Gambo

Our guest was born fifty-nine years ago in Gambo on Bonavista Bay, the eldest of thirteen children.

Newfoundland 1959

Locals serenade them with a song that begins, "They met in Gambo/A little town in Newfoundland …"10/2 Obama opposes warIllinois state Sen. Barack Obama, speaking in Daley Plaza at Chicago's first big anti-Iraq War rally, declares his opposition to the war nine days before Congress authorizes the U.S. invasion.

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Locals serenade them with a song that begins, "They met in Gambo/A little town in Newfoundland …"10/2 Obama opposes warIllinois state Sen. Barack Obama, speaking in Daley Plaza at Chicago's first big anti-Iraq War rally, declares his opposition to the war nine days before Congress authorizes the U.S. invasion.

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I'm working with Campagnolo on a new "Gambo Electronicco", electronic variable height stem, with Bluetooth, GPS and MP3 capabilities.

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For previous blog posts on marine cryptids see Swan-necked seals and Gambo rides again.

Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

So in the interests of disseminating my thoughts on Gambo to a wider audience, here is what I wrote about it in Naish (2001, pp. 88-89) …

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

For previous blog posts on marine cryptids see Swan-necked seals and Gambo rides again.

Cadborosaurus Darren Naish 2006

Gambo rides again: the beaked beast of Bungalow Beach and the prehistoric survivor paradigm

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

* Cryptozoologists have a really, really annoying habit of coming up with cutesy pet names for cryptids: Shuker is among them (the respective cryptozoologists, not the cutesy pet names) and coined ‘Gambo’ for use in his book In Search of Prehistoric Survivors.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

One of the most interesting ‘mystery carcass’ tales is that of ‘Gambo’*, a flippered sea creature apparently washed ashore on a Gambian beach in 1983.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006