Top 15 Sexiest Survivor Ladies

The 25th season of Survivor on CBS is underway so I figured it was time to update my list. The popular television reality series maroons a group of strangers in a desolate location to compete in a game to Outwit, Outplay and Outlast each other until the lone Survivor remains to collect 1 million dollars.

Each season is different in some ways as the producers try to reinvent the game to keep it fresh but even then, if the castaways aren't entertaining or they don't keep our interest, it's easy to turn the channel and watch something else.

The one formula to the show that never disappoints is the sex factor. Lets face it, I'm not the only red-blooded heterosexual male who will tune in to watch beautiful young women in bikinis frolicking in the sand and surf.



I'll suffer through having to listen to annoying castaways like "Shambo", Sue Hawk, Ace and that idiot Jonny Fairplay if it means I can also enjoy watching the smart and sexy women I have listed below. By updating this list from my original posting I am still clearly targeting my male readers more so then my valued female readers but I'm a guy so it's only natural. And of course I could be missing obvious selections that you feel are worthy of top 15 status but this is my list so don't get too upset if I missed one of your favourites.



To be honest, this list really hasn't changed much at all with only one addition to the previous posting and one lady removed. But there was one young lady this season who I feel is worthy of being added. So without any further ado, lets get to the list.



There are a few who were very close to making my new list including Elisabeth Filarski (Hasselbeck), Candice Woodcock, Alexis Jones, Kelly Shinn, Danni Boatwright, Ami Cusack, Monica Padilla, Stephanie LaGrossa and Eliza Orlins. They are all beautiful women from the show but I figured I'd better keep the list to the top 15. Here we go:

Top 15 Sexiest Survivor Ladies

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Number 15 - Kelly Sharbaugh

Survivor Samoa

Number 14 - Chelsea Meissner

Survivor One World

Number 13 - Amanda Kimmel

Survivor China, Micronesia & Heroes vs. Villains

Number 12 - Sydney Wheeler

Survivor Tocantins

Number 11 - Heidi Strobel

Survivor Amazon

Number 10 - Sarah Jones

Survivor Marquesas

Number 9 - Angie Layton

Survivor Philippines

Number 8 - Ashley Underwood

Survivor Redemption Island

Number 7 - Kelly Czarnecki

Survivor Gabon

Number 6 - Jenna Morasca

Survivor Amazon & All-Stars

Number 5 - Mikayla Wingle

Survivor South Pacific

Mikayla has also posed in Playboy. NSFW

Number 4 - Jennifer Lyon

Survivor Palau

Sadly Jennifer lost her battle with breast cancer on January 20, 2010 at the age of 37.

Number 3 - Parvati Shallow

Survivor Cook Islands, Micronesia & Heroes vs. Villains

Number 2 - Amber Brkich

Survivor Australian Outback & All-Stars

Number 1 - Natalie White

Survivor Samoa

Do you agree or disagree with my choices? Leave me a comment and let me know.

September Already?

Wooden Foot Bridge
Originally uploaded by *Bundy*

I can't believe this summer is almost over. Seems like only yesterday I was driving out to the golf course for the first time in March to play the first round of the year. But here we are only a few weeks away from the arrival of Autumn.

The one complaint I heard from people this summer was actually surprising to me. We didn't have enough rain.

Okay, I agree with them that it was an unusually dry summer and everything is either dead or on it's way to being deceased. The grass hasn't been green for over a month now. The trees are already changing colour due to the lack of rainfall and many crops have suffered because of it.

But this goes beyond summer. For those in these parts we have had very little precipitation gong back to the winter months. I think I used the snowblower three times last winter and once was just to get the gas out of the tank.

The forecast for the fall doesn't look as though it will get any wetter with more above normal temps and dry conditions expected. Part of me thinks this is great but I can't help but wonder what if we're going to pay for it come January. Are the days of the snowstorms for Eastern Ontario over is Mother Nature just waiting for the right moment to jolt us back to reality. I guess time will tell.

This past weekend I took advantage of the amazing weather to go for a walk through Jobes Woods Trail at Presqu'ile Provincial Park where I took the photo shown here. Normally the forest floor is damp or even underwater in this area and this bridge / boardwalk keeps walkers dry. But at this point all it does is keep you above the poison ivy.

I Need Help For My Addiction

Of all the things I thought I could one day be addicted to such as food, sex, alcohol, porn or television, I would never have guessed as little as 20 years ago that I’d be addicted to my Smartphone. In fact, I would have been happy to be addicted to sex and porn but sadly that just never happened. I do like eating however...but who doesn’t?

The particular phone that has propelled me to addictive status is my iPhone 4. I love my iPhone and everything I can do with it. There’s really only one thing I don’t enjoy about my iPhone and that’s the crazy user fees charged by Bell to use my phone to its full potential. My service plan isn’t even top of the line yet the monthly charges Bell Mobility gouges from its customers is beyond ridiculous, bordering on theft. To be blunt, we get bent over and reamed hard by mobile phone companies in Canada. Yet nothing ever gets done about it. I envy my brother and his plan with AT&T in the U.S.

But bitching about “Ma Bell” can wait for another day, this is about my addiction. To be honest, my obsession isn’t so much about the actual phone but what it allows me to do.

The main thing I really like is how well the phone communicates with my iMac, either through iTunes or iCloud. I love the fact that I can add new contacts or calendar appointments on one and the other will automatically be updated with the new information. I haven’t figured out how to have my Notes and Reminders sync through iCloud yet but that’s not nearly as important as my other items.

One thing a phone must have for me to be happy above all other gadgets, apps and tools is the ability to actually make a phone call and have it sound good. I mean, it is a phone after all. This phone despite being almost two generations old (iPhone 5 is scheduled to be released this year) has great reception in areas where in the past I’ve had issues with other phones. Of course the Bell 3G coverage has improved in some areas but I still have major issues getting a signal in a few locations that are heavy tourist areas where you’d think Bell would have improved their coverage by now. Oops, there I go bitching about Bell again.

The Bluetooth integration works well and allows for easy hands free calling in my car. This is a must today with all of the new laws targeting distracted drivers in Ontario. On a recent trip to Florida it seemed every car I passed the driver was either talking or texting on their phone while driving. It’s a bloody disgrace. I’m 100% in favour of the new laws in Ontario but every day I still see people (mostly women) talking with their mobile phone to their ear and weaving all over the road. Hopefully they’ll get caught and fined and maybe learn a lesson before they kill someone.

I really like having internet access anywhere I go. I can browse the web and check email anyplace I can get a signal. Plus in locations with Wi-Fi hotspots I can use the wireless internet capabilities which helps save on my data plan usage.

But of course the best part of my iPhone is without a doubt the Apps I can use. Without my Smartphone I wouldn’t be nearly as active on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Google+. That’s not to say that I spend every waking hour tweeting or posting photos but they’re fun time wasters. I never thought I’d use Twitter as much as I do in my day to day life but it’s a great tool for keeping informed on news, sports and entertainment. Plus I can also follow the Tweets of some of my favourite actors and reality stars. Plus, as it turns out, I tend to complain and post things I normally might not say in day to day life. Twitter has sort of become my alter ego. Instagram is a great way to share quick photos taken with your camera on the phone with others. Plus there are a lot of hot ladies who think posting photos of themselves wearing very little may be a ticket to fame and perhaps a modeling career. Who am I to try and discourage them?

Other Apps that I really enjoy or make use of regularly include GasBuddy (to check local gas prices), Distant Suns (for stargazing), iBird Canada (handy birding field guide), Find Friends (to find out where my brother is at that moment in Florida), flyby (tells me the times that the Space Station will go over my location) and lots of other cool Apps like NASA, Kijiji, Mobile Photos, Flixster, YellowPages, Quake Watch, AppBox Lite and Coin Flip for those times I can’t decide on something. I have only recently started using Foursquare so the verdict is still out on that one.

Sports Apps are also very handy since I am a fan of sports in general. Among my most used are Score Mobile, NHL Game Center, TSN Mobile, MLB At Bat and CBC Hockey. I also have a Rules of Golf App put out by The R&A (The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews). You never know when I might need a ruling while out on the course.

And finally, the biggest time wasting Apps ever created are the Games. I don’t play them nearly as much as I used to but when I’m bored or waiting for my car to have work done on it, it’s nice to have something to help pass the time. Games located on my iPhone include three versions of Angry Birds, Bejeweled, Zombie Gunship, Tetris, Skee-Ball, Tiger Woods Golf 12, Sprinkle, Field Goal and Scrabble. I can safely say you’ll never find me playing any of those farming games.

So there you go...my one big addiction which seems to rule my life. I feel lost with when my phone isn’t nearby and will panic if I can’t recall where I set it down. I’ve never had the shakes yet but we’ve never been separated for any real length of time. If I lost my iPhone, I wonder if I could call the police and have them form a search party for me. I know it’s not a child but it’s the closest I’ve come to loving an inanimate object.

I’m always looking for new apps or apps I’ve missed that others find really interesting so if you have any you’d like to share with me, please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know.

Presqu’ile Needs Some Attention

I've camped at Presqu’ile Provincial Park in Ontario every summer and at times in the spring and fall for over 40 years. It is a home away from home and holds a lot of great memories as a kid and an adult.

It has gone through a lot of changes over those years, as you would imagine, some for the better and some for the worse. I could write a book on these changes but will try to keep my thoughts as brief as possible.

It still remains a great park for camping with good sites however the CAMIS reservation system is not the best online. I spoke with many campers who are dissatisfied with how it works now and what appeared to be very slow servers. Twice while booking sites I was kicked off 3 or 4 steps into reserving the site and lost the site I wanted. I never had this issue in the past. I hope they upgrade before next winters reservation period.

For some reason, maybe to save on fuel costs, the park workers weren’t cutting the grass as often as they should prior to the lack of rain when it was growing a lot. Plus, there are a lot of areas that used to be kept cut that no longer are and this looks dreadful. I'm sure it has something to do with the naturalists wanting to keep the park a more natural setting. It just looks like they're lazy or too cheap to cut the grass the way it used to be. I’d say it makes it harder to spot the deer but that’s another story.

The main roads in the campground need to be paved or resurfaced properly right away. Not only have they been patched over and over and are very bumpy but the dust kicked up by passing cars is disgusting and an absolute disgrace. Anyone camped on the side of the road where the dust is blowing towards is constantly eating the dirt, having to clean their vehicles and must keep their tents and trailers closed up tight to avoid having everything covered in grit.

This has been like this for many years and so far the best solution the park staff have come up with is to pour a little water on the roads to try and keep the dust down but this happens infrequently and does little to solve the problem. Campers will even walk back and forth with jugs of water and will wet the road themselves for some relief. Not exactly what these paying customers had in mind for an activity when they booked their vacation.

For the amount of money that is spent in the park each year you would think they could afford to properly pave the roads most in need. At the very least, pave the main roads around High Bluff and Trails End where the problem is the worst. Use recycled asphalt on the other campground roads. But it seems the powers that be would rather stay under budget and continue to find temporary and cheap solutions that really aren't solutions at all.

One nice change recently was the addition of newly built comfort stations on High Bluff, The Pines and the Maples campgrounds. Although I guess they couldn't afford to put hot water into the Pines washroom. Now they just need to build one more with showers near Trails End.

I'd also suggest that as every camper registers upon entry, they be given not just the park newspaper that contains the rules but a separate piece of paper with five or six of the main rules that are constantly being broken. Among those are people cutting through campsites not their own and washing dishes at the fresh water taps where people get their drinking water.

And speaking of drinking water, what does the health inspector think about the dumping station being located only a few metres from the fresh water tap. While one camper dumps their septic tanks, another is filling their holding tank with drinking water. It would be a smart idea to move the location of the drinking water across the road where trailers could fill up with water in a much healthier location. Plus with the tanks being on different sides of the trailers they could set up the new water filling station so trailers could fill up on either side.

Finally, the biggest safety issue in the park is the speeding. How a child hasn't been killed or injured is just luck. The speed limit in the campground is 20 Km/h yet it is not uncommon to see cars doing 40-60 Km/h at times in the camp area. Campers can often be heard yelling at the speeders to slow down but if the security would set up on foot and catch and fine a few each weekend, it would go a long way towards solving that problem. It wouldn't take long to nab a few and they're easy to spot. You can see their dust flying from some distance down the road.

I know to some this all might sound like nitpicking but the back of every campers registration card that goes in the post at the campsite has a place where suggestions can be added and turned in. I have a sneaky suspicion that a lot of those cards are either ignored or just filed and forgotten. This might be a little more public and harder to ignore.

I love the park and spend a lot of time there with family and friends and I think these changes if implemented would go a long way towards improving the stay for each and every paying customer.

Toronto Violence Escalating

Forget the Gangs of New York! In 2012 it’s the Gangs of Toronto that we need to be concerned about.

I don’t even live in Toronto but I’m sickened by the growing trend of gun violence in one of Canada’s greatest cities. The number of shootings in 2012 in the Big Smoke as of July 18^th is 143, including the mayhem just a couple nights ago that left two dead and 23 wounded at a Scarborough block party.

There have been 29 homicides this year already and shooting victims total 178 which is up over 40% from this time last year.

The bottom line...enough is enough. But what can be done about it?

Everyone in any power position talks tough. From the Mayor to the Chief of Police to Premier McGuinty and other politicians, they all say enough is enough and it’s time to crack down on the problem. That sounds good but is it really possible to put an end to the violence? Can Toronto’s reputation as a safe place to live and visit be restored?

I have to laugh when I hear these same individuals claim every time these crimes occur that they’re just “isolated incidents” and that “Toronto is a safe city”. Pull your head out of the sand and open your eyes. These stopped being isolated a long time ago and are now common occurrences. When I turn on the morning news, I expect to be told of another shooting or killing on the streets of the GTA. It stopped being a surprise a long time ago.

It may seem wrong for me to say this but if it was only gangbangers getting shot and killed I’d say, “Have at it boys!” A little insensitive perhaps but that’s the life choice these gang members made and knew what they’d be facing going in. As long as innocent bystanders were left alone I could almost tolerate it.

However, that isn’t the case as we’ve seen time and time again; there always seem to be non-participants caught in the crossfire and that is the real tragedy.

Police Chief Bill Blair while sounding upset and disgusted by the most recent events was quick to point out that it’s “not indicative” of the turmoil Torontonians endured during the summer of 2005 when 24 people were shot dead between mid-June and mid-September. A total of 52 people were killed by guns in the city that year. It should also be noted that of the 29 murders in Toronto so far this year, only 20 have been by guns.  Yup, ONLY 20, like that’s something to be happy with.

 

The most shocking trend this year seems to be the circumstances surrounding these murders. Many of them seem to be taking place in busy public gatherings or locations. The most recent happening at the large block party, another during the fireworks display Canada Day at Woodbine Beach and another at the Sicilian Sidewalk Cafe in Little Italy crowded with soccer fans. Perhaps the most shocking to anyone with thoughts of visiting the city took place on June 2 at the Eaton Centre downtown where one man was killed and six others were wounded, including a 13-year-old boy shot in the head. And let’s not forget the hundreds of other shoppers who were traumatized and terrified during the ordeal.

When these “attacks” start happening outside of the usual neighbourhoods and impact the safety of those in what should be considered safe locations, this is what strikes fear into anyone thinking of making Toronto a vacation destination. This is why I won’t be making the drive up the 401 to Toronto anytime soon. The city has many great attractions that I enjoy but a trip into the Wild West shouldn’t be one of them.