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Vancouver Island artist/writer Alison Watt's journal, as she and her husband Kim Waterman, sail out of their lives for a year on their boat, Circadia.
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- Alison Watt
- I am an artist and writer. I usually work from my home and studio on Protection Island (where I also teach painting). This year (Sept. 08-summer 09) I'm trying to keep the artist's life afloat as my husband and I take time out to sail in the Pacific.
Trip Bird List
- Crimson-backed Tanager
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Tahiti Swiftlet
- Grey-green Fruit-dove
- Imperial Pigeon
- Audubon's Shearwater
- Tuomotu Reed-warbler
- Blue Lorikeet
- Atoll Fruit Dove
- Christmas Shearwater
- Spectacled Tern
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Great Crested Tern
- Marquesan Swiftlet
- White-capped Fruit Dove
- Little White Tern
- Chestnut-breasted Munia
- Red-browed Firetail
- Common Myna
- Zebra Dove
- Nightingale Reed Warbler
- Wandering Tattler
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Brown Noddy
- Polynesian Storm Petrel
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Sooty Shearwater
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Buller's Shearwater
- Leach's Storm Petrel
- Laysan Albatross
- White-tailed morph of Red-footed Booby
- Red-footed Booby
- Blue-footed Booby
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Phainopepla
- Western Scrub Jay
- Gila Woodpecker
- Greater Roadrunner
- House Wren
- Hooded Oriole
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- American Oystercatcher
- Canyon Wren
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Costa's Hummingbird
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-footed Gull
- Forster's Tern
- Brown Booby
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Rhinoceros Auklet
- Little Blue Heron
- White Ibis
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Yellowlegs (sp.?)
- Semi-palmated Plover
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Black-vented Shearwater
- Cassin's Auklet
- Burrowing Owl
- California Towhee
- Western Meadowlark
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Sage Sparrow
- Northern Harrier
- Pacific Loon
- Black Oystercatcher
- Sanderling
- Long-billed Curlew
- Whimbrel
- Ruddy Duck
- Surf Scoter
- Brant
- Allen's Hummingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- American Kestrel
- (Channel Islands) House Finch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Say's Phoebe
- (San Clemente) Spotted Towhee
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- (Dusky) Orange-crowned Warbler
- California Quail
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Western Kingbird
- House Finch
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Horned Grebe
- Western Scrub Jay
- California Thrasher
- Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Brewer's Blackbird
- Golden Eagle
- Western Sandpiper
- Osprey
- Belted Kingfisher
- Western Grebe
- Mallard
- Black Phoebe
- European House Finch
- American Crow
- Brandt's Cormorant
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Common Loon
- Willet
- Heerman's Gull
- Elegant Tern
- Royal Tern
- Snowy Egret
- Great Egret
- Green Heron
- Little Blue Heron
- Great Blue Heron
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Marbled Godwit
- Common Murre
- Forster's Tern
- Western Gull
- Herring Gull
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pomerine Jaeger
- Pink-footed Shearwater
- Storm Petrel (sp?)
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Black-footed Albatross
- Sooty Shearwater
- Brown Pelican
- Imperial Pigeon
- Audubon's Shearwater
- Tuomotu Reed-warbler
- Blue Lorikeet
- Atoll Fruit Dove
- Christmas Shearwater
- Spectacled Tern
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Great Crested Tern
- Marquesan Swiftlet
- White-capped Fruit Dove
- Little White Tern
- Chestnut-breasted Munia
- Red-browed Firetail
- Common Myna
- Zebra Dove
- Nightingale Reed Warbler
- Wandering Tattler
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Brown Noddy
- Polynesian Storm Petrel
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Sooty Shearwater
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Buller's Shearwater
- Leach's Storm Petrel
- Laysan Albatross
- White-tailed morph of Red-footed Booby
- Red-footed Booby
- Blue-footed Booby
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Phainopepla
- Western Scrub Jay
- Gila Woodpecker
- Greater Roadrunner
- House Wren
- Hooded Oriole
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- American Oystercatcher
- Canyon Wren
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Costa's Hummingbird
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-footed Gull
Trip Marine Mammal List
- Bottle-nosed Dolphin
- Short-beaked Common Dolphin
- Gray Whale
- Northern Right Whale Dolphin
- Steller's Sea Lion
- California Sea Lion
- Humpback Whale
- Harbour Porpoise
- Pacific White-sided Dolphin
3 comments:
Wow! new look -- I love that ochre background! I really enjoyed your post about how our country is perceived -- how strange it must have felt to see the map of BC on a wall of someone who hasn't been here, in a country that we assume little thinks of us -- and for such a reason. Hmmmm.
Despite his physical condition and the condition of his voice, seeing Lightfoot must have been amazing -- he's such an icon. And of course that song's been on a loop in my mind -- an earwig! -- since I read your piece.
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yes, I'm a little slow, but still discovering new things about creating a blog--had no idea all those colours were available! It's really like choosing paint colours for wall to hang paintings on. what fun!
Hi Alison,
Trudy and Briony here. It is Halloween and we are on Gabriola with Robin Hood looking at the same view that you have facing east and so we thought of you. The blog looks great. Trudy is sick so I am taking charge and giving her hot toddies and making her slow down. We went to the haunted house, A gabriola tradition. It was fantastic. IT was called the circus of lost souls. We'll write again now that we have found you.
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