𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Ovalipes catharus ✧

Ovalipes catharus, commonly known as the paddle crab, swimming crab, or pāpaka in Māori, is a species of crab found in shallow, sandy-bottomed waters around the coasts of New Zealand, the Chatham Islands, and uncommonly in southern Australia. This species is an opportunistic, aggressive, and versatile feeder active mostly at night, preying pred...

#ChathamIslands #Australia #Māori #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovalipes_catharus

#SilentSunday

After the rainstorms, calm waters.

#ChathamIslands #Sailing #Nautical #BoatAccessOnly #CoastalBC #SalishSea #SongheesTerritory #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #BCSailing #PNW

_The Evening Post_, 22 September 1924:
            A RACE WITH DEATH
THE RAMA MAKES FOURTEEN
                KNOTS.
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
                   CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
  Death rode a hard race with the little steamer #Rama and lost when she speeded to Port Waitangi, at the Chatham Islands, recently, securing medical aid for a sick passenger. Eight hours after the Rama left Wellington one of the passengers, Jack Dix, became ill. Amateur medical aid was given, but without avail. Captain Carter, master of the Rama, decided to run for Waitangi. Extra stokers were put to work, and soon the vessel was doing fourteen knots, instead of nine knots. Immediately on arrived [arrival] Dr. Ellison was called. He operated, and the patient is now on the road to recovery, but Dr. Ellison stated that had the vessel been a few hours later the patient would have been dead.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240923.2.86

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Steamers #Medicine #Emergencies #PortWaitangi #Waiteki #ChathamIslands #NewZealand

I #sailed to #ChathamIslands in the Oak Bay islands ecological #marine preserve this afternoon. It was perfect weather with good breezes on the ocean.
I start solo #sailing tomorrow afternoon 😊⛵️✌️
A safety boat will follow close by, just in case I need assistance.

#PeopleWithDisabilities #ParaSailing #AdaptiveSailing #ParaSports #AdaptiveSports #DisabledSailing #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Watersports #Sailors #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Coastal #nautical #Sailboat #Martin16 #VanIsle #LekwungenTerritory #SalishSea #PNW #PacificOcean #mariners #OceanLovers #AsianMastodon

Helping to revitalise Moriori culture #Moriori #Aotearoa #Indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #Indigedon #Rēkohu #ChathamIslands

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/2018914351/helping-to-revitalise-moriori-culture

#ChathamIslands you've entered 2023.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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