Woodland Park Zoo, located just minutes north of downtown Seattle, Washington, in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood, is a beautiful 92-acre zoo featuring more than 300 different animal species.
Woodland Park Zoo exhibits nearly 1,100 animals representing almost 300 different animal species. These range from insects and other invertebrates to the largest land mammal on the planet, the African elephant.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington, USA
Canberra tourism – Australia’s national capital
Canberra is best known as Australia’s national capital and the seat of Australian Government. One of the world’s few planned cities, Canberra is home to national institutions and attractions that tell the story of a nation. These institutions, along with some of Australia’s leading academic and knowledge centres, provide access to many of Australia’s most exciting and innovative industry and research leaders.
One of the world’s few planned cities, Canberra’s special contrast of nature and urban living was designed in 1912 by Walter Burley Griffin, a Chicago architect who won an international competition to design Australia’s capital. Canberra will celebrate its Centenary in 2013.Fast Facts
Population: 346,000
Median age: 34 years
Average full time weekly income: $1,378
Driving time to Sydney: 3 hours
What Will You See in San Diego Natural History Museum?
The San Diego Natural History Museum’s newest gallery, “All That Glitters: The Splendor and Science of Gems and Minerals,” amazes adults and children alike with stunning jewelry and glittery gemstones. “Fossil Mysteries,” a highly interactive exhibition, explores big themes in science: evolution, extinction, ecology, and Earth processes. You’ll see the world—past and present—in a whole new way. In the Dolby digital 3D theater see films with a focus on the natural world. Current films include “Ocean Oasis,” “Waking the T-rex,” and “Dinosaurs Alive 3D.”There are two unique features at the Museum that everyone always seems to be fascinated with: the Moreton Bay fig tree and the Foucault pendulum. The Moreton Bay Fig tree to the north of the museum was planted in preparation for the 1915 exposition. Over 95 years old, this tree is listed in the California Registry of Big Trees as one of the champion trees of the state. The Foucault pendulum (pronounced foo-koh), invented in 1851 by French physicist Jean Foucault, gives visual proof of Earth’s rotation.
Why Should You Visit San Diego Natural History Museum?
The museum features fascinating exhibitions and a new giant-screen Dolby digital 3D theater showing films with a focus on the natural world. The Museum’s award-winning exhibit design team creates exhibitions on the unique and biodiverse southern California region. In addition, the Museum hosts several traveling exhibitions each year which teach visitors about our natural world as it is today and as it was in the past. Museum is open daily 10-5, excluding Thanksgiving and Christmas.
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, USA
Established in 1874, the San Diego Natural History Museum is one of California’s oldest and most respected cultural and science institutions. The Museum and its members have played a pivotal role the establishment of the San Diego Zoo, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Torrey Pines State Park, and Anza Borrego State Park.
Bainbridge Island Historical Museum Gift Shop
| Gift Name | Gift Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| “Let It Go, Louie” Barbara Winther and Gary Loverich | $27.00 | Croatian Immigrants on Puget Sound |
| “Picture Bainbridge” Jack Swanson | $35.00 | A Pictorial History of Bainbridge Island |
| “Port Blakely: The Community Captain Renton Built” Andrew Price Jr | $20.00 | Port Blakely History |
| “Bainbridge Landings” Allen Beach | $10.00 | History of Mosquito Fleet |
| Minnie Rose Lovgreen’s “Recipe for Raising Chickens” | $14.00 | Raising chickens and a family on Bainbridge. Expanded 3rd Edition |
| “Island Grown” Angela Berry | $5.00 | Fillipino Community on Bainbridge |
| “They Like Noble Causes” Barbara Winther | $35.00 | History of Bainbridge Public Library |
| After Silence: Civil Rights and the Japanese American Internment During World War II | $21.00 | DVD |
| In Defense of our Neighbors: “The Walt and Milly Woodward Story” Author: Mary Woodward | $27.00 | |
| Hall Brothers Shipbuilders” Author: Gary M. White | $22.00 | The story of shipbuilding at Port Ludlow, Port Blakely, and Eagle Harbor |
| Puget Sound Ferries: From Canoe To Catamaran | $22.00 | An illustrated history of travel on Puget Sound. Authors: Carolyn Neal & Thomas Kilday Janus |
| Crossings/A book about voyaging on the ferries | $35.00 | |
| “Snow Scenes Series” Note Cards | $12.00/box | Historic photographs of winter on Bainbridge Island |
| “Winslow Way Series” Note Cards | $12.00/box | Historic photographs of downtown Winslow, Bainbridge Island |
| Cat’s Cradle Game | $6.00 | Historical folk game |
| Sewing Cards | $6.00 | Historical folk toy |
| The Jump Rope Book & Jump Rope | $10.00 | Jump rope and rhyme book |
| Cup and Ball Toss | $5.00 | Historica folk toy |
| Schoolhouse Chalkboard Set | $9.00 | Old fashioned slate board with chalk |
| Hopscotch Game | $7.00 | Game book, markers, sidewalk chalk |
| Goose Quill Pen | $3.00 | Old fashioned quill pen |
| BIHS Mugs | $8.00 | Historical Society mugs |
| BIHS Souvenir Logo Pin | $5.00 | Lapel pin with BIHS logo |
| Bainbridge Island Maps | $2.50 – $5.00 | Present day, charts, historical |
| Historic Photographs | Priced individually, wide range of Bainbridge Island historic photographs |
All Products listed above are available.
Phone Orders: Call 206-842-2773
Mail Orders: (make check payable to BIHS) to the Bainbridge Island Historical Society, 215 Ericksen Ave. NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.
Indicate the product name and quantity desired with your payment. All amounts include tax, please add $6.00 to cover shipping and handling costs.
Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
The Bainbridge Island Historical Museum is located in the heart of downtown Winslow, three blocks from the Seattle-Bainbridge ferry terminal. A 1908 restored island schoolhouse features the main exhibit gallery containing a nationally award-winning exhibit “An Island Story”. The museum’s research library (free to the public) contains subject and biographical files, oral histories, videos, books, and historic photographs. 
As you walk through the exhibits, you will hear the sounds of a steamboat underway in Puget Sound, the grinding saws of a lumber mill, or the clang of a school bell. Listen to excerpts from our oral history collection and learn how the island has changed. Watch films about the Filipino and Japanese communities on the island, as well as the town of the Port Blakely. Read a record book of the Port Madison mill store, discover what was selling at the Rotary Auction in the 1970′s, or look at photographs of days gone by in our island neighborhoods.
The history of Bainbridge Island covers a wide range of historic eras and themes, including Native American culture, early explorers, lumber and shipbuilding industries, agriculture, WWII, and the Japanese American Internment histories. Visit the museum store for books, children’s gifts and other historic souvenirs.
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