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 …
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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 …
Some observations at my local fish ladder.
Things I've learned this spring: not all river herring use fish ladders the way we'd like them to. Many of the fish swim right on past, don't use them at all. The fish ladder at Wakefield, RI. It's on the westside of town near the Chevy dealership. This ladder …
