It isn’t 26 miles across the sea. It’s 20 miles. The subject of Catalina naturally takes…
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Two Years Before The Mast
If your child ain’t all he should be now’…just punch him around a bit! …
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Kozo’s Revenge
On February 23, 1942 a 365 foot long Japanese submarine surfaced a hundred yards off the…
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Knockoffs
Pacific Voyages is about strange and wonderful things of the Pacific. So I thought we’d revisit…
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Round the World Rosie
How is it you have not heard of Rosie Swale-Pope? I can’t explain it but…
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WHERE-IS-MY-STUFF?
Let’s see if we can find it shall we? My great friend Dr. Ken “liver…
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The Mariana Trench
Down down down Just as some lust for the stars others go in the other direction.…
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Effie and Avis Hotchkiss
The very first time the Atlantic flowed all the way from Brooklyn to the Pacific Ocean…
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San Serriffe Islands.
Not in the Pacific…yet My pal Leslie Stepp turned me on to these islands which…
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Big Sur and Esalen
The Big Sur coast is best explored by Zeppelin, or alternatively, in a 1965 VW…
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Seasteading
Let’s create our own country! We can make all our own rules! We can take…
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Seawater
It’s complicated. We all know about tides and waves. They are just one aspect of…
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The Impossible Voyage
Some remarkable adventurers have fallen under the radar. Take Lope Martín, for example. Though the…
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Bellosguardo, ‘beautiful view’
Huguette Clark died in 2011 at the age of 104. Huguette was the sole heir…
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The Boondocks
Nemo, The Pole of Inaccessibility In 1992 a survey engineer, Hrvoje Lukatela, calculated the most…
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Ascension Island
34 sq. miles, 850 people and a cloud forest. Ascension isn’t in the Pacific but…
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The Rainbow Blanket Octopus
The aliens have landed. The Pacific and the other oceans (welcome newly named Southern Ocean)…
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Inakadate, Japan
Like much of rural Japan the village of Inakadate has a declining population. The main…
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The Ultimate Voyage
This is a departure from my usual reporting on things related to the Pacific. But…
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Monterey
250 years ago it was rough service to be sent to that wasteland called California.…
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