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Christmas Eve

December 24, 2011 Head east, past the cruise ships, tourist traps, and taxis, past the miles of coastline, muddied by the winds of the last fortnight. Small bays open unexpectedly around corners glimmering blue through vignettes of seagrape groves, crowned by black and white reefs. Spindrift mists the windscreen, blurring details. The horizon seems impossibly far off. [...]

Interesting…

Some say he’s seen “A River Runs Through It” an astonishing 0.3 times. Others say he doesn’t know what silverware is for. All we know is, he’s the most interesting guide in the world. * I don’t always get to fish myself, but when I do, it’s tails up, noses down, fish on. Stay salty [...]

The Traveler

Dec. 7, 2011: South of Chicago. 0214 hrs. Dark waves of asphalt rose and fell like deep ocean swells, passing easily beneath. The traveler’s eyes stared out blankly over wine-dark waters and a rushing, moonless night. The trees—and they were indeed trees, scattered carelessly over the landscape and leaning, drunkenly, like tombstone in a ghost-town [...]

Fridays Are Fun, Seriously.

Some say that underneath his luxurious tan is a coat of glittering scales, and that he’s carefully trained himself to breath above water. Others say he still doesn’t understand blinking. All we know is, he’s the most interesting guide in the world. * I don’t always get to fish myself, but when I do, I [...]

What’s a “tumblr”?

The man was silent for some time. Then he said that he had eaten such a taco and that it tasted of bootblack and horsefeed. That if this taco was under God’s dominion then surely all other great evils must be as well. And then the man took the halfeaten and greaseblackened taco from his [...]

IOC*: Day I Retire the 7-Weight

Short Tide, Big fish. Barjack the Angler Lost Fish Flat Indian Ocean April 2, 2011 Up at oh-six-hundred, eat chow and grab the bike. I’m getting smarter, though. Since the person that has duty goes to the office at 8am in the truck I ask for a ride and down the road we go. When [...]

Indian Ocean Chronicles: Day 100-N-Some, but Who’s Counting Anymore?

Things that Suck… & Don’t. Barjack the Angler Permitatious Flat Indian Ocean June 4, 2011 I am wrecked, this place is gonna be hard to get over when I finally have to leave. Scratch that: impossible to get over. The wind is supposed to drop to 15knot’s tomorrow… PERFECT! I will have the big rod [...]

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