Monthly Archives: June 2011

A friend wrote today from Colorado with word that aerial spraying for mosquitoes had started out there in the mountains, which started me thinking of skeeters here, and skeeters past.  When it’s wet and warm and there’s standing water, you … Continue reading →

Exceptional light and mood on the beach this morning.  Scattered clouds, light breeze from southwest, falling tide.  Many egrets and one lone heron hunting crabs.  Nuff said.

We have generally tried to steer clear of political and social issues here at The Skinny Island Post, except for an occasional aside, focusing instead on what was directly in front of us– lizards, starfish, waves, wacos on the beach– … Continue reading →

 Check out this little guy.  I don’t know what kind it is, and I don’t see them too often, probably because they are so well camouflaged, and are ocean-dwellers, not beach.  This one had succumbed, probably recently, and I found … Continue reading →

It appears even the Feral Poet had a father. Pressure Treated Measure twice; cut once. In time the measuring and cut are one, the unforgiving blade neither right, nor left of a penciled line, instead erasing it, opening the wood … Continue reading →

Finally got off the arse and took the kayak out today.  We got two of these several years ago, 11-ft. Wilderness Tarpons, buoyant, safe, easy paddling, lots of fun.  We’ve taken them to the Keys a few times, and over … Continue reading →

That little ragged, disorganized low pressure system that’s been spinning down in the Caribbean for days finally went up the Straits and out into the open Atlantic.  The wind that had been coming in off the ocean for days, (high … Continue reading →

Dear Friends, yesterday’s posting about seaweed, tidal pools, and the solitary Royal Tern clearly should have been entitled, “Gulfweed, Tidal Pools and a Left Turn.”  Go back, you’ll see what I mean.  Sorry for not thinking that through.

We’ve had east winds the past five days, light in the morning, then building to 15 to 20 in late afternoon, resulting in copious amounts of Gulfweed, (Sargasso) blown in from the Gulf Stream.  Much of it gets left in … Continue reading →