Chica Jo
Devil Fish: What's In A Name?
A pack of wolves, a rabble of gnats, a murder of crows, a flock of birds, a tower of giraffes, a stand of trees, a quiver of cobras, a...
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Coddiwomple:
verb /kod’ ә wom pәl/
To travel purposefully towards a vague destination.
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Chica Jo
- Mar 28, 2021
- 3 min
Flash of Inspiration
Our eyes met and we shared a brief watery waltz along the steep-edged boulder bank of Isla Carmen’s Punta Perico. I was wearing my drab...
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Chica Jo
- Mar 12, 2021
- 3 min
Testing the Waters
Triplefin's dingy at the ready along Isla San Jose's wild East coast It’s been a long year of social isolation for Paul and me aboard...
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Chica Jo
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Most Critical Ecosystem You've Never Heard Of
One warm May night while anchored in Bahia Santo Domingo, the gateway to Baja's Bahia Conception, I dragged Paul away from boat work to...
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Chica Jo
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
A Garden of Eely Delights
This past April we sailed Triplefin around the Sea of Cortez' wild side of Isla Carmen and anchored in colorful Bahia Cobre (Copper Bay)....
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Chica Jo
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
Gringo Hallucinations & War on Drugs
If you leave your boat to travel inland, into the wildly mountainous regions of Mexico’s heartland, you may find yourself among some...
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Chica Jo
- Dec 11, 2020
- 3 min
My Sick Dream of Holothurian Revenge
Unlike most of my posts, the following is NOT suitable for kids or the highly sensitive among us. Adults, please enjoy my frighteningly...
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Chica Jo
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Belle of the Masked, UnderSea Ball
My fanciful paper cutting and cyanotype print of a scorpionfish skull and creosote bush disguised as a living scorpionfish hiding among...
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Chica Jo
- Sep 26, 2020
- 3 min
What I Did This Summer at No Pants Ranch
Student Work: UnderSea Applique Quilt Detail Yes, our land-based, vacation-rental home (take a tour) in the Tucson Mountains is locally...
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Chica Jo
- Aug 25, 2020
- 7 min
A Justice Fighter and A Sea Slug
Last week brought the sad news of a lifetime justice-fighter conceding his long-fought and final battle with cancer. This made me think...
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Chica Jo
- Aug 11, 2020
- 4 min
Do You Recognize This Killer?
Did you know there is a super-predator on the loose? As darkness falls and we humans turn to our screens to view cute, cat-fail videos...
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Chica Jo
- Jul 26, 2020
- 4 min
What Animal Has the Longest Penis? . . .
. . . relative to body size AND is a hermaphrodite? Welcome to a new and multi-faceted appreciation for the common barnacle. So why would...
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Chica Jo
- Jul 20, 2020
- 4 min
A Mystery at Isla Carmen
This is my pinked-up illustration of the mysterious object found on a rocky beach. It is a leathery, warm-black, spiral form with an...
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Chica Jo
- Jul 9, 2020
- 3 min
The Cardón Cactus and Factual Beauty
(above) Cardón trunk essentialist drawing, Chica Jo 2020 I’ve come to regard the cardón, or elephant cactus (Pachycereus pringlei) of...
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Chica Jo
- Jun 30, 2020
- 5 min
Surreal Symbiosis
As a kid, heck, even now, my go-to nature fantasy was to live in surreal symbiosis with other species. Perhaps I was inspired by that...
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Chica Jo
- Apr 25, 2020
- 3 min
Cortez Triplefin & Abundance
Have you ever considered your relationship to abundance in nature? Asked yourself why you seek it out? Why is it we drive out of our way...
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Chica Jo
- May 19, 2014
- 1 min
Velvet Still Travelling!
The Tuna Tapestry is STILL getting around New Zealand…amazing! Here she is being viewed at the recent EcoWest Festival at Auckland’s...
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Chica Jo
- Apr 20, 2013
- 1 min
Our Taniwha Tuna at Parliament
It was a wild, rainy, cold, and windy day in Wellington…… just perfect for eels, but not so for the average person planning to protest...
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Chica Jo
- Mar 4, 2013
- 1 min
Celebrating Tuna Roa on Waiheke Island!
Today for National Children’s Day and Sea Week Tanya Batt and other Waiheke folks celebrated their native long finned eel/tuna through...
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Chica Jo
- Mar 3, 2013
- 1 min
Jaguar at the Border Wall!!!
What an inspiring and invigorating day we had this past Thursday when John Davis, on his Trek West journey met Sewing Spots Together in...
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