Saturday, June 5, 2010

May/June Trip to the States

A rather uneventful trip to the States
May/June 2010
Hampton, NH - North Beach
Brian and Charlie in New Hampshire
Adam lounging...
A beautiful sunrise at "The Wall"
Some Ramona love....
Joel too...!!
Liz waking up to a friend...
Lauren and Joel...
Portsmouth's gundalow...
Tall ships at Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth...
Having some fun with Louie the Lobster (Lobstah..??)...
Train trip to Sacramento...
Relaxing
Lucile Investigating
Lucile Posing
Train Traveling
Marley's Art
Maddox's Art
Marley's Web
Lucile's Art
f5/21
manila-sfo
s5/22
sfo-bos
hanging at the beach
s5/23
cookout at berties with brian wayne, charlie and andrew coates
m5/24
sunrise wake up
visit novel
t5/25
drs appointment
w5/26
lunch with cyrilcookout with lars
t5/27
evening at strangebrewthe boys - peter moore, lars ivarson, dave roche, dave angelini
f5/28
7am liz visits from oakland
prescott park
5pm dinner with cindy
s5/29
hanging out in portsmouth
s5/30
cookout at berties
m5/31
dinner on the seacoast
t6/1
11:30am liz and i leave for oakland
w6/2
t6/3
f6/4
s6/5
train ride to sacramento
visit to the art gallery
s6/6sfo-manila
m6/7
arrive manila
t6/8
back to work

Saturday, May 1, 2010

My Beautiful Grandchildren

My inalienable rights as a grandparent - Bragging on my Grandchildren..!!!
Marley
Maddox
Lucile
The crew...!!!

Friday, April 30, 2010

Dive n Trek

End of April 2010 - Dive n Trek
To get to Dive n Trek requires a banka ride of about an hour...
We passed this private island on the way...
Looking out from Dive n Trek...
Neil all geared up..
And down we go........
For Marley, more clownfish...
A needle fish....
Parrot fish were in abundance...
Smiling at 35 feet....
The array of coral here in the Philippines is stunning in its variety....
Parrot fish from below...
Nice colors...
School in session....
Getting ready.....
School's out...!!!
Bottom time...
More parrot fish love...
Joel trying to show Neil and I how to blow "air rings"... It just mostly came out bubbles...
Not too many bigger fish...
Anemonaes....
I need to get better at centering my underwater shots..!!!
Nice staghorn coral...
Bright yellow...
Giant sea clam...
Clownfish again...
View of the reef...
Looking out into Balayan Bay
The nipa huts...
Colorful parrotfish...
School again..!!
A wall....
Parrotfish...
Smiling at 50 feet...
Beautiful, live white coral...
Zebra fish...
Can't get away from the clownfish...
Guardian of the anemone...
More staghorn coral...
Beautiful reef....
Lone parrotfish...
Yellow fish playing in the coral...
A closeup...
A bouquet of coral...
New growth staghorn...
More clownfish fun....
Neil getting swarmed...
Steve getting swarmed...
Another beautiful day of diving on Anilau peninsula, this time at Dive n Trek....