Whisky Friday II

Not A Pretty Sport III

Number 57, actually.

Berkeley Workout

Foray

M D U: Profile Pic

Brief swim off Pelican Point,
Tomales Bay, CA:
2/3/18.

A little less than four hours paddling on the bay and probably only ten minutes swimming about and I feel so much more like myself: the saving grace of exertion and immersion.

Wizard Locks

12/8/15
Two years ago, but still relevant.
A favorite profile pic.
I look my age, and that's not always easy to accept.

You'll find out, my young friends.
MD

Monterey Paddling

Thanks for the photo, JP.

Orkney and Stone

At the Ring of Brodgar,
Orkney.

Profile Pics: 5 + 6

Winter White

January kayaking.
(Beware of the glare.)

Salt Joy: Or, Paddling

The first drop?

Note that JP has three crab traps on that kayak.

A man and the bay.

Paddle-time: heading into the future.

Yule-Tide Greetings

May your yuletide be cheery, be bright, and be salty.
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Heed the reefs not yet charted
Seek that green isle beyond design

-from "Oh Malachi Malarkey"

Here's that whole poem:


OH MALACHI MALARKEY

When the ropes of reason slacken
When the veils of prudence thin
Then intuition harkens
Then souls fit skin to skin

Hope can be so brittle
Clay not fired to the core
Well-thrown bowls roughly handled
Scattered shells along the shore

Now there's a measure in the offing
Now the surges swell with pride
Say, is this canny craft a coffin?
Say, may your reach not fall too shy

Oh, Malachi Malarkey
Oh, Sophia Sophrosyne
Heed the reefs not yet charted
Seek that green isle beyond design

--MD

Identity Crisis

Superhero or nemesis?

The Salt Blur

As far as profile pictures go, I like this one a lot.

I also like that I've worn that wetsuit to tatters.

Summer Profile Pics

Loving Kealakekua Bay!

Floating.  Hawaiian waters: no neoprene!

Total lack of self-consciousness.  

NorCal Neoprene: armored against the cold.

Mendocino.

Studio time:
Matt & Mateo.

Archery lessons in the Gold Country.

Face your inner fish?
Foggy free diving on the Sonoma Coast; I brought a friend.
Two pursuits converge with a smile.

Today's Profile Pics, Annotated

Today, but so 80s.

Practical #1.

Practical #2.

Earnest -- or goofy?

Focus on the water.

Cold water reveals your (that is, my) age.

Up top again.

June 7th, 2015.

A silly exercise in characterization?
A characteristic exercise in silliness?

Aquaman

Aquaman, Aquamatt:
2015 version.

Not A Pretty Sport II

Weeds and surface scum from taking photos neck deep (or deeper) into the tide-flow.  The sweater worked like a filter, and I was square in the current, so I caught quite a bit.  At one point I was distinctly festooned--not a word I use lightly--with sea grass and kelp.

My James Bond persona: 008.  

(I made and carried a business card in the fourth grade that identified me as British Secret Service Agent 008; I little thought how a business card did not quite fit the secret agent persona, and yet how "secret" was Bond, James Bond, about his identity?  My foolishness was cultural and of the day, I'd say.)

 

Profiles In Courage

Beaks of clay . . . .

Profile Pics