Apr 7th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Context is a funny thing. If this man were, say, working on his car in Passaic, New Jersey, we wouldn't find him very romantic or interesting. But put him on a boat on the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia and he's now a perfect travel photo subject, thanks to Flickr user SummitVoice1. He makes us sigh and think, "That's the life. Just a man, a simple boat and the open water."
He should still probably ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the day - The Old Man and the Sea
Apr 7th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Context is a funny thing. If this man were, say, working on his car in Passaic, New Jersey, we wouldn't find him very romantic or interesting. But put him on a boat on the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia and he's now a perfect travel photo subject, thanks to Flickr user SummitVoice1. He makes us sigh and think, "That's the life. Just a man, a simple boat and the open water."
He should still probably ...Eleuthera Island, Bahamas - "Fishing is a Good Life Here"
Mar 29th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
French Leave, Eleuthera -- Under a cloud-studded sunrise at the end of the two-and-a-half-mile long beach I watch a 14-foot plywood boat back into the morning surf. A trio of Bahamian men readies it for a day of spearfishing along the near-reef that parallels the 110-mile long island. One will drive; another will watch and stack fish. The third – a lithe, fair-skinned black man with ...It's time to end Indian Ocean "Adventures"
Mar 24th, 2011 at 1:00PM: With news that seven Danish sailors, including three children aged 12 to 16, had been captured by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, February, 24, it's time to reevaluate the legacy of four Americans shot to death by pirates in those same waters off eastern Africa just two days before the Danes issued their distress call.
In the obituaries of the four Americans killed aboard their ...Aleksander Doba successfully sea kayaks across the Atlantic
Mar 20th, 2011 at 5:00PM: An obscure Pole named Aleksander Doba has pulled off a somewhat obscure first: Sea kayaking across the breadth of the Atlantic Ocean in 98 days, 23 hours, 42 minutes, the longest open ocean kayaking adventure ever.
Leaving quietly from Dakar on October 26 and spending much of the first two months fighting into relentless winds and currents which kept pushing him north, it seemed – if you ...Underwater suburbia planned in "Aquatica"
Feb 10th, 2011 at 11:00AM: Dreamers have been imagining human life undersea for centuries. The most successful in turning that dream into reality have come up with musty, mobile-home-like contraptions tethered to barges or hooked by massive hoses to land where committed marine biologists toil for a week or two.
Aquanaut and bioengineer Dennis Chamberland hopes to expand upon those successes by building the equivalent of ...2010 -- a record year for Somali pirates
Feb 8th, 2011 at 8:30AM: For all the "extremes" of the natural world in 2010 – record-setting rainfalls, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions – man managed to rack up some big numbers too.
Particularly those persistent Somali pirates who picked up the pace on the Indian Ocean, ramping up attacks on cargo boats, cruise ships and private yachts. According to an end of the year report by the Piracy ...Photo of the Day - Sea turtle in action
Jan 30th, 2011 at 5:30PM:
Snorkeling is one of my favorite travel activities, especially because it's such a visual feast. Simply grab a mask and some fins, stick your head underwater and suddenly you're staring at an alien world: bright neon-striped fish, strange wispy corals and of course, the graceful sea turtle. Flickr user kumukulanui snapped this beautiful specimen in action just off the coast of the Big Island ...Photo of the Day - Boats in Croatia
Jan 16th, 2011 at 6:00PM:
As a kid, I spent lots of summer vacations staring at boats in the harbor. I never had a good reason for it but today, Flickr user nicocrisafulli's photo brought all those boat memories rushing back. There's something childlike and wonderful about their motion, sound and colors: the way they chaotically bob up and down, the soft thwapping of the covers whipping in the breeze and their colorful ...Photo of the Day (12.12.10)
Dec 12th, 2010 at 6:00PM:
The faded colors and textures of Flickr user clee130's photo from the Caribbean island of Curaçao caught my eye today. I love the bright red shirt and hat of the fisherman, the grimy patterns streaking the side of his boat and the soft green textures of the glassy water behind him. Add the slightly off-center "tilt" of the camera and you've got a relatively simple image with a lot of ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Checking in on the BP spill cleanup
Dec 10th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Reports last week from the beaches of Alabama and Mississippi suggest that the post-BP gusher cleanup continues, with varying degrees of success, and that new oil continues to show up.
Near the Alabama-Florida border, a placed called Perdido (Lost) Key, BP-contracted crews have been sifting sand for more than six months to try and get rid of tar mats buried nearly three feet beneath the sand.
...Bowermaster's Adventures: Transiting the Atlantic Ocean by ship
Dec 9th, 2010 at 11:00AM: Seated in a barber's chair securely bolted to the stern deck I watch the sunrise over the heart of the Atlantic Ocean. A thin layer of pale blue sky rims the horizon, holding aloft a next layer of billowy cumulus. The air temperature is exactly the same as that of the sea, 77 degrees.
We are equidistant between the coast of Portugal and our goal, Puerto Rico, each 1,800 miles away. As far as I ...Bowermaster's Adventures -- Crossing the Atlantic with "Atlantic"
Dec 7th, 2010 at 11:00AM: The Atlantic Ocean, 480 miles southwest of Lisbon – The seas have laid down to a meter in the past 24 hours and (for the moment) the sun is filtering through a gathering cloud layer. We have just sailed south of the Madeira Islands, destination (slowly) Puerto Rico. It should take another ten days or so.
Of all the places I've traveled this is my favorite place to be: In the blue heart of ...Photo of the Day (10.25.10)
Oct 25th, 2010 at 6:00PM:
When I was a kid, I used to beg my parents and sister to go swimming with me when we went to the beach. At the public pool, I would demand that everyone watch me jump off the high dive. Basically, I was your average little boy. As I've gotten older, I've learned to enjoy the serenity of the beach (if I can find a beach that's not a sea of humanity blasting house music and ignoring posted ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Navigating the hordes of jellyfish
Oct 5th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
Jellyfish -- those gelatinous, stinging, floating-condoms-of-the-sea, the pint-sized boogeyman of the ocean are fast becoming the equivalent of a coal mine's canaries. Appearing this summer en masse along coastlines around the globe, jellyfish are evidence of just how badly we're treating the ocean and with painful results.
During the last days of summer jellyfish swarmed the Atlantic coast ...Photo of the Day (10.01.10)
Oct 1st, 2010 at 6:30PM:
We're nearly two weeks into autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere, but I had put off officially saying farewell to summer. I mean, it had been mild here in New York. But, this week brought rain, wind, cooler evenings and all the trappings of autumn. Kids are fully entrenched in the new school year, football season is hitting its stride and, yes, the foliage is getting ready to be peeped. ...Bowermaster's Adventures: Baptism by waves
Oct 1st, 2010 at 9:00AM: I hadn't thought much about baptism since the last time I watched "The Godfather" until I saw a photo a couple weeks ago of 29 Marines (the Ohio-based 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment) on the verge of setting off for Afghanistan being given full rites in the Pacific Ocean near Camp Pendleton.
Which made me wonder exactly how many people use the ocean for baptism ... and where did the notion of ...Photo of the Day (7.20.10)
Jul 20th, 2010 at 5:00PM:
Think you can't capture beautiful images with a mobile phone? Au contraire. This tranquil sunset shot uploaded by Flickr user Gus NYC was taken with an Apple iPhone in the waters of Saint Martin. The range of color, the light, & the serene water make me want to go explore the Caribbean right now.
Saint Martin is an island in the northeast Caribbean, currently divided 60/40 between the ...Photo of the Day (07.12.10)
Jul 12th, 2010 at 6:30PM:
According to the Daily News, big butts are very popular this summer. From Kim Kardashian to Serena Williams, all the stars are sporting delicious derrieres. It's about time that the world got on board with Sir Mix-A-Lot's way of thinking. The toosh has been so overlooked through the years while breasts and legs get all the attention. But this is the beginning of the business end!
It's no ...From the shores of Louisiana: What fuels energy change?
Jul 10th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Born in the Natal province of South Africa, Ivor van Heerden has been an adopted Louisianan for more than thirty years. During his years here he's been head of the state's coastal restoration program, on the staff at LSU, co-director of the state's hurricane center and a head of Team Louisiana, which investigated the hows and whys of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina.
Also along the ...Woman begins canoe trip from Seattle to San Diego
Jul 9th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Margo Pellagrino describes herself as "a stay-at-home mom who doesn't do a very good job at staying home." That seems an apt description considering she has just set off on a epic canoe trip that will see her paddling from Seattle to San Diego over the next couple of months, while raising awareness about the health of the world's oceans.
Margo started her journey on July 3rd, and over the past ...
