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Sailing To Fafa Island (© G.Gam)
Rainmaker Mountain (Mount Pioa), Pago Pago Harbor (© G.Gam)
It's hard to take my eyes off that top "sailing" photo. It's very compelling.
Thanks. I like that one. It was one of those photos that was an "accident" but I think I was able to make something out of it. Fafa Island is a very small island about a 45 minute sail off the coast of Tongatapu, which is the main island in Tonga. Fafa Island is tiny, only about 18 acres. There was a small 9 room resort there but we just went for a day trip and lunch. It took about 15-20 minutes to walk around the whole island. On the trip there the boat was sailed by a local guy who worked at the resort, plus me, my friend, two other Americans and the German man who owned the resort. On the way back, as soon as we left the dock, since the resort owner wasn't with us, the Tongan guy asked me if I wanted to sail it and let me have the controls. I loved it. It was really fun.
The only time I ever sailed was on Biscayne Bay, Miami.
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Where is the top photo?
It was taken at Millenium Park in the city of Kaifeng, Henan Province. Here is an overview of the whole park.
Memories aka deer crack
Look at those beautiful lilies!!!! Fucking deer!
the deer just need to associate your home with a horrifically traumatic event. you live in the south and they have fireworks stands open year round. go buy some fireworks that scares the shit out of them. wait for them to start munching, sneak up on them, and toss a string of 50 at their feet. you may have to do it a few times. either that or get a BB gun and aim for their asses ...
Morning Vangy..
Asses?? That should be arse what did you mob do to the English language??
So when people say in a pigs arse, how can it be ass? It doesn't make sense..
Ass is a donkey, your arse is your backside..
Yeech don't you mob know nuffing.. A lot of uncivilised, uncouth, heathens running around over there..thank goodness for the Pacific Ocean..
Quality convicts this side, all the dregs that side...🦘
Hmm... That's pretty funny coming from people who spend their whole lives in the bush. The aboriginal/indigenous people are very cool, though.
Arvo G..
Err no I am in town/suburbia as are 90% of us..we go to the bush for barbie's etc or camping trips..very few live in the bush..
The Koori do quite well, been here 60,000 years and have no doubt they will still be here till the end of time...
They are very proud and strong people and have alot to be admired for...
there's a valid reason why they stuck you mob on that rock southeast of BFE and surrounded by a shark and croc filled moat ...
And we are ever so grateful.. keeps the bogans, tourists and you mob out..😊
Gotta love a bit of snap..🐊
... first some english fool leaves directions on how to return to oz, and then somebody from the american batch of misfits invents the airplane, and it's been downhill ever since. face reality, bunnies weren't the only invasive creatures introduced in oz to feed the natives ...
Morning Fishy..
Nice verandah you have got there and place..
This one is a little different. New refrigerator... new magnetic poems... Hahahahaha!
I'll leave the interpretations up to you readers.
Creative literature? LOL
I added some Endler's Live Barers to my 10 gallon office tank yesterday.
Lookin' good.
Great photo.
A local crime family of masked bandits dropped by last night.
Gracie seems to think bathroom sinks make her invisible. She doesn't move, she doesn't pounce, she just sits there, lol.
... what cat? where?
my cat howard would be on his back and spilling out of that basin ...
shitty picture from about 48 years ago ...
Haha. Cats that sit funny crack me up. His color pattern looks a lot like Gracie's.
that's how he sat normally, and that's how I held him with one arm. he'd lay next to me on the couch like that ...
tuxedo cats are tabbies and howie's tuxedo was perfect right down to the spats. he had several dark rings on his tail too ...
the ex hated howie and was extremely jealous of him. she insisted I liked him better than her. I never disagreed ...
Gracie likes to splay out on the tops of chairs and the loveseat by the window, with her legs hanging down the sides, exactly like that last raccoon photo above. I guess all the belly contact feels good to her.
I carried howie draped around my neck like one of those airline pillows around the house, until he got too fat ...
Evening...
Mishka always used the dog as a foot rest..
Cats rule..🐾🐾
want to feel like an unappreciated servant in your own home? acquire a cat ...
As they say, dogs have masters and cats have staff.
She's hilarious..
Yep, just too funny.
my cat mojo used to stalk and attack me, he'd play the floor is lava at a gallop between 1am and 5am, and he'd open cupboards and drawers and steal my weed ...
My cat used to ask me to play chase sometimes, so we would run around the house for a while until he got tired, sat down, and gave me his "I've had enough, thanks for now" look. Then he would concentrate on licking his paw so I would know we were done.
domesticated animals rule over human domains ...
Gracie keeps trying that, but she hasn't quite figured it out yet.
buy some weed and she'll figure it out ...
Lol. She mostly tries with the cabinet door where her food is kept. She paws at it and reaches up to the top of it, but can't figure out that all she has to do is pull a little. When I open it to feed her she runs in and looks around for a second, then runs back out and demands her food. She does it every time, like a ritual. It's funny.
howard liked meow mix, out of the box, not the bag. whenever I shook that box, he came running ...
Haha, Gracie does that, kind of. If she's feeling playful and I happen to walk toward her she'll turn sideways and arch her back, let out a little trill sound, and then she takes off running. If I don't chase her she turns around and comes after me. She also loves to play peek-a-boo around door frames or wall corners.
I did a pretty good impersonation of a large dog whenever I caught howard going thru a closet door. I'd bark like a big dog, paw at the door and carpet, sniff, growl and bark some more, then I'd open the door a crack and wait for him to emerge with his eyes bugged and his fur puffed out. then he'd spend quite a bit of time very slowly looking thru the house for the big dog that somehow got inside.
They're so cute but so destructive. We fight a never ending battle against the raccoons trying to keep our bird feeders intact.
I know exactly what you mean. My feeders are just hanging by hooks on chains, and the raccoons like to pull them up and lift them off the hooks, and then drop them to the ground, sometimes breaking them. They also used to steal suet feeders, but now I have them secured better.
Super cute, though.
my mother upset the balance of nature years ago up above evergreen colorado by feeding them dry cat food on her deck. she started off with 2 and by the time they sold the home and retired to a condo on the gulf coast, there would be over 50+ begging on the deck after the sun went down. I felt kind of bad for the new owners ...
That reminds me of the guy on YouTube who feeds them hot dogs.
that's insane.
isolating bird feeders from earthbound creatures usually turns the feeder location into an ambush point for raptors ...
Morning... absolutely love raccoons..they are so mischievous..closest we have is our brushies (possums) that come every night here..
I leave apple and banana out for them..they do have a nasty habit of eating the buds off rose bushes though..much to my SIL disgust..😬
Your possums are so much cuter than ours, and your koalas are the greatest.
Raccoons certainly are mischievous. Too much so sometimes. They can be a pain, but I still like them.
Morning.. Mishka has worked out if I sit on the lounge chair arm rest I get the heat from the wall heater..
Doesn't matter if it blocks my heat though...
4c here at the moment and we gave got fog as well.. summer where are you??
It's her heat, not yours, lol. Gracie like the warmth from my legs when I'm sitting with my feet up. She lays right between them lengthwise, all stretched out, making as much contact as possible. It gets a little too warm for me sometimes.
I'd let her have her way, unless you'd rather chance her forgetting to tell you about the taipan or brown snake under your bed ...
Morning.. luckily for me the cat has only dragged in, mice, moths, crickets, frogs and the odd bird..
All rescued and survived.. luckily it is now 15.5 years old and past catching assorted things..
It still does chase them in its dreams though..speak of the devil it's now bellowing for its brekkie..🐾🐾
then give her a brush, she looks like a bloody fire hazard ...
Yeah right..I value my life it hates being brushed or combed..
I have bite marks and scratches to prove it..😬
Were you trying to brush the possums?
Origami Butterfly - Tiger Swallowtail © CZG
Morning Pink..love the colours..
Do you sell your creations or keep them?
Thank you Shona. I made this for our 32 anniversary this year. I keep them. Occasionally , I make one as a gift.🤗
Absolutely beautiful!
You have a great talent.
Thank you
Rarotonga, Cook Islands 1988 (© G.Gam)
'88 huh? too early for surfer girls in thong bikinis ... bummer ...
Rarotonga is the largest and most populated of the Cook Islands, but it is only 26 square miles with a population of about 9,000. Great place. It's mostly surrounded by a reef. I have never in my life seen so many colorful tropical fish swimming around than when I was snorkeling in the water at the beach at our hotel. Amazing. That trip was a week on Rarotonga and then a week back on Kaua'i. Pretty awesome.
The two pictures in Comment 1, above, were taken on a 10 day trip in 1986 to the Kingdom of Tonga (top photo) and American Samoa (bottom photo, which was taken early in the morning). Three days in American Samoa and seven in Tonga. Also a totally awesome trip.
All three of those pictures were taken with a basic small point-and-shoot camera I carried around in my pocket. They are not digital photos. I've been scanning some of them into my computer and trying to enhance them and play around with different effects to see what I can create.
It was at the deserted beach in the lagoon just before the mountains in Kauai where I snorkeled that I saw a rainbow of multi-coloured fish.
You're probably referring to Ke'e Beach. I've snorkeled there a few times, and the amount of fish there doesn't compare to what I saw on Rarotonga.
Yes, I'm sure that was where it was - and there were hippies living in the treehouses. They were still the most colourful fish I had ever seen.
Nice!
Thanks!
Scenes from Seattle, taken today.
Amazing. Can you describe the second photo?
It’s a wall down by the waterfront in the market area that people have been covering with gum for a long time. I thought it would taste better than it does. JK
Great photos. Looks like fun.
Closing up this Creative Arts Weekend. Thanks to our contributors and commenters. See you all again soon!