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The recession is clearly over, according to my YouTube hits.

I decided to make "rainbow rice" to celebrate (and since Karin is away is the only time I can use my food colouring).

It didn't turn out too bad............................................
I have lemon-pesto salmon to make up for it.

Back from the brink. I washed the dishes, and went shopping for more food. Yay for recession over! Raises for everyone!

Update: I just got an unexpected raise! yay!

Lord of the Flies

Someone drop a rock on the fat kid already...

I am running out of surface area.





I picked up my socks off the floor and there were 6 or 7 welly developed maggots in them. They were all like "Whatever you do, please don't throw us in the garbage can!"

A big storm came through and washed the sand off of an old trash burn pit in front of the old sewage outlet at coogee. I found many coins, including one "pre-decimal" penny. Penny is short for "pence." Total face value: $9.56. There were more that I couldn't dislodge from the creosote without damaging them.

Brass looks a lot like gold, but isn't.

I also found some marbles the day before the storm.

Karin is gone at Lady Eliot Island doing "research."

Seaslugs of the Pacific Northwest

Descriptions are beneath the relevant photo. These shots were taken in Puget Sound from 2006-2009 with my SeaLife DC800.


Orange Alabaster

This one looks like a lit-up city.

Runcina sp. This guy makes mucus tunnels in the sandy shallows at the entrance to the Alki Junkyard.

Clown nudibranch, always a good omen on a dive.


Mousey nudibranch colony on the fallen piles near the Honeybear at Cove 2, Seacrest Park.

There are three in this shot, all different colors of the same species. Lemon peel nudibranch.

"Expensive Vanilla" and Giant Pacific Nudibranch (8").

Alabaster nudibranch.


Tritonia Festiva, 50mm with live-aboard polychaete worm (shown below). The worm retreated into the front of its host upon disturbance. Cove 2.

Flabellina nudibranch, Cove 3.

Note the corner blur in these DC800 images, which has been fixed in the DC1000 camera. Seaslugs of New South Whales forthcoming.

My First Australian Sunrise

Can you tell the difference between a sunrise and a sunset?

What is it? The colors of a sunrise are softer and more pastel. But why?

It is because the sun changes the day, not the night.

It's getting on rainy season here now,

I wish I were a Rainbow Lorikeet.