s Stravadoodler as he pedals to and fro doodling giant bunnies and Easter greetings. It took 75+ kilometres of cycling to Strava-sketch this Easter message and the … Continue reading
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Tagged bike-writing, creativity, cycling, Easter, Easter bunny, Easter egg, garmin, gps, gps art, holidays, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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Sea serpent sighted in Victoria waters
The Okanagan Valley has Ogopogo. Québec’s Lake Memphremagog has Memphre. And Scotland has Nessie – the Monster of Loch Ness. Not to be outdone, Crescent Lake (Newfoundland) has ‘Cressie’. Lake Tahoe (California) has ‘Tahoe Tessie’. Lake Erie (Ohio) has ‘South Bay Bessie’. … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycling, creativity, cycling, garmin, gps, gps art, Haro Strait, mythical creature, sea serpent, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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Fine dining in James Bay
Perched on Victoria’s southwest corner due north across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Port Angeles, WA, James Bay is North America’s oldest West Coast neighbourhood north of San Francisco. And by the look of things, it has an ant problem! … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, bicycling, creativity, cycling, garmin, giant anteater, gps, gps art, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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If at first you don’t succeed…
…try, try again. Though I wasn’t all that thrilled to go out and retrace many of the same roads that made up yesterday’s “almost” armadillo, I was eager and determined to right yesterday’s wrongs. Also it was Friday afternoon, and this provided the perfect … Continue reading
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Tagged armadillo, bicycling, creativity, cycling, garmin, gps, gps art, nine-banded armadillo, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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A well-fed rat from the Roaring Twenties
As every artist knows, there’s often a gap between vision and output – between what you conceive and what you actually create. Sometimes, that gap is chasmic. My daughter asked me to Strava-doodle an armadillo. (She actually requested an arma-dee-yo, since she’s really … Continue reading
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Tagged armadillo, artistic vision, bicycling, creativity, cycling, garmin, gps, gps art, strava, strava art, victoria bc
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Sketchbook of a GPS Artist 