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Sunrise: a dream fullfilled

Life filled with adventure, both actual and spiritual.

artistic talents

Bill
07/14/2012, Deshaies, Guadeloupe

Lara caught this Brown Footed Booby just after nabbing a fish.

You have probably noticed that we have some pretty great photos... all of the credit goes to Lara. She has a real eye for what will make a good photo and often takes a hundred shots to capture one decent shot (We currently have 25,000 photos from our trip... and we have deleted many!). Often she is not happy with the photo that is posted... feeling that she didn't quite capture what she was after... or the light wasn't quite right or something... And I am constantly impressed.

One of our objectives for this trip was to allow for our artistic creativity to flow in some way. Lara's photography is surely an artistic expression that we can all appreciate.

All of the blog photos have been shot with a Nikon Coolpix camera. We have been through several of them. They do succumb to the salt air, and we think the optics are pretty good for a "point and shoot" camera. The above photo was shot with a Nikon Coolpix S9100. We did buy a Sealife waterproof camera last fall... so far we are not impressed. We also have a GoPro HD. It is waterproof and shoots a pretty wide angle. It has been very good for underwater or around the water shots.

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Comments [2]

07/15/2012 | Uncle Readie

Lara must get her gadgety-ness mostly from her dad, less from her mom (my sister). I'm an odd-man tech-nerd in our family. I've decided that Isobel will go on to design low-energy transport systems. :)

07/16/2012 | Scott Kuhner

Start editing your photos now. At least put the ones that tell a story, your story as you lived it like what life is like on Sunrise when at sea, catching and cleaning fish, Isobel doing many fun things, meeting and interacting with the local people etc. Then when you get back put together a slide show of approximately 300 slides (takes an hour and 10 to 15 minutes to give) that tells the story of your adventures. Then even 20 or 30 years later, every time you give it, you will relive the adventure.

Things we have found most useful

Bill
06/20/2012, Coral Bay, St John, USVI

We thought we might make some extra posts as we think of things that we are really happy to have on board...

In the kids on boats category... The little Baby Bjorn potty. Well what can we say... For the $14 or whatever it was, Isobel has had a potty available on deck or in the cockpit. Less so now, but for a while there... There wasn't much time between the announcement: "I need to pee" and the peeing...

And the other thing we mention all the time is the Bimini zip on side and stern shades. We would be burnt to a crisp without them! Thanks to In Stitches in Shelburne VT for the design and construction of them... Wish we had made one to zip on the front of the Bimini... We had a series of cobbled together forward shades... We will sew something up... Soon...

good stuff on board

Comments [2]

06/21/2012 | Mary Ellen

Happy summer -95 degrees here- Peter just left for Italy--
HOME alone----????????????????
MISS you guys -love mec

06/24/2012 | Uncle Readie

With TS Debby in the Gulf, I wonder whether you guys will jump to Trinidad via St Croix to get out of the hurricane zone quickly. It looks about half-again as long as your jump from Exumas to Haiti earlier.

In the Ida Lewis Anchorage, Newport, RI