Cool Things In Random Places

The Underwater Sculpture Park is the work of sculptor Jason Taylor from England, who has a passion for creating fantastic and unique pieces of work depicting Grenada’s colourful history and folklore and placing them underwater. All of the sculptures are in beautiful clear shallow water easily accessible by divers and snorkelers. The sculptures end up creating artificial reefs, and enhancing the marine environment.

The response from visitors diving the site has been reported as nothing short of amazement and fascination on the whole concept.

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Maho Beach is a beach situated in St Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles, on the Dutch side of the island. The place is known worldwide because of Princess Juliana International Airport that is situated adjacent to the beach.

Maho Beach (Image credit: sunsetbeachbar).

Incoming air traffic have to touch down as close as possible to the beginning of runway 09 due to the short runway length of 2,180 metres/7,152 ft,^[1], resulting in very low altitude aircraft on their final approach over the beach.
 

The local government warns that approaching too close of departing aircraft can “result in seriousinjury and/or death.”

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This shark from a shark derby in Nova Scotia has nothing to do with this post, but its a damn cool thing in a random place as sharks aren’t supposed to look like this in Nova Scotia (at least I hope not while I’m surfing!) One of the best responses to this site as been “it is like a bag of potato chips, once you start reading…”

Do you have some cool or weird thing in mind that could grace the pages of CTIRP?

Tips: Keep it short, sweet, and use a gripping title. Great photos are also a must!

So be creative and share those international oddities.