The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
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A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
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Here’s to a New Year with more fish and less sharks!
I had the great pleasure of a nice little picnic day at Bayfront Beach with my family and a few hundred others that came out to see the voyagers from the south. Such beautiful canoes they were- really amazing to see close up. Especially as they each took turns passing by the beach, mostly moved along by one man on the giant steering paddle- that was really impressive to me. Each vessel had a different dance to perform as they passed- Big Island Video News has a great video of the day that includes some of these. I got a few shots from the back of the crowd, and thought I would try to get closer as the day wore on, but ended up finding myself content with taking turns with the family in our little sailboat. Between rest breaks of considerable length near the beer and poke cooler, naturally.
Double Hull Sailing Canoes in Hilo Bay, a set on Flickr.
A late night visit to our friendly local volcano finds it glowing brightly once again. Kilauea is a volcano that has been erupting consistently since the 1980′s, yet is always changing. Standing on the edge of the crater under a full moon is always an amazing experience- I just need to remember to dress warmly.
I’m happy to say that these images are now for sale, in various sizes of prints, or even as postcards and coffee mugs(!). Not that I expect anyone to really be that interested, but- apparently I still enjoy the process of photography enough to want to put the stuff out there.
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Moana Kali, probably the biggest I’ve seen yet. Caught in Hilo Bay and released, as I had no cooler or ice with me…
…and I wanted to keep sailing.
Moana Kali in the Topper.
I guess we’re back now- don’t get me started on what happened, mostly ’cause I’m not even sure myself. But hopefully I’ll have something interesting for you later- like my new sailboat….
If you have still found your way here to the wordpress.com version of my site- thanks for taking the trouble to do so! I usually have the domain driftingson.com linked to this blog, and I’ve spent that last month trying to renew, it but my host company has had some technical issues with their site. Now the domain has expired, and I’m bummed. Sure hope I don’t lose it.
Supposedly they are working on it, but now I haven’t heard back from them. They are a small ethically and sustainably powered hosting company, so I’m willing to give them some leeway, but…
Well, we’ll just see what happens.
Sorry- no time to post anything substantial.
Fresh fish + local beer = good times
Borrowed from 'The Big Island Hui' blog.
Joe has posted an interesting look at what appears to be a fairly quick change in the behavior of sea life near the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, due to the oil spill. Fascinating stuff that bums you out.
WordPress won’t let me post the vid directly- again, so check it out straight from The Horse’s Mouth
