There’s just one thing you probably can’t figure out from this picture story: what the guys are singing …
“All my exes live in Texas/ It’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee.”
Posts Tagged ‘indian ocean’
A Report in Pictures
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged all my exes live in texas, beach, block island, blues on the block, indian ocean, new shoreham, ocean, photography, picnic, postaday, sand, truck stop troubadors on August 3, 2016| 4 Comments »
Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aquatic, california, Carolyn Larcombe, greg pauly, indian ocean, los angeles, marine, natural history museum, ocean, Oliver Milman, pacific, poison, postaday, red-footed boobies, sea snake, serpent, venomous, Wandiyali, yellow-bellied sea snake on February 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
What is going on with the oceans? Warming trends are bringing sea creatures further north and for longer periods.
In January, Oliver Milman reported at the Guardian about a sea snake with a suggestive name (“Why you yellow-bellied sea snake, you …!”) that has suddenly shown up in California.
“California beachgoers have been urged to steer clear of a species of highly venomous sea snake following a third, and unprecedented, instance of an aquatic serpent washing up on to the state’s beaches.
“A 20-inch yellow-bellied sea snake was discovered on a beach near San Diego … The sighting was the third reported instance since October of the species, which prefers the tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, washing up on California’s beaches.
“The only previous verified sighting of a washed-up yellow-bellied sea snake was in 1972. Experts believe the snakes have ridden a warm current of water, fueled by the exceptionally strong El Niño climatic event, farther north than they have ever previously ventured. …
“ ‘It’s been an incredibly interesting year for southern California. We’ve seen tuna and marlin and tropical bird species such as red-footed boobies,’ said Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. …
“Yellow-bellied sea snakes are fully aquatic snakes capable of swimming vast distances. Although they are highly venomous, their targets are small fish and it’s thought they have yet to cause a recorded human death. However, Pauly said people should keep their distance if they encounter another washed-up snake.
“ ‘They are fairly docile and it’s unlikely for someone to be envenomated,’ he said. ‘It’s rare for them to bite people, it’s usually fishermen who are carelessly pulling up fishing nets.’ ”
More here.
Photo: Carolyn Larcombe/Wandiyali Images
Seen in California after el Niño, yellow-bellied sea snakes usually live in the deep waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. 
Réunion Island
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged indian ocean, reunion island on July 29, 2012| 2 Comments »
You learn something everyday.
This blog uses WordPress site statistics, and it appears that early this morning someone from a country called Réunion visited Suzanne’s Mom’s Blog.
I admit to ignorance. I don’t think I have ever heard of Réunion.
So I looked it up. It’s an island in the Indian Ocean.
“Réunion Island (in French, La Réunion ) is a multicultural society composed of people originally from France, Mozambique, India, China, Madagascar, and the Comores. Islanders use their ethnic origins to define themselves as Cafres (African ancestry) Z’oreilles (born in mainland France), malabars or Tamouls (from Tamil Nadu southern India), Z’arabes (from Gujarat in northern India), Chinois (from China), Malgaches (from Madagascar), Comores (from Comores), Petits blancs (poor rural whites living in the highlands), or Creoles blancs (white landowners). The term Creole today also applies to people with a mixed ethnic background. All the residents of the island are administratively French citizens.”
Read more about Réunion here.
You might also send me your best guess as to why someone from this island a world away landed at this blog. Could the Réunion visitor have been the person who searched on the words “Arab mom blog”? Or was that the visitor from Bulgaria?
I love reading what people search on and trying to guess how they landed here. This is not an Arab mom blog or any kind of mom blog, but since I have “mom” and “blog” in the title and sometimes mention family from Egypt, Google decides to send folks here.
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