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From last year, mid winter, July 13, 7:50am; it was the time to remove the swimmers and begin to warm up with this 'classic' designed garment. And it's not her only one.
She swims with the Point Lonsdale 'Mermaids' each morning, all of whom are aged 65+. This is the ocean, check out the winter water temperatures they swim in.
Is she happy? Always, life will not pass her by.
www.watertemperature.org/Bass-Strait--Geo.html
[Ricoh GRIIIx]
These three older women were wandering around the outdoor market in Jokkmokk, Sweden. Jokkmokk is just inside the artic circle.
Cropped and slightly enhanced versions of www.flickr.com/photos/question_everything/3275959493/in/s....
It's a lot of work to keep a boat like this. Poor guy - a slave of sorts. Oddly, I'm sure he takes great pride in his master.
Taken at Danvikstull in Stockholm, Sweden.
This man was going to the village of Landsort on the island of Öja on the same boat as me. He was a bird watcher but he is also a scuba diver and likes to dive off the coast of Norway. He married an American woman. He knew a lot about birds and fishes. He also says he skates a lot in the winter.
This shot was taken on a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. The trail head was at Glacier Gorge. This young woman is in Mills Lake.
The hike went up to Mills Lake and then on to Black Lake and still further to Frozen Lake.
Norråva, Sweden. The wilderness emergency class was taught by folks from NOLS in Lander, Wyoming. The kayaks are rented from Horisont Kajak.
A Dublin vagrant with a fresh orange. I gave him 4 Euro for the photo. A gentle man that was somehow misfortunate. Wish I knew his life story. It seems that no matter what the political or social system, there are always some folks that fall through the cracks. Apropos that there's cracks in the wall behind him. Apropos that his hair blends into the wall....
The fact that he picked a wall the same color as his hair seems an awfully lot like he's trying to disappear...
Some of the Irish have criticized my country (USA) for having 40-something million "uninsured" which works out to about 10%, a number I really don't believe especially if you include the 12 million illegal immigrants and the x million young people they opted out of coverage because "I'm healthy." It's disingenuous of the Irish to point fingers with their large number of migrants and beggars despite their socialized medicine and other programs. What I learned: don't believe things that defy personal observation. I grant that there's plenty broken with the American system but I will not accept that the European solution (mostly socialized) is the answer. After living in Sweden for over a year and many visits to other European countries, I am not dazzled by their systems. There are just as many, if not more, crippled people on the streets, bad teeth, and other visible health problems as in the US. More beggars than I've ever seen, too.
Stockholm, Sweden.
Taken from the Nockebybron (bron means bridge in Swedish) that connects Nockeby to Kärsön: it's on the road from Alvik to Drottningholm.
These sailboats are from the west coast of Sweden. It goes by several names in Swedish: koster, kosterbåt or allmogebåt. There are two islands in western Sweden called the Koster islands. I assume the name comes from there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koster_Islands. The sea on the west coast of Sweden is rougher than elsewhere so the extra width of these boats makes them more stable in rough seas.
The Swedish description is here: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosterb%c3%a5t.
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