2012-02-16

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-02-16

I finally managed to weigh anchor at about 11am after going ashore for some desperately needed groceries (milk for coffee, limes & Carib beer, and baguettes & butter) and then motored to Île Tintamarre. I put the dive gear together and went to the wreck of the tugboat, taking 180 pictures with some really cool worms (nudibranches, perhaps… I’ll have to check that out) and finally got the local pufferfish interested in taking a closer look at the lens. Up top after the dive I was really disappointed to see that each and every picture that I took was underexposed to an extent that even the magic of PhotoShop had no chance. <sigh> It turns out that I’d turn the dial on the flash from TTL (Through The Lens) to a normal fixed flash setting. I had planned on sailing to Île Fourchue for the night but opted to take a second dive to see if I could get some of those pictures again and afterwards it was already 17:30 so I decided to stay put for the night. After a steak dinner with garlic bread I sat on the deck for a while looking at the stars until I nodded off and returned to the cabin for the evening.

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.