Spearfishing and surfing Tuamotus French Polynesia August 2015 from Aline Dargie on Vimeo.
Discovering Nudibranch Personalities
Gorgeous science in the atoll of Fakarava
Scientists from Kahi Kai, Aldine Aimel and Eric Rottinger, visited our home in August 2016 in Fakarava, to make a collaboration with many local people, sharing knowledge, and collecting live specimens to photograph in the ocean, lagoon, and aboard the Vaa Motu sailing canoe. Kahi Kai creates stunning photographs of tiny marine animals, magnifying and sharing their often overlooked unique personalities and living textures. As Aldine says, “People enjoy our images, they want to look at them and understand… and what they can understand they can learn to protect” What a beautiful vision for this successful scientific outreach project!
Visit Kahi Kai’s online community to enjoy their images
Visit Vaa Motu on Facebook to enjoy more stories of sailing canoe adventures
Visit jugirardot.com to enjoy more of Julien Girardot’s photography in French Polynesia
Wild Shell Poetry in Toau
Writing visual poetry with found natural objects from the wild atoll of Toau in the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in November 2015
oyster shell and sea urchin spikes woven together with a little piece of found string
bicycle tubes encasing shells
weathered pencil urchin spikes
shell speak
turn the key! open the lock!
snail trails
bone collection
urchins stitched
hey pal!
rusty outboard engine gets some spare parts from the sea
melted pearl farm rope wrapped with pastel turquoise
clip it on
urchin spike buoy
sweet home by the sea
dyed fabrics and sea urchins
crusty rust and corrosion
coral star
Spearfishing in Fakarava
Medieval Shadows by the Sea
green winter garden
mont saint michel
normandy
france
fresh oysters on a park bench
french style green roof
here, the earth is alive and wet
bonjour.
mont saint michels towering shadow
where the monks ate in medieval times
stained glass window
sparkling crystal necklace
jewel tones illuminated
little houses by the seaside
intricate detail everywhere
we explore the textures and forms
with our hands and eyes
Images © jugirardot.com and alinedargie.com
camping with slingfin
woman on a mission
journal entry from 4-21-2015
crossing pacific on SV Naoma
be independent
learn new ways all the time
challenge habits and comfort
own and buy fewer things
share knowledge with others
practice teaching and giving all that I know and have
actively integrate passions with life
live my dream with no commute to fun
spend more time with close family
save more than I spend
travel light
eat healthy and natural
move my body in a creative way every day
slow down and enjoy the sail
live poetically and write about it
do not schedule too much
leave room to breathe deep
be aware of and limit the chemicals I put in my body
all natural woman here
make create invent something new everyday
Entering the Doldrums
April 26 2015
0930 UTC
7 01.8 N
122 06.7 W
doldrums
convergence zone
ITCZ
its all the same
engine on
low RPMs around 800 for fuel economy
motor sailing with 110 genoa
tinkering with sheet trim
balancing shape
do not desire drag from over hardening
we wish to harness enough wind
to boost SOG 1 kn
up to the high 5s
dreary cumulus smother shining half moon
hazy windows to heavens float by
twinkles of outer space flirt in and out of perspective
cloud to cloud lightning fire
crooked sparks spontaneously illuminate dark masses
no thunder heard
calmly confused 1’ mostly NE seas
we head dead south
7 degrees to go
longing for those idyllic SE trades
to blow us happily ever after to the Marquesas
rainbow sprinkled
surfing downwind
swell carries us down
boosts our speed
cradles and rocks us along
chasing our stern
yellowtail drafting our wake
playing in kicked up ocean dust
weaving over and under our wake
unpredictable patterns to and fro
bio luminescence
sparkling underwater
agitated waters glow
powerful strokes electrified
paddling into light
on a new moon night
yummy times
on SV Naoma, twoafloat.com
isla socorro (in the background of the picture above) // early april // 2015
50’+ visibility warm waters
straight down to the sculpted sand bottom
rainbow sprinkled with rocks and fish
Northern California
Crunch! Sargassum (aka wireweed) makes a delicious snack as we hike along the ocean
Stephen and David Dargie enjoying a homemade meal
Collecting wild sea urchins on my paddle board, for lunch, by Santa Cruz Island, in California’s Channel Islands
Holly Dargie, harvesting flowers for the dinner table, and native plants like purslane to make a locally sourced salad
Make it Happen!!!
Found pebbles at the Lost Coast, on the Northern California coast
Organic indigo shibori dyed silk organza blowing in the window of our driftwood home
David Dargie enjoying a book in the living room
Aline Dargie holding colorful californian heirloom beans, okra, basil and thyme, to steam
our driftwood home for a few nights
natural treasures everywhere