Roy's Costume

Not sure if you saw this, but check out Roy Williams Halloween Costume.

Geography

I'm not exactly sure how large this map is gonna be, but hopefully large enough. Just to give you all a little bit of where I'm located. The Bermuda Institute of Science(BIOS) is located in St. George's Parish. The farthest two the east, which includes the island of St. George's and the island of St. David's.

From the Map, you can see that the Airport is on St. Davids. Directly north of the airport, across the water(Ferry Reach) is BIOS. I haven't checked out barely any of St. David's, but so far I've explored the town of St. George's on St. George island in St. George Parish. Got it?

The two bays I have been to so far is Tobacco Bay, on the northern most tip of St. George and Whale Bone Bay, which is a part of the little green area the most western part of St. George's island. There is a nice path right along the ocean to get to Whale Bone. It takes me about 25min to walk from BIOS to Whale Bone, about a third of the length of St. Georges. Here's two shots of it...

It's somewhat hard to get out an explore right now. I'm getting off work between 5-6 and it gets dark pretty quick, around 7ish. That leaves me time for the weekends, so I hope to hit up Turtle Bay and Clearwater Bay on St. Davids, this weekend. Plus I gotta get back to Whale Bone to see those tarpon. There's a lot of good beaches on the western, southern side of Bermuda, south of Hamilton, the Capital. Lots of Hotels and Resorts there. I'll get to them...all in good time.

American Gladiators

This is a classic bit for some dude applying for a spot on the new American Gladiators...it's Snake!!

"Texans are raised to do three things: Pound Beers, Arm Wrestle, and Fuckin' Gladiate"

Half Blood Prince

For all you Harry Potter Fans, here's the first full international Trailer for the Half Blood Prince.

The Dangerous Temptation of Cheap Stocks

The Dangerous Temptation of Cheap Stocks - Time Magazine

Also - I was talking with another new tech here. He's fresh out college as well and from the UK. I started to talk about how the apartment doesn't have a garbage disposal and was just talking about how amazing they are. He informed me, he's never seen on and had no idea what one was. I called him a liar. He made it sound to me as that very few people in the UK have garbage disposals. If anyone else can confirm the "fact" that very few people in UK or Europe have garbage disposals in their own home, I'd be very interested in hearing.

The Wolverines

Finally got hooked up with TV and cable. The TV was donated to me by a guy in the apartment complex. It's alright, I got to beat the shit out of it every day or so, usually on the left hand side for it to stop being scratchy. So now I'm once again able to follow all the news and U.S. sports coverage. Also, I don't have to pay 20 bucks to sip on a few beers and watch college football.

Michigan - Michigan State

A few things I take as positives away from the game. Brandon Graham. Cissosko is improving. And I honestly think Threet is improving, but that doesn't matter, he's still terrible and still won't be starting next year. So by the time he's maybe the 10th worst QB in the Big Ten, we'll be 2-8.

A few questions from the game as well. How do you not stop Blair White...seriously. And how was Michigan's first td a touchdown?? That's basically like jumping out of bounds at the two and then kicking the pile-on while you and the ball are completely out of bounds.

Anways, at least it wasn't a blow out and a loss to state every six years is alright by me. I think Dantonio is the right guy for the job and will continue to make progress as long as they can keep getting guys like Ringer to become studs.

Whale Bone Bay

Went snorkeling for my first time here Friday over at Whale Bone Bay, about 2km away from the station. It's a nice, small bay that nobody really knows about because of its location at the far end of St. George.
The bay doesn't really have a beach, mostly just rocky and right now its completely covered in algae, about 10 ft out into the water as well. It's kind of gross, but apparently its only there for a few months. The snorkeling was very good though and I'm very pleased with my new equipment.

I went out for the swim around 5:00pm or so and I got freaking tired quickly. Swimming for 30 minutes wore me out especially after not doing anything since my defeat to Mr. Green in the Joshua Buddies 5k. That was in June. It's now late October. I've got some abnormal growth going on between my hips and neck, I'm not sure what it is but hopefully it will go away soon.

Lookin at the picture above, I followed the right shoreline looking out to the ocean; the tide was coming in. There were a few schools of smaller fish, not really sure what they were. Some parrotfish and long slender brown and white banded fish. Depth was about 8-15ft mostly. Then I saw something pretty ridiculous.

I swam back into the middle near to the "beach" and saw pretty large school of fish, probably about 20 ft in length with each fish about an inch or so. That was cool to see, so I swam toward it to break it up and to see the movement. But fish schooling like that typically do it for one reason - predator avoidance. As soon as I hit the fish and they started breaking and a MASSIVE fish swam behind them. The fish was about 5-6 ft in length, a large Tarpon. A second came right after.


I was honestly freaked out a little, swimming by myself and then seeing these two huge fish, thicker and larger than myself, I decided to observe from far away. Unfortunately the bay was pretty turbid and I couldn't see more than 10 ft in front of me, so I swam back looking for the tarpon. The day before, I was informed that there was a school of tarpon, so I was kind hoping I'd run into a few. I didn't last much longer swimming around and called it quits. Fairly large Barracuda hang out in Whale Bone so I expect to make frequent visits.

It will take me a while to make the rounds of all the beaches/bays and snorkeling locales. Next on my list is Tobacco Bay and Clearwater Beach.