Various Mono_ness

Still tidying up the 'puter so I can download the 80GB of imagery from Morocco. Here's a couple of vignettes from the land of grey shades.

Clean Up

Cleaning Up the hard drive on the olde Mac 'puter and thought I'd give these one last air out before archiving. All shots taken in 2012 by me on aNikonos 35 film camera.

By the Way

"Standing in line to see the show tonight,

And there's a light on,

Heavy glow.

By the way I tried to say I'd be there,

Waiting for."

from By the Way by Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Thanks

Thanks to all those wonderful souls who inspire us to keep going,
who inspire us to get out there amongst it,
who inspire us to face our fears,
who inspire us to get out of comfort zone - even if it's only to donate a wave or a smile to a stranger,
who inspire us to go within.
Thanks

"Who looks outside, dreams. 
Who looks inside, awakens"

Carl Jung

Monochrome Monday (sorry)

Sorry to my friends, regular lurkers and accidental visitors for no updates .
It's been a strained and busy time in my part of the briney-verse.
Here's to summer fun, real friends, family bonds and the aloha spirit.

Back

After travelling to the other side 

of the planet

by myself, I'm back home.

Great to be with family and friends like Rebecca 

from Making Friends With the Neighbours, 

seen above and below on her Vouch log 

at least one eclipse ago.

Confucius Surfed

 "Wherever you go,

go with all your heart."

Confucius

Monochrome to Go

It's going to be a week of monochrome memories.

Look Closely

Look closely. This has not been photoshopped. There are three chaps on motorbikes doing dangerous stunts. Why do we do this stuff?

Uncrowded

I checked this spot out one morning and couldn't believe there were only two surfers out.

Trying to decide whether to join them or shoot them, I opted for the latter when I saw some of their moves, against the early morning light.

Dreaming

Monochrome Monday (marbles)

When surfers don't surf. we lose our marbles. Go crazy. Get antsy. Take up self-destructive habits like betting on dogs running around a circular track. We have to escape the grind. And so a few of us set out at dawn yesterday, undertaking our own version of The Search - attempting to find waves.

Well what we found wasn't like this.

 And, I didn't even ride any of my boards.

We didn't see any barrels, but we met a new friend, rode a different board, surfed a different spot, caught a few fun ones and had a few laughs over brunch and definitely put a marble or two back in the mental marble jar to tip the balance in the direction of Yew!

Aloha Steve and Danno

Today's post is dedicated to my brine brother and cheeky, larrikin goofy footed work colleague Steve Logan who is taking the big handshake from "The Man With Golden Helmet". Thanks for all the crazy laughs, buddy. Here's your exit tune - Aloha Danno and Steve by Aussie rock punkers - Radio Birdman. Sing along to the lyrics below.

"McGarrett's on the line to Danno 

We gotta pick up this guy 

Put out an APB

Not much time to tell you why

Governor says it's top priority 

Washington says so too

Tell Chin to get here fast 

5-0 is on the move

"Steve I want to say thank you 

For all you've done for me

My night is dark and empty

When you're not on TV

There's an agent in the field 

I want to have him tailed

He's been staying at the Hilton 

Yeah should be staying in the gaol 

He's working for the KGB

And here's his dossier

Those Reds won't be happy

Till this guy gets his way

Dark spectre of espionage

Hangs over fair Hawaii

McGarrett's one cool guy

The guilty will not go free

Steve and Danno they made the scene 

The agent had done his deed

Caught with a stiff and a silenced gun 

Said Book him Danno Murder One"

Aloha Steve and Dano by Radio Birdman

Broken Boards = Fun

Todays text and pics courtesy of Enjoy Handplanes, a crew who are thinking global. Well done.

"Enjoy Handplanes were created by Ed Lewis and Kipp Denslow as a way to save broken surfboards, old wetsuits and production waste from going to the landfills. Their mission is to keep broken boards and manufacturing waste from the landfills while creating products that are fun to use and environmentally responsible. " 

"All Enjoy Handplanes are made with either old foam from broken boards or ruined blanks from manufacturing for the board and neoprene from used wetsuits to make the handles. We use materials that do not currently have a means of recycling and would end up in the landfill. Each handplane is shaped and custom glassed with Entropy Bio Epoxy, providing a second chance to a once loved board or wrecked blank doomed to the land fill."

I just had to add the pic above of Zen-yoga-matt-rider-blogger-runner 23 Breaths.

Farewell Winter

"the salt in our blood

matches the ocean's salinity"

JFK

Kustom Karnival

Monochrome Monday (50 shades of mono)