It’s hot. There’s the smell of stale sweat mingled with the windborne scent of mangroves as the flats to the northward dry out and a zillion myriad invertebrates bake in the sun, and I bake right along with them. We’re west of Key West and south of most everything dry within sight, though I can [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
The Keys Chronicles (Pt. 6): Tarpon
“Massively miraculous, a very powerful force, extraordinary; so extraordinary as to create immediate unreality in the process upon contact with the fish.” ~ Richard Brautigan, 1973. The Keys Chronicles June, 2009. This season we’re staying at Nate “Dubya’s” Mullet Camp, like always. But this year the flavor is distinctly different, in a bare-bones, fish-camp kind [...]
Ocean Acidification TOO??!!! C’mon!
Acid Test: The Science of Ocean Acidification from EARTHNATIVE on Vimeo.
End of the Line
Ok, I confess I was horrified (and believed, still believe) An Inconvenient Truth. Imagine, all my beautiful flats drowned by rising sea levels, acidification of the oceans scouring the coral reefs, and rising ocean temps wreaking havoc on the ecosystem I’ve come to rely on. Now comes a deeply disturbing documentary about unrepentant overfishing and [...]
Tarpon Season’s Comin’…
And We Don’t Have A Freakin’ Skiff! Yup, tarpon season is just around the corner and our brains are heating up along with the weather. Just got this little piece of mental clusterflop from good old Nate “Dubya” down in Tavernier Key. I can’t figure whether to call the Bureau of Mental Health, just feel [...]
Reading is Fun
“Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.” ~Roderick Haig-Brown, A River Never Sleeps, 1946. “And anyone who thinks I brag is stating that I understand fish-thought is obviously ignorant of the way in which fish think. Believe me, it’s nothing [...]
