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Diver
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Just Dreaming ...
Ah, a sunrise in Asuncion ....
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Diver
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And if you liked that one ....
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Rainbow towards San Roque .....
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And a sunset from our little bit of sand ... wish we were there.
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jorgie
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You'll get there Have a great Christmas
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Lauriboats
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Great pictures, thanks. We will be there in January. Lauri
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Diver
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And here is reality; note the trucks at the bottom of our driveway.
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Pompano
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Diver...eat your heart out! More pain for you...
While sunrises in Asuncion are certain to be nice, you must miss these....at Coyote, Requeson, and other Bay beaches?
A couple in the last week...
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BUT DIVER..I KNOW YOU WON'T MISS THIS!
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[Edited on 12-24-2008 by Pompano]
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Russ
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All that snow is really nice....... from here
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Diver
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Yes Roger, I started my Baja dreamin' years ago at El Requeson ....
If I close my eyes, I can feel the sun's heat and hear the gentle lapping waves, smell the salt air, hear the birds and the laughter of small children
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Thanks !
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Diver
Yes Roger, I started my Baja dreamin' years ago at El Requeson ....
If I close my eyes, I can feel the sun's heat and hear the gentle lapping waves, smell the salt air, hear the birds and the laughter of small children
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Ira, I think on this night we were grateful for the heat of the fire, and the children's laughter was balm for my soul.
Tell the kids Pompano has lots of firewood waiting for them.
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Wait for good roads...drive safe...arrive back in Baja. See you in Asuncion this winter.
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Diver
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Roger,
It's always warm at your house, even when the temps are cool !
Thanks amigo !
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Beautiful beautiful dreams, Diver..... may they soon become reality.
Meanwhile, wherever you may be, you and yours have a happy Christmas.
Nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Skipjack Joe
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Adventures in Paradise
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Your sailboat picture reminded me of a tv series I loved watching a long time ago, "Adventure in Paradise". Each week it would open with a sailboat
like yours entering some bay in the south pacific. It had the same effect on us back then as your picture does now.
I'm trying to google up an image of that scene but nothing comes up. Perhaps you've seen it.
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Barry A.
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Ahhhhh, yes "Adventures in Paradise"-----------that was actor Sterling Hayden's yacht in the TV series (if I remember right). I remember that show
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Ah Diver,
and I hear they have started the party without you----
Yes, that was right in front of your homestead.
You are not the only one delayed in leaving for Baja, so are we, just for different reasons. Hope you can plow your way out soon.
Diane
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
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Your sailboat picture reminded me of a tv series I loved watching a long time ago, "Adventure in Paradise". Each week it would open with a sailboat
like yours entering some bay in the south pacific. It had the same effect on us back then as your picture does now.
I'm trying to google up an image of that scene but nothing comes up. Perhaps you've seen it. |
Yes Igor, I remember that series quite well. It aired from 1959 to 1962 and starred Gardner McKay, alias Captain Adam Troy, the world's first TV
Star. James Michener wrote the screenplay.
Gardner was said to be the grand-son of Donald McKay, a famous shipbuilder of Boston, who built over 70 clippers and schooners between 1841 and 1875.
Here's the billboard, the actor and the boat:
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The thing that interested me about this tv series was the sailboat itself..it was actually a motorsailor, my favorite creature on earth. A Rhodes
design, I think...much like Sterling Hayden's, who actually quit his aspiring movie career, shangaied his own children after a divorce..and sailed
with them to Tahiti. Quite the character...read his autobiography...'The Wanderer'.
Hayden was a marine captain at age 22...then became an actor to support his passion..the sea.
Hayden quit acting in WWII to work for the OSS..as a secret agent. Hayden changed his name to John Hamilton to obscure his identity... His World War
II service included running guns through German lines to the Yugoslav partisans and parachuting into fascist Croatia. He won the Silver Star and a
commendation from Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito.
He ran afoul of the red commie scare of the 50's in Hollywood later on...and grew weary with show business... acting was just a means to support his
sailing adventures.
A classic comedy with Peter Sellers in 'Dr. Strangelove and How I Learned to Love the Atom Bomb'
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Ahhhhh, yes "Adventures in Paradise"-----------that was actor Sterling Hayden's yacht in the TV series (if I remember right). I remember that show
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Barry, could very well be..the time frame is right. I think the pilothouse motorsailor in 'Adventures in Paradise' was re-named Tiki and Hayden's
schooner was the Wanderer.
Both great motorsailors, though...probably the best designed 'fishing boats' ever made to sail the world's oceans in search of. I'd love to have
crewed with Hayden, Hemmingway, and Jack London...now that would have been an adventure.
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There you go, Diver...a little added entertainment for your Baja trip! Keep that dream going up there...Asuncion is not going anywhere without you.
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awesome sunrises!!!!!
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Timo1
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Ira....We're holding the fort for ya....Just make it safe bud
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Skipjack Joe
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A few quotes
"Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made." -Robert N. Rose
It was JRR Tolkien who said, "Not all who wander are lost."
"Never a ship sails out of a bay, but carries my heart as a stowaway." -Roselle Mercier Montgomery
"Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit." -Brooks Atkinson
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