Lindsey Hoshaw continues to blog at her personal website. We have a good system down. She drafts her blog posts as a word document so that when she is on the slow satelite connection in the middle of the ocean she can simply cut and paste the text.
The slow part is probably uploading her photos. And don't forget - she is saving her best photos for her return.
Then Lindsey emails these posts to Spot.Us and David Cohn uploads them to her personal blog and to this pitch update.
The latest news from Lindsey.
It’s a strange feeling knowing that this journey is drawing to a close. As we head toward Long Beach, we’ve all started thinking about what we’ll do when we get back.
During Moore’s 2007 voyage to the garbage patch, most of the buoys he pulled on board were covered with gooseneck barnacles. Huge clusters of them that made the buoys difficult to lift.
But during this trip the buoys seemed barren. Their sleek surface was coated with brownish gray algae, and only small barnacles, something Moore had never seen before.
...yet the very next day Bill yelled from the bow that he’d caught a buoy covered in barnacles. This, said Moore, is what he’d expected to see during this voyage, and yet, this buoy is the only one of it’s kind. Since then we haven’t seen any other buoys coated in barnacles.
It just adds to the mystery of the garbage patch-which organisms will thrive and which will perish? The answer certainly seems to be fluid.
For the past three days we’ve caught Mahi Mahi every morning. And we’ve been graced by the presence of several squid, which have jumped on board, that we’ve conveniently used as bait. It seems they jump on board to escape predators, though they don’t know their fate may be even worse when they hop on this boat.
A recollection of what may be one of the last dinners onboad the ship.
Posted by Spot. Us on 10/06/09
