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High5s: Berthday on the Bay

Written by Trippe   
Friday, 16 March 2007 04:08
Swimming and sailing on the SF Bay.

For my birthday last Wed we went out on the boat to make our furthest voyage to date. Richard, Julie, Jessie, Jessica and I... It was amazingly nice out.

This is the route we took. Traveled from right to left to Clipper Cove and back... Fucking best birthday ever.

Here's a little video of the day.

We thought there was going to be too much wind, but the wind calmed and it just got warmer and warmer.

Under the Bay Bridge

It was so nice that we even swam.

Well, not Rich or me. The girl's were into it and mine had my underwear.

best birthday ever

Check out that little house boat.

Toes are weird looking

We're where the red X is.

It's fun to feed the pigeons of the sea

You know you're old when tarts are served... such a good one though.

Heading back home

Aaaaaa, it's a nice start.

Now we go backward a couple weeks and work our way back to do some blog catching up.

Went camping with some friends. The last time we were out there, we were severely harassed by the hunger winter raccoons. Here we are cooking tasty food over an open fire and they headed for it. About 30 of them descended from the hills. We yelled and threw rocks hoping they'd leave, but they only hissed... This time we brought a little one pump to keep them at bay.

We hit a couple and they were out... Even though it was nice to be left alone from the aggressive raccoons, I was hoping it would take a longer battle, but once you hit their leader, they all go down.

Able to enjoy our food in raccoon peace.

Until this little dude approached. We thought of stinging him, but we feed and named him instead- Buddy was his name. We became friends.

The war was over.

soldier after a hard fought battle

We've been sailing a bunch. Got the skills now but Groshong came out after a heavy night of drinking when we were new to the whole thing.

Cleaning the bottom

Andreas luch times at the Saint Francis.

Fecal Face meeting... about time for another one of those although i don't think I've gotten to what we talked about at the last one. Joy & Jesse.

Andreas's got some great Fecal ideas.

The Goshong's

Dork

I see Fish

and Ranson

and a doggy.

Through the window we peeked into the neighbors where some raunchy shit goes down. Porn and toilet paper.

Cliff house

Ran into Darren and Nick

Color

BBQ at the boat

A loooong story about channel 23. Ask me to tell you sometime.

Me, Jessica, Oriana, Yohei... The next day Yohei went on a fixed gear race from SF to San Jose. That's a fucking race.

It's nice out there

This is Russel. He's lives on his boat and he gives us pointers and drinks our beer. We like him.

We went to the ghetto fair.

Poor guy

This is an old ship at Jack London Square. It's a floating light house that used to be the SF buoy.

I'm hooked on boats.

and beer

NEW FF HQ

Friend bartenders make really really strong drinks. Thanks, Chris.

A couple gin and tonics made with almost all gin make you rip off your underwear.

and drink from the tap.

and leave them as a tip... So much for the next day. Ugh.

Mangina courtesy of Groshong

You've seen the Armory at 14th and Mission... Well, this is the inside where Porn goes down. We were invited inside some late night to ride around on a mobile bar. Weird.

A bar on wheels

Saw Dodo Bird play last weekend. So freakin' great!

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