self-portrait in the present sea journal

I can no longer make changes to the main site, www.inthepresentsea.com, which is now frozen in time, as I will be myself soon enough. Anything more will be added here. The contact at the main site has become unreliable, so I have created a new email address and can be reached at webbchiles@yahoo.com. The Yellowbrick tracking page for GANNET when I am at sea is: https://my.yb.tl/gannet

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Hilton Head Island: frozen not chopped; leaves

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  On Monday I biked five miles to my regular six month skin cancer appointment.  The marsh is having a period of perfect weather and the rid...
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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Hilton Head Island: martini with heron; and three poems

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  Some people have their martinis with olives or a bit of lemon peel, the last few evenings we have had ours with a Great Blue Heron who sit...
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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Hilton Head Island: prescient

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Sixty-five years ago a brilliant nineteen year old college sophomore wrote a paper with the deliberately provocative title, ‘The Peasant Cla...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Hilton Head Island: sunset at Mallory Square

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  While looking for a particular photo of GANNET for GANNET 6 I came across the above.  I liked it but for a while I couldn’t figure out wha...
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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Hilton Head Island: a beautiful bird; drinks on deck; three poems

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  I thank Roger for permission to share the excellent photo of my favorite bird, which he captured during a recent trip he and his wife took...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Hilton Head Island: Steve Earley’s two favorite boats

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Mine too. GANNET and SPARTINA.  GANNET is the big one. Photographs by Steve Earley.
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Friday, February 13, 2026

Hilton Head Island: fire

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Indian Springs, our condo development, consists of four identical three story buildings constructed on a slight incline.  D Building in whic...
Monday, February 9, 2026

Hilton Head Island: unimaginable and inescapable

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I thank James for a link to a short video about the unimaginable size of the universe from which I believe inescapable conclusions must be d...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Hilton Head Island: here and there

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When I returned to Evanston from Opua in late 2014 I wrote:                     Here a mix of rain and snow.  Temperature 32° and falling. ...
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Sunday, February 1, 2026

Hilton Head Island: a lamentable trend

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  We were on the southern edge of the storm and only got a little over an inch/3cm of snow.  Flakes began falling slowly late yesterday afte...
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