Thursday, 29 May 2008

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
Decided to try the Flickr edit function

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youthbike
Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
Did this one with Paintshop Pro

Wednesday, 28 May 2008

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
This picture contains the Tall Ship ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT; she moved off one berth onto another close to our ship, prior to the New year's Eve fireworks in Tenerife

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
During the photo shoot for the Hoppy's leg calendar, some of the bikes got bored

Website problems

The monitoring service notified me that my main address (www.captsmurf.co.uk) was offline. It's happened before and I'm getting fed up with it.

My secondary site (http://www.captainsmurf.com) is working fine, and has only had a very small downtime in last 90 days. So I'm uploading all the stuff from the old site to this one. I've updated the index page, so lots of stuff is now back online.

The secondary site actually gives me loads of space and already holds about 60% of my site anyway. So I'll be pointing my .co.uk address to my .com address and cutting back my reliance on the .co.uk to a minimum (keeping it so I don't lose my email addresses).

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Top 100 Sites




Tuesday, 13 May 2008

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
We were headed out of the Caribbean when this Frigate Bird joined us. Next few shots were my attempt at following the bird as it harassed a booby into giving up it's catch

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
Head Chef, Catering Assistant and Stewardess taking the air in the canal. Side effect is that you grow extra fingers.

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
The sun started to set as we waited to enter the canal

Thursday, 8 May 2008

James Cook

Thanks to 3rd Engineer Chris Uttley for doing this capture

Wednesday, 7 May 2008

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
We had a long night transiting the Panama Canal. Here's Bernie, Chief Engineer taking a breather

Monday, 5 May 2008

Panama Canal

Pilot boarding at 1745 (1 hour from now.

Bunkers in Cristobal tomorrow, then off into the Caribbean

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Panama Canal tomorrow

we arrive at Balboa tomorrow morning, for a Panama Canal transit hopefully starting at midnight UK time. There are web cams at the locks and at a bridge. We might get on the web. I'll update the time for definite once we get the pilot on board.

Webcams at http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html?cam=Miraflores

Also waiting at Cristobal, to go through from Atlantic to Pacific, is the BOUNTY, as featured in the Film "Mutiny on the Bounty", which also appeared in last 2 Pirates of the Caribbean Films.
http://www.tallshipbounty.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=260

Saturday, 3 May 2008

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Originally uploaded by Captain Smurf
We had to leave our alongside berth at 0500 today. I hung around to get a photo of the sunrise over Costa Rica

Online Travel Guide

If you are off to jail in Fremantle, Western Australia, try this travel guide

http://www.schmap.com/australia/historic/#p=140455&i=140455_13.jpg