Posts from — June 2009

On June 7th, many of our friends and members will be joining Project Kaisei for World Ocean Day, the World’s First Combined Ocean Sports Clean-up Effort.

The Sail & Pick information:
When: June 7th, 2009
Where: Your local water, the SF Bay
Time: Any 3-hour period
What: A 3-hour competition to see who can collect the most debris.
More information about the Sail & Pick here…

Project Kaisei consists of a team of innovators, ocean lovers, sailors, scientists, sports enthusiasts and environmentalists who have come together with a common purpose. To study how to capture plastic waste in the ocean and how to capture, detoxify and recycle it into diesel fuel. This first research Mission, scheduled for the summer of 2009, will be critical to understanding the logistics that will be needed to make a successful clean-up operation possible as some of the technology required for such a feat has never been utilised under oceanic conditions.

The Galapagos travelers pose on the bow of the schooner.

Dear Friends:

It’s been over a month since I returned from the Galapagos Islands, and I am still  having fun with photographs, videos and memories of this incredible and amazing trip.   We had excellent company, a magnificent yacht & crew, and the natural world at our feet, pristine and engaging as very few places on earth still are.  Where else an you swim and play with turtles and sea lions in warm clear waters? Or watch magnificent sunsets and sunrises with a drink on hand, sharing stories of penguins and pelicans?  We took walks along sandy beaches festooned with nesting frigate birds in full mating colors, or along trails where courting blue footed boobies were dancing, one foot at a time in the air;  Or watched the arrival of the first dozen albatrosses, coming in for landing after a year at sea, wobbly and awkward, but eager to nest.  We celebrated our midway point at Cape Berkeley on the west coast of Isabella Island, right on the equator, with the GPS stuck at 00:00:00 - a remarkable set of numbers for a memorable cocktail hour. [Read more →]