Perpetual Sunsetrise

Today we say farewell to all of our famous visitors.  They will be leaving in the morning before sunrise, to avoid crashing into seabirds.  They will be missed, and many Island inhabitants now feel bigger, stronger, and more important, having met them.  I wish them well, and hope that they continue to do amazing things in the world of mortals.  Aloha. 

Last night, I got home from the bar and caught a baby gecko.  I spent the next 15 minutes trying to take a photo of its eye.  This was the best I could do.  

It pretty much always looks like this here.  At all times of day.  

Pre-rage

Another routine day.  Albatross plots and data entry filled most of my hours.  Now I'm in the process of gettin drunk.  Sounds like a pretty nice Tuesday, right?  I forgot to mention that yesterday the famous artist, Wyland, painted some stuff on the side of Charlie Barracks.  I think it looks pretty legit.  He did it all in just a few hours.  I was impressed at how fast he worked.  Moo had him up on a crane and he was just throwing paint all over everything.  In other news, the very important people are having a party tonight, which means Free Beer.  I've been amazed at the quantities of Free Beer I have consumed while on Island.  I'd wager I've had more than anyone else here, which makes me proud.  Well, thanks for checking in.  Time to go rage.

Here's the mural.  The big bright thing up in the corner is not the sun, it's the full moon.  It was practically daytime last night.

One of my favorite foods.  This is how I am pre-raging tonight.

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.