New Year's Day Pelagic 2008

It's a free-for-all when we first board the boat...

...but then everyone settles down and takes up watch (Stan Walens at the rail)!

Don and Marjorie Hastings settle in for chum duty...

Claude Edwards points out the different gulls...

...while Tony Merceica readies his monster camera (with Jeannie Anderson)!

Therese Clawson and Jim Smith

Sue Smith (with the "Aw, geez!" look), Geoff Rogers, and Jeannie Anderson

Ginger Johnson (at the rail) along with the gang tracking some alcids

Paul Lehman, Guy McCaskie, and Dave Povey shoot the breeze during a slow period

Claude Edwards (my first birding buddy when I arrived here 26 years ago) and me