Oil Spill Update

 Giving credit where credit is due applies here. Marv Market, who we have met at Legacy Harbor in Ft Myers, Fl, does a really good job of keeping his friends abreast of what's going on weather wise in our part of the world.
You can keep up with Marv via his website which is linked to here: Deelite



 Thanks Marv for all your marine weather info and now these damn oil spill advisories.
Keep up the good work.



Light east, southeast, or south winds of 5 - 15 knots will blow today through Saturday, according to the latest marine forecast from NOAA. These winds will keep oil near the beaches of Alabama, Mississippi, and the extreme western Florida Panhandle, according to the latest trajectory forecasts from NOAA and the State of Louisiana. The latest ocean current forecasts from the NOAA HYCOM model are not predicting eastward-moving ocean currents along the Florida Panhandle coast this week, and it is unlikely that surface oil will affect areas of Florida east of Fort Walton Beach. Long range surface wind forecasts from the GFS model for the period 8 - 14 days from now show a southeasterly wind regime, which would prevent any further progress of the oil eastwards along the Florida Panhandle, and would tend to bring significant amounts of oil back to the shores of eastern Louisiana next week. If you spot oil, send in your report to http://www.gulfcoastspill.com/, whose mission is to help the Gulf Coast recovery by creating a daily record of the oil spill.


above -. The oil spill on June 6, 2010 at 8:32pm EDT, as seen by Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery from the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed (COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation) satellite. A large region of oil was a few miles offshore of Pensacola, Florida. Image credit: University of Miami Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Spill—Baby—Spill

This winning sand sculpture in the Fiesta of Five Flags contest in Pensacola Beach, Fla., shows a pelican being doused with oil from a can labeled BP. Residents of Florida's western panhandle have been venting their frustration over the gulf oil spill in a variety of ways.

RIP, Dana Key

 Dana Key

Article here

Memphis Christian rock pioneer Dana Key, one-half of the best-selling duo DeGarmo & Key, founder of two important gospel music labels and founder and pastor of The Love of Christ Church in Cordova, died Sunday night at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville. He was 56.

 Man... My old colleagues and bandmates are slowly moving on...

DeGarmo and Key

circa early 80's

Life is still pretty mellow here in Stuart. We are planning a move for a while but have not made up our minds as to where yet. The above article goes to prove, it's time to start living well.

Adios,

Istaboa

Yacht With Retractable Pool

This would be nice anchored off Compass Cay.


Despite the sky high luxury yacht pricing, this one comes with a neat design that offers a private retractable swimming pool. 

Other luxury yachts might have various ground sports blend into their yachts’ design concepts, however water sports is a neglected aspect that has triggered Vuk Dragovic, a Serbian designer over the behance network to develop such an intriguing Atreides’ concept.

This is so 90's...  Remember crazy money days.

Proof!!

There is water on Mars.

Back onboard

Finally made it back to Istaboa for a couple of weeks. Radar skipped happily down the dock, stopping behind the boats of all his peeps hoping to garner his bits of attention. Life has been quite simple which is what we call entertainment.
All of our marina friends were happy to see us back and we enjoyed a nice Memorial day celebration.
Our friend from Compass Cay, Tucker, is coming over for a few days. We hope to meet up for a nice dinner with him in Vero Beach.
Today we are settling in and enjoying just being.
Back at home, my Mother thoroughly enjoyed her visit with Grandson and his new family. I haven't heard that much happiness in her voice in a long time.

Adios,


Istaboa

Happy Memorial Day

The sad thing is...  most people will not see the irony in this cartoon.

But thanks to all those who participated, fought, and died in foreign conflicts to protect our way of life here in America as well as many other places in the world.

Salute.

Funny... but not really

True... true

Sneakin away...

Keeping it quiet until the last minute seems to be the best strategy for our situation. Every time we announce plans ahead of time, something stops us dead in our tracks.
So it seems like a fast break will give us a much needed respite. It's time to go liven up Istaboa for a few days. Unfortunately not the islands yet... but Stuart is not at all bad after the last few obligations we've dealt with.
So, Grandson is coming to visit Grandmother and bringing the new Great Grandson. (My mother is as excited as she can be.) The next weekend... The good son (my brother) is coming in for a visit. So it seems the mother front is all battened down for a couple of weeks. (X'd fingers.)
We are out of here.

Good timing too... We'll be on hand for Memorial day festivities in downtown Stuart and the inauguration of the merge between Capt. Will's Smoky Dog BBQ and Mrs. Peters Smoke Fish. A momentous occasion. This smokin mash-up will produce, for the good people of the Stuart area, the culinary equivalent of Smoked Nirvana. Pig an Fish!! 

Excitedly Adios,

Istaboa