These mammals can stay underwater for six minutes before surfacing. They sometimes breathe by "standing" on their tail with their heads above water. Dugongs spend much of their time alone or in pairs, though they are sometimes seen gathered in large herds of a hundred animals. Female dugongs have one calf after a yearlong pregnancy, and the mother helps her young reach the surface and take its first breath. A young dugong remains close to its mother for about 1...

Washigatake Ski resort scared the living daylights out of me. I was ready to call it quits - not for me. Rohan's work colleagues chose this resort knowing that we were not all that accustomed to this new sport of skiing. Ro decided to swop snow boarding for skiing, just so that we would both be in beginner land together, this time; not like the last. At the front counter, I bailed. Rohan's boss was so concerned, and of course the language barrier didn't help...

Visiting family and friends is a sure highlight for us

Starting with the 400m wide main trail, many of the 13 trails are intermediate level and excellent for skiing and snow boarding...sure was crowded being a long weekend for theJapanese; yet that added all the more great obstacles to avoid! We had a great time irrespective of our skiing ability. We could not find the labeling for each hills ability level, so we took a guess _one which I am certain we mistook! The facilities, which are second to none, include hot ...

As for skiing... This is Tam's take on the sport: - similar to water skiing, only way faster! -nice to be in control and not boat - terribly cold conditions tho, worse when bail and snow gets in! When bail and want to recover emotionally...you can't else frost bite sets in! - when actually skiing, you end up sweating buckets it's so hot! No middle ground! - bailed many times as couldn't think fast enough at the speed going down cliff faced slope...I need ...