Tag Archives: Ocean
Decameron Day 3. Whales in rough seas.
Nella quale si ragiona, sotto il reggimento di Neifile, di chi alcuna cosa molto di lui disiderata o con industria acquistasse o la perduta ricoverasse. To achieve one’s dreams is a great feeling: to do so after having put some … Continue reading
Posted in Decameron, Odd ones out
Tagged 3, Blue whale, Conquered things, Day Three, Decameron, Dippy, Freighters, Indian Ocean, Look Up London, Lost things, Mirissa, Natural History Museum, Neifile, Ocean, Rain, Sri Lanka, Swell, Tour, Whale watching
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“Shark Drunk” by Morten Strøksnes, Vintage.
Norwegians are an inscrutable bunch. I’ve got colleagues from up there and, let me tell you, they are a constant source of wonder. Amongst many things, they’ll think nothing of saying things such as “Because you haven’t asked for this … Continue reading
Posted in Books review
Tagged Aasjord, Book, Book Review, Books, Critique, Greenland, Greenland Shark, Havbuka, Hemingway, Lofoten, Morten, Morten Strøksnes, Nordic, North, Norway, Ocean, Sea, Shark Drunk, The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean, Travel literature, Vestfjord, Vintage
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Pacific skies.
I lied. I said that the last post was going to be the final one from Rapa Nui, but here’s another. The fact is that to go to Rapa Nui and not to be mesmerised by its skies is 100% … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Chile
Tagged Ahu, Ahu Akivi, Ahu Tahai, Blue, Chile, Clouds, Crab, Dark, Devil Almight Blues, Easter Island, Gold, Isla de Pascua, Light, Ocean, Orongo, Pacific Ocean, Photography, Photos, Rain, Rapa Nui, Sky, Storm coming down, Sun, Sunrise, Sunset
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El misterio vive: Rapa Nui journal, Part III (and final).
There’s only a beach on Easter Island: as it’s to be expected, it comes with a bit of tourist infrastructure. But stop that image that’s forming in your mind, the one with all-inclusive resorts and a W Hotel with unz-unz-unz … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Chile
Tagged Ahu, Ahu Tahai, Anakena, Beach, Clouds, Easter Island, horses, Isla de Pascua, Milky Way, Moai, Navel of the world, Ocean, Pacific, Pale blue dot, Palm, Pescado, Poike, Rapa Nui, Ship, Stargazing, Stars, Sunrise, Sunset, Tahai, Te Pito Kura, Te Pito o Te Henua, Tongariki
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El misterio vive: Rapa Nui journal, Part II.
The north coast is the remote corner of an island that’s already way out of the way. The further away from Hanga Roa the least passable the road gets, until it becomes little more than a rock-strewn goat path patrolled … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Chile
Tagged Ahu, Ahu Akivi, Akivi, America, Chile, David Menezes Salvo, Easter Island, El Misterio Vive, He Moai, Journal, King Hotu Matu'a, Moai, Ocean, Pacific, Poem, Poike, Rano Kau, Rapa Nui, Te Peu, Tongariki
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El misterio vive: Rapa Nui journal, Part I.
Some trips are born in the heat of the moment. Others come from way back, originating from yellowing books, B&W films or stories told by elder relatives a lifetime ago. This is one of them. But yet again, it shouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Chile
Tagged Animals, Bird Man, Chile, Easter Island, Hanga Roa, Horse, Manutara, Migratory bird, Moai, Motu Nui, Ocean, Orongo, Pacific, People watching, Photography, Rano Kau, Ranu Kau, Rapa Nui, Sky, Tangata Manu, Travel, Trekking
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The ecocide that wasn’t.
Back in my university days there was a book that passed hands with the same speed as No-Global leaflets, only with more enthusiastic reviews. It was Collapse, by American geographer and historian Jared Diamond, author of that Guns, Germs and … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Chile
Tagged Aboriginal civilisation, Academia, Ahu, Article, Chile, Collapse, Deforestation, Don Felipe González, Don Francisco Antonio de Agüera y Infanzon, Easter Island, Ecocide, Ecology, Economics, European Contact, Exploration, Germs and Steel, Guns, Hawaii, Jacob Roggeveen, Jago Cooper, James Cook, Jared Diamond, Moai, Monolith, Ocean, Pacific, Rapa Nui, Rare earths, Statue, Wiley
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Surfin’ LI.M.A.
If everybody had an ocean Across LI.M.A. Then everybody’d be surfin’ Like Miraf… Nah, it doesn’t rhyme. Beach boys analogies aside, Miraflores was a surprise. It was the tail end of our permanence in Peru and Miraflores provided a welcome … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Peru
Tagged Beach Boys, Cono Sur, LATAM, Latin America, Lima, Miraflores, Ocean, Pacific, Paragliding, Peru, Surfin, Surfing
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In the land of the selfie
Photography, to me, is a cracking way of capturing the impression of a moment. A street scene, something I just glimpse with the corner of my eye, or even something I haven’t actually seen but that happened to fall in … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Brazil
Tagged Americas, Brazil, Christ Redeemer, Corcovado, Cristo Redentor, New social trends, Ocean, Pao de Azucar, Photography, Rio de Janeiro, Selfie, Selfie Sticks, Sugar Loaf, Urban photography
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