Archive for November, 2007

Nov 14 2007

Feeding the Gulls

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Yesterday, I happily fed the gulls. I mentioned in a previous post that the bird life has been decimated by this spill; I don’t care what numbers are being officially reported; the marina seems barren and deserted since the spill. Usually, I am awakened in the morning by the calls of the gulls, and I [...]

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Nov 12 2007

Grief

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The oil-coated animals are beginning to wash up now. Fish and Game is out walking the breakwater, talking about all the supplies they’ll need … for tomorrow… to collect the bodies. I am sitting here thinking of Rachel Carson, who thought that Silent Spring would be brought by pesticides. Here on the Bay, it’s brought [...]

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Nov 10 2007

Message from Baykeeper

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      Thank you for your support in response to Wednesday’s oil spill. We appreciate the outpouring of offers to help and we’ll keep you updated on opportunities as they arise. It’ll take all of us working together to clean up our precious Bay after this oil spill’s destructive wake.While we are heartened by [...]

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Nov 08 2007

It gets worse — San Francisco Bay Oil Spill

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Here’s a press release from NOAA, about everything that’s going on with the oil spill from their perspective. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071108_oilspill.html  And another piece from Reuters, http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0822954120071108  And lastly, what you can do to help, from BayKeeper: http://www.baykeeper.org/ 

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Nov 08 2007

Not Sailing Today

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It is a great day to not go sailing. The fog yesterday was really thick. I couldn’t even really see the marina wall, which is saying something, because we’re berthed right next to the thing. And then my pal Jonathan sent me this. If you look on a map, this is really, really close to [...]

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Nov 07 2007

Dinghy Ride

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Yesterday started out pure suckage. Short form, I had a ton of unpleasant, bureaucratic, paperwork-related tasks in my queue. And I am wrestling with a cold. And pregnancy nausea (the fool who called it “morning sickness” should be taken out and shot). And it was just looking like a lousy day all the way around. [...]

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