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Tag: Sam Holmes

Posted on October 14, 2019March 9, 2021

SAILING IN A SEA OF QUICKSAND

I had been warned, but nothing could have truly prepared me for the sail from Kaua'i back to O'ahu The day after the forest, Sam and I snorkeled, climbed palm trees that grew sideways, and watched an endangered monk seal beach itself. Have you ever seen a wrasse? That species of fish is hard to …

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Posted on October 7, 2019October 9, 2019

Forest Flowers

Sam and I locked Daisy( the dinghy) to a palm tree and decorated it with leaves and flowers. It was an offering of protection, because people had lost dinghies to the hands of thieves on that shore in Hanalei Bay. But that can happen on any shore.  We made our way to the Na Pali …

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Posted on October 4, 2019November 20, 2019

The Anchor & The Sinking Dinghy

Sam and I entered the mouth of Hanalei Bay 36 hours after leaving O’ahu, it was around midnight. I was nervous to anchor at night because I had never done it before. If I was alone I would have sailed until sunrise and then approached, but Sam and I checked the charts and he was …

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DIVE DEEP

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One of my favorite little ocean dwellers, the marine hermit crab. When a hermit crab dies she  releases a pheromone to let other crabs know that there is an available shell. Then all the hermit crabs line up from biggest to smallest, to see which one of them fits best in the vacant shell. The crab that is the right size passes her old shell to the next crab in line and so on, until all the shells have been handed down and traded. Then the crabs all start vogueing and spinning around in the sand. ( I made that last part up, but I hope it’s true in some reality.) 🐚 🦀 Anyway, wanna stare at hermit crabs some more? Check out my new meditation video releasing next week on @alomoves ♥️ The beauty of life is that everything is always up in the air and with the shape of your lips and thoughts you can change its direction. It’s as if life was the wind and our bodies were boats and our words were sails. So, what is the shape of your ship? Mine is the shape of a sunbeam. She is my salvation. She keeps me golden. 📸 @wilderness_offshore Home is where the water is 💕 The strange thoughts I have while sailing alone in The Deep: The wind has been off for days. Am I alive? I pinch myself hard on the fattest most fleshiest part of my leg. Damn it hurts. What is this? All of this? Maybe I am not alone, maybe I just think I am. Maybe I’m not human at all. Maybe this isn’t even the ocean. Maybe I’m a butterfly on a blade of grass and this is all a conjured daydream. Maybe I’m a banjo and someone else is playing my strings into the vibrations of this song. Maybe I’m a wild mustang drunk on saltwater. Maybe death beat me at a game of poker and this is the hell that sits inside his hot mouth.⁣ All of my favorite things live in sea or in the sky. Happy Mother’s Day @onww ❤️ Thanks for being such a rainbow in my life! I love you. Juniper with less than five feet below her keel. After a week and a half at anchorage here, the wind clocked & started blowing titanic puffs & my anchor dragged the length of two football fields & Juniper landed on top of a coral rock. You should have heard the sound of her keel crunching! I’ve got two bad anchors, which doesn’t make a good one, but it wasn’t just me that got rocked in that breeze, the other two boats at anchorage landed on top of coral not long after I did. This is life on a boat. ⛵️ That’s me on deck, lashing the main halyard to one of the stays so it won’t slap and twang in the wind. This is what Juniper looks like in the early morning light, drenched in rainbows 🌈 Hi Sunshines, do you want to go for a swim in the ocean with me? According to scientist at the National Marine Aquarium we can reduce our heart rates, allow our blood pressure to drop & improve our mood, just by staring at some tropical fish! 🐠 I’m honored to announce that I have eight underwater fish-filled meditation classes being released on @alomoves 💕 New classes will be posted every Tuesday & Friday & in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, the classes will be free to all throughout the month of May! 🐠 Come stick your head under the sea & rinse your mind with me! ⛵️ (Link to 1st meditation class on my stories & the WoW website) I furl the genoa. I jibe. I unfurl the genoa. Back in the day, I used to jibe with the mainsail & the genoa & the staysail flying. All three sails at once. Me, alone, octopus-handed in the trade winds. I don’t know how I did it. Sometimes I, myself, can not believe my old self. The longer I sail, the lazier I get with my sails. Like these days, I just permanently keep one reef in the mainsail, even in the tiniest puffs of wind. And you’d really have to twist my arm and put me high above the beam in over 30 knots of wind to get me to hoist the staysail. But what does it matter? As long I go with the wind, and the water, and the tornados, I’ll eventually get wherever I’m going. ⛵️ Doesn’t this make your eyes thirsty? Happy Earth Day! Did you know that Sea Turtles love to eat jellyfish? Yes, yes they do. Sea turtles love to eat jellyfish, but they can’t tell the difference between a jellyfish & a plastic bag, so they wind up eating plastic bags & then the plastic bag, which the turtle thought was some mind-blowing form of psychedelic-looking nourishment, gets all twisted up like poison inside the turtle, causing a world of hurt that can eventually lead to the turtle’s death. It’s truly tragic. Isn’t it? To top it off, nearly all species of sea turtles are classified as endangered according to the @world_wildlife 🌊 🐢 So on this day in which we celebrate this magnificent sphere of land & sea that floats in space, if you want to give something back to planet earth, you can give back by giving up plastic bags, plastic straws, plastic utensils & other single-use plastics. 💜 📸 This epic photo was captured by Boris Barath. It is called “Meal Time” & was shortlisted in a photography contest held by the Society of Biology.

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