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Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be Sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/stand.html#iKIqMRhpTrtgb1JX.99 Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/stand.html#iKIqMRhpTrtgb1JX.99

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw Rolex Cup Miami begins this week soon this bay will be full of boats. 

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. Charles Lamb

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. Robert Delaunay

  A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. Laurence J. Peter

Want a place where you won't be bothered, your thoughts come easy, not a lot of technology to distract you and you can hear the ocean. I know the place... Hicks house, Stiltsville, Biscayne National Park, call ahead for reservations.

  According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.   Roy H. Williams

For most people,  we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon,  but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us. Richard H. Baker Largest full moon of 2012, tonight

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,  and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. Mark Twain

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual,  it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie USA boat passing in front of the boat from Switzerland in the 2012 Rolex Cup

I was excited all day as the rain came down, knowing eventually it would clear. Me

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine.  It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.' Dwight Schultz

Happy holidays from an island, its warm, sunny, the air clean and the food is great. Best wishes to family, friends and everyone who lives on this island and all the other islands in the universe.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs Over 100 Haitians used this 40 foot sailboat to escape Haiti. They were intercepted off Harbour Island, North Eleuthera, Bahamas. You can read the Eleuthera News article HERE. The boat left to its own has run aground and sank in Bottom Harbour.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. Mignon McLaughlin

One of many starts at the 2011 Rolex Cup on Biscayne Bay, South Florida. The 2012 Rolex Cup is coming up January 22nd through 28th. A week of exceptional sailboat racing. This image was taken from a small boat near the start line with a 70-200mm zoom. I tell people this image took 3 years to make, as this was the 3rd year I attempted to make a unique decent image of this event.  This was the year though, I was in the wrong place as the gun went off for this last start. Fortunately there were several boats over early and they had to restart, that gave me time to get in the right place. This image was selected as photo of the week on The Mindful Eye site and a fabulous critique was done on it by Craig Tanner, you can see it here; The Start

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are...  than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. Henry David Thoreau

Photgraphed the above lionfish while snorkeling in Bottom Harbour, N Eleuthera. There are several small patch reefs between Bottom Harbour Club and Cistern Cay a few hundred feet from shore. Everyone, no matter how small had at least 1 lionfish and several single rock reefs had 3 of them. We saw in total 12 to 15 size varied from very small 3inch to about 8 inch. What's The Problem? (copied from the Reef website ) For a quick one-page fact sheet put together by REEF, USGS, NOAA, and Simon Fraser University on invasive lionfish, click here . Lionfish are:• Voracious predators being shown to eat native fish and crustaceans in large quantities. (Juvenile Nassau grouper have been found in lionfish stomachs in the Bahamas)• Not known to have any native predators• Equipped with venomous dorsal, ventral and anal spines, which deter predators and can cause painful wounds in humans.• Capable of reproducing year-round with unique reproduction mechanisms no...