It's a bit like the children's book, "Where's Waldo?" or for an older generation where's Richard Scarry's "Goldbug." But instead of one Waldo in the photograph, there are many. I can count about 12 giant tuna in this photo. You have to look carefully, squinting your …
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After Hurricane Sandy. Sam and I go looking for things.
After searching the Town Beach in Narragansett (with what seemed like hundreds of other people) for any storm-tossed treasures, and finding only a surf clam shell, my stepson, Sam, and I decided to go for higher ground and find a place no other beachcombers had …
Quick notes from my first fish spotting flight.
Wayne Davis' spotter plane. Bare-bones, old-school. No steering wheel (he drives with a stick), 2 tiny seats, one in front of the other. Single prop. There was no flight attendant, no drink service, and no bathroom. We were in the air for 6 hours. Wayne's mission …
Where the sperm whales do blow–
I had to share this Another gem from Wayne Davis, the Rhode Island spotter pilot. Davis told me he found this pod, last week, in very deep water off Oceanographer's Canyon, well southeast of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. Sperm whales are mysterious …
The northern edge of the Gulf Stream.
Wayne Davis with another beauty of a photo he shot from his plane 100 miles off Nantucket. He took the photo yesterday, September 13th. He was flying over Oceanographers Canyon, and found this Atlantic manta ray, Manta birostris, with a devil ray, Mobula …
Photos of Party Boats, San Francisco Bay.
A friend of mine, Abner Kingman, sent these along from the West Coast. I like these photos. I like their perspective. Abner is putting a book together of the working craft of San Francisco Bay, and one of the subjects is party boats. Some of the others are tugs and …
