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Day 120 10/23/13: Alcatraz Swim for the Sharks!
Looking for a productive & meaningful way to celebrate Sharktober?
Feel like taking a round-trip swim around Alcatraz to raise funds for shark conservation?
Me neither.
(I love sharks, but I’m not quite there. Yet.)
Luckily, some folks at Shark Stewards are willing to brave the frigid Northern waters for us.
By sponsoring a swimmer in Shark Stewards’ “Swim for the Sharks” event on Oct. 25, you fund research about Bay Area shark populations and help create the first shark sanctuary in North America. For a $25 donation you can join the post-swim fun at Sharks and Mermaids Ball. A $500 gift=a biologist-led day trip for two to the shark-centric Farallon Islands.
Click here to sponsor a swimmer!
Spiritual Awakening
And the Winner of the Breaching Competition is….
Fish Ham: Just Like Mother Used to Make
Do you think that going vegan means the end to traditional foods rich in flavor and in memory? Before you jump ship, try a tender slice of this new spin on a traditional favorite.
Day 105: 10/8/13: Dissection Poetics
As I showed my class this documentary about the dissection of a white shark that suffocated in the safety net around a South African beach, I started to write this little poem:
The stout researcher measures herself against the immense liver.
She holds the grape-like lens of the shark’s dark eye in her palm.
Freeing the grinning triangle head,
her fingers ski down the pale y-shaped brain
hind, mid and forebrain
over the white scent bulbs
“The gills,” she says, “are like the leaves of a book.”
Meat pages, salt pages, a story in which
blood and water rush
endlessly against each other
(to be continued…..)
Awww….
The Vegetarian Menace
Never Forget…….
Shark Dreams 