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Pete and Roger’s point of view

Posted by Ken Campbell April 28, 2012 0 Comment 1008 views

“A beach is a place where a man can feel He’s the only soul in the world that’s real.”The Who

Moving on

Posted by Ken Campbell April 27, 2012 2 Comments 1123 views

OK. I’ll keep trying. I’ve been battling with the new layout that Blogger has put together and, although I still don’t like it, I’ll keep at it. I can’t let the machines win. There are a lot of things coming up… I can’t just not talk about them. I have a feeling that most of […]

The Medium is the problem

Posted by Ken Campbell April 24, 2012 6 Comments 977 views

I began this blog 4 years ago this week. I’ve posted over 900 entries and I have genuinely enjoyed doing so. But I feel like it all may be coming to an end. Readers won’t be able to see it, but Blogger, the host of this site, has gone through some changes on how it […]

Taking care of business

Posted by Ken Campbell April 21, 2012 0 Comment 1028 views

After last weekend’s Anderson Island trip, I came home with a to-do list that ran a two full pages. Doing the practice survey gave us some idea of what we’d be up against on the coast and some of my tasks came out of that. Then there’s the personal equipment list… still working on that. […]

Nets

Posted by Ken Campbell April 19, 2012 0 Comment 1152 views

One of the tasks we’ll be doing on this summer’s Ikkatsu Expedition is pulling a trawl net that is designed to catch microplastic that is floating in the water. We tried it out on our trip around Vashon a few weeks ago and we’ve come up with some modifications that will hopefully make it easier […]

Housekeeping

Posted by Ken Campbell April 18, 2012 1 Comment 1142 views

It is the nature of life that the bulk of our time is spent maintaining the infrastructure. Perhaps you have mused on this from time to time: I work to afford the car payment, to pay for the car, that I need to get to work. That’s a simple flow chart, if you will, but […]

Secrets

Posted by Ken Campbell April 17, 2012 4 Comments 1156 views

When I was telling some of my friends at Surfrider about this summer’s expedition, they all wanted to make sure that we wouldn’t be giving away any secrets about which beaches along the Olympic coast were the best for waves. I assured them that we would give out information only on a need-to-know basis and […]

Saturday the 14th

Posted by Ken Campbell April 14, 2012 0 Comment 1104 views

After surviving another Friday-the-13th, I’m heading off to Anderson Island for an overnight with the Ikkatsu crew. In addition to the main group objectives – mostly having to do with camera and sound questions related to the filming process – each of us has our own little projects for this short trip. I know Steve […]

Survey gear

Posted by Ken Campbell April 13, 2012 0 Comment 1133 views

The type of beach survey we’ll be doing on this summer’s Ikkatsu Expedition will follow the protocol laid out in the NOAA Marine Debris Shoreline Survey Field Guide. The particular method we’ll be using is called a Standing-stock Survey, a method based on counting the flotsam without actually removing it. There’s an element of random […]

Morning medicine

Posted by Ken Campbell April 12, 2012 0 Comment 1065 views

If you feel under the weather, If you feel a little bit peeved, Take Granny’s stand-by potion, For any old cough or wheeze. It’s a cure for hepatitis, it’s a cure for chronic insomnia, It’s a cure for tonsillitis and for water on the knee. Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at […]