2012-02-02

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-02-02

For some reason I did not sleep much the night before and was rather tired most of the day; which started with a quick coffee and internet connectivity at La Sucrière followed by some cleaning up aboard the boat and then I motorsailed from Marigot to Grand Case and anchored off the shore there around 13:00 whereupon I put together the underwater housing with a different lens with macro attachment plus the flash and dinghied over to the little island which is a nature preserve. I should have dispensed with the flash as there was a lot of backscatter at the distances I was shooting – it would have worked better in deeper waters while diving and getting very close to the subjects I was interested in. Well, it is a learning process and I was still happy that some of the pictures weren’t too bad for a first attempt.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.