http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection We're out of the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal, have crossed 4,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean, and now we are in French Polynesia. Follow along as our family of 4 sails to new locations. Copyright 2008 SailBlogs.com Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:16:13 -0600 720 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:16:13 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en support@sailblogs.com support@sailblogs.com http://www.sailblogs.com/images/sb_rss_icon.gif http://www.sailblogs.com/ 88 31 Weblogs for Sailors and Sailing http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection?xjMsgID=44323 Hello everyone and Happy New Year 2008. Today is a good day to look back on the past year. For us, 2007 was one very busy year. We started off the 2007 in Curacao, then were off to the San Blas Islands of Panama to hang out with the Kuna Indians for a while. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:16:13 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection?xjMsgID=44323 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection?xjMsgID=37589 Hello, my faithful followers. You have full authority to have me thoroughly flogged with a cat o' nine tails because I have been a very, very bad blogger. I promise to get this blog current within the next week. Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:54:34 -0500 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection?xjMsgID=37589 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection?xjMsgID=34670 As promised in yesterday's blog, here's an additional photo from our "Swim with the Mantas" session. This photo shows a manta doing a back flip as it circles a school of small fish. The "flaps" indicate the position of the mouth (a manta is a filter feeder) and the two whitish "lumps" on the right side of the manta in the photo are two remoras. Remoras have a suction cup on the top of their body and they suction themselves to other fish (and sometimes also try to suction themselves on to people who are in the water trying to clean the boat bottom --- just ask Sam about that one.) A couple of weeks ago we saw a large porpoise that had a Remora stuck over one of it eyes. The porpoise positioned itself right in front of our port bow and kept swimming and spinning in an apparent attempt to bump the Remora off its eye by hitting the bow with the remora. Regretfully, the porpoise was not able to dislodge the remora. Jennifer Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/purrrfection?xjMsgID=34670