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SUB’S CLANGER CREATES SHELL OF A MESS
David Ellis ONE morning in January 1942 as Masaitchiro Shimasaki was enjoying his regular breakfast cigar on the beach off his comfortable little home in then-American Samoa, he noticed something unusual glittering off-shore in the early South Pacific sun. These islands had long been used as a Naval base by the Americans after they had […]
SUB’S CLANGER CREATES SHELL OF A MESS
David Ellis ONE morning in January 1942 as Masaitchiro Shimasaki was enjoying his regular breakfast cigar on the beach off his comfortable little home in then-American Samoa, he noticed something unusual glittering off-shore in the early South Pacific sun. These islands had long been used as a Naval base by the Americans after they had […]
PUSSYCAT’S PURR-FECT PITCH – OWL’SZAT?
PURR-fect with Italian tomato-based pasta sauce dishes. Wc27Aug12 David Ellis LIQUOR store group, Local Liquor have done themselves proud with a 2011 New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc they’ve had made exclusively for their own stores and bottled under their own whimsical The Owl & The Pussycat label. The group asked contract winemakers Cheviot Bridge to […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Cambridge Bay
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Friday 24 August 2012. Temp: 7°C Location: Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. 68deg 50.1’N, 105deg 05.2’W Distance travelled: 2112NM The last landfall before our final destination, Cambridge Bay (pop. 1500) in the Kitikmeot region is another one of Nunavut’s remote […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Cambridge Bay
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Friday 24 August 2012. Temp: 7°C Location: Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada. 68deg 50.1’N, 105deg 05.2’W Distance travelled: 2112NM The last landfall before our final destination, Cambridge Bay (pop. 1500) in the Kitikmeot region is another one of Nunavut’s remote […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Victory Point
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Tues 23 August 2012. Temp: 3°C Location: Victory Point, Nunavut, Canada. 70deg 10.1’N, 097deg 52.0’W Distance travelled: 1843NM There’s nothing victorious about Victory Point. Named, not after some long-forgotten triumph, but after the ship commanded by Capt. John Ross […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Victory Point
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Tues 23 August 2012. Temp: 3°C Location: Victory Point, Nunavut, Canada. 70deg 10.1’N, 097deg 52.0’W Distance travelled: 1843NM There’s nothing victorious about Victory Point. Named, not after some long-forgotten triumph, but after the ship commanded by Capt. John Ross […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Bellot Strait
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Tues 21 August 2012. Temp: 3°C Location: Bellot Strait, Nunavut, Canada. 71deg 56.0’N, 093deg 56.0’W Distance travelled: 1684NM It’s impossible to imagine that this waterway way once an impenetrable barrier of ice that had fatally thwarted the mid 19th […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Bellot Strait
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Tues 21 August 2012. Temp: 3°C Location: Bellot Strait, Nunavut, Canada. 71deg 56.0’N, 093deg 56.0’W Distance travelled: 1684NM It’s impossible to imagine that this waterway way once an impenetrable barrier of ice that had fatally thwarted the mid 19th […]
One Ocean Expeditions – Northwest Passage – Beechey Island
Ship: M/V Akademik Ioffe Operator: One Ocean Expeditions www.OneOceanExpeditions.com Itinerary: Northwest Passage 12-26 August 2012 Date: Mon 20 August 2012. Temp: 3°C Location: Beechey Island, Nunavut, Canada. 74deg 42.3’N, 091deg 45.8’W Distance travelled: 1475NM Ioffe landed here just after breakfast and we spent some time walking into a stiff and chilly breeze pondering the fate […]
