Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.
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... mind has mountains,
Cliffs of fall frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
Hold them cheap may who ne’er hung there.
(Click on it for enlarged view.)
Posted by Ron Sullivan | 1 comment so far... is that you might accrue a fan club of crazed old women.
Here’s Seru Saumakidonu: divemaster, reef guardian, and one of the crew that sailed this vaka, Uto Ni Yalo, from Fiji via New Zealand and Hawai’i to where this was taken, San Francisco Bay. The fleet of six vaka then sailed south to Monterey, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
You can see one of Uto Ni Yalo’s sister vaka in the background. Not very big, is it? An incredible voyage by incredible people.
Well, I think he’s cute too. By which I really mean: major respect to and total Aloha spirit radiating from this guy, and the whole crew.
Posted by Ron Sullivan | No comments yet... COMPLAINTS POLICE DIDN’T STOP RIOTERS
—Headline on San Francisco Chronicle item (via LA Times) about London riots.
Saturday, August 13, 2011, page A3, print edition
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This is Uto Ni Yalo. We got to ride in SF Bay from Treasure Island ‘round Yerba Buena to AT&T Park yesterday, a complete surprise. Her crew is from Fiji; they’d sailed from there to SF Bay via New Zealand, Samoa, and Hawai’i.
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Saw this in San Francisco the other day, just up the street from the jalapeño-apple pie and the Mexican-chocolate pecan pie and the cardamom ice cream and, come to think of it, v. good vanilla too. I’ll come up with the name Real Soon Now.
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