Sometimes Life can be...

Amazing, sometimes just a Maze.

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Rage at West End... The entrance to Old Bahama bay

Just a funny pic

Monkey loose at IKEA... Nice coat!

Boat launch gone wrong...

... this should go on the Marine Services Review.

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 Three pics to be exact... Earnestine and Hazel's redux

I wanted to go back to do a few more shots of the place just because it's so funky and colorful, So, I load up my big camera and off we go to have some burgers and beers and take a few pics.

Yeah, while there... we had the possibility of a paranormal experience. It just depends on who you ask.
While we were upstairs taking these pictures, I'm focusing in on one of the smaller rooms and behind me in a dark corner, a stack of trays, covered in cob webs, that appears as if they haven't moved since the place was last painted come crashing down. I laugh and say, "Ghosts", and Mel still believes it's so.
Me, being a skeptic, thinks it could be Russell the owner set it all up, or just—Shit Happens.
Russell later tells Mel that it was definitely one of the dearly departed girls up there, he points at me an says, "They like musicians, they were just playing with 'em.".
Russell lives upstairs and often tells stories about the ghost turning on the juke box and playing some of the old 45s.
Many folks truly believe the place is haunted; of course many folks believe in Big Foot.

Who knows? If I were a ghost, I would hang out here.

Cheers,

Istaboa

ps... a talented photographer named David Taylor... no relation, has done a nice gallery of photos from our hood... If you want to visit, Click here

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Albert King Mural on a wall in an alley.

Downtown Memphis

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 These old anchor ties on the cobblestones at Memphis river front. 

They're over 150 years old.

When just a kid, I remember my father's crew tying up his boat to these very same rings.

'My Other Yacht Is a Support-Yacht'

Well, of course it is...

 Support yachts are for people who have outgrown their mega-yachts and need more space for their helicopters, speedboats, launches and submarines. The support yacht acts as a floating garage, trailing alongside the main yacht with all of the owner's oversized "toys."
While support yachts have been around for a while, the yacht-maker Amels has launched the Rolls Royce of support yachts -- the Sea Axe -- a gleaming, 220-feet ship that can hold a mega-chopper, loads of speedboats, a submarine, and all the scuba gear, jet skis and floaties an oligarch or sheik could ever want.
Article here 

Never thought of that... we've just been towing our Submarine for years. 

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The Better Half of Crew Istaboa, Crewing a DC-9

Melonie, when we first met, circa 1982

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Skyping the Sharks at Compass Cay.