Last night a generous coworker gave us tickets to the opening night preview of Spring Awakening at the newly renovated Balboa Theatre. The theatre has been in a state of neglect for a very long time and somehow survived being turned into parking lot and/or condos during downtown San Diego’s many changes. Thankfully some people …
Yearly Archives: 2008
Diving Tyee Beach, Nanaimo BC
Photos for 2008.07.23 Diving Tyee Beach, Nanaimo, BC Randi and I both wanted to go diving on Vancouver Island, even though we weren’t going to be there long. We had arranged to go out on a boat dive with one of the local companies, but that fell through during the final week – there simply …
Mass Extinctions and ‘Rise of Slime’
A Scripps researcher has a paper out called Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean. The findings are not for the faint: Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world’s oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they …
Photos from BC travel
I’m so woefully behind on writing I’ll just post photos for now. Photos for 2008.07.17-27 Central BC and Vancouver Island Photos for 2008.07.18-20 Memorial and Reunion, Horsefly
Yukon and Lazy Days on the 4th
Photos of diving the Yukon and Lazy Days wrecks This is a much delayed dive report. On the 4th of July Adam and I headed out on our first trip with the Marissa to the Yukon and the Lazy Days wrecks. I liked them and will be back. The only minor complaint I had was …