Filmed on the doorstep of Australia’s largest city, Wild Australia is about an ancient wilderness: a labyrinth of lost worlds and magical places, beautiful and treacherous waterfalls, canyons and underground rivers carved by streams that lead back to a world as it was 90 million years ago.

 In a remote ravine, 40 ancient trees survive unchanged from the age of the dinosaurs. Rappel into this world of exotic creatures and unique plant life with our modern bushwhackers!

IMAX Wild Australia (Blu-ray) (2010)

Amazing Places to Take Your Kids: Hundreds of North American Adventures  features hundreds of family vacation destinations that are educational, exhilarating, unforgettable, and just plain fun.

Each adventure in this beautiful hardcover book is designed to create lasting family memories and appeal to children of all ages. Parents can flip through the pages for ideas on where to find the most interesting children s museums, the wildest dune buggy rides, and the most exciting parades and they can encourage kids to lend a hand in creating the family s next adventure.

Amazing Places to Take Your Kids includes hundreds of vacation sites throughout North America. Destinations are organized by region: New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, the Midwest, the Southwest, the Rockies, the Pacific, and Canada and Mexico. The perfect family vacation is at your fingertips, including beautiful beaches, awe-inspiring national parks, state-of-the-art amusement parks, imaginative festivals, and much more.

Put a new spin on your next trip by visiting the continents most amazing family vacation destinations. Here s a sampling of the unique adventures profiled in Amazing Places to Take Your Kids:  

Adventures:
Historic Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts
Pennsylvania s Hershey Park
Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming
The Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory in Kentucky
Florida s Everglades National Park
The fairy-tale village of Frankenmuth, Michigan
The American Institute of Architects sand castle competition in Texas

About The Author: Laura Sutherland is a widely acknowledged authority on family travel and has published several books on the topic, including Best Family Ski Vacations in North America and Tropical Family Vacations. She also writes for a number of publications and
Internet sites.

Amazing Places to Take Your Kids: Hundreds of North American Adventures

Insiders’ Guide to the Florida Keys and Key West is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information from Key Largo to Key West.

• •  Countless details on how to live and thrive in the area, from the best shopping to the lowdown on real  estate 
• •  The inside scoop on popular attractions, such as the Pirate Soul Museum, Dolphin Cove, and the     Hemingway Home and Museum 
• •  Comprehensive listings of restaurants, lodging, and recreation opportunities
• •  Sections dedicated to children and retirement

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Great for short weekend trips

Lightweight, easy to set up and take down, the Wenzel Alpine 3-pole pentadome tent is a great choice for a short camping adventure.

It features a single room that measures 8 by 8.5 feet with the third pole creating a vestibule, giving an area for storing gear and weather protection. It will sleep up to 3 people, but is most comfortablw for just two.

This tent has a D-style door with mesh window, and closeable mesh windows for great cross ventilation. A gear loft and hanging gear pocket are included as well as an integrated mud mat with a drainage strip. The shockcorded fiberglass frame and pole pockets make set up quick.

The Weather Armor polyester with a polyurethane coating protects from top to bottom while the sonic sealed polyethylene tub-style floor combats water seepage. Seams are Double-stitched, lap-felled to provide a shingle effect against water and all threads, zippers and webbing are treated with superior water repellency applications.

Duffle bag is included for storage.

Specifications: • Base: 8.5 ft. x 8 ft. • Center Height: 48 in. • Area: 49 sq. ft. (vestibule 7 sq. ft.) • Door: Dutch “D” style • Floor: welded polyethylene • Frame: fiberglass • Stakes: steel • Carry Weight: 8 lbs • Sleeps: 2-3 

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Garmin continues to build up its nüvi 7xx series portableGPS navigators with its nüvi 755T, which adds a number of communication features to an already impressive list of specs, including a 4.3-inch widescreen display, text-to-speech capabilities, media player, and FM transmitter for transmitting audio–including directions and MP3 music and audiobooks–from the device to your car radio.

New to the nüvi 7×5 lineup is Garmin’s HotFix satellite prediction (which locates your position quickly and precisely), Lane Assist (which provides lane guidance and junction views when possible), automatic time zone transitioning, and 3D Building views as well as Garmin Connect Photos to help you visually ascertain your position. Additionally, the nüvi 755T includes free real-time traffic updates from Navteq (for the life of the device) via the included GTM 20 traffic receiver.

As with all nüvis, you get Garmin reliability, the fast satellite lock of an integrated high-sensitivity receiver, a slim, pocket-sized design with a gorgeous display, an easy, intuitive interface, and detailed NAVTEQ maps for North America (United States, Canada and Puerto Rico) with more than 6 million name-searchable points of interest.

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