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You are probably wondering what am I doing posting a photo of boots and brushes! This is more for information than any photographic merit. In fact, they are my first iPad photos because my camera was already packed up! We were supplied with a waterproof jacket and pants, dry bag backpack and gumboots. The total weight that we were wearing was 5.3kg or 11.75 lbs. Zodiacs took us on each shore excursion. Before we got on the zodiacs and after we were back on the ship, we had to step in the rotating brushes to clean our boots and then step in the germicide solution. This was extremely important so as not to transfer any dirt, plant material etc from one location to another. The staff were very particular in doing this so it became an important part of our daily routine. This was welcomed by everyone in order to keep this part of the world pristine. I hope all other cruise lines follow these procedures.
South Georgia was especially strict and an inspector came on board to check. Our boat got 95% because 3 people didn't step into the germicide.
The other thing about South Georgia is that it is rat free after nearly 2 centuries when rats were introduced by sailors and whalers. The rats preyed on the eggs and chicks of the native birds. A rat eradication project, costing millions of dollars, was started in 2011 and completed in 2015/16. In 2018 researchers, along with sniffer dogs, searched every area of the island and found nothing. So South Georgia has been declared rat free and millions of birds have returned to nest.
news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/south-georgia-island-...
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I took a picture of my dress with my ipad and ran the picture through the Percolator app. Quite fun.
Found a bottle of Burger Beer in the basement. late 1960s. A fav back then in Detroit and here in Windsor Canada,. Stopped brewing in Ohio. Still pops up at beer festivals bottled under license by speciality breweries. Earlier today I took this found empty bottle into our Windsor basement stairwell, along with an 60s era pair of dolls, and took this picture with my iPad
My birthday present, a 32GB iPad, picked up on the first day of availability. Must say it has a magnificent camera. see EXIF info to appreciate. Point and shoot, auto settings, iso 1000, 1/15 at f /2.4. dark, rainy evening 7:30 p.m.
One of the churches I walked past on the way to Starbucks on Copeland and Tennessee. I've begun to think of this new Starbucks as my grandmother's, because her last name was Copeland and she lived in Tennessee (Chattanooga) and she liked coffee. Reminded me of an old News From Lake Wobegone in the 1980s when Garrison Keillor talked about what he called The Church of Sunday Brunch that many people attended faithfully in place of whatever church they might have grown up attending.
Krebs was J. S. Bach's best student and a great (underappreciated) composer himself – I especially like his pipe organ music, which I also have a 5 CD set of. And to compliment it the Starbucks brewed coffee this morning included Sumatra (my first cup at about 8:30, early for me) and Sulawesi (my free refill), two of my favorites.
The public library book I'm finishing reading here (70 pages left) will be the 20th Donna Leon Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery that I've read, a writer and series I discovered only three months ago. Mysteries are a genre I've almost completely ignored for decades, before getting hooked on these Brunetti mysteries, which are a great way to learn about Venice in depth (not the superficial tourist sightseeing and shopping experience).
A collaboration of ants with weather and time cracked asphalt, plus some shape spreading and tread imprints added by vehicle tires. Although it looks abstract to me, I suppose it is a realistic picture of what's there in the back parking lot of the Florida lottery in Tallahassee. By the way, I have not cranked up the saturation at all -- it really does look very red (or dark orange?), and is probably the work of red ants.