Cruising With A Baby? - Don't Leave Home Without These Items!

By Brooklyn Sterritt

We just came back from a Caribbean cruise on a Princess ship with our ten month old daughter. We had such a wonderful time that we are now planning our next cruise vacation.

There is some planning to be done beforehand, but the planning is well worth the effort. There are many things that you will need for your baby on the cruise vacation. Here is our list of the top 10 must things to have on a cruise vacation with a young baby.

1. Number one on our list is a comfortable stroller. Comfort for your baby is important - but it also important that the stroller can be folded so that it can be taken on an airplane and so that it won't take up too much room in your cruise ship cabin. Our stroller was in constant use from morning to night. We walked our daughter on the promenade deck every morning; we took our daughter to all of our meals in her stroller; we didn't want to miss out on the night-life on the ship - so every evening after dinner we bathed our daughter, dressed her in pyjamas, and then placed her back into her stroller. We then walked the ship with her, went to some clubs on the ship with her and before long she would fall fast asleep.

2. You cannot be without diapers. You can calculate how many diapers you will need on the trip by keeping track for a week or so before your trip of how many diapers your child uses in a typical day. Then simply multiply that number by the number of days in your vavcation. You also might want to consider waiting to buy the diapers in the city that you board your ship. That way you won't have to worry about checking them as luggage on your air flight (if your trip includes air travel). Our ship left from Ft Lauderdale Florida, and we had time between our flight arrival and the time to board the ship. We took a cab from the airport to a Kmart store and purchased the diapers and some other baby supplies before getting another taxi to the ship.

3. One thing to do on a cruise ship - especially when it is hot is to go to the kiddies pool with your child and cool off in the pool. In order for your child to go into the pool they have to wear swim diapers or they have to be toilet-trained.

4. If your baby is on formula make sure that you bring enough formula with you for the length of the cruise. We brought powdered formula since it is more compact than pre-mixed formula. Rather than bring it from home, we purchased the required formula in Florida before embarking our ship. Keep in mind that any formula entering the ship must be sealed & in the original container.

5. Kettle - taking a kettle (with an auto shutoff) on the trip means that you can boil water and know that you have safe water to mix with the powdered formula.

6. Baby's food is obviously very important. We brought a formula dispenser with us. We did this so that we could fill several bottles with clean water and when it was time for a bottle for our daughter we just had to pour the pre-measured formula into the water and give the bottle a shake.

7. Scented bags for dirty diapers. Because you will not have a diaper dispenser for dirty diapers with you - taking a supply of these bags will help reduce any bad odours in your room. They can be purchased at a dollar store or Babies r Us.

8. You'll need soap for bathing your baby. Eventhough most ship cabins won't have a tub for bathing your child - you can still do what we did. We plugged the drain on the shower and put enough water in the shower in order to give our baby her bath.

9. Make sure that you bring something to protect your baby from the heat and sun, especially if you plan on spending much time in the sun with your child during the cruise. Before we left home we purchased a lightweight sun cabana. We used the cabana on two beaches and on the pool deck near the kiddies pool. It kept us and our baby comfortable and protected from the sun. To rent a cabana on the private island that our ship stopped would have cost us about $90. The cabana that we brought with us cost less than $50 and we use it all the time.

10. Zip lock bags - these are great for everything - snack holders, put really dirty/soiled clothes away until you get home. Use for things that leak - (ex. medicine). Use the bags on the ship to pack bibs, spoons to go for dinner so when they are dirty you can throw in the bag & clean when you get back to your room.

There are more items to consider, but start your list with these essentials items.

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BabyTravelPlanet is in Canada and they sell Lightweight sun canopies to customers in Canada and USA. Visit their site to get their free ebook checklist Packing for a Cruise Vacation With Your Baby that is full of things to consider when planning a cruise vacation.

Types Of Sand Yachts

By Ferdinand Mekinsy

Catamaran sailing is not something you can learn on the regular sailing programs, this is so because most navigation practice is carried out on monohulls. The reason for such measures is the higher difficulty to operated multihulls as it is the case with the catamaran. Sailing experience combined with personal enthusiasm will eventually help one sail a catamaran, and enjoy the stability, the speed and the challenge of such a boat.

What elements are there to consider for one ready to invest in sailing gear? First of all, gloves and special foot wear like dinghy boots for instance, are first on the list. Then, there is the life jacket and the foul weather sailing gear. The latter includes both pants and jacket that keep off humidity. And last but not least, there are the wet and dry suits that should not miss from the sailor's wardrobe; they keep you warm even in water or on very cold weather.

The most common mistake people make on their first sailing vacations is to pack way too much. Casual is the word to describe life on an island, so you won't be needing fancy clothes and all sorts of gadgets. Sailing vessels impose limitations in terms of storage space, and hard-sided luggage are surely not a good idea to take with you. Go for canvas or duffel bags that can be folded into occupying less room. Small baggage that can be taken with you on the plane also save you the trouble of having to deal with lost luggage when you arrive on the island.

Widely spread in the entire Oceania and Polynesia, catamaran sailing had a great influence on the design of leisure boats with multiple hulls. The power engine represents the options to wind and water current power in catamaran propelling, however the true feeling of the sea is attained by understanding the winds and decoding the message of the waves.

There are several types of sand yachts used for land sailing, and according to their distinct features, such vehicles compete in different classes. Thus, the largest yachts in land sailing competitions are known as Class 2. They all have very large masts with big sails that lend significant power to the vehicles; yet, the size could be an impediment to reaching high speed. More popular than Class 2 is Class 3 that is very similar in design, but on a smaller scale. Designed according to high-tech principles, such yachts make land sailing really fast. Usually made of fiberglass, Kevlar and carbon fiber, these vehicles will get a 60miles per hours during a race.

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Flights to Aberdeen

By Craig Wilson

Trying to find the right flight to Aberdeen is much easier than a few years ago. There are now more flights than ever throughout Europe and more flights to Aberdeen from more destinations than ever before. If you are travelling to Aberdeen or looking for a flight from Aberdeen then you may need to do some research to find the best flight options and fares for your journey.

How do you get the best fares and flight times for your trip to Aberdeen? You can phone a travel agent and ask them who has flights to Aberdeen. Phone around the airlines to see who operates flights to Aberdeen from your chosen airport. If you have time simply do some searching yourself online with the help of the internet

Travel agents have access to reservations systems and timetables and can find the best fare for your flight to Aberdeen quickly. The low cost airlines and most other airlines no longer pay travel agents any commission or the ones that do pay very little. In order to make money a travel agent will add a booking or reservation fee to your flight cost. A travel agent will be quicker but will probably cost you more in the end

Calling around all the airlines can take to longest and will take up the most time. Not only could you be calling an airline that does not operate flights to Aberdeen, it could even cost you money to find this out. Most airlines especially the low cost ones tend to have reservation numbers that are at a premium rate and even then you could be put on hold.

Doing some simple flight research is simple if you have access to the internet. All you have to do is go to your regular search engine whether it is Yahoo, MSN or Google and input a search option such as "Flights to Aberdeen" or Aberdeen Flights". By doing this you should get a list of suitable web sites to check

If the price of your flight to Aberdeen is the most important factor in your decision then you should remember that off-peak flights and travelling on mid-week flights offer the best chance of the cheapest fares. By booking as early as possible this can save you money but this will generally mean that you will be unable to change or alter your flight in any way. This is not a suitable option if you are travelling for a specific business meeting at a specific time or for a meeting that could be altered at the last minute.

If you are worried about making you reservation online then once you know what airline you wish to travel on then this is the best time to call them. If you are using a travel agent they can often provide suggestions to make your journey shorter or suggest a route you have not thought of that could save you time and money. Searching on the internet yourself is cheaper however not if you spend a day and you could have spent your time more productively.

A good idea is to pay for flights by credit card as this offers you some financial protection. Always take a printout of your booking and make sure you use a valid email address. Most airlines no longer issue tickets and all you need to travel is the booking reference or the email confirmation you receive.

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Rod Bending Carp Baits And Irresistible Fishing Ingredients!

By Tim Richardson

The most successful baits are different to ones that have caught them previously so the biggest point is to make your bait alternative and new to versions of baits which have been previously successful! All fish have a strong survival instinct and will relate baits they have been hooked on before with danger, with enough exposure. To keep using a bait just because it worked previously is not necessarily the best thing to do when your fish may already be feeding far more warily on it, making hooking them far harder!

Improving your baits competitive edges is all about adapting their ingredients or adding extra ones soaked in, or treating the bait with a new process so it smells and tastes different to its previous version. Other carp can senses come into the equation and be exploited in regards to texture, colour, density, shape, buoyancy, firmness, solubility and permeability etc. However you do it, changing a bait in even one small way can sustain your results on it or even totally transform your results far more positively!

To prolong the life of a readymade bait or produce a new homemade one, you have an amazingly diverse fishing bait industry offering decades of experience and field tested products proven to catch fish. So finding new products and combinations of them you can trust is easy. But there are literally thousands of products which can be exploited which are not usually used by carp anglers and theses often have potent competitive edges over the most popular proprietary ones on pressured carp waters.

There is much said about flavors. This probably because they have such vivid impacts upon our senses as most are mainly based upon strongly volatile solvent substances and many taste and smell like foods we recognise; like pineapple, cranberry, banana and strawberry. Changing flavors can easily produce a new bait and renewed results, but synthetic and solvent based flavors are merely a tiny tip of the real flavors iceberg available to us to exploit. Flavor components can do very various things to fish and the water surrounding our baits to induce bites.

The smell and taste of a bait can simply originate from innate flavors in the base mix and most carp anglers forget that even soya flour, semolina, maize meal, wheat flour or rice flour all have unique tastes and smells which even humans can appreciate with our blunted senses compared to acutely sharp carp ones. Once the stronger more highly soluble flavor substances have leached out of a bait you are left with those possibly less concentrated ones which still tempt fish. At this stage you are dependant upon the more nutritional stimulatory substances naturally within your bait ingredients to induce a bite.

In the case of big carp, they can be caught on baits containing strong powerful flavors or minimal amounts or none at all. The angling fishing pressure they receive 24 hours a day will often influence which approaches and which forms of flavor are more stimulatory or more repellant! But even using rubber and plastic baits will eventually be associated with previous captures and be less effective for this reason.

When anglers think of carp baits most will immediately picture round boilies. These have succeeded for decades, but its is noticeable that round and now barrel shaped baits are being easily dealt with by wary carp and other new alternative shapes should be exploited! In the case of rubber and plastic baits, their many characteristics and lack of these too compared to conventional carp baits really gives them edges, but even these are not totally devoid of anything carp can associate with danger.

Out of the potential millions of substances you can exploit to make your bait different, new and totally unique consistently over time there are those which have been proven very successful, especially for the bigger fish and many are well known ingredients and flavors offered by bait companies. But there are of course many ingredients and substances not known by the majority of anglers which are either quietly being used by bait companies or not at all and many have yet to be discovered. We can use our own food ingredients as useful guides to what to use to enhance and differentiate our baits to improve results, as we share similar senses and essential needs as fish (albeit in very specific areas.)

The natural foods which carp have survived and evolved to exploit in their natural environments have had more than just impacted upon the senses which detect these foods. Even the carp body itself has evolved physically in order to best detect, consume, digest and extract the maximum essential nutrition and energy it needs for survival. Betaine is found in many natural foods from root crops like sugar beet to molluscs and crustacean and fish themselves and even we humans contain betaine and it is a real essential!

In fact I focus on betaine because it has an even more intense feeding stimulation impact on carp sensory systems than the fellow feeding stimulator, the amino acid alanine. Most anglers already appreciate the impacts of amino acids upon fish feeding but do not relate this intense feeding response to hardly any other substances. But just in the same way that betaine and amino acids are significant growth and health and balance promoters etc, thousands of other substances have very significant bioactive effects on fish we can exploit in baits for big fish.

The vast diversity of substances that you can exploit and manipulate in our baits and many forms of ground baits etc to induce bite from carp are endless. But to make things clearer I have been able myself to categorise great numbers of these extremely desirable substances, ingredients, flavors etc into groups including their sources, uses and biological effects on carp. This has been extremely valuable but took over a full year to complete. You can do a bit of this yourself next time you read an ingredients list on a can of cola, bar of chocolate, readymade meal, can of beans, microwavable curry, and try and identify the substances which turn your body and senses on and make you want to eat more; it makes you think! The popularity of camp and fishing, boating and hunting and outdoors hobbies for sport and recreation combine well together, but bait is always the deciding factor if you catch fish or not despite all your efforts; so learn as much as you can and transform your catches!

By Tim Richardson.

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These will help you: "BIG CATFISH AND CARP BAIT SECRETS!" And: "BIG CARP BAIT SECRETS!" And "FLAVORS, FEEDING TRIGGERS and CHEMORECEPTION SECRETS!" SEE: homemade bait These books are even used as reference by members of the British Carp Study Group so are well worth a look!

What to Expect on an Adventure Cruise

By Willie Strongarm

For years, tourists have been enjoying northwest Australia's Kimberley Region, as well as the almost a thousand islands just off the coast. They offer secluded beaches, beautiful bays, mangroves and rainforests, and they're best seen by boat.

Cruises can be found to fit any interest, from photography and birdwatching to beach combing, fishing and hiking. Longer trips allow for island exploration and swimming in waters that are home to jewel-like fish, dolphins, turtles and more.

You'll get the chance to check out jewel like fish, sea turtles, sharks, birds, whales and even saltwater crocodiles, as well as the unique erosions of Strickland Bay. Check out the pure white silica beach at Hidden Island and the iron mine on Kooland Island.

There's also Aboriginal art, working pearl farms, and the chance to fish near coral reefs or collect oysters. Some cruises will even allow anglers to choose the day's catch as a meal.

Check out the Horizontal Falls at Talbot Bay - a real horizontal waterfall that's caused by the way the tide goes through a passage in the cliffs. The gap is so narrow that the water builds up faster on one side than it can pass through, making a difference of four to six meters in the water level, and causing a waterfall to flow between the bays.

Described as one of the world's greatest natural wonders, these falls should be seen under safe circumstances, such as a cruise. Rough and extreme water conditions in this part of the world have caused many fatalities over the years among sailors and pearl divers.

The good news is that if you're in the right situation, you'll be safe, with boats even passing through the waterfall. People looking for less of a thrill can see this site in a dry seaplane or helicopter.

If you want to make sure you have plenty of time on the islands, choose cruises that do most of the distance travel at night. You should also pay close attention to what's included - you may have to pay extra for snacks, meals, snorkeling gear and fishing tackle on some cruises, while other include them in the basic fee.

The right clothing is vital to an Australian adventure cruise - bring light weight clothes to stay cool, a wide hat and good shoes for walking that will survive getting wet. Add in insect repellent, sunscreen, and don't forget the camera.

The majority of tours travel between April and November - the dry season - but some also run during the wet season, due to the number of options for shelter in rough weather. Choose according to the sites you want to see and your interest in adventure.

Kimberley adventure cruises are a great choice for anyone who's looking for fun. Pick a cruise that lasts long enough to let you see it all, and get all cruise details before you leave, so you'll have a great time.

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Buying A Personal Pontoon Boat: What To Consider

By James Shacie

With more people across the world looking to buy one, pontoon boats are fast becoming the ideal water-based transport for many individuals. There are many different types of these boats to fit various needs and requirements. And their flexibility and variety have helped to boost their popularity.

What comes naturally is the spiraling demand for pontoon boats. The higher personal wealth experienced in developed countries has also contributed to this. Yet some might not be the best informed when out in the market buying a pontoon boat. It is therefore wise to look out for certain details when purchasing one.

If you are going to spend the money required to own a pontoon boat, then make sure to get your money's worth. In order to achieve that, the boat should be one that caters primarily to your requirements. Sales people might try to persuade you to select other expensive models that might not necessarily be suitable for your needs.

With cost being the main factor to consider, always scout around for the best prices offered for your ideal pontoon boat model. Keep your options open regarding the model and make. Consider what types are most suitable for your needs. Then go out and locate the best prices for each model, before making the most rational choice over the varying prices available.

Having a pontoon boat that fits your requirements is also important. As mentioned, if you are using it for solo fishing expeditions, then pick a model that is smaller in size and easily navigable. If the boat is for family outings out at the lake or river, select one that can handle the size and weight of the group.

To balance things, do not scrimp on comfort. Make sure your boat includes the necessary accessories or furniture that will be required for its primary use. A party pontoon boat might require some comfortable seats for guests, while even a fishing boat would have to provide some form of shelter.

Many people make the mistake of buying a cheap pontoon boat for the sake of saving money, only to discover that they need to purchase a new one a year down the road, or spend greater sums of money on constant repairwork. All this can be avoided, and provide longer term savings, if the model purchased is of a hardy make. Do some research, ask questions of the boat owner or manufacturer, and determine if the ones you are eyeing can offer long term usage.

Therefore, there are three main factors to consider when deciding what personal pontoon boat to own. Compare the different prices of the various models that meet your requirements, and check that they all provide the accompanying accessories and are good for long term use. When all these are taken into due consideration, the result will certainly be many days out on the waters fishing, partying or just having a quiet day out in the sunshine.

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James Shacie owns a 2006 mid american 24ft pontoon boat. During his free time, he provides advice on how to acquire pontoon boats for sale cheap.

Top 7 Important Reasons to Travel to Costa Rica

By Ada Denis

In the past, Costa Rica was a hidden jewel. Today, it's no longer a secret and thousands of travelers a year flock to this luscious paradise to escape the day-to-day worries of their chaotic worlds. Below are the top 7 important reasons to travel to Costa Rica:

1. Beaches

Over 50 white and black sand beaches. Visitors can bask in the sun or seek refuge under the shade of beach almond trees. The waters are warm year-round, perfect for swimmers and surfers. Cozy restaurants and bars are nearby so travelers can enjoy a fresh beverage or meal any time.

2. Parks/Reserves

Costa Rica is home to 26 national parks which safely harbor over 75% of the country's flora and fauna. Some of the most visited national parks are Manuel Antonio, Arenal Volcano and Braulio Carrillo. Their natural beauty will tempt any nature lover to travel to Costa Rica.

3. Museums

Gold Museum is home to the most valuable collection of pre-Columbian gold in the world; exhibits include 2,600 gold artifacts, plus a collection of rare coins and bills. The Entomological Museum of University of Costa Rica, where visitors can examine more than a million specimens of butterflies and other insects.

4. Gardens

Most notable are The Butterfly Farm in La Guacima de Alajuela, the Monteverde Butterfly Garden and La Paz Butterfly Observatory. The latter is the country's largest butterfly garden with over twenty species of butterflies soaring freely in a natural habitat the size of an American football field.

5. Volcanoes

Only five out of more than 200 volcanic formations are considered active: Arenal, Poas, Rincon de la Vieja, Irazu, and Turrialba. There are many hiking tours offered for the adventurer interested in travel to Costa Rica.

6. Wildlife Refuges

There are over 55 in Costa Rica and travelers are treated to sights such as Olive Ridley sea turtles, two and three-toed sloths, white-faced monkeys, howler monkeys, wild pigs, ospreys, herons, and kingfishers.

7. Cultural Attractions

One of the most popular is the National Theater which was modeled after the art deco style of Paris' Opera House. It's decorated with Belgian ironwork, Baroque and Italian renaissance flourishes and 22.5 karat gold leaf.

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Shocking Carp Fishing Bait Secrets That Save You A Fortune!

By Tim Richardson

How do you save money on bait and actually have this catch you more big fish?! It might be a strange question but the answers are extremely powerful indeed! Most of the bait you pay for is wasted because it literally does not transfer into caught fish; so find out how to save a fortune!

Big catfish and carp fishermen use many baits as ground baits, including maize, sweetcorn, hemp, boilies, pellets, and commercially made ground baits etc,) and these can cost you a fortune through each year! The vast percentage of this is actually wasted due to it not transferring into fish caught. This means excessive amounts of money are wasted because obviously something is being missed in the thinking and angling approach being used by the average angler!

If you are consistently feeding your swim each time you fish and this does not consistently equate to better catches, then you are simply feeding the fish, going through the motions and expecting miracles to occur as doing the same thing repeatedly and keeping expecting results to be different is simply a definition of insanity!

This very certainly applies to angler-pressured big catfish too, whose bait preferences can definitely alter in response to angling pressures and to previous captures on a bait. So the big trick is trying to keep ahead of the fish and not wasting your hard-earned money every week on bait that does not convert into fish; to achieve very satisfactory fish captures. For most anglers just going fishing costs money because it is missed money-earning time, and this cost is quite apart from travelling costs, fishing permits, and wasted free bait!

Making your bait money equal more consistent catches in the short and long-term will certainly save you money in results terms per pound or dollar spent as less is actually wasted. Yes there are fisheries which are so easy a bare hook catches fish, but I'm referring here more to fishing hard syndicate waters, or the popular fishing pressured and over-crowded day-ticket waters where fish respond negatively to anglers baits and fishing pressure. How do you know what you are missing if all you do is measure your results compared to the average catches for a water, when the reality is that the average catches on a water may be very different indeed from what is truly possible for any individual angler?

Many wary fish on pressured waters will not feed on fresh baits put out as free baits, and those that do may even feed in far more alert modes of behaviour in order to detect dangerous hook baits more easily. If you got hooked each time you ate something your confidence and behaviour in eating something you desire is obviously going to change because such food is potentially it is a threat to your survival, despite when baits being designed to promote fish's survival and you might wait 3 days or more before eating the leached-out baits! (It is a well-known fact that fish will feed far more confidently on bait that has been washed out as few anglers hook fish on such baits and so the associated danger of such baits is drastically reduced!)

Thinking about the bigger picture on a very pressured water, Mr average angler turns up, baits-up, fishes 48 hours and leaves fishless, and then most usually the next angler turns up in the swim and does the same things: with similar poor average results. This kind of pattern happens all year round on so many carp waters these days. Now and again, the angler who happens to time it lucky catches fish over all the old bait left by other anglers, but is mostly oblivious to this artificially built-up phenomenon. An anglers luck may be as bad as the old gone-off bait that fish have left uneaten; oblivious that the foul bait has killed-of the popular swim!

When carp fishing becomes an automatic function of relatively thoughtless actions, the results become mediocre and this is no surprise as so many anglers simply underestimate the sensitivity of carp to angling baits, tackle, and all the kinds of active and inactive presences of anglers they detect so easily; what worked previously is not guaranteed to work today! On pressured waters each day can find the fish acting differently as you might do in order to consistently stay one step ahead of a predator, (and sometimes this is one example of why man evolved being able to be self-aware, rationalise problems and think of solutions, but this is vastly under-used in fishing!)

For instance, it was very lucky of me to catch a carp of 38 pounds; an amazing very pale white mirror (not koi carp) from one very pressured UK water. In over 7 years it was seen but not caught, but it was the combination of new bait, rig, baiting method and frequency and other things combined that produced this fish, (that all those anglers did not do previously,) and this unique combination produced dozens more good fish following this capture.

In this case I chose and applied new attractor and feeding trigger substances in bait forms that had not been used or rarely if ever exploited at this water before along with a new baiting approach with an unusual frequency of baiting and these and associated differences have made such a difference to results personally, on a range of waters. All it takes is consideration of the particular ways the fish have become conditioned by the anglers' baits, methods and thinking that dominates the water historically and each water differs in various key ways in this, that you might well be able to exploit in your own unique ways. You can make a big difference by being different in almost any individual or combination of ways!

If you take the time to analyse the short-term and long-term impacts of what other anglers are doing on your water and link that to the negative (or positive) impacts on fish behaviours over any time period, you may begin to see how to exploit both fish and angler behaviour creatively. This thought is unique to your fishing situation at any point in time so will most likely produced the most accurately tuned possible actions, processes, thoughts and actions to solve the particular fishing challenges present. By analysing your fishing challenges and fishing situation in regards impacts of your fishing (and of other anglers) upon fish really can means you can save a fortune in wasted bait; as what you do use is leveraged with far greater results in catches in relation to money spent on bait achieving these!

12a It is true that to maximise the power and costs of your baits takes some thought, but a little effort can save you literally a fortune in wasted costs. So next time you arrive at your water and proceed to bait up as usual, you might stop mid-flow and take time to consider the many other solutions that are staring you in the face which you might presently be blind to but for a little extra thought; after all, the solutions that will be thought of in 10 years are available right now... This bait secrets books author has many more valuable fascinating insights and bait secrets to share but you need to look for them if they are to improve your own catches!

By Tim Richardson.

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The Top 10 Nature Adventure Travel Trips Worldwide

By Ada Denis

If you were asked to make a list of the ten best nature and wildlife adventure travel destinations and tours in the world, which would you choose?

Well, some of the contenders in the top adventure tours ranking list might surprise you or be the exact ones that you would have chosen yourself because the ranking is compiled by using trip reports and reviews from past travelers who have been there and experienced the adventure travel tours and destinations for themselves.

So here is the list of the top 10 nature adventure travel tours and destinations on earth in reverse order...

10. Madagascar

As far as unique wildlife goes, Madagascar takes the first prize. A total of 80% of the plant species and many of the animals are only found there and nowhere else in the world. The highlights on a Madagascar adventure travel trip are the many different kinds of lemur, chameleon and frogs that you are sure to see.

9. Great Barrier Reef

With over 1.8 million visitors per year, this world heritage site which is the largest structure on earth built by living organisms certainly deserves its place in the top 10 rankings. The amount and diversity of the marine life here is simply astonishing.

8. Polar Bear Trek

The time left to be able to see this magnificent predator in its natural habitat may be very short because they are threatened due to global warming and climate change. The polar bear is the biggest of its kind in the world and is at the top of the food chain with its only natural enemy being man.

7. Tiger Safari

The thrill of seeing this beautiful big cat from the back of an elephant in one of India's National Parks is incomparable. There are only around 6000 of them left in the world and they are very secretive so spotting one or more of them on safari is a rare privilege that not many people have had.

6. Whale Watching

They are so big that it almost seems impossible for flesh and blood to exist in such abundance and when they jump clear of the water (breaching) with that huge bulk the laws of physics seem to be suspended for a few moments. You only really appreciate just how massive whales are when you get close to them on a whale watching adventure travel tour.You may also be lucky enough to be able to listen to them communicate through their complex language of whistles and squeaks.

5. Wildebeest Migration

If you thought rush hour was bad, try being a wildebeest in the Serengeti when about 1.5 million of your neighbors decide that it's time to hit the road to find better grazing and water, all at the same time. It is one of the biggest mass migrations in the world and all the predators like lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena and crocodile feast when the migration moves through their territory.

4. Swim With Wild Dolphins

Everyone who does this comes back with an almost mystical appreciation of the fact that the dolphins choose to swim with them and even seem to enjoy the close company to humans. They sometimes come within touching distance of swimmers (but touching them is strictly not allowed) and leap from the water as if tempting the humans to copy them.It's the connection with such an intelligent animal even though it is completely wild that makes this adventure travel experience so special.

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Big Carp Fishing Baits And Vital Fish Feeding Secrets!

By Tim Richardson

Few carp fishermen realise that fish can switch their modes of feeding and you can exploit these and manipulate these to catch more fish! In fact you can make fish feed in the specific way you want by the form and size of baits you introduce as ground bait or chum making it ideal for far more natural and confident feeding leading to more bites.

If you ever fished a match using tiny hooks for bloodworm or jokers as bait, you will know how powerful these fish catching baits are. One of the best feeding triggers for carp and one of the most abundant amino acids found in mature carp tissues is alanine which also happens to be found in abundance in blood worms and jokers. Fish instinctively feed in the most energy efficient way depending on the food supply available and how and where it is located and how spread out or dense or large or small the food items are.

You may have watched koi or goldfish sucking algae off the sides of a pond. But carp can also feed by filtering tiny items from the water, while moving and even while stationary. The position and concentrations of natural foods like algae and crustaceans called zooplankton or daphnia fluctuate depending on sunlight angle and intensity, temperature and water mineral and oxygen concentrations among other time and seasonal variations. The successful use of very fine ground baits is one way to induce the filter feeding type of modes whilst on the way to the angler inducing feeding on larger food items such as boilies for instance.

This kind of feeding or similar can be used to further explore the potential of your hook baits and free baits as food items even before your bait is actually touched by a fish. You might have seen a fish suddenly dart towards a bait after having started gulping in water first to taste your bait more efficiently using taste buds in the pharyngeal cavity in the gill area. Fish also use gulping in a snapping motion in a mobile pump feeding) or static position to filter feed and particulate feed and carp and bream do this much of the time in turbid lakes; lazy of what!

Carp actually derive very significant nutrition by filter feeding as this is the primary mode of feeding used especially in turbid lakes. It is a great advantage to use this mode to good effect, and I have had outstanding success for bigger carp fishing over ground bait and forms of more soluble boilies and pellets forms over deep silt in smaller turbid lakes; where catching filter feeding carp can be very difficult with more conventional approaches and large baits and pellets etc. This method of feeding exploitation can drive fish into a feeding frenzy even though no solid bait has actually been consumed yet!

It is natural for fish like bream, roach, carp, tench, barbel, and even bass and trout, to filter feed at times by capturing various sized food particles within their branchial sieves. However there this sieving can be adjusted in order to capture patches of fine particles or to capture larger single items and the characteristic speed of this feeding can vary between species. In the case of carp which are termed slow suction feeders, although they can suck up finer particles from one head length away from it at surprisingly high velocities indeed.

It often seems to be the case that carp fishing baits focus goes on chemical smells for instance which are very obvious to our senses, but it needs to be remembered that fish have extremely fine tuned lateral line cells which use electrochemical impulses in the detection of food items even by the tiny movements of zooplankton only 1 millimetre in diameter. The gape size of a fish's mouth is normally not a limiting factor in efficient feeding, but the diameter of the area where the food is chewed is and it is often far less than the gape of the mouth. Therefore its makes sense to exploit this and use smaller baits than often recommended. In fact carp in turbid lakes predominantly depend on food which is in particle size, so why not go with this approach not against it!

Although filter feeding modes in carp reflect their most dominant small sized natural foods you can overcome their preoccupation with these to get them to feed on your fishing baits by also using fine particulate feeds and smaller baits at least to begin with in your ground baits, method mixes, stick mixes etc. Many carp in pressured fisheries regard eating 21 millimetre pellets nad boilies as natural as they literally depend on them for essential dietary requirements, but it does not mean using hook baits of this size make it easier to catch warier fish. The finding is that smaller baits do often fool carp better than large baits and this is not merely due to the fact that proportionately far greater numbers of anglers use baits over 1 centimetre in size...

How many big carp get hooked by match anglers at the end of a day of baiting up constantly with tiny pouches of fine bread crumb and fish meal and tiny micro pellet ground baits; it happens far more often than carp anglers like to imagine. The constant ground baiting is one factor along with the fine tackle they use, but mostly, match anglers are offering carp the ideal form of ground bait to exploit their natural filter feeding modes. Literally matching up your bait to the feeding modes of fish and even influencing which mode and feeding intensity occurs can seriously improve your catches all season; it just takes a little bait know-how...

By Tim Richardson.

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Cruising With A Baby? - Don't Leave Home Without These Items!

By Brooklyn Sterritt

Going on a family cruise with a young baby can be a wonderful trip. We know because we just came back from a Caribbean cruise with our 10 month old daughter.

There is some planning to be done beforehand, but the planning is well worth the effort. There are many things that you will need for your baby on the cruise vacation. Here is our list of the top 10 must things to have on a cruise vacation with a young baby.

1. The most valuable thing that we took with us was our stroller. Our daughter loves being in the stroller and it was also great that our stroller folds - that way it was easy to take on an airplane, and it didn't take up much room in our cabin on the cruise ship. We used the stroller all the time. Every morning we walked our daughter on the promenade deck; we used the stroller every day to go to the ship's pools and dining rooms; we even used in the evening so that we can all enjoy the exciting evenings on board. Every evening after dinner we bathed our daughter, then put her in pyjamas, and then placed her back into her stroller. We then walked the ship with her, went to some clubs on the ship with her and before long she would fall fast asleep.

2. Diapers. Make sure that you pack enough disposable diapers. The way that I figured out how many to take was to the week before our trip I kept track of how many diapers our girl went through each day to get an idea of how many diapers are needed per day. Based on that calculate how many are required during the vacation. We didn't purchase the diapers at home. We had time between our flight arrival in Ft Lauderdale and the time to board the ship so we took a cab to a Target store and purchased them and some other supplies before getting another taxi to the ship. That way we didn't have to carry them onto our airplane.

3. One thing to do on a cruise ship - especially when it is hot is to go to the kiddies pool with your child and cool off in the pool. In order for your child to go into the pool they have to wear swim diapers or they have to be toilet-trained.

4. Formula - consider packing enough powder formula for the duration of the trip. We purchased the required formula in Fort Lauderdale rather than bring it from home. Keep in mind that any formula entering the ship must be sealed & in the original container.

5. Kettle - taking a kettle (with an auto shutoff) on the trip means that you can boil water and know that you have safe water to mix with the powdered formula.

6. Formula dispenser - having a powder formula dispenser means that you can fill the bottles with clean water and when baby is ready to eat, you can just pour the pre-measured formula into the water and shake the bottle.

7. Not having a spot to put your dirty diapers will cause some problems with odor in your cabin on the ship. Let your room steward know that you will have some smelly diapers - he will come to your room more often to remove them. And we took with us scented bags for putting the dirty diapers. They really helped control the odors in our room, and they were also useful on our air flight. They can be purchased at a dollar store or Babies r Us.

8. You'll need soap for bathing your baby. Eventhough most ship cabins won't have a tub for bathing your child - you can still do what we did. We plugged the drain on the shower and put enough water in the shower in order to give our baby her bath.

9. If you plan on spending much time in the sun with your child during the cruise you may want to purchase before your trip and bring with you a lightweight sun cabana before your trip. We used ours on two beaches and on the pool deck near the kiddies pool. It kept us and our baby comfortable and protected from the sun. To rent a cabana on the private island that our ship stopped would have cost us about $80. The cabana that we brought with us cost less than $50 and we use it all the time.

10. Zip lock bags - these are great for everything - snack holders, put really dirty/soiled clothes away until you get home. Use for things that leak - (ex. medicine). Use the bags on the ship to pack bibs, spoons to go for dinner so when they are dirty you can throw in the bag & clean when you get back to your room.

There are more items to consider - but these are the top ten items that you can't leave home without.

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A Repositioning Cruise - Is It Your Best Holiday Dollar Value?

By Dorothy Yamich

Repositioning cruises are not a new phenomenon, they're just the best kept secret in the cruising industry. Just like migrating birds, many cruise ships leave for warmer climates in the Autumn and return in the Spring. Some sail south for the winter months and then sail back for the summer months. Other cruise ships sail across the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans to "reposition" themselves in warmer weather. Just like most vacationers, these large fleets of ships are seeking seasons in the sun.

These special one-way cruises are offered at incredible savings to attract new and seasoned cruise lovers alike. No cruise line ever wants to have the expense of moving a huge ship over hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean without having any paying cruise passengers onboard. This is an opportunity for vacationers to book a great luxury dream cruise for a bargain basement price.

Repositioning cruises are not just stripped down versions of luxury cruises. They are luxury cruises! All of the passengers enjoy the same meals and entertainment as well as the same onboard privileges. And the deeply discounted tickets, sometimes costing as low as fifty dollars per day, entitle passengers to everything that are usually included in luxury cruises.

The main difference between a standard cruise and a repositioning cruise is that the latter is longer, usually lasting from two to four weeks, with more time spent at sea and fewer, or possibly no ports of call. This means more relaxing days spent at sea and a less hectic itinerary. And on some repositioning cruises certain ships will drop anchor in very unique ports of call that are usually reserved for very expensive world cruise itineraries.

Usually these repositioning cruises take place from September through October, and from March through April. Some destinations in the Winter are Hawaii, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America including the Panama Canal, as well Asia. The destinations in the Summer are Canada, Alaska, New England, Europe, and the Mediterranean.

Depending on the season, vacationers can sail to or from Europe and North America; Alaska and British Columbia, and the United States southwest coast including ports in Mexico; the northern United States and the Eastern coast of Canada, and a number of southern U.S. as well Caribbean destinations. Some repositioning cruises sail to and from Asia, Africa, as well as the Middle East.

There are a few important things that you should consider if you are planning to go on a repositioning cruise. First is booking an "open jaw" flight where you will fly to the departure port of call and then fly home from the cruise ship's destination port. These air flights can be a little pricey compared to the usual return airfares that travelers are most familiar with. Sometimes it may be possible to book a flight through the cruise line, but not always. Even with the usual extra cost for an open jaw ticket over a regular airline return ticket, a repositioning cruise is still an exceptionable value for your travel dollar. However, if you are fortunate to live near by, or within driving distance of your departure port, then you would only need a one-way air flight back to your departure port and then drive back home.

When you book your flight it may be advisable to arrive at your departure port a day before you sail and stay overnight at a hotel. This will avoid any problem of unforeseen flight delays that can sometimes happen and leave you stranded on the pier waving goodbye to a cruise ship that has left without you.

If you think you would enjoy a long and relaxing luxury cruise then you will love a repositioning cruise which usually is not filled to capacity with passengers and spends more time at sea.

P.S. Don't forget your camera equipment and a wardrobe to reflect the possible weather conditions on your cruise.

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Airline Travel Discounts

By Ada Denis

We all need to get away. Our vacations are the one thing that we look forward to all year. Unfortunately what happens sometimes is that we tend to feel the stress of how am I going to afford the vacation that I've been dreaming about? Well I hope that with a few of my tips, you will be able to get some airline travel discounts.

Here are some tips to find the lowest fare air ticket:

Buy tickets 3-5 months before your departure date

Some airlines offer discounts for early buyers. It's also best to buy your tickets at least 20 days in advance to ensure the best seating possible, most discounted tickets sell out fast. You should also know that Airline Tickets are subject to price increase, especially during Christmas season, so buying early avoids further ticket increase.

Never fly on weekends

If you're planning a trip, plan to leave on weekdays, preferable Monday to Wednesday. Weekends are high traffic times, for travelers and would probably cost you an additional $25-$40 increase.

Don't travel During Peak season

Airlines tend to increase ticket prices during Peak travel season due to the increase in demand. Traveling during low season is also advantageous if you want to avoid airport and tourist spot crowds. If you really have to travel during peak season, consider leaving home early and going home late to avoid the rush.

How long to Stay

Yes your travel stay also affects airline ticket prices. Airlines give discounts if you stay at least a week at your destination and return within 90 days.

Consider a Connecting Flight

Contrary to popular belief, direct flights aren't always the cheapest. Some people have saved up to $1000 dollars on booking connecting instead of Direct flights. If you don't have a lot of luggage, and aren't very particular with time, it is best, and a lot cheaper to book a connecting flight instead of direct.

Use the senior citizen discount

Some Airlines offer the same senior Citizen discount for the companions of the Senior Citizen. Ask if it's available.

The Early Bird gets the Airline Ticket

Call Airlines at 12:01 am on Wednesday mornings. This is when airlines release all the new fares and seat plans. You can be first and choose the best and cheapest tickets at this time.

Shop on the Internet

The best feature of the internet is that you see all available Prices from a very convenient place, your home. You won't have to canvass travel agencies. Some internet sites even offer internet only discounts that you can benefit from if you use their services.

When you do shop on the internet

Check first with travel agents regarding prices, Internet prices aren't always the cheapest, it's best to ask a good old travel agent. It won't hurt to look at news papers too, as some airlines publish discounts on print. If you're planning to buy more than 6 months in advance, it's probably best to ask a travel guide as internet sites don't usually have schedules for longer than six months.

Airline travel discounts are everywhere; you just need to know how to find them! I hope that with these tips, that's exactly what you are going to be able to do. Now go out there and get that lowest fare air ticket! Happy travels.

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Table Rock Lake Has Never Looked So Good

By Tracie Mikaels

The Showboat Branson Belle will show you the fabulous Ozark Mountains and the beautiful Table Rock Lake on this relaxing cruise. Enjoy the view while you watch excellent shows and discover our excellent chef.

Everyone will be entertained by the talented production company of Showstoppers. This exciting cast provides some of the most exciting and talented live show performers available.

Todd Oliver is a ventriloquist and comedian with some very funny characters. Todd is a favorite on the Showboat and has appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Howie Mandel Show.

The Showboat Branson Belle is an excellent place to celebrate that special occasion. Bring the family or just your spouse and enjoy the connection. If you're planning to propose or celebrate an anniversary the luxury of the Branson Belle will give you the opportunity to do it right.

Many people wonder how big is the Branson Belle and they are happy to learn that the riverboat dining and theater area has three levels to provide the best view of the shows. The top level of the boat is a large deck to provide everyone with the most exciting look at Table Rock Lake and the beautiful Ozark Mountains.

The experience on board is structured to meet our 3 priorities. Great food, great shows and great views. Many have heard that the food is only as good as the service and the atmosphere. On the Branson Belle they provide the best for all your senses.

As a passenger of the showboat you can be confident that all of your needs will be met. All cruises provide an on board EMT for any unexpected medical problems that may occur.

The Branson Belle is sensitive to the needs of walkers, wheelchairs and other items that may be necessary to make your trip successfull. All meals are served directly to your table with no lines or standing at buffets and all levels and bathrooms are accessible to all special needs.

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Around The World

By Russell G. Stuart

Seeing new places, meeting new people and learning about the history and culture of places is interesting. Travel is also for relaxing, enjoying and letting your hair down. Tourists and visitors go round the world sight seeing, clicking pictures and enjoying themselves with new types of food, customs and souvenirs.

www.itraveldays.com is a website which gives interesting information on travel. There are tips for women traveling alone; there are suggestions for cruises, for sightseeing and for enjoying. There are ideas on where to go and how, what to see and do and other such posts which make really interesting reading.

Plenty of women travel alone these days. A post on this website suggests that no woman should travel alone outside her country. She can take a friend, companion or a family member along with her. She should not go to pubs or bars alone as people may misunderstand her intentions. She should divide her money and keep it in separate bags. Also she should have photocopies of her travel documents and tickets made and kept in different bags for safety. She should not forget to carry basic things like indigestion tablets, sewing kits, some buttons and hooks. Also she should always have a box of tissues and toilet rolls near her as all places are not hygienic.

Money should be divided and kept in different places and in different bags. Photocopies of passport, travelers' checks and important documents should also be kept in different bags along with addresses and contact numbers of people back home. A box of tissues and a toilet roll in the hand luggage are advisable as all places in the world are not hygienic. Be careful of strangers and do not go alone to pubs or bars. Controlling expressions when seeing something different is also advisable. Dress should be like the locals so that you do not stand out. Be careful of what you eat. It is safe to stick to fresh fruits and safe drinking water.

Recent posts on this website give information of skiing in Niederau, Puerto Galera, Cruises in Sydney and others. There are several travel packages which you can choose and enjoy with your family.

New Year in Sydney is spectacular. Fireworks make a magnificent display across the skies. Millions watch the New Year being ushered in by Australians to the spectacular display of fireworks. New Year in Sydney is a good proposal for a holiday. It is comparatively warm down south at that time. Cruises, delicious food, exquisite drinks, festive music truly make this place seem like heaven. There are jet cruisers, big cruiser ships and Sydney showboats that take tourists round Pacific ocean, allowing you to delight in seafood, shopping, playing favorite sports and dancing.

A post on Puerto Galera in the Philippines suggests that scuba diving here is great. If you like water sports there are many places to choose from. Thailand is known for its coastal tourist places which offer underwater diving, and other sports.

If you like scuba diving then Puerto Galera in the Philippines is a good idea, says a post on this website. There are other places where you can ski, or play at the casino or simply relax. Christmas and New Year are there for all this.

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Outdoor Adventures and Family Activities in New Jersey

By Alix Montoya

We all know New Jersey isn't the first thing that comes to mind when somebody mentions adventure. Top vacation spots in the country are hogged by Florida, Hawaii, or Alaska. Although, it doesn't have to be this way all the time. Sure it's not clogged by hundreds of hotels and resorts, but the Graden State still has a few tricks up its outdoors sleeve that's sure to catch the attention of thrill seekers everywhere.

You can try the ten mile long island between the historical Barnegat Bay and the amazing Atlantic and get your fix of sunset picnics on the beach or hitch a ride on the back of a dolphin with your snorkels. The Island Beach State Park boasts more than three thousand acres of pure beach adventures and activities for saltwater fishing trips or just overall family fun.

The animals in New Jersey's excellent wildlife are as amazing to watch as they are diverse. If you want to watch whales, there are boat tours which take you to experience these great mammals in the flesh. Or you can stop over one of the bird watching sites along the Atlantic City Flyway and take a refreshing look at herons, shore birds or the northern diamondback terrapin.

If you're of the camping type, Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge boasts 42,000 acres of pure woodlands adventures for the thrill seeker in all of us. Or take part in the daily wolf watches in Lakota Wolf Reserve in Camp Taylor. Get to know these misunderstood pack animals and experience the natural adventure of a lifetime in wide wild New Jersey.

Take your skis and ski your way down the snowcapped mountain ranges that New Jersey offers in its winter activities. Go fly fishing for salmon during their season in the spring. Take your friends kayaking along the many rivers that flow to the Atlantic in the summer. Or go hiking along the thousand mile treks and trails in the beautiful autumn woodlands. All year round there are activities to be done and fun to be had in New Jersey.

New Jersey has always been just the center for commerce but you'll never know what the adventure opportunities it has until you try it. Get a dose of the Garden State's wild side and know the real meaning of the word adventure.

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Making Addictive Carp Bait For Big Fishing Catches!

By Tim Richardson

Most anglers who buy baits use them with blind faith because they really do not appreciate what actually happens in the fish that induces them to take a bait into their mouths and in doing so get themselves hooked! Imagine the power of being able to harness this knowledge where applicable. How much do think this advantage over the fish and over other anglers will multiply your catches?

Most anglers use readymade carp baits because they have become conditioned to because of easy availability, but confidence form slick advertising and advertorials etc are most often the bait that hooks such anglers and certainly not first-hand experience. Often the catches on new baits are made by the best, sharpest and most aware anglers using the edge of a new bait, and most anglers over-look this. If you have not used a bait before and not only do not know what it is made with nor how it works in detail, then my friend, you are fishing on blind faith not confidence.

Why would you care of you knew anything more about bait anyway; after all you catch fish right, and you have confidence in your baits? The difference between you running against an Olympic champion and expecting to win is you can try hard as you can with the amount you already have or know, but the Olympic champion has prepared in as many ways as fully as possible for a very long time; and that is why he is the best; talent at the top is not enough! In many ways use of flavours is like a race, where so many are simple taste or flavour carriers and mere attractors, (not feeding triggers) but others are like live rocket fuel by comparison, but you could spend your life missing out by not finding out; because most anglers keep secrets to themselves...

Many secrets are hidden from our senses but uncovered very easily by a little messing about with baits and some very elementary science, for instance, many carp bait substances change when in water into different ones to those we experience as humans in air... Garlic releases that pungent smell when broken in air and we are all familiar with similar compounds from onions and chives for example. But the smells from garlic we associate with its success are not strictly accurate, as certain of the key chemicals do not get produced in water the same as in air, and this might suggest to some thinking anglers that far more is going on, perhaps on a more deeper level to do with the biology of the fish in response to bioactive garlic substances rather than just a smell or taste.

Perhaps you might begin to think maybe something other than just smell and taste was influential and impacting on the carp; maybe something more profound, internal and physiological, or even psychological... To help clarify this big point, I ate a wheat-free biscuit (and wheat-free doughnut today!) Comparing the ingredients with the wheat-containing versions, the only substitution was that the wheat-free foods were based on maize flour, tapioca starch, soya flour and rice flour. All the rest of the ingredients in the wheat-free products were the same as the conventional wheat-based biscuits and doughnuts, including the fruit flavours, sweeteners, acidity regulators, (preservatives) and enhancers etc.

On eating the wheat-free foods I did not want to keep eating them and certainly Homer Simpson would have a shock if his doughnuts were wheat-free as there is something internally potent missing in them! Beyond all the flavours, sweeteners, enhancers and other goodies already added to those biscuits and doughnut (I say doughnut as I could only eat one,) something vital was missing. That missing substance that in wheat for example causes the release of feel-good hormones in the wheat-free foods was gone, and I really missed it!

If you ate food frequently that tasted and smelled good but had no further incentive to keep you eating more of it, you will more than likely eat something else in preference if that food does has an extra feel-good brain chemical releasing impact. The bait or food which creates more pleasure is preferential in humans and it is the same in fish! You brain chemicals are directing your actions on a basic level and when it comes to the impact of a key part of wheat, your actions as a result of eating it can very easily be to eat more; more cake, toast, biscuits, doughnuts etc, this is one vital reason people so easily over-eat these foods and create behavioural cyclic eating problems!

Many foods are made with substances that further impact on the brain to eat you to eat it more because it means the producers make more money and you actually get into a habit of eating it, and finding foods without such habit-inducing chemicals can be quite a hard thing to do if you try to rid your diet, body and brain to become free from their influence! Think tiger nuts or peanuts, now these are not exactly the most packed nutritional foods on the planet, but even though hemp is a super food in its own right, it too has substances with brain influencing impacts and practical consideration these aspects of bait ingredients, flavours etc can really get you the edge over fish, and other competing baits. You can term it using habit-forming or addictive substances to manipulate fish behaviours or just call it good use of what a bait should really be - i.e. addictive! The bait secrets ebooks author offering this has much more to reveal to those wanting better baits and bigger catches but this will certainly help you!

By Tim Richardson.

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14 Tips to Get Inexpensive Airline Tickets

By Ada Denis

Do you enjoy traveling? I do and am perpetually on the lookout for new and innovative ways to find airline travel cheap. Rather than dropping a bundle on the price of the airplane ticket, I'd rather spend my hard-earned savings on other things like splurging on a great dinner or shopping. Given this, I have put together a few tips to help in your search for inexpensive airline tickets.

1. Purchase a package. Buy airplane tickets, hotel, and car rental together and often you can save when comparing individual prices.

2. Flying one way is great but also usually the most expensive. You can save money by opting for connecting flights.

3. Check neighboring cities. As an example, if you are planning on flying into Orlando, FL, be sure to check out prices for flights to Tampa instead, as these flights are almost always less expensive and usually not too far out of your way.

4. If you are not traveling out of the country, consider flying on one of the smaller airlines for the major carriers as you will usually save on the purchase price this way.

5. Be sure to use the Internet to check out last-minute discount fares on the airline's main website. Start looking midweek for the upcoming weekend.

6. Be patient and wait for an excellent price to come up. But when you do see a great price go ahead and purchase it, so always have in mind what your definition of a "good price" is so you'll be ready to grab it at a moment's notice. You never know when those awesome prices will show up.

7. If possible, you should be flexible with your leaving and return dates. Sometimes if you just adjust your dates by as little as one day you can get a cheaper price. For example, leave Wednesday and return Sunday instead of leaving Tuesday and returning Saturday.

8. If possible, book your tickets directly at the airline's main website. If you use a travel agency, even one online, they will charge you an additional fee. It will also be much more simple to correct any problems if you are dealing directly with the airline itself instead of a travel agency. Believe me, I speak from experience on this one!

9. Mornings are sometimes the best time to check for tickets, and Saturday and Wednesday mornings are good days to take a look for some great prices. And don't feel you have to stay over on a Saturday in order to get a better price. In the past this was thought to be helpful but not so much anymore.

10. Don't forget to sign up for frequent flyer miles. It's quite surprising how often people don't take advantage of this perk. Even if you fly different airlines, sign up for each airline's frequent flyer program. The miles add up faster than you realize.

11. Flying one way? This doesn't always work but be sure to check for round-trip prices as well as one-way since there are times where it is actually cheaper to fly round-trip.

12. If you plan to travel on a holiday, be sure to book your tickets well in advance. For one thing, you will have a difficult time getting the seats and dates you want if you wait until the last minute, but you also will save on ticket prices by purchasing early. However, be sure of your itinerary because if you have to cancel or change your travel dates you'll likely end up forfeiting any savings you had made.

13. Make sure you always book your flights at least 3 weeks in advance. This will get you the best prices. The earlier the better in this case. Never buy tickets within 7 days of your planned departure if you can help it, as you will usually pay a significantly higher price.

14. Consider traveling on the so-called red eye flights. Check with your travel agent to see if you can save with these late-night flights. You can often save as much as 25% or more off the ticket price this way. You'll miss out on seeing the scenery you might see during the day but you'll be more likely to snooze your way through the flight and time will go by faster.

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Easy Homemade Carp Baits For Big Fish And Saving Money

By Tim Richardson

We fishermen pay lots of money for readymade fishing baits! The fact is that if they were so wonderful, companies would not have to keep on offering new baits all the time! Just the same number of fish or more, can be caught as a result of making your own unique baits and this will save you bags of money too!

In fact when you have made your homemade baits despite any mistakes you might make, well over 80 percent of your recipes will catch fish and equal results on readymades with ease. The fact they will be fresh and new is a giant factor in this too. New baits will arouse far less care and suspicion for most fish as they have never even been hooked on your new bait before. One of the great things about homemade baits is that they can keep you well ahead of the fish and fellow anglers who always follow the crowd using readymades, giving you even better consistent catches and more big fish!

You just need to fish sensibly and thoughtfully as you would normally for any big wary fish in order to be consistently successful. There is such a special and unique thrill and great sense of satisfaction when you catch fish, especially big fish like carp, catfish, bass, tench or even pike on your own homemade bait. One crucially important point about homemade baits is that you have no chance of anyone ruining your own chances by also fishing using your bait.

This is a point lost on most readymade bait users! The great edge of bait is being different to ones fish wary of already as a result of previous hooking and captures on it. So make your baits as unique as possible as frequently as you think your results indicate you may need to.

On the point about fish learning by association, you will also find with readymade baits that they frequently have to be changed to new ones because they get over-used and fish associate them with danger of hooking or capture. Whereas with homemade bait this rarely happens because you alone are fishing your bait so it cannot get over-used so intensively as readymades. This means your baits will remain effective very likely indefinitely which means you can focus on your fishing and have complete confidence that your bait is always working to best effect and has not blown! Some baits get based around flavor attraction on a carbohydrate ingredient base mix. Many others utilise to a greater extent a food bait approach using nutrition as the fish feeding triggering mechanism.

You might have read about making homemade baits and had the impression it has to be difficult and time consuming despite being more economical by far than using commercial baits. However it is in reality so easy to make homemade baits that catch fish over forty pounds that a 12 year old can do it and that is the real truth. There is no obligation for you to make baits anything like resembling commercial baits, all smooth, round barrel shapes perfectly formed and so on. In fact to copy them would lose you many hidden advantages that are not lost making very different baits! You do not even have to roll baits into balls at all or even boil them to produce boilies and there are very easy ways to avoid any time consuming parts in making baits.

Many fisherman overlook the advantages of not making their baits oval in shape. Remember carp remember, so using angular baits or non oval baits is a definite advantage. Just with a handful of eggs and a pound of semolina and soya flour you can make limitless different baits utilising any of thousands of additives and flavors, sweeteners and appetite stimulators and so on, or just one! Such a bait will form a protective skin if you drops pieces of such baits in water or scald them with steam. Why bother boiling your baits when bait which is merely dried in warm air are frequently more effective than boilies?

Making baits is very easy. You merely need a large container to mix your ingredients in and a knife or spoon to mix the materials to form a practical bait dough. First just get a handful of eggs and a teaspoonful of cake flavor and mix together well, then add your dry powders, etc a bit a time until a firm dough is reached.

Now you can use the dough as fresh bait or opt to label some sealed plastic bags and store it in the fridge for a few days or to freeze it in advance of going fishing. You most likely will forget what you made your baits out of so it is best to write this somewhere so you can remake your winning baits repeatedly! It is possible to get a ball of dough weighing about a kilogram from a 6 egg mixture; this will obviously vary depending upon the various ingredients you choose to include and their levels. Some ingredients will hold water better than others while some might dissolve readily in water, and the practical advantages of each kind are easy to exploit depending if you want hard baits which break down slowly or ones which dissolve and spread their attraction very quickly.

I understand value like anyone else so making homemade bait for 3 pounds as opposed to buying it for 12 pounds makes great economic sense. This is startling especially when you think of the saving on 10 or 20 kilograms of homemade baits compared to commercially produced readymade ones. The saving can be in the region of 80 or 90 pounds for just 10 kilograms of bait. You will have been using many kilograms in a season so figure your savings on homemade bait, it could easily total you not hundreds but thousands of pounds so easily saved!

homemade baits can look very unusual to a readymade bait user, but then when a fish encounters it is very much more likely to take it into its mouth, than a more conventional bait it sees 24 hours a day with a hook in it. This is why so many homemade baits catch so many big fish compared to very many readymade baits as the biggest fish have least reason to reject them out of conditioned fear through being hooked previously. Homemade bait makers might appear to get lots of beginners luck with big fish and this is no coincidence; unusually consistent big fish catches are very easily possible with a little more knowledge of bait making!

By Tim Richardson.

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14 Tips to Get Inexpensive Airline Tickets

By Ada Denis

Do you enjoy traveling? I do and am perpetually on the lookout for new and innovative ways to find airline travel cheap. Rather than dropping a bundle on the price of the airplane ticket, I'd rather spend my hard-earned savings on other things like splurging on a great dinner or shopping. Given this, I have put together a few tips to help in your search for inexpensive airline tickets.

1. Purchase a package. Buy airplane tickets, hotel, and car rental together and often you can save when comparing individual prices.

2. Flying one way is great but also usually the most expensive. You can save money by opting for connecting flights.

3. Check neighboring cities. As an example, if you are planning on flying into Orlando, FL, be sure to check out prices for flights to Tampa instead, as these flights are almost always less expensive and usually not too far out of your way.

4. If you are not traveling out of the country, consider flying on one of the smaller airlines for the major carriers as you will usually save on the purchase price this way.

5. Be sure to use the Internet to check out last-minute discount fares on the airline's main website. Start looking midweek for the upcoming weekend.

6. Be patient and wait for an excellent price to come up. But when you do see a great price go ahead and purchase it, so always have in mind what your definition of a "good price" is so you'll be ready to grab it at a moment's notice. You never know when those awesome prices will show up.

7. If possible, you should be flexible with your leaving and return dates. Sometimes if you just adjust your dates by as little as one day you can get a cheaper price. For example, leave Wednesday and return Sunday instead of leaving Tuesday and returning Saturday.

8. If possible, book your tickets directly at the airline's main website. If you use a travel agency, even one online, they will charge you an additional fee. It will also be much more simple to correct any problems if you are dealing directly with the airline itself instead of a travel agency. Believe me, I speak from experience on this one!

9. Mornings are sometimes the best time to check for tickets, and Saturday and Wednesday mornings are good days to take a look for some great prices. And don't feel you have to stay over on a Saturday in order to get a better price. In the past this was thought to be helpful but not so much anymore.

10. Don't forget to sign up for frequent flyer miles. It's quite surprising how often people don't take advantage of this perk. Even if you fly different airlines, sign up for each airline's frequent flyer program. The miles add up faster than you realize.

11. Flying one way? This doesn't always work but be sure to check for round-trip prices as well as one-way since there are times where it is actually cheaper to fly round-trip.

12. If you plan to travel on a holiday, be sure to book your tickets well in advance. For one thing, you will have a difficult time getting the seats and dates you want if you wait until the last minute, but you also will save on ticket prices by purchasing early. However, be sure of your itinerary because if you have to cancel or change your travel dates you'll likely end up forfeiting any savings you had made.

13. Make sure you always book your flights at least 3 weeks in advance. This will get you the best prices. The earlier the better in this case. Never buy tickets within 7 days of your planned departure if you can help it, as you will usually pay a significantly higher price.

14. Consider traveling on the so-called red eye flights. Check with your travel agent to see if you can save with these late-night flights. You can often save as much as 25% or more off the ticket price this way. You'll miss out on seeing the scenery you might see during the day but you'll be more likely to snooze your way through the flight and time will go by faster.

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Florida Family Activities in Museums

By Chris Blackerby

Kids have oftentimes equated museums with the word boring, and us adults, who tried to take them to one, should know this better than anyone else. But today, museums are slowly taking the spotlight for themselves as they heat up the competition on family activity lists and begin to take on a more hands-on approach on their visitors, kids and adults alike. And with Florida's best museums on the forefront, learning has never gotten this exciting.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary with an exhibit called The Making of MOSI, the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa, opens up rare archives and objects never before seen by the public. MOSI, the biggest science center in Southeastern USA, is also popular to the kids for The Vertical Rider, an anti-gravity race track where kids get to drive toy race cars on the ceiling!

Imaginarium Hands On Museum in Fort Myers takes on hands-on learning to a whole new level. The museum lets the kids experience archaeology in their Florida Fossil Quarry and Dino Dig exhibits by allowing them to play around and dig the fossils themselvels! Imaginarium is a good place if your kid dislikes "Don't Touch" signs in museums.

Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium goes out of its cosmic boundaries to offer an outdoor animal exhibit and indoor exploring adventure with an Indiana Jones-style twist. Some of their popular exhibits include, Newton's Notions, an exhibit on the Physics of everyday stuff and the Immersion Theater, which takes you inside a virtual human body in a small spaceship.

Ever wondered about the life of Florida's favorite fruit, the orange? You can learn more in Lakeland's Explorations V Children Museum. They also offer play clinics, grocery stores, banks and schoolhouses, all made for your children to enjoy!

DAYTONA USA is not entirely just a racetrack anymore. Now it offers features for kids who want to learn life on the fast road. Experience driving simulation made realistic with bumps, assist in almost real pit stops, and join in on many more fun activities for both kids and daddies alike.

Florida museums are finally realizing the importance of fun in making kids learn. They're offering more and more exciting family activities to serve this purpose. Make sure to visit them if you want your kid to have best learning experience ever.

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Toronto Cruises: A Great Way to Celebrate the Holidays

By Amy Nutt

Toronto is a beautiful city, and many area residents and frequent guests will agree that the best way to view the city is from the water. Where else can you get spectacular views of the CN Tower and the skyline? But Toronto cruises aren't just for the summer months.

Can you imagine celebrating Christmas on a in Toronto Harbor cruise? What about ringing in the New Year aboard a New Year's Eve Toronto cruise?

Toronto area residents have long understood that there are unconventional and fun ways to celebrate the holidays while still maintaining the traditions we all love. Check out some of these great holiday cruise ideas!

Christmas on the Water

A new idea for those who love to host holiday parties is to hold your party aboard a Toronto cruise ship. Generally able to seat smaller parties all the way up to 300 guests or more, these cruises provide an excellent venue for a holiday party to remember.

Cruise ships are fully heated, making them warm and cozy for clients and staff. Even large families have been known to host holiday get-togethers on the water. In addition, holiday cruises are a popular way to celebrate the holiday season as a couple or a family. Shared events provide a chance for smaller groups to join in the fun without chartering an entire cruise ship.

Views of the Toronto skyline provide a festive backdrop to a tasty chef-prepared meal. Toronto residents and visitors are learning that it's just more fun to celebrate the holidays on the water than to sit at home and celebrate Christmas the standard way.

NYE Cruises in Toronto

It used to be easy to figure out what to do on New Year's Eve. You could hang out with friends, pop open a bottle of champagne, and welcome the New Year. But this year, why settle for the same old games of charades? Why hang out in someone's family room watching the ball drop on TV?

Instead, this might be the year to do something different and try out one of the NYE cruises in Toronto. There's nothing like celebrating the start of the New Year as you gaze at one of the loveliest skylines in the world. Add to that beauty with the festive decorations and great cuisine and you have the recipe for a fabulous New Year.

NYE cruises in Toronto are fully heated, so you know you'll be warm and comfortable. That's always important when you're dressed in festive New Year's Eve attire! Plus, holiday decorations add an atmosphere of celebration perfect for a great New Year's Eve party.

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Toronto Christmas cruises are a great way to celebrate the holidays because they have so many important features. When you go on a cruise in Toronto, you can expect the following:

- Spectacular views of the CN Tower and other exciting landmarks, as well as gorgeous views of the city and harbor - A fully-equipped bar and friendly, knowledgeable bar staff - Sophisticated, delicious, and award-winning meals that are inspired by cuisine from around the world - First-rate service that leaves you smiling - Dcor and entertainment that exceed your expectations

Many people who have experienced the holidays or any other special occasion aboard Toronto cruises say that the experience is one they will never forget. The gorgeous views, delicious cuisine, and friendly staff make Toronto cruises one of the best ways to celebrate the holidays in style.

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Everyone is looking for Cheap Travel

By Madeline Hernandez

Whether across state lines or international, cheap travel is very important to businesses that rely on the ability to travel. When doing business in person is required, travel makes it easier for businesses to grow and not be confined within their immediate area. Cheap travel may not always be an option when there are time constraints or someone else is responsible for booking the travel arrangements. Planning ahead and creating a travel budget is a very important consideration for all companies.

As for consumers, for the most part, the average consumer will be looking for cheap travel to visit family or take a vacation. College students on a budget, as an example, need to be able to afford the travel expenses to get home and visit family during breaks and for the holidays. Whatever the circumstance may be, consumers want the best deal they can get. Why pay $200 more for a trip when you can search a little and possibly get the same trip for significantly less! Even if the trip is only $50 dollars less, wouldnt you spend a little time if you have it to spare, to find a great deal?

Plan ahead, spend a little time, do a little research. Cheap travel is not hard to find these days with so much competition in the travel industry. It may require a little time, but travel isnt going anywhere and there is definitely the ability to find a good deal wherever you are trying to go, with just a little effort.

A big portion of your travel expense will most likely be the airline ticket, depending on how many days and nights you plan on traveling, the level of comfort you seek and transportation arrangements. It will be necessary to keep all of this in mind when looking for great deals on travel so expenses will not be more than you planned for. Another deciding factor on finding cheap travel will be where in the world you plan on traveling and definitely the time of year in relation to where you are traveling. Do you mind traveling during popular tourist dates or do you prefer less touristy times to visit your destination? For example, If you like to go to Paris and people watch then August probably is not a good time to go since Parisians tend to leave the Capital during this time whereas October it really comes to life. These deciding factors will make a difference in the price you pay so pay attention to which of your destinations have peak season and off season that will determine the cost difference and if you are financially able to travel during specific times of year. Ask yourself, Is finding cheap travel more important than why I am going to visit this destination? You may be missing out on the reasons for traveling to your desired destination in the first place.

It is really not complicated it just takes a little planning to have the trip you have always dreamed of. These are just some guidelines out of many to help you in your quest for cheap travel.

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