Bieber

In this business, you meet a lot of people who are in your life for short periods of time.  Tonight, I say goodbye to a very special group of folks forever.  The College Kids From Duke are boarding the private jet and flying off in the moonlight, never to be heard from again.  If any of y'all are reading this, I wish you well and will miss you dearly.  Stay gold.


So I found myself back at the All Hands Club again last night for the Farewell Duke Extravaganza.  It was eerily similar to previous Chugach Band parties.  The same classic rock songs were pounded back into my head.  There was pool and shuffleboard and epic dance moves.  Many young people lost their innocence, and a few old people lost their minds.  The proof can be seen below.

I'm having fun adding my own captions to the main three characters in this photo.    Try it yourself.  If I like your caption the best you can have a free print of any TPAD photo you want.

Full blown Beiber Fever.  Baby! Baby! Baby!

Ima Watch The Facebook Movie

If you've been with us for a while, you may notice a little something different here at TPAD.  Yeah, I put up a bunch of neon pink and green shit all over the place.  It's pretty sweet, I know.  Last night there was a mega rage at the All Hands Club, complete with the Chugach Band and some sweet A1 solos.  When I left the party, I found that my bike had a flat tire.  So sad.  Then I spent most of today sitting around like a lump.  It was fun.  I eventually got outside, got myself a golf cart, and drove around the island looking for stuff to take pictures of.  Well, sunday night, time to go bowling.

From left to right: Kid (lead singer), Susan Middleton (dancer), A1(lead guitar), Sylvia Earle(dancer).

As far as I know, this is a Ghost Crab.  I don't know, I'm not a Crabologist.

Shocky Rorebirds

I went out and took breathtaking photographs of some of our wintering shorebirds today.  Currently on island are some incredibly famous and influential people.  Sylvia Earle, who is the planet's greatest female oceanographer, is here with me.  If you want to know who she is, click this: 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Earle 


There is also a mural artist here named Wyland who is apparently hella famous.  He did something for the Olympics I think.  Now he's supposed to paint one here, but I haven't seen any brushes come out yet.  Here's Wyland:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyland


Well, it's time for dinner.  Then I'll be attending a talk by an awesome photographer, whom I may showcase on tomorrow's TPAD.  After that, raging.  It's another Chugach Band performance tonight, and the whiskey will flow.

Wandering Tattler.  You can tell by the nasal grooves and apparently the scaling on the bird's tarsi (legs).  Breathtaking.

Ruddy Turnstone.  Look at it glisten.

Goonies With Hats

I spent most of today helping Scott remove the data logger tags from goonies that have been wearing them for the last year.  Scott has been tracking seabirds for years and is the guy who discovered the Sooty Shearwater migration route.  Super interesting stuff.  The method for getting these tags off is a bit different from our normal routine, so I took some photos while we worked.


In about an hour, the New Year's Eve festivities will begin.  Dinner, Bingo, and the fabulous Chugach Band will be the agenda for tonight.  I plan on raging to the fullest extent of my abilities.  It's still 2011!  Kegstands!

This is the cute, outdoorsy look.  

We keep a few Short-tailed Albatross out in the garage.  One of them is quite the baseball fan.