The 18-year-olds were returning empty-handed from a failed fishing expedition when they entered the Hilton Double Tree resort and shot the one-metre fish last Wednesday.
Nannie suffered personally during this "thiefing expedition" when they stole her beloved horse: "They took off a great many negroes and horses, among the latter was my beautiful gallant grey 'Stonewall Jackson.' He was a present from Pa".
A family of three (the mop-topped forest ranger dad, Marshall, his tight-trousered son Lynn and the young Holly, with her blond braids, overbite and excessive spunk) are white-water rafting on "a routine expedition" when they're pulled into a whirlpool -- a vortex into another dimension, one in which Claymation dinosaurs roam the earth.
An expedition was forming when they spotted their teacher shuffling past the door.
The coelostat is particularly useful in eclipse expeditions when elaborate equatorial mounting of telescopes is impossible.
I read The Zoo Quest Expeditions when I was about 16 and I just thought this man is amazing!
It was a wonderful, exciting time, but there were six kids in the family, and I was serving on various committees, and I was still trying to get off on expeditions when I could.
He reads a lot; on expeditions, when the weather goes bad, he said, "you end up tearing paperbacks into chapters and passing them around to be read out of order".
According to Michael Kaye, an American expatriate who helped pioneer ecotourism in Costa Rica in 1978 with his company, Costa Rica Expeditions: "When we started, there were probably 100,000 to 150,000 visitors to Costa Rica.
She'd find herself gamely tramping along on daylong bird-watching expeditions, when she'd rather have kept it to a morning and gone out to lunch, or she'd observe the Sabbath when she would have preferred to watch birds.
