Definition

Tourist Definition - a person or persons who is traveling or visiting a place or islands for pleasure. 

Activities are two-fold- 1% swimming ... 99 % picture taking.

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Why People Travel?

Traveling as a tourist used to be traditionally something to broaden one's horizon ... and exploring the world around them. It is a way of gaining new experience firsthand. They took pictures here and there ... and collected souvenirs. Some people travel as part of their education like on field trips ... and some travel because they want to relax, enjoy, and rest from the humdrum of their almost routine life.

Nowadays the relationship between tourists and traveling is metamorphosing. The netizen's access to social media made it so. 

Browsing Facebook entrees exposes the new reality. Tourists are flocking to Boracay for instance ... (or to other dramatic luxurious destinations) ... not only TO SEE ... but also TO BE SEEN. Haven't you noticed how influencers frequent and make Coron Palawan their playground for a luxury backdrop ... but also to flaunt their celebrity-styled fantasies?

Why do they troop to Siargao and be in their skimpiest bathing suits? Why do they have to pretend they know surfing as they painfully carry those heavy surfing boards that are multi-colored ... with eye-damaging hue combinations? Why jetski when they have thalassophia or fear of being in deep waters? It is obvious he just wants to show the whole world ... he did experience something in this Siargao escapade ... ordinary mortals can't have.

Ask yourself ... why do Filipinos flock to the Philippine Arena to watch the Coldplay concert and ignore the exorbitant ticket prices? The obvious reason is that they want to see and be seen ... my gosh ... it is as though they are a nobody ... or they are a lesser mortal if they don't troop the line and rub elbows with no less than the President of the Philippines who also can't contain his penchant to come up and be counted? It is the bling culture for crying out loud ... and high-end shopping to make their presence felt ... an addiction to enhance their fast-deflating self-esteem?.

Indeed, my gut feeling says some tourists nowadays go somewhere to be spotted – to be ogled with envy by others both on Facebook and other platforms and in person at these destinations.

Animal World

 

1. A cormorant is a large diving bird with a long neck, long hooked bill, short legs, and mainly dark plumage. It typically breeds in coastal cliffs in Canada and is noted for its voracious appetite.
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What Cormorants Mean As An Adjective

 

Do you know that using Cormorant as a word in literature or in writing .... has a positive and negative connotation? Based on the way the bird behaves it can even used to describe a person.

Cormorant as an adjective symbolizes a person who is a go-getter... action-oriented, resourceful, and brave. This regal bird knows exactly what it wants and how to get it. Cormorant is when a person dives deep ... to catch what he wants.

In the same vein ... the word can also mean negative in some aspects and in some respects. Because this bird is a voracious eater ... it could mean to describe a person as greedy ... or a hefty eater.

The adjective "cormorous" is used to mean unsatiable, ravenous, and greedy. In his plays ... Shakespeare used the word cormorant as synonymous with being selfish.

Idiom 'Take With A Grain Of Salt' Meaning

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Amazing Earth

 If Dingdong Dantes has Amazing Earth on TV ,,, this blog has an Amazing Earth series that will leave you breathless as your jaw drops either of disbelief or a state of shock.  Let me remind our readers that the photos are not ours ... so kudos to the person who owns the images.  We are just too happy to share them with you ... that man since time immemorial has created a lot of stupefying ideas only a genius can think.  They made these ideas happen and we are here to marvel at their beauty ... the time and money spent on it ... and the sleepless nights they spent perfecting their craft.

Structure: The Devil's Tower

Location: WY-110, Devils Tower, WY 82714, USA. Devil's Tower is in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. 

Established: September 24, 1906

Description: The Devil's Tower is not man-made. The simplest explanation is that Devil's Tower is a stock - a small intrusive body formed by magma that cooled underground and was later exposed by erosion.  some people believe it is a butte (an isolated hill with steep sides and with a flat top) In 1907, scientists decided that Devil's Tower must be an eroded remnant of a laccolith (a mass of igneous rock, typically lens-shaped, that has been intruded between rock strata causing an uplift in the shape of a dome).

It is the first  American national monument and is believed to be a holy place by native Americans. Yearly about 5000 people register to climb the structure and so far there have been 5 recorded deaths.

The top of the Tower, at an altitude of 5,117 feet, is about 1,270 feet above the Belle Fourche River. The Tower is about 800 feet in diameter at the base. The sides rise almost vertically from the base for a distance of from 40 to 100 feet and then slope in more gently to form a narrow bench.

Devil's Tower is recognizable to anyone who has seen Steven Spielberg's 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.