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Last dive of vacation!
cayman islands vacation: part two
August 21, 2006
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I took this (bad) photo of the dive map hoping I could reference it on my camera if I go lost! (We were only diving to a depth of 20', so I'd always be able to just surface if I lost my orientation - but that's for cheaters!)
cayman islands vacation: part two
August 21, 2006
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At 7:30 that night, I headed out to the diving boat for a night dive!
cayman islands vacation: part two
August 21, 2006
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Instead of standing on the sandbar, we were going to jump off the boat about 50ft away from the sandbar, sink to the bottom (only about 15' down) and wait from some stingrays to get a whiff of the squid we holding and come over. Here's our divemaster using a stuffed stingray to explain the stingray's anatomy and demonstrate how you feed them. were going to be putting on scuba gear and sitting on the ocean floor at a depth
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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For our second dive, we headed over to Stingray City. Stingray City is a sandbar on the northwest side of the island where the stingrays have become used to people and you can feed them right out of your hand! Here's a quick history of how this came to be that I took from this site:

Years ago before banking and tourism was big in Grand Cayman the main industry was fishing. The fishermen would work the seas all day and return to the protection of the of the reef in the north sound to clean their catch. After years of throwing the entrails overboard, the Stingrays began gathering in the area on the shallow sand bars. The stingrays would feast on the free meal. Soon the stingrays began to associate the sound of a fishing boats with food. In the late 1970s, divers starting feeding squid to the stingrays, which is one of their favorite dishes. Before long, dozens of rays would show up each day to be fed, attracted by the boat engines and the memory of an easy meal.


Here's a pic of a bunch of people standing on the sandbar in the middle of the bay and feeding the stingrays!
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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I got up bright and early on Wednesday morning and headed out on the boat for a three-dive trip! The first (and deepest) dive of the day was at a dive spot called "Babylon." Here's our divemaster walking us through a map of the site.
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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Heading back to the boat!
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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Here's the view of the boat as I came up at the end of my dive!
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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Coming in over George Town (the capital).
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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A couple of hours later and we'd arrived! Here are a bunch of cruise ships docked in the bay.
cayman islands vacation: part one
August 21, 2006
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Homeward bound.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Big Skipper "large and in charge" at the helm.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Headed back to the house.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Die, fuckers, die! I swat you to death!
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Armed and dangerous. Usually, I try my hardest to be a "live and let live" kind of guy. But I draw the line at sentients that seek what entomologists call a "blood meal."
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Tuesday afternoon, my dad wanted to take us out for a ride on his boat. Here Big Skip guiding the boat out of the dock and heading towards the bay.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Meredith and my mom showing off their flyswatters. Coastal NJ in the summer is plagued with greenhead flies. They bite during the day and it hurts like HELL.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Post-tubin' relaxin'.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Afterwards, Mer and I headed back up to the lake to do some tubin' off the back of the SS Farley!
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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We ended up taking the across the lake and docking at an awesomely shitty bar called the Tidal Wave (which, if you're a long time reader, you'll remember as the bar where 2001's Midget Madness took place!). Yeah, that's right - there's a lake in my town that has bars that you can go to BY BOAT!
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Check out how totally lit up Scott was. Hahaha.
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Captain Tim preparing to shove off!
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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We didn't get to my parent's place until later on in the evening. We kicked it with my fam for a bit and then everyone went to bed! I wasn't tired, so I called Tim, Scott, Reminay and Erika. I got there around 1am and we decided to hop into Tim's boat (the SS Farley!) and take 'er for a spin on Lake Hopatcong (The largest lake in NJ is in my hometown).
fourth of july weekend
July 01, 2006
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Ellis Island.
the july roundup: part one
July, 2005
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My Uncle Tom on the ferry. (Best photo. Hahaha).
the july roundup: part one
July, 2005
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...Ellis Island!
the july roundup: part one
July, 2005
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We all at dinner together at some restaurant at the ferry port, and then I hopped on the ferry back to Manhattan!
the july roundup: part one
July, 2005
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Uncle Tom and my Dad on the ferry back to the Jerz.
the july roundup: part one
July, 2005
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My mom lounging in the front.
the may roundup
May, 2005
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Big Skip at the cap'n's wheel while Elyse (my Uncle Bruce's girlfriend) chills on the back.
the may roundup
May, 2005
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The view from the cabin as my dad navigates the waterways out to the open ocean.
the may roundup
May, 2005
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My Dad's brother Bruce (aka: Uncle Moose).
the may roundup
May, 2005
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This is the harbour, the body of water is the Baltic Sea.
baltic vacation part one: grant & jake in finland and lapland.
January 26, 2005
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...and left the city behind in order to head on over to....drumroll...
leigh visits san francisco
October 07, 2004
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On Monday we headed to the northeast part of town and hopped a ferry...
leigh visits san francisco
October 07, 2004
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Man, sometimes you wait your whole life to see something and you finally see it and you just got to stand back and be all like "Wow, I'm finally seeing it." But then depression sets in because it's like "Where do I go from here?"
meredith visits san francisco
September 25, 2004
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After lunch we hopped in my car and headed north to check out the Fisherman's Wharf area. Where there are all sorts of hot tourist attractions like the world famous...
meredith visits san francisco
September 25, 2004
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The loser is the person who finally elicits a slurred scream of "OW! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ASSHOLES FUCKING DOING? THAT FUCKING HURT!" Make sure not to use up all of your ice, your Dempsey will need it to help reduce the swelling on the mulitude of red bumps on his head and/or face.
the ss farley sails tonight
May 07, 2004
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It turns out Dempsey had decided to walk down to the dock and pass the fuck out in Tim's boat! We spent the next ten minutes playing a game called "Don't Wake Dempsey!" All you need is a few drunk friends with good throwing arms and an assortment of items to throw! (We found out that ice works better than coins). Points are awarded each time you managed to hit Dempsey in the head and/or face without arousing him from his drunken slumber!
the ss farley sails tonight
May 07, 2004
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Here's Skipper Jr. chilling on the *heh* poop deck. (Okay, I don't know if that's technically what the little back area's called, but I just wanted to say "poop deck.")
move the god-damned shed
June 21, 2003
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On the way back inland, I took Brett on a trip down "Torturous Big Brother Memory Lane" by waking him from his slumber with a long-range shot to the balls with the 25' gaff pole. Hehehehe.
move the god-damned shed
June 21, 2003
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After lunch we took out the boat, here's Skipper large and in charge at the wheel...
move the god-damned shed
June 21, 2003
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Here's my parent's boat, the "SS Weak Moment" (named after what my mom must've been having when she "allowed" my dad to buy a boat) parked at the house's dock.
move the god-damned shed
June 21, 2003
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The hotel is themed after Venice (The Venetian, get it?) and has canals with gondoliers paddling people through the goddamned mall inside.
bidness in vegas
June 15, 2003
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Oh, I forgot to mention - before we set out, each of the sixteen people on the boat threw in $10 towards a pool to be awared for two prizes: Half the money would go to the person catching the biggest fish (the "biggest" prize), the other half would go to the person who caught the most fish (the "most" prize). Got it? After four hours of fishing, my brother, having caught five fish was tied for the "most" prize with some other guy. Ten minutes before the captain was scheduled to call "lines up" and head back to shore, my brother (in the blue hat), hooked yet another fish which made him the winner of the "most" prize (with six fish caught).
fishing with pappi part 2
June 9, 2003
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With our proud angling lineage in mind, we puffed our chests, hoisted our hopes and cast our lines towards the sea (that's Capt. Mike in standing next to my brother).
fishing with pappi part 2
June 9, 2003
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There's she is! The brand new "Mi-Jo II." 75ft of fishing-catching fury piloted by the super-nice Captain Mike Scardigno.
fishing with pappi part 2
June 9, 2003
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And here...(Insert 2001 Space Odyssey Music Here) is my dad's new boat.
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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Grant, Me and Pappi.
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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Skipper brings the boat to a stop...
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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Navigating the waterways out to the open sea...
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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And here's (Enter Kettle Drums: BOM-BOM, BOM-BOM, BOM-BOM!) Pappi!
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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Check out Skipper 'large and in charge' at the helm!
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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Here's my dad's good friend and total Guinea (ha!) John Antanino and my good friend and kooky Limey, Grant.
fishing with pappi
October 05, 2002
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After the Grange Hall, the family all headed back to island for some food and final bonding time.
goodbye uncle stephen
July 07, 2002
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After the ceremony, we all headed over the Grange Hall on the mainland for a much larger memorial service in Stephen's honor. Brian and Brian in the back of the boat!
goodbye uncle stephen
July 07, 2002
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That's my mom at the bow. (If you look closely, you can see the boathouse peeking out at the very tip of Beech Island in the background).
goodbye uncle stephen
July 07, 2002
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That's Cousin Kevin Crowell (who taught me how to water ski when I was a wee lad!) ferrying us over to the island for a small memorial service and burying of the ashes.
goodbye uncle stephen
July 07, 2002
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Me getting ready to go sailing.
vacation in st thomas: part two
October 08, 2000
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Day two. Here's the view from our insanely nice cliff-perched condo at Bluebeard's resort.
vacation in st thomas: part one
October 05, 2000