Alan Duff has angrily rejected police evidence that he swung a policewoman into the road by her handcuffs during a roadside incident, citing one of his best-known characters - Beth Heke from Once Were Warriors - in his defence.
The author has admitted “ranting” at police officers, but took the witness stand yesterday to tell a [...]
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May
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Mar
It was near the end of a six-hour bus tour of Denali National Park that we got a good, long look at a bear eating his way through a field of berries.
Elsewhere in Alaska, my husband, two sons and I had watched whales spouting near Juneau, eagles along the Chilkat River, and waterways in Ketchikan [...]
4
Mar
It was near the end of a six-hour bus tour of Denali National Park that we got a good, long look at a bear eating his way through a field of berries.
Elsewhere in Alaska, my husband, two sons and I had watched whales spouting near Juneau, eagles along the Chilkat River, and waterways in Ketchikan [...]
26
Feb
The fissured limestone cliffs are a deep orange-yellow against a startling blue sky. Millennia of desert winds and scouring sand have blasted them, but still they tower in timeless majesty on either side of the track as the taxi comes to a halt. I clamber out.
As the whine of the engine dies, all is [...]
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Feb
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Feb
Alaska offers many options for viewing wildlife Whales eagles bears and more
Posted by admin Published in TourDENALI NATIONAL PARK, Alaska — It was near the end of a six-hour bus tour of Denali National Park that we got a good, long look at a bear eating his way through a field of berries.
Elsewhere in Alaska, my husband, two sons and I had watched whales spouting near Juneau, eagles along the Chilkat [...]
15
Feb
Eight months pregnant and freezing, 23-year-old Lindsey Black huddled in the back seat of her car and watched a small rock chip on her windshield splinter across the whole window under the weight of several feet of drifting snow.
“That’s when I thought I would [...]
3
Feb
The first chicken appeared out of nowhere, creeping up behind my traveling companion as he stood in front of a Circle K convenience store in downtown Key West.In the middle of the crowded commercial strip, among the T-shirts and tchotchke shops, suddenly there he was, a brilliant green rooster, strutting up the steps as if [...]
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