Wish You Were Here: Ka Lae on Hawai’i
Down a 20-mi poorly paved single track road on the Big Island of Hawaii, you’ll find Ka Lae. Most folks visit Ka Lae as a stopover on the offroad trip to the green sand beach at Papakolea.
The Scuttlefish
Love the Ocean. Wish you were here.
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March 14, 2012
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November 23, 2011
Wish You Were Here: Ogasawara Islands
Roughly 600 miles south of Tokyo the water gets clear and skyscrapers are nowhere to be seen. The islands have a colorful history. There’s Major Sueo who was in charge of a military base here and who was executed after the war for crimes against prisoners, including cannibalism. Commodore Perry, bought property here on his way to Yokohama in 1853, for $50. And some of the animals and characters from Pokemon are from the Bonin islands, Ogasawara Island’s other name. Bonin has it’s roots in the word for “no people” in Japanese.
This photo from the Bonin Islands of a spadefish was taken by National Geographic’s Brian Skerry, author of Ocean Soul, an amazing new book I picked up the other day.
October 27, 2011
Wish You Were Here: El Cuco, El Salvador
The 9am El Salvadorian sun beat down like a drum. And here we were trying to move a two-ton mound of dirt with nothing but the most primitive tools.
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October 27, 2011
Wish You Were Here: Baffin Island, Canada
The northern lights put on a show in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, where the sun sets on November 22nd and does not rise until January 19th of the following year.
October 11, 2011
This Is How A Lizardfish Cops A Meal
“A Damsel in Distress” by Daniel Stassen
Lizardfish (Synodus intermedius) are actually quite small, usually around the size of mullet, but they are uncharacteristically agressive for their size, as witnessed by the damselfish in its jaws.
October 10, 2011
Wish You Were Here: Snake Island, Brazil
Probably one of the few islands off Brazil that you’d never entertain the idea of visiting is Ilha da Queimada Grande, which means island of the big burn (Queimada is a Portuguese term used for slash-and-burn agriculture). Although perhaps slightly misleading, the island’s name is not far from the experience that a human might have upon setting foot on the island.
