Sailing from Anacortes WA to San Francisco CA in 2006

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In 2006 I helped my friends Ken Britten and Sandra Aamodt sail their new (for them) ketch, Aquila, from Anacortes WA to San Francisco CA. The web page I made in 2006 describing highlights of the trip has been converted into this blog entry. A photo of Aquila is shown below.

Details of the vessel can be viewed here.

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Ruminations about how to employ Minard’s innovative use of spatial information in developing a graphical description of our voyage eventually led to the figure shown below,

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Ken and Sanra sailed Aquila to New Zealand and back. I was looking forward to joining them on part of their voyage, but circumstances did not allow me to do so.

The original, more complete, description of the Anacortes to San Francisco trip is still on the web. Link.

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.