After seeing "The Cove" movie premier the wind in my sails were fairly flattened. As with so many other times in my life the sea stepped into play a pivotal role in my physical and emotional balancing the next morning. After a early morning radio interview, we offered the opportunity to take the entire S4C team out on a whale/dolphin watch tour. Withing minutes of
putzing around out sea our group was surrounded by a massive group of Atlantic spotted dolphins as well as common dolphin. They were moving at high speeds and in hot
prosuite of a few females in the group for a bit of sea love. The group went really mellow soon there after and we were allowed to hang from the boats rope lines 3 at a time and
experience their magic from under water. The visibility was hundreds of feet and the sounds exchanged from the pod was pure magic. At one point I surrounded by 8 or so playful creatures making eye contact and fully showing off for me. This experience only solidified my willingness to do whatever it takes to help preserve their rights within the sea.
After we left Madeira and headed for the Azores, we all dreamt of
experiencing Sperm Whales first hand. As luck had it on our 3rd day of the trip we organized a trip and found a pod of whales
moseying south bound with gentle currents. The pod consisted of 6 adults protecting one playful calf. The Calf breached three times and would
periodically swim towards our idol boat. So powerful. These whales have to be the most unique and interesting species next to the
Narwhal. The experience was a dream come true and our group was happy to spend quality time within a once whale hunting port, turned full blown whale loving tourism destination.
***Digging into a sick open ocean ledge we scouted.
***Rasta driving after a bit of trickery on land.
***Quadrophonic slice and dice
***A illustration that speaks on behalf of my frustrations with the history of whaling.
***Howie Cooke, Hootch Mc Nootch, Paul Watson, Kylie and Andy Sibling....
***No Capture, No Kill whale mural project in Peniche, Portugal.
***Madeira from our lovely casa on the hill...
S4C team hanging with Captain Paul Watson and scoping his new ship he's adding to the fleet.
***Howie Cooke's whale teepee mural project that's roamed the world.
***Craziest flow. Loved driving and pre-surf jamming to this one.
***Raw energy, negative angst, but something about how real it is is intriguing.
***Lady's man... King Yellow is a classic.
***Here's our hometown amigo, Alex Gray the surfer. A great person and an epic surfer, love this image, so sick. The best part of this photo was cropped, it was Archy pulling back, screaming at the top of his lungs. Really powerful.
***When I was a grom, I saved up my money and hitch hiked to Venice. Bought this poster and some wideling tools and spent the next 5 years with this image directly over my head. Something about it really speaks to my ideals of life.
***Was gifted this book by a funny spacey dude in High School. Most say it had a profound push in a really positive journey I took later that year. Thanks mysto space-cake.
***Such a profound book for any age. Big thanks to the Dr. for giving us infinite amounts of brain stimuli.
***How's the progression from rock steady to straight rock stars and onward to legendary icons. Great shots of bunny, Bob and Peter...
***Lakes won. Fisher and Kobe looking stoked. Evil water boy, witch master in the back and if you look close enough the dudes hand in the upper right looks like the profile of a jester?
***The animated Shrek cost too much to recreate in these economic hardships, so they have chosen a 8 month old boy from Palm Springs to do battle against a cast of trained rodents.
***Master lens-man Rob Gilley has recently re-purchased The Pacific Surf Gallery in Cardiff, Ca. Right next to Cardiff Market. If you have a chance, drop bye and check out some of his work.
