California Explorer Gifts

How the bones got into the Le Brea Tar Pits

"Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme takes a celebrity to the most extreme places on Earth!"

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

"The Ice Age must've caught him by surprise..."

"Not only pharmaceuticals - we're also finding all sorts of industrial chemicals here."

Local Knowledge

'He's not a pet. He's an endangered species.'

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

"I think I've figured out why we can't find the marina."

"This year we decided to vacation on the 3rd rock."

'Upon entering the rain forest...' 'Thousands of unknown species, and we can fool around with the genes of every one of them.'

Dear Diary. . . why, oh why, did I choose an adventure holiday?

"You have to believe what you're doing will lead to something valuable, even though it probably won't."

'I know about the birds and the bees. Tell me about the bears and the bulls.'

"Can you believe you left your job and family to search for this key, and it was under here the whole time?"

"It's the dawn of a new era"

These species are only living off the coast of Southern California!

"Yes, six to seven weeks is my life expectancy! Once I learned that, I thought, the hell with it, I'll stop working and start travelling..."

Try me/try me/try me...

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

'...heard the one about the Venusian, the Martian and the Saturnian?'

"We mustn't interfere, Larry. Just let nature take its course."

"A sentimental journey of a thousand miles begins with the first martini."

Computer: 'There are some things it is better not to know.'

Danger Slow Sand.

Monuments

"Don't move! It's as I suspected, they're attracted to clowns!"

"Fantastic! Do you realize what we've just stumbled upon? It's the fabled Lost Glove Compartment of the Ancient Astronauts!"

"...Ooh, I wanna know more about your dark side!"

"Whatever it is, we're up to our necks in it!"

Right, this is the map of all the UFO sightings. Hold the light steady love.

On day twenty nine, Dave decided that he would start to cut his way through the dense forest to find out more about the north side of the island.

'We studied the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper today. May I have an ice cream cone?'

Columbus Discovers that when Exploring, It's Not Such A Great idea to Bring The Family Along.

"Then what happened?"