Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax Of cabbages — and kings And…
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In 1988 I read Eric Hansen’s book, Stranger in the Forest. Having just reread it I…
Read MoreAmazing Amimals
This is photo of Mark Dumas was taken milliseconds before his neck was eaten by…
Read MoreCities that are always wet even though it never rains.
In many places in the world, generally along the ocean shore, cities have been discovered…
Read MoreClimate Reality
I had the privilege of recently attending Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project conference, the purpose of…
Read MoreLost at Sea
Many sailors have been lost at sea and some live to tell the tale. I…
Read MoreFishing…sort of
There is no such thing as a fish. Really, there is no common agreement as…
Read MoreSwimmers
How far can you swim? Most mammals can swim, even though some really don’t like to.…
Read MoreWe came to conquer…
Wait, where is everybody? I can think of only one country in the entire world…
Read MoreDeep, far, tiny and bouncy
Because the ocean is so vast and available for free it is often called upon…
Read MoreKiribati
$1642.16 per capita a year. Maybe it’s the name. It’s pronounced keerybass. You might have…
Read MoreCatalina
It isn’t 26 miles across the sea. It’s 20 miles. The subject of Catalina naturally takes…
Read MoreTwo Years Before The Mast
If your child ain’t all he should be now’…just punch him around a bit! …
Read MoreKozo’s Revenge
On February 23, 1942 a 365 foot long Japanese submarine surfaced a hundred yards off the…
Read MoreKnockoffs
Pacific Voyages is about strange and wonderful things of the Pacific. So I thought we’d revisit…
Read MoreRound the World Rosie
How is it you have not heard of Rosie Swale-Pope? I can’t explain it but…
Read MoreWHERE-IS-MY-STUFF?
Let’s see if we can find it shall we? My great friend Dr. Ken “liver…
Read MoreEffie and Avis Hotchkiss
The very first time the Atlantic flowed all the way from Brooklyn to the Pacific Ocean…
Read MoreSan Serriffe Islands.
Not in the Pacific…yet My pal Leslie Stepp turned me on to these islands which…
Read MoreBig Sur and Esalen
The Big Sur coast is best explored by Zeppelin, or alternatively, in a 1965 VW…
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