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    Question - "What does having a dream mean to you?"
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    serves as the rite of passage into wisdom." Erden Eruç - Sep 17, 2004
     

    Image: Brown Booby Brown Booby
    Image: Redfooted Booby Redfooted Booby

    Booby landings...
    January 9, 2008 - Day 184    6.0640N,173.6907W
    As I progressed west on the north side of the island of Palmyra, I encountered Brown Booby and Redfooted Booby. Fellow Explorers Club member Don Bekins wrote once that a Redfooted Booby colony exists on Palmyra. I am still seeing these birds where I am, located 600nm west of Palmyra.

    These birds, just like the Masked Booby, would rather land on my boat and balance on a perch all night, than alight on the water. They will get tired if they are far from land, and will seek my boat for a rest.

    Pepper Trail says: "The Brown Booby has green feet, brown upperside and white undersides. Any booby with red feet (can be white, beige, or brown in plumage) is the Red-footed Booby. Both are common in the tropical Pacific."

    These birds are cute one at a time and provide me with welcome entertainment as long as their rear ends point to the sea.

    Erden.

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    Close encounters...    January 6, 2008 - Day 181
    After I posted my dispatch yesterday and saw it inevitable that I would soon find myself on the strongest flow of the main counter current between 7N-7.5N, the wind died just before sunset. It then f

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    Shipping lane...    January 5, 2008 - Day 180
    As I post new dispatches, three most recent ones appear below as blurbs. The rest are accessible by the link below those. If you have not entered your email address on the top right corner of this p

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    90-Degrees off course...    January 4th, 2008 - Day 179
    The progress over the last week has been wonderful, during which I gained quite a bit of distance due west. But the last few days brought relentless ESE winds which have now set the sea to carry my b

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