Flat Day Fun: VB Canoe Trail

I took on the cross-VB canoe trail yesterday with Dun and his son. The three of us were blown away. We put in near the bridge at Potters Rd and finished up off Princess Anne Rd. 

Route

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5343631

Other info

http://hamptonroads.com/node/328461

Canoe Trail Highlights

Chester Discovers a new side of Virginia Beach

Sometimes it takes a little open mindedness and a year of hype to drag three fellows to boat through industrial parks, marshes, and ghetto. But when its all said and done these three mates ended up very inspired by their oft neglected home town spirit.

Flora and Fauna

The cell shots don't do it justice, but there were tons of leaning cherry trees in blossom and scattered daffodils strewn on the shore. We saw tons of cranes, wood peckers, purple martins, and a bald eagle. Got in a canoe speed drag race with a small water fairing vermin. One span of the trail ran past an open field with a bull and free running horses. No shit!

Intentional  detour of Arigona Village, Section 8, and Trailer Park sites.

We took the long way around through Green Run and ended up adding 3 miles to our intended 4 mile trip, but really got an up close and personal look at this town. A drug running circuit could be managed from the Bay to North Carolina with a john boat and an Arigona palace like this one.

Dee Dee goes Rabid

Check out JSV's blog pics for February.

Oh my god how fun does this look?!!!!!!

archaeology

Frothing for new equipment

5'6 Chris Christianson Beausoleil Model

Jazzed about ordering a board for spring. Saw this beut out there and thought I would share.

Icons of Surf

rosey aesthetic

Looking for inputs on the site. Add your comments. Want to make some changes to the aesthetic. Maybe the Board should get together and talk it over some tacos and beer.

Pet Monkey

A girl walks with her pet monkey on a promenade along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai March 5, 2012.
REUTERS/Stringer

For the consideration of the board of directors. Official eyewear of the KUT U staff?

tom curren supervideo

Beer & tools night

Local Skate Photography

Poaching from an article on AltDaily.com showing a local skate photographer. Checked out his site and he had this image from a beach spot. Stoked to see other dudes shredding here.

Saw my buddy Lucas kickflip up and 360 flip down those steps when I had mono in high school. Thanks for the memories Howard Tarpey!

http://www.tarpeyphoto.com/index.php?/ongoing/two/2/

http://www.altdaily.com/features/entertainment/nightlife/photo-series-howard-tarpeys-skateworld.html

Dig that Trinidad style

Prototype

truck balls imprinted in concrete.

Celebrate Season's Change

Revellers wearing masks play with sparklers during the traditional Buso Carnival in Mohacs, 200 km (124 miles) south of Budapest, February 19, 2012. At the Buso Carnival, which lasts for six days, locals celebrate the end of winter and party before the start of Lent. According to legend, the masks helped locals scare away the Turks in the 16th century.

Baldwin Lee: The south in black and white

I saw this exhibit yesterday. Great stuff. 

From the Chrysler museum website:

Picture this... An Asian-American man from New York city is walking through African-American communities in the deep South. He's carrying an antique-looking wooden camera and a tripod and asking people if he can take their pictures. Most times they feel comfortable enough to say yes, because as Baldwin Lee notes in his memoir, he's a minority within a minority.

"I routinely seek out the local police station when I arrive in a new place. I announce that I am a tourist interested in taking photographs and have very expensive camera equipment. The officers will usually produce a map and redline areas to be avoided, almost always neighborhoods where there is a concentration of blacks. The redlined areas are where I go to make photographs."

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