Month: June 2017

When it was inscribed as a UNESCO WHC, the petition stated, in part, “Henderson Island, which lies in the eastern South Pacific, is one of the few atolls in the world whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence.” And the beaches looked like this:

Well, that was in 1988. Today, the island’s beaches look like this:

Compliments of it’s location on edge of the South Pacific Gyre and the vast amounts of trash that are accumulated and concentrated by the gyre, Henderson Island is now considered by some scientists as the most densely polluted place on earth. A study published in April of this year found almost 38 Million pieces of plastic rubbish on the island’s beaches, with an up to nearly 300 additional pieces washing up each day.

Those who found the site before the hint (no cute quips today — it’s just not funny):

• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Luís Filipe Miguel
• Garfield
• donaaronio
• hhgygy
• Jeather
• Phil Ower
• mehmet durmus
• Glenmorren

And after the hint:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Robin
• Tim

It’s supposed to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site, not a landfill.

I once drove across Wyoming east to west. We came into the state from Colorado and picked up I-80 in Cheyenne. From Cheyenne, Little America is 293 miles (472KM). Shortly after leaving the Cheyenne city limits, I saw my first Little America billboard. There was no indication of how far away it was, only that they had “50¢ Cones”. About 2-3 miles later, there was another one that said “Stay Tonight”

3 hours later, we started to get actual distances on the billboards.

4 hours after the first billboard, about 60 miles from the Wyoming / Nevada UTAH (thanks David K. for catching the error) border, and a couple of hundred billboards later, we arrived at “Little America”.

This is a gas station/hotel complex that grew over time. They have a restaurant (with the 50¢ cones). Upon entering the restaurant, you are greeted by a stuffed penguin in a glass case (Captain LeStadt’s Penguin, to be specific). The restaurant has a pretty decent pecan pie (I grew up eating pecan pie, so I know pecan pie … it was good, though not great).

We got gas and moved on.

Those who found this place included:

• Glenmorren
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Ashwini Agrawal
• Phil Ower
• Jeather
• David Kozina

and after the hint:

• mehmet durmus
• hhgygy
• Robin
• donaaronio