Every once in a while, you just have to let yourself be astonished by the things the Internet allows us to do. Today is it. I'm re-exploring Google maps, with its satellite and hybrid features. Tracing my route home from the grocery store ("There's the golf course I pass!"), viewing Atlanta and Portland from the air.. It's just amazing.
Anyway, this is Pelican Harbor Marina, where we sail out of. Or, um, Pelican Harbor Marina, out of where we sail. :)
As a girl with a degree in Geography, I am a total geek for aerial photography! You can also go to county websites to look at stuff on the GIS sites. They usually have all of the parcel data with the option to have the aerial photo turned on. That's what I work with all day long. Google Maps is way better for getting directions than MapQuest is too!
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
