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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
4 comments:
I'm curious to know how you'd compare this online journal to the journals I know you've been in the habit of keeping -- like the one you had stolen (or was it lost?)years ago (in San Francisco?). What do you think of what the medium offers? of the different way it shapes your record-keeping? I'm guessing that some of the watercolours might come from your sketch-book-cum-journal, and that book will, of course, offer the aesthetic satisfaction of the paper's texture, the smell, etc., BUT doesn't integrate photographs as nicely nor accommodate conversations with friends. It will be interesting to see how both stimulate future work in their different ways. Any thoughts?
I think the blog as medium for journal is fantastic. It's not as ephemeral as I thought, as I have the text and photos on my computer and the drawings and paintings in my sketchbooks. It offers a quick easy way to integrate the three things (as well as video and audio I guess, if I had a more sophisticated grasp of it). But the best part is the interaction. It is really the perfect thing for this year (though there will be periods when I will not have internet access). I'm really enjoying the writing part and it stimulates me to get out to sketch everyday.
great les contraintes météo ! super d'petre obligé de rester à San Diego puis au Mexique ! j'ai passé qq jours à cote d'Acapulco et depui je rêve d'y retourner ! grâce à ces petites escales tu as le temps de nous faire de jolis dessins et aquarelles et tu peux même apprendre un peu de français !
Continue à nous ravir de tes post ! bbb
Omg, that purple dog! So wierd!
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