Excerpt from Pacific Offering
Twilight faded and stars pulsed through a thin veneer of cirrus coating the upper atmosphere like a silk sheet. The moon rose in the east. Beck needed a distraction from his misery. He… Read More
Twilight faded and stars pulsed through a thin veneer of cirrus coating the upper atmosphere like a silk sheet. The moon rose in the east. Beck needed a distraction from his misery. He… Read More →
The Dutch-owned FV Margiris arrived in Port Lincoln in remote South Australia six days ago, and is undergoing a makeover (including an insulting name-change to the ‘Abel Tasman’ and a local re-registration) to… Read More →
The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first oceanic-musical pipe organ. Simple carved white stone steps were built on the quayside. Underneath,… Read More →
I take my dog for a walk on the beach in the morning and in the evening. Sometimes during the day, we just lay together in the grass, listening to the sound of… Read More →
Superstitious sailors consider pigs to be unlucky because they have cloven hooves like the Devil and are terrified of water. Pigs would not be carried on boats. Fishermen often regarded pigs as harbingers… Read More →
For a deckhand on a fishing boat, a rogue wave is a behemoth that appears out of nowhere, potentially capsizing the ship. For a physicist or an engineer, such a wave has a… Read More →
“There are a lot of different ways people get in trouble in the surf. They might not notice the rips, or dangers in the waves. So you’ve got to be smart in the… Read More →
* The only space I’ve inhabited has been my self. Ask me where one street intersects with another hereabouts and I couldn’t tell you. Ask me their names and I’d say Never heard… Read More →
The striking image of a couple kissing amid Wednesday’s Vancouver riots has started to go viral on the internet. The original photograph was captured by Getty photographer, Rich Lam, and features Australian, Scott… Read More →
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The Stronsa Beast
by SimonOThe ‘Stronsay beast’ was a large carcass that washed ashore on the island of Stronsay (at the time spelled Stronsa), in the Orkney Islands, after a storm on September 25, 1808. The carcass… Read More →