2014-05-26

【Aiden in English】

        Nobody in the 21^st century knows exactly what an 18^th-century town looked like just as an 18^th-century villager couldn't picture what a woolly mammoth would look like. But even the 18^th-century villager knew that woolly mammoths were big just as we know that people back then were somewhat more majestic than our current sense of fashion. All we needed to do was to go on a little scavenger hunt for clues about the past an

2014-05-25

【Aiden in English】

        America is one of the greatest countries of all time, which has civilized cultures and advanced technology in the world. It's hard to believe it started as a small village in the middle of a small forest in the present day of Virginia.

        In the early 17^th century, the people of Jamestown used to be very different from the ones today. Many cared only about making money. Most male villagers went out to find gol

2014-05-24

【Aiden in English】

      Thomas Jefferson had a lot of great accomplishments throughout his lifetime, such as commissioning the Lewis and Clark Expedition after the Louisiana Purchase, writing the Declaration of Independence, and the Statue of Virginia for Religious Freedom, establishing the Univ. of Virginia, serving as an ambassador to France, etc. One of his most grandiose and spectacular, as many visitors would appreciate, was Monticello, or a little mount

2012-05-27

        也许源于家有小儿初长成，我们一向对堡礁地理风貌情有独钟，凡是涉及到生物圈保护区、海洋自然保护区、珊瑚生态保护区，都在我们的严密关注之下。

        曾几何时，全家老少不辞辛苦，从墨西哥“听他们说话”半岛顶端的螺旋岛(Isla Contoy in Yucatán)横扫洪都拉斯海湾群岛省附近号称世界第二大堡礁群──中美洲珊瑚礁，甚至连远在天涯海角世界最绝最长的澳大利亚大堡礁一刻也未从我们旅游雷达上消失。这次恰逢朋友倡议出游美东堤礁──激流岛，我们喜出望外

2012-05-26

        从我们逗留的船锚客栈阳台上向外张望，水边美景湾近在眼前。离开房门，顺着栈桥朝水边方向走去，不出30米/～0.2英哩远，我们立刻置身于蓝天之下碧水之上。

        水边美景湾(Chincoteague Bay)南北长约300公里/186英哩，介于激流国家海滨和马里兰(意指“心爱之地”)州东南和圣洁王后州东部内陆交界地带之间，恰好将水边美景国家野生动物保护区团团围住。

        湾区生态丰富，大片沼泽地里和潮泥坪上长满了网茅