In mid-August 1609 Robert Juet wrote in the log of Half Moon–that Half Moon— . . “we killed an extraordinary fish . . .” Nothing more in the way of explanation or description or taste did he write. That makes me want to speculate all night and all day . . and start a game like . . what extraordinary thing else might they have killed or at least experienced. Check out the extraordinary catch I witnessed today in the KVK. They pull and
they strain and
bring up a most extraordinary . . . cement block. “Part of a sediment sampling monitoring program,” I hear. Although Kenneth Biglane is a locally-based EPA vessel, I’ve never seen it until today. Incidentally, the vessel’s namesake studied oil spill containment in many places including the Torrey Canyon spill in 1967.
Earlier in the morning, a most extraordinary orange boat, previously depicted on this blog, crisscrosses the KVK as part of a sampling of sediments, I’m told, that
are no longer there as well as what’s left below where the silt is no longer there . . . or something. Michele Jeanne sampled away until it had to get out of Sea Miror‘s way, and then
Tomorrow, another day, I’ll go off in search of more extraordinary . . . . Join along? By the way, Sea Miror is ex-Maritime Pearl, 1990.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp.
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July 5, 2010 at 2:58 am
Camille (Biglane) Rowland
SHADOWS IN THE GULF
(IN MEMORY OF KEN BIGLANE)
KENNY HAD A FRIEND
TEBEAU WAS HIS NAME
THEY WATCHED THAT TANKER BREAK IN TWO
KENNY DONE CLEAN THAT MESS AGAIN
(CHORUS)
OH. TEBEAU
IT’S THAT BLACK DEVIL BREW
IT COVERS OUR SOUL
AND MR. CORPORATION’S GOT A HOLD OF YOU
KENNY STARTED WITH TORREY CANYON
CLEANED UP AFTER THE VALDEZ
WROTE THE LAWS FOR HIS CHILLUN
TO STOP THEM SPILLS AGAIN
(CHORUS)
SHADOWS IN THE GULF
OIL RIGS A-FLARE
KENNY PRAYS MR. CORPORATION MAN
WILL SEE THE LIGHT SOMEWHERE
(CHORUS)
TEBEAU HAD A FRIEND
KENNY WAS IS NAME
TEBEAU SAYS THEM OIL SPILLS
WILL ALWAYS HAPPEN AGAIN
OH KENNY
MY BAYOU’S TURNIN’ BLUE
IT BREAKS MY HEART
AND MR. CORPORTATION
SCREW YOU
(This is for all those who have worked hard on this oil spill – and need to vent) C Rowland/Daughter of Kenneth E. Biglane copyright 2010
October 13, 2012 at 6:44 am
tugster
camille– i enjoyed meeting you in annapolis and hearing you actually sing the song about your father. keep in touch.
July 6, 2010 at 12:53 pm
tugster
camille– thanks for writing. have you set this to music?
October 23, 2012 at 8:14 pm
Anonymous
Thanks Will, we also enjoyed meeting you.