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Sunday, December 03, 2006
Canaries search for a cloud of locusts
Like the Bermuda Triangle ... A ship raised the alert that a huge cloud of locusts, some 200 to 300 meters in diameter, was seen about 20 miles off the coast of Gran Canaria earlier this week, moving in a south easterly direction.
Canary Islands security immediately sent out an emergency helicopter that searched the archipelago's coasts from north to south for more than four hours, looking for these pests, which, if they arrived onshore, could devastate crops.
But the search was fruitless. The extensive black cloud that they expected to encounter, had been swallowed up by sea or sky. Just a short distance from the coast where the helicopter had searched, a group of kids, training at the football ground at La Madera, in Vecindario, Gran Canaria, found only a few stragglers.
Se busca nube de langostas
NB: If you use an automatic translator, it will tell you that langostas means lobsters and it does, but I think we can be sure that those are not flying around in a cloud! :)
Canary Islands security immediately sent out an emergency helicopter that searched the archipelago's coasts from north to south for more than four hours, looking for these pests, which, if they arrived onshore, could devastate crops.
But the search was fruitless. The extensive black cloud that they expected to encounter, had been swallowed up by sea or sky. Just a short distance from the coast where the helicopter had searched, a group of kids, training at the football ground at La Madera, in Vecindario, Gran Canaria, found only a few stragglers.
Se busca nube de langostas
NB: If you use an automatic translator, it will tell you that langostas means lobsters and it does, but I think we can be sure that those are not flying around in a cloud! :)
