Chica Jo
Losing My $#!+
One of my operative rules for myself when writing is to be profoundly honest even if, no, especially if it is difficult. Well, this one...
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Coddiwomple:
verb /kod’ ә wom pәl/
To travel purposefully towards a vague destination.
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Chica Jo
Oct 7, 202113 min read
To Die Laughing
Yep. That’s how I reckon I’ll go out of this absurd world: in a fit of uncontrollable guffaws that become my final gasps. I’ve had some...
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Chica Jo
Aug 8, 20215 min read
Aquanaut Moms
I’m writing under a chlorophyll-filled canopy of redwood trees, but my mind is on something I found on the beach near La Paz this spring....
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Chica Jo
Jul 16, 20215 min read
Night Snorkel? What could go wrong?
I’m afraid to write this. I’m worried that if I’m not writing about a jaw-dropping, edge-of-your-seat encounter with large and loveable...
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Chica Jo
Jun 11, 20214 min read
Turning Ugliness Into Beauty
Keep Reading To Find Out What This Is It’s been an interesting few weeks since my underwater dance with a humpback whale (plus escape...
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Chica Jo
May 28, 20219 min read
Save the Whale: An Existential Tangle
This blog post is coming from Paul at Triplefin's helm. He has a breathtaking story to tell about something that just happened. You may...
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Chica Jo
May 11, 20219 min read
Dancing With Whale: Revi Part 2
Yep. That's me dancing with a Humpback. Smooches Gracias to Frida for capturing the most sublime and wondrous moments of my life!...
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Chica Jo
May 10, 20216 min read
Sleeping With Sharks: Revi Part 1
Paul's pic of a couple tranquil whitetip reef sharks The sharks are coming, sailor's promise, but first it’s time to reveal my vulnerable...
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Chica Jo
Apr 19, 20214 min read
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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Chica Jo
Mar 28, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20207 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20204 min read
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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