| Tipplers serves last beers (The Courier Mail) IT was last drinks at the historic South Stradbroke Island resort Tipplers yesterday, and there were plenty of tears flowing into beers. us.rd.yahoo.com |
'The lake is back' (Chicago Sun-Times) LAKE DELTON, Wis. -- On a wall inside the office of Lake Delton Watersports is tacked a newspaper from June 2008. The headline hollers: "A CATASTROPHE.'' The Madison paper wasn't peddling hyperbole. Indeed, the fickle ways of Mother Nature and man's efforts to control her collided here in a bizarre event last summer. Heavy rains -- a deluge of up to 18 inches in two days -- first forced ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Meet Lake Hindmarsh, back from the dead (The Age) The sign on the road into Jeparit describes the town as 'where the river meets the lake'. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Getting Away (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news) Songkran, the popular and much anticipated Thai New Year Festival, is coming, so hopefully you have your water-pistols ready for battle. us.rd.yahoo.com |
North Wales Boat Show is underway at Faenol WATERSPORTS enthusiasts from across Europe will come to Bangor over the weekend as the North Wales Power Boat Show gets underway. northwaleschronicle.co.uk |