I’ve published a book! It is a fully illustrated catalog of all the photographs that were shown at the Northern Trust Exhibition last fall. Here it is – you can leaf through the pages and preview the entire book. There’s a full screen option as well. The book contains 94 pages with 85 full color […]
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Underwater Slideshow
This slideshow is a collection of favorites from diving in Vanuatu and New Caledonia this past season. Enjoy! However the true purpose of this post is to test Viewbook’s slideshow feature with “Easy iFrame Loader Plugin” installed. The slideshow will play within the blog post. If you’re using an iDevice (iPad, iPhone etc) CLICK HERE […]
Poster Child
Every fall there is a huge gathering of marine professionals at what is called IBEX. IBEX stands for International BoatBuilders’ Exposition & Conference and it is the largest technical marine event in the world. Every major vendor of marine items is there. Along with thousands of items to check out, there is an extensive array of […]
Facebook Link
My blogging platform, WordPress, has recently released a new feature called Publicize that announces new posts on my Facebook page as well. This is just a quick housekeeping blog to implement the new feature. The AVATAR Logs is a journal and photo site that records our adventures cruising distant seas on our FPB 64 motor […]
Winding Down
The alarm clocks went off at 4 am this morning as today’s itinerary is a 90 mile leg outside the reef in the open ocean. Because we want to be able to see the reef and coral head hazards at our destination, we leave early in order to arrive when the sun is still high […]
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day to all you folks in the Northern Hemisphere. For those is the Southern Hemisphere, sorry I’m a day late. The photo above is a naturally occurring mangrove swamp near Voh in New Caledonia, not too far from where we are cruising now. I didn’t take the photo as AVATAR lacks the requisite […]
Turquoise
We have been spending the last couple of weeks exploring New Caledonia’s satellite islands. First we departed Noumea and sailed down New Cal’s west coast to Ile des Pins (Island of the Pines) just off the southernmost tip of the main island, and now we are cruising through the Loyalties, a string of islands some […]
Of Lighthouses and Scuba Diving
The hiatus on the blog is because we are finally out cruising for real! The four cyclones that kept us close to port have all gone their separate ways. The monster category 5 Yasi is punishing Australia as I write but at least it is far away from here! LE PHARE AMÉDÉE So with a […]
The Chief of Vatulele
Slideshow Fiji 2005 True to his word, the chief of Vatulele showed up on the beach this morning ahead of schedule to give us a tour of the lagoons where the sacred red prawns live. We gave him a dinghy … Continue reading →
