5ā4ā Blonde Boardless Bully
The kid couldnāt have been more than 12 years oldā¦I felt like the bully on the playground, but I could NOT help myselfā¦I started along in stride with him as he walked byā¦ āIaorana. Um, my name is Liz. I was wondering if I could borrow your board for a couple waves? Maybe just 10 […]
At the End of the Road…
Thereās nothing like seeing a place for the first timeā¦Imagination and reality collide, with fresh eyes soaking up the colors, sounds, smells, and details that make a place its own. Surprise lurks everywhere when the mind is untainted by familiarity! Iād spent a day and half resting and cleaning Swell; it was time to go […]
Good morning…Bernard?
āSwreeee, skreeee, squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!ā woke me from the deadest kind of sleep. āWhere am I?ā I thought for a moment… Opening my eyes, a squinted toward the sky, a mess of flapping wings. āSwreeee, skreeee, squeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ā āWhat the..?ā I sat up, wrapping the sheet around me in the cool morning airā¦ Iād slept in the cockpit. […]
Vita-Wheats and Party Cubes
That night blurred into morning without sleep to divide the days. By the distance we had remaining, it would be a close race to make it to my destination with overhead sunlight to enter the pass. I revved the engine and felt the hull push through the oncoming waves, it looked as if it would […]
Bluewater Hiatus
The night wind persisted, shifting northeast, which forced us off-course by nearly 30 degrees. So I tacked south and could still made a bit of eastingā¦ āEast is eastā–Iād take what I could get. By dawn we were triple reefed, the headsail wound to less than half its size. See why I was so grateful […]
It’s the Simple Wonders
I motored most of the night to lay some solid miles of āeastingā. The bright moonlight and light winds eased me gently back into the rhythm of a night at seaā¦ The next morning, the sea was an enormous, regal blue sheet of silk billowing out in all directions. It felt so good to see […]
Takin’ off my Jitterpants
Swell was ready–dinghy on deck, gear stashed and stowed. My leafy companionsābasil, aloe, mint, lemongrass, and sage plants were wedged securely around the cabin. The night was almost eerily calm. The Milky Way exploded across the sky from behind the silhouette of the island. Swell heaved slightly against the dock where I had come to […]
CELEBRATE OUR PLANET!! Words of motivation from John Muir…
HAPPY EARTH DAY!! Late, but hardly forgotten…as I celebrate the Earth EVERY day! I hope you found a way to appreciate our planet yesterday, and as often as possibleā¦Whether itās the sea or the mountains, the desert or the prairie, a canyon or even the weeds in your backyardā¦the natural world has so much more […]
1 + 2 + 3 + SIX BILLION(or MORE!)=ONE!
A human being is part of a whole called by us āthe universeā, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the restāa kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and […]
