B. Mann Consulting

Dave writes how he ranks on this top 50 list. This was a vote, so some of the items might seem "flaky" as Trevor points out in the comments on Dave's posting.

Here's what I've completed on the list:

1. Swim with dolphins: actually, I rescued a Pacific White-Sided Dolphin while camping at Long Beach. Myself and some friends waded into the water, held it above the waves, and slowly walked it deeper until it could swim off to join the pod we could see at the mouth of the bay.
2. Dive the GBR
3. Fly on Concorde
4. Whale watching: I don't think I've ever been on an "official" whale watching tour, but you occasionally see killer whales swimming next to the Bowen Island ferry, plus I saw right whales and a bunch of others on my Class Afloat trip
5. Dive with sharks: they were hammerhead sharks, swimming around a sea mount (a spire of rock that rises out of deeper water) just off the Galapagos
6. Skydive: just outside of Ottawa, when I was on my first co-op term with Nortel
7. Hot air ballooning: Kate always wants to go when the festival is on in Gatineau, but we haven't made it yet
8. Fly a jet
9. Go on safari
10. See Aurora Borealis: at first, I thought it was the light of "French towns" on the other side of the hills. This was while camping by Troy's house at Mann's Mountain in New Brunswick, north of Campbellton
11. Walking the Inca Trail
12. Climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge: another one checked off during the Class Afloat trip
13. Visiting a paradise island: I think Moorea, Pitcairn, and Palmyra all count
14. Driving a Formula 1 car
15. Whitewater rafting: several times. Probably the best is in BC, near Lilloet
16. Walking the Great Wall of China
17. Doing a bungee jump
18. Train journey across the Canadian Rockies: done this a couple of times. First time was also my first visit to Ottawa, back in 1995
19. Driving down Route 66
20. Helicopter tour over the Grand Canyon
21. Travelling on the Orient Express: I think was on this route when I went from Bologna to Vienna, but I certainly didn't do the whole trip
22. Bathing an elephant
23. Visiting Antarctica
24. Riding a Harley Davidson: I can't believe this made the list...
25. Cowboy ranching: mmm...does a trip to the Flying U count?
26. Climbing Mount Everest
27. Experiencing a waterfall: there are people who have never seen a waterfall?!?
28. Seeing the Earth from space
29. Exploring the Galapagos Islands: yup. Got the blue-footed boobie pictures to prove it
30. Trekking through a rainforest: I'm going to say that I think this should be re-labelled as something like the Amazon or South America -- BC is a rain forest!
31. Galloping a horse along a beach: we rented horses on Easter Island, and walked along the beach. I don't think I can ride a horse well enough for it to gallop...
32. Exploring the Pyramids
33. Travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway
34. Watching the sun rise or set at Uluru
35. Wingwalking: I wasn't sure either -- here's the oldest person ever to do it
36. Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro
37. A flight over a volcano
38. Husky sledding
39. Glacier hiking: several, including Blackcomb and Garibaldi
40. Riding the world's rollercoasters: meaning several? I'm not a big fan of rollercoasters
41. Blue Marlin fishing in the Florida Keys
42. Paragliding
43. Playing golf on Augusta National Golf Course: can we substitute "playing disc golf at the Pyramids"?
44. Trek to see a gorilla
45. Seeing tigers in the wild
46. Hurtling down the Cresta Run
47. Walt Disney World: the one in Tokyo probably doesn't count
48. Las Vegas Casinos
49. Watching orang-utans
50. Watching polar bears

And here is TrevorJ's list:

1. read every Shakespeare play (and see them performed at Stratford)
2. run for office
3. have a newspaper byline: does 'Yachting Magazine" in BC count? And, it was actually a photo credit...
4. play in a band/orchestra
5. own a business: yup
6. attend the Nobel prize ceremony & speeches
7. deliver a speech at your country's legislative assembly
8. write a book
9. raise a child
10. dress up as Santa Claus & give presents to children

Hmmm...Trevor's list looks to be both harder to achieve and more worthwhile. The BBC list really only requires money, for the most part.