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	<title>Rivenrock Gardens Cactus Blog... go to www.rivenrock.com for edible cactus &#187; Environmental</title>
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		<title>Dinosaur Caves from the sea</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/07/29/dinosaur-caves-from-the-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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  The caves are interesting, beautiful. It seems like you're in another world... one of National Geographic explorers, and strange exotic animals..... it's really pretty cool to just drift like a piece of wood, right up near nesting colonies of birds, seeing seals and sea [...]<!-- Easy AdSense V2.90 -->
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		<title>Patience My Ass, I&#8217;m gonna kill something!</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/07/21/patience-hell-im-gonna-kill-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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  They are an amazing little creature to watch... they will sit high on a treetop or cliff waiting for the sun to cause the thermal updrafts that they ride so effortlessly.... a simple jump into the breeze... a short downhill glide to build air-current causing lift (the curves of the wings causes a vacuum that actually lifts the animal up), and the animal can turn into the updrafts... letting the upwelling column of air lift the bird up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Lions in Avila</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/07/11/sea-lions-in-avila/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Avila California has a few really nice piers.
    The Sea Lions have taken to sleeping along some of the lower access walkways.
    It's illegal to try to get them to move.. as this may be construed as harassing them....
   They are also wild beasts... so if you try to get past them.. they might get scared and bite....
   In fact... these critters are like dogs with flippers and no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deer Fawn</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/06/28/deer-fawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cali Canyons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The local does have their babies here... it is a safer place than further from the house. Local predators do not come to our house that much because it riles the dogs.... the dogs bark like crazy at the deer, but don't worry them too much. The dogs are preferable to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gopher Snake</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/05/29/gopher-snake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 19:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They imitate rattlesnakes....
very interesting.
I've jumped out of my skin a few times when one of these guys turned up in the brush.
They'll form into a coiled striking pattern...feigning strikes,
wriggling their tail and hissing in a strange way that sounds vaguely like a rattlesnake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Crew Ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/05/26/road-crew-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[     There are many people who like the security of a 'Nanny State', taking care of our every need... ensuring employment and medical services etc.
   Such a state would also have the right to decide when, how and where you live your life....
US Saying:
"When you're living under my roof... you're gonna follow my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazing and awesome whale story</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/04/23/amazing-and-awesome-whale-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles.  She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. 
Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mossy Bank, 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/04/17/mossy-bank-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cali Canyons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Because of the low angle of the winter sun, some areas of north-facing creek bank deep in the canyon don't get any sun at all for four months or so. These areas got plenty of thick moss growing along the vertical rock cliffs. It was worth taking photos of. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>February Flowers</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/03/18/february-flowers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cali Canyons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some photos I took along the roadway last month...
 just as the wildflowers started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refuge</title>
		<link>http://www.nopalcactusblog.com/2010/03/17/refuge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great thing about living remote is you can be yourself....
you don't have 'The World' telling you how you should act or look.
Being so far from the world... it begins to matter less....
and life means so much more....
because you always see it being lost everywhere around you, [...]]]></description>
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