Tag: Zaandam
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Flowers the Flat Fellas saw in San Diego
Gazania, aka Treasure Flower.Evergreen CandytuftRose — a beautiful, tight budDay Lily Flower Names… Identifying plants can be hard enough, but many plants have not only a complex sounding scientific name, but also common names – plural. A flower man be known as a bluebonnet in Texas and a Lupin elsewhere for instance. The flat fellas…
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Flat Hal and Flat Stanley made the most of traveling with a digital camera
Before digital cameras not only was photography a more expensive hobby than it is now, but the time between taking a picture and seeing that picture was longer by a difficult to comprehend magnitude. Not only did you not see the picture within minutes of taking it, but there was a time when a family…
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SOLAS – Safety Of Life At Sea
Flat Stanley and Flat Hal mustered again… this cruise is over 30 days, and it was time for a little reality to come in to our vacation. Here is an explanation, with some help from Gemini AI for why Cruise ships conduct safety drills every 30 days, there are a few important reasons: It’s the…
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Savusavu, Fiji — even on rainy and foggy days there are new discoveries to be made
Flat Stanley and Flat Hal started their day in Savusavu, Fiji before the ship arrived by seeing the sunrise— but that glimpse of a rainbow above Flat Hal was a warning of rain to come, not just a celebration of the rain that had already fallen. Since the flat fellas don’t do well in water…
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Flat Stanley and Flat Hal on a 1.4 mile piggyback ride through the tropical rainforest at Colo-I-Suva Forest Park
Honestly, the Flat Fellas had the right idea. Piggyback ride is how I wish I had gone, but instead I carried our Flat Friends over rugged terrain on a challenging, and beautiful hike through the rainforest. There were times when the trail was narrow, and steep, but it ended in a natural pool everyone had…
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Maui – a day for roaming near the port
Some places have lots of mountains, making it hard to see a great distance away. Other places are wide open, and flat, and like when you are at sea, you can see storms moving across the horizon, and sometimes you can spot bursts of rain in the distance. We were sailing away from the BIG clouds…