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Senior Decommissioning Engineer
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|£72,000 per annum plus benefits
|Travel to other locations with UK?
|Appointment Type
|Appointment Term
|Full time
|Level of Security clearance
|Medical required?
Unless otherwise stated consideration will be given to requests to work on a part time or job share basis. Flexible working hours can also be considered.
Application details
|Closing date for applications:
|30 Jul 2017
Brief overview of role
This role is in the Decommissioning team within the Operations Directorate and the successful applicant will report to the Head of Decommissioning and hold responsibility for working with the Head of Decommissioning & Head of Supply Chain and other industry organisations accountable for developing innovative approaches to contracting strategies and developing the capability of the decommissioning supply chain to deliver world class performance.
Detailed job description and key responsibilities
- Working with OGA area teams ensuring the implementation of Decommissioning Asset Stewardship Expectation across industry
- Supporting the Head of Decommissioning in working with the Decommissioning Task Force (DTF) and ensuring project delivery on track
- Performing the legislative obligations of the OGA with respect to review of applications for Cessation or Production and Decommissioning Programmes, including preparation of review findings and submission to the relevant internal and external parties. These reviews will include analysis and documenting findings on:
- Examination of options for re-use
- Minimisation of decommissioning cost
- Demonstration of collaboration with others
- Ensuring decommissioning team work processes are followed, with creation of the appropriate deliverables, to the desired quality and managed in line with departmental information management requirements
- Supporting other decommissioning team members in departmental and directorate initiatives and projects
- Capturing lessons learned from projects, engagement and legislative functions and documenting these for sharing and applying with departmental process improvements
The role will work closely with other members of the decommissioning team, and other members of the Operations Directorate.
The successful applicant will become a key member of Operations Directorate teams:
- Directly engaging operators, licensees, infrastructure owners, prospective developer, investors and contractors on a range of strategy, long term plans and decommissioning issues
- Interfacing with other OGA Directorates to ensure appropriate management of strategy and delivery programmes
Person specification
- Competence 1: Strategy Development – ability to establish a "big picture", long term vision, communicate the opportunity and risks, and develop simple high level delivery plans spanning multi-year timeframes
- Competence 2: Integrator – ability to work with large groups of stakeholders with different drivers/ agendas and integrate them to achieve a common goal. Including ability to set up, prepare, and chair external meetings with ability to present before large groups
- Competence 3: Oil and Gas Business Management – a detailed understanding of the components of a typical oil and gas business model (production, costs, investment), the interdependencies of the business model elements and the impacts on each other
- Competence 4: Commercial – a detailed understanding of oil and gas joint venture governance agreements, the workings of UKCS joint venture partnerships, and the Commercial and Infrastructure Codes of Practice. Negotiating and influencing skills are also critical
Specialist Skills, Qualifications, Experience, Licenses, Memberships or Language
|• Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Law, Science or Business
• Demonstrable understanding of the regulatory environment surrounding oil and gas operations and decommissioning
• Proficient negotiator, with experience in the resolution of disputes and a strong ability to lead small projects
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal, particularly business case development and management presentation capabilities
• Demonstrable ability of co-ordination and integration of multi-discipline industry personnel and/ or groups
• Demonstrable project management expertise and experience
|• Direct decommissioning experience in the planning and or execution of decommissioning projects and programmes
Application Process and Further Information
Unfortunately you do not meet minimum nationality and educational requirements of this position.
Completed applications will only be accepted via the online application process below, however, if you do require the application form in a different format please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com quoting the recruitment reference number and job title.
You should provide examples in your covering letter that best demonstrate your skills and abilities against the competencies and specialist skills. The maximum word count against each competence example is 250 words. The information you provide will be assessed during the short listing stage and if you are invited to attend an interview, the indicated competence areas will discussed further.
When completing your application, you should use the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action and Result) methodology for each competence. All appointments are subject to successful completion of pre-employment checks
For further information please see the Information to Candidates pack (PDF)
Additional information on what you can expect as an Oil and Gas Authority employeeApply online
Inclusion and Diversity statement
The OGA is committed to embedding equality and diversity into all our policies and processes. We will aim to recruit, retain and promote staff on the basis of competence and regardless of characteristics including those listed under the Equality Act 2010. These protected characteristics are; age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation.
The OGA is an accredited Disability Confident Committed employer. We have also been awarded silver accreditation for the Gender Diversity Benchmark through Business in the Community, The Prince's Responsible Business Network. In addition, we are signed up to their Race at Work Charter and implement its five principles. As a further commitment to attracting, retaining and developing a diverse workforce we have signed up to the Axis Pledge.


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One of my favorite scenes in all of filmmaking is from the Shrek 2 movie when Donkey says to Shrek, "Are we there yet?" … "Are we there yet?" … "Are we there yet?"
To which Shrek responds, "The Kingdom of Far, Far Away is far, far away!"
And Donkey moans, "I'm just so darned bored; there's no in-flight movie or nothing!"
And the "pop, pop, pop (sounds)" leads Shrek to yell "DONKEY, can you just stop being yourself?"
After nearly 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, the Promised Land must have seemed like 'The Land of Far, Far Away!' And the Israelites were more than just a bit Donkey-ish with their continuous grumbling to Shrek Moses! To this generation of whom he had led from bondage in Egypt, Moses appeared worse than some old ogre from a swamp – being accused of leading them into the wilderness to die.
That is what they ended up doing there – dying because of unbelief. If you run the numbers, one person from the unbelieving generation died about every 20 minutes. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they turned what we read in today's passage was an 11-day journey, into a 40-year wandering.
But now in the 40th year, here on the plains of Moab at the door to the Promised Land, Moses delivers a series of sermons / teachings on God's covenant law with His people – this being a sort of "second law" (the meaning of 'Deuteronomy') to the new generation. Note the word in verse 5 where it says that Moses began to "expound" the law to them. This is a very descriptive Hebrew word that literally means "to dig." Moses was being very explicit with very clear instruction. And what he is beginning to do is to rehearse with this generation the history of all that had brought them to this place and time.
Fresh off the defeat of several kings and their peoples (see Numbers 21 about Sihon and Og), there was every reason for this new generation of Israelites to trust God's provision – poised to reward their obedience and faith. But there was also every reason for the previous generation to have done the same – having been miraculously delivered from Egypt and given God's law at Sinai (called here Mt. Horeb). It was time to inherit the long-promised land.
This very large area of land (far larger than where Israel is today) was promised to the patriarchal fathers generations before. Note how the land's acquisition is spoken of in terms of a "done deal." It was essentially already given to them; their role was to take possession of it in God's strength.
God has given us promises as well – in fact, better promises in Christ than those given to the Israelites. Yet the challenge is the same – to believe and obey … as it says in 1 Corinthians 7:1 "Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God."
Deuteronomy 1:1-8
The setting for Moses' teaching
1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab. 2 (It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.)
3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the Lord had commanded him concerning them. 4 This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth.
Rehearsing Israel's Recent History Since Leaving Egypt
5 East of the Jordan in the territory of Moab, Moses began to expound this law, saying:
6 The Lord our God said to us at Horeb, "You have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7 Break camp and advance into the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the mountains, in the western foothills, in the Negev and along the coast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates. 8 See, I have given you this land. Go in and take possession of the land the Lord swore he would give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—and to their descendants after them."


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- Medical Insurance
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- Marriage certificate( if required)
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- Medical insurance in mandatory for traveling to any Schengen country.
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- We reached 15 min prior to scheduled, entire process took 15-20 min for us
- Validity of visa starts from the date of travel mentioned in form and duration of stay.
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1st June 2015
The Schools Co-operative Society and The Co-operative College outlines its joint
vision for working with the new Government
One of the largest groups of schools in the country has outlined its vision to work with the
new government. The Schools Co-operative Society (SCS) is the apex body for all Co-operative
Schools in the country, numbering over 850 primary and secondary schools. It
has outlined a joint approach in partnership with The Co-operative College, an educational
charity based in Manchester. In a joint statement, the Chief Executives of both
organisations have committed to working in partnership with the new government to raise
standards and outcomes for young people, in particular the joint statement highlights:
• SCS and The Co-operative College are committed to the journey/vision to create a
world class education system for all through the further development of a school
led self-improving system.
• SCS and The Co-operative College will actively work with the DFE to create a range
of sustainable models of school organisation, including Co-operative multi-academy
trusts, that will drive world class outcomes for all.
• SCS and The Co-operative College are committed to the development of active,
engaged citizens within modern British society
• SCS and The Co-operative College will continue to support our family of schools to
deliver the highest standards and outcomes.
David Boston, Chief Executive of SCS highlighted that this is an exciting time for Cooperative
Schools as they look to build upon a values driven approach to school
improvement. "The Prime Minister David Cameron highlighted a number of years ago in a
speech in Manchester how he felt that a co-operative built around the needs of children is
an ideal model to engage parents. We are seeking to further build on this shared
understanding to create a world class future for co-operative schools."
Simon Parkinson, the new Chief Executive and Principal of The Co-operative College
commented that.
"The Co-operative Movement has a longstanding commitment to outstanding education for
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growing network of schools to continue the drive for an education experience which
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The Chinese New Year is all about embracing a fresh start. The holiday has been celebrated since 14th century B.C., and since then the Chinese holiday is the biggest holiday celebrated throughout the year. According to History.com, 1/6 of the world's population celebrate Chinese New Year! Although it has been celebrated in China for many centuries, it wasn't until the 1840s and 1850s, during the California Gold Rush, that the holiday's traditions made their way to the west. Chinese immigrant workers traveled to the United States, bringing their rich culture along with them.
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I love being on holiday (as I'm sure we all do). The sea, the sun and sand. All of it. Although, it can be very expensive – Totally worth it though! I always go for half board when I go away. It's so much cheaper! You get unlimited breakfast (so you can stuff your face), you don't need lunch – I don't eat lunch on holiday anyway, it's too hot. Not to mention it interferes with my tanning time! Not good. You then have dinner which is usually a buffet (so all you can eat again!). All you'll need to pay for is the drinks – This however can be just as costly as the whole holiday with the amount I drink.
I'm one of those people that everyone hates when I go on holiday. – Yes I post loads of pictures on all social media sites. Also privately I would send photos to my bestie, saying 'have fun at work' … 'without me'. It would be a picture of me by the pool drinking a beer. – I'm so evil. (I LOVE IT). I hate it when my friends do it to me though. I mean how. Dare. They?!
You can always tell who's English on holiday. We will be the ones that are pasty white, looking like ghosts/vampires. Us Brits don't see the sun much, so when we do we are like moths to a flame. Rushing to throw our towels on the sun beds by the pool (this annoys me). You'll see all the dads, rushing, shoving to the pool to get the best seats. It's like a fight to the death! You can also tells us Brits apart by the crowd as we are the ones that are as red as a lobster – Please feel sorry and pray for us poor souls. It takes us ages to tan! Our bodies aren't used to the sun. I think of us as the vampires of the world. No sun. Only dark clouds and rain. – So sad.
The holiday blues. This kicks in usually about an hour after you set foot on English soil. It's back to normality. No sun, all gloomy, everyone moody/miserable. Yup. It sucks. Not to mention that your tan disappears almost instantly. It's like your skin goes 'Ahh back to our homeland, time to become a pastey vampire again' … It melts away into the ground. It's like our bodies don't want us to look like Egyptian gods/goddesses!
You forget that you have these things call jobs on holiday. You have to start doing things again. Going back to thousands of emails to sort through. Going back to the place that you so wanted to escape from. Knowing that your going to be working all the way up till Christmas. Depressing.
Even though your tan fades Insiders, your memory of the holiday won't! – Live while your young!
Much Love,
The Insider x


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Best Marketing Promotional Methods That'll Accentuate Your Sale
Product promotions are used by the companies to attract customers and increase their sales. The article below presents to you some marketing promotion methods.
Kundan Pandey
Last Updated: Oct 06, 2017
Promotional methods are important and efficient marketing strategies of various companies. While millions of dollars are spent on advertising methods, promotional marketing methods are relatively less expensive and can be more effective.
- Generally, promotional marketing is carried out by companies to launch their products or attract more potential customers.
- Before devising any strategy for promotional marketing, firms must ensure that they allocate a budget to the promotional marketing and set a target that gives them maximum return on the invested money.
- This is one of the most successful strategies, and the method of giving discounts is often successful for most of the firms.
- The main focus here is to reduce the costs of advertising.
- The pull strategy, on the other hand, minimizes the use of different channels, and the major focus is on advertising the product.
- Its goal is to create a potential market for the products of the firm.
One of the effective, popular, and preferred form of promotional methods is to arrange certain contests for the customers. We all will agree to the fact that winning surprise prizes in a shopping mall or fashion store is simply exciting. One of the most attractive marketing strategies, organizing contests among the customers is a brilliant way to promote the products.
In the quest to attract more customers, companies distribute coupons and pamphlets about the products. The customers are either given basic information about the newly launched products or they are provided with discounted coupons on the purchase of some accessories/apparels. Coupons make for an effective marketing plan for small business units.
Free Samples
The idea of distributing products freely sounds weird and crazy for any company, however, there is a certain element of truth in the fact that marketing firms have gained substantial promotion through the idea of free samples. While it is not logical to just distribute your products, you can devise a strategy such that the idea of free samples doesn't incur losses for your firm.
While evaluating different methods of promotion in marketing, one should realize these strategies are not set formulas or recipes for the successful launch and eventually high sales of the product. No doubt, these strategies are effective, but there are various market forces that can affect the sales prospects of firms.


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The first place Victoria Grizzlies began an early-season test on Friday night, hitting the ice for their first of three games in three days in three different cities starting with a tilt in Chilliwack against the Chiefs.
Chilliwack, who defeated the Grizzlies, 3-1 on October 9 in Victoria, proved a stiff test again on Friday as the Grizzlies would need overtime dramatics from captain Cody Van Lierop to take a 4-3 overtime victory.
Victoria (9-2-2-3-2) begin the gruelling weekend tied with the Cowichan Valley Capitals for top spot in the Island Division of the British Columbia Hockey League with 23 points. The hometown Chiefs (10-5-2-0-1) entered Friday just a point back of Wenatchee in the Mainland division with 22 points.
The Grizzlies hit the ice with great jump in the first period, carrying the edge in play for much of the opening frame. The visiting Grizzlies would pepper the Chilliwack net with 21 shots in the first 20 minutes, but Chiefs goaltender Mark Sinclair would hold the home side in the game.
The only Grizzlies skater to solve Sinclair in the first was Keyvan Mokhtari who fired home his eighth goal of the season to open the scoring midway through the period. That was the only puck to elude Sinclair in the first while on the other side of the ice, Matthew Galajda maintained the 1-0 Victoria lead making nine saves.
Victoria's early offensive barrage was aided by two powerplay opportunities in the first period, though they were 0-2 with the man advantage.
While the first period saw a one-sided attack, the second brought a frenetic pace that allowed the hometown Chiefs back into the contest.
An early equalizer for Chilliwack opened the second period when Jake Smith wired his fifth of the season to tie the game at one just 20 seconds into the middle frame. Just 52 seconds later however, the Grizzlies re-established their lead on Mokhtari's second tally of the night.
Mokhtari has been playing exceptional hockey of late with five of his nine goals coming in his last two games beginning with a hat trick performance last Saturday against Alberni Valley.
Play was much more balanced in the second period going back and forth, as did the scoring. Just shy of the 12-minute mark, Chilliwack's Kohen Olischefski netted his seventh of the season, bringing the game back even, 2-2.
Again, Victoria would reclaim the lead for the third time on Cam Thompson's third goal of the year with inside three minutes remaining in the second period.
The teams went into the second intermission with the Grizzlies ahead 3-2 after a choppy, penalty-filled middle period. Victoria would take four minor penalties in the second while the Chiefs were called for two. Both teams were 1-3 on the powerplay through 40 minutes.
Chilliwack converted on their fourth powerplay chance as the third period opened when Josh Borynec banged home a rebound for his third of the season on an opportunity that came about on a wild bounce on a clearing attempt in the Grizzlies end.
With the game now tied at three, quality chances abounded on both ends as play opened up more than ever, but timely saves and missed opportunity kept the game even.
The Chiefs pressed for the go-ahead goal in the dying moments of the third but to no avail, as the game went to overtime marking the eighth time already this season that the Grizzlies have needed extra time (2-2-3).
Four-on-four play in the first overtime session only helped to open up the pace of play even more with repeated odd-man rushes on both ends of the ice as Galajda and Sinclair kept the game alive.
With the game seemed destined for double overtime, Grizzlies captain Cody Van Lierop took one last rush, walked in to the Chiefs zone and wired the game-winner to the top corner, beating Sinclair and the buzzer with just one second remaining in the first overtime, giving the Grizzlies a 4-3 win.
The goal was Van Lierop's second of the season and gave Victoria their third overtime win of the season and tenth victory overall.
Final shots in the game were 43-33 in favour of the Grizzlies.
Mokhtari led all skaters with his two goals. Van Lierop (1-1) and Jamie Rome (0-2) matched him with two points apiece.
The win, combined with a 9-0 Cowichan Valley loss to the Powell River Kings on Friday, gives Victoria (10-2-2-3-2) sole possession of first place in the Island Division with 25 points.
The Grizzlies return to the ice for the second of their three-game weekend road swing on Saturday night in Salmon Arm against the Silverbacks.
Victoria's next home game takes place Friday, November 4 when Alberni Valley returns to the Q Centre. The Vernon Vipers visit the Grizzlies the following night, November 5. Both games begin at 7:00pm.


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Betis join race for Chelsea's Pasalic to replace Real Madrid-bound Dani Ceballos
Mario Pasalic has a growing list of admirers, with Real Betis now wanting to secure him as Real Madrid reach an agreement with the club for Dani Ceballos.
Betis are aiming to pay around £2.7 million for the Croatia international but Chelsea will likely look to make a profit with interest high in Italy.
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Ex-Manchester City man Javi García is another target for Betis who are seeking to reinvest the €18 million that they will receive for Ceballos.
AC Milan are also interested in re-signing their loanee from last season on a permanent basis, while Lazio are also thought to be keen on making a move.
The 22-year-old is expected to leave Stamford Bridge despite showing up to Cobham Training Centre ahead of the new season.
Chelsea signed Pasalic for £3m from Hajduk Split in 2014 but he has yet to play for the club. He made 26 appearances for Milan last season, scoring five goals.


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Manchester United to continue backing Jose Mourinho, says Ed Woodward
Ed Woodward has given his backing to Jose Mourinho, despite Manchester United's troubled start to the season.
United's 1-1 draw at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday left Mourinho's side trailing leaders Liverpool by eight points after just six games.
Woodward and Mourinho's relationship was strained over the summer after the United executive vice-chairman vetoed some of the manager's transfer targets.
Mourinho was particularly dismayed by United's failure to sign another centre-half, with Woodward unwilling to meet the valuations of Leicester's Harry Maguire and Toby Alderweireld at Spurs.
But as United announced a profit of £44.1 million for the 2017/18 financial year on record revenue of £590m, Woodward pledged his support to Mourinho.
"Everyone at the club is working tirelessly to add to Manchester United's 66 and Jose's 25 trophies. That is what our passionate fans and our history demands," Woodward said.
Woodward also stressed that United would continue to sign "world-class" players as well as emphasising the commitment to continue the club's tradition of bringing through youngsters from the academy.
"We are committed to our philosophy of blending top academy graduates with world class players and are proud that, once again, last season we had more academy graduate minutes on the pitch than any other Premier League club," he said.
"Our increased revenue expectation for the year demonstrates our continued strong long-term financial performance which underpins everything we do and allows us to compete for top talent in an increasingly competitive transfer market."
United have forecast revenues of between £615m and £630m for 2018/19.


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This post is going to be very long. I've decided to explain everything that's bound to veganism in one. Single. Post. Uuf. So let's do it!
First af all, I'm going to split aspects of Veganism into three groups. Then I will target some moral points and after that, I want to answer the most common questions that vegans are asked. And so if you want to know as much as you can about Veganism – the enviromental issues, ethical issues, health issues, animals' rights issues and more – you can just read this article and get to know almost everything you need (of course there's not absolutely EVERYTHING, I can't know every single thing – but you can ask me).
The thing is that when it comes to saving the environment, no one really talks about animal agriculture. Or at least people didn't talk about it a couple of years ago. And so many of them still believe that animal agriculture has nothing to do with the environment – what is wrong about grazing cows, right? Well, many things.
At first, cows produce methane. A lot of it. We all know that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and it causes global warming (so we should really stop cutting so many trees). But methane is also a greenhouse gas and some scientists say that methane is 86x worse than carbon dioxide. And cows produce 150 billions of methane per DAY. It's not because they're the doom of our planet and they're evil – they wouldn't cause the global warming if there weren't so many of them. Each year, 64 billions of animals die in slaughter houses.There are so many of them for such a small amount of people. But I'm going to talk about that later. Right now, I'll just say some more things about the global warming. The most important iceberg in Antractica, Totten, is melting. It will be gone in dozens of years. The weather is getting warmer – the last few years were the hottest years in tens of centuries. We are the generation that is experiencing the beggining of the end. Global warming is not some meteorite that someone made up. It's not some hoax that can be true or doesn't have to be. It's happening. It's proven by science. And it's not because of some object that's not on Earth and that's causing this all. No. It's because of us. Of course, some percentage of global warming is natural, but most of it is because of us. And what will hapen if the iceberg melts? Well, the sea will rise for at least 7 metres. Maldives will be gone. Venezia will be gone. And so many other and important places. What will happen if the earth becomes warmer? There will be global warming refugees. There will be global warming wars because it will be impossible to live near the equator. We need to lower global warming. And so we need to lower the impact. And animal agriculture is responsible for 18% of greenhouse gas emmisions. It is more than all transportation. All cars, all trains, all planes. Some studies even claim it to be 51%.
Deforestation is a very big issue. Most of organizations fight against this – trees are being cut because of palm oil, fossil fuels and many other things. But a big part of it is happening especially because of animal agriculture. Why? Well, it's simple. The demand for meat and dairy is getting bigger and bigger, and so we need more and more animals. We need to breed more. We need more land. We can't use one part of land, then move and then return and start again – we can't because 1) there are so many animals that their living in those places is creating dead zones, in the oceans but also on lands and 2) we don't give the countryside enough time to recover. And so when a dead zone is created, the 'farms' (I'd rather call it meat factories, honestly) have to move. And we want more meat and so we need more land. And so we cut trees. We cut forests, especially in Amazonia, so we could raise more animals. The consclusion – animal agriculture doesn't only produce methane, but also CO2 because of the deforestation. And we're losing our lungs, our source of oxygen.
Extinction of species. Deforestation = wild animals die. And also, wild wolfs and foxes and many other animals are being killed because they're the threat to farmers' livestock.
Animals are the biggest consumers of our water and food. 1/3 of the world water is used on animal agriculture, at least 50% of plants is fed to livestock, also 95% of soya beans. So if someone says that vegans are the reason why soya is grown and why forests are dissapearing, well, it's not te truth. We only get the 5%. The rest of it is what non-vegans eat. Also, non-vegan people eat hundreds of times more plants than vegans because animals eat so much more. There are 7 billion people on Earth but one billion is starving. Right now, we are growing an amount of plants that could feed about at least 10 billion people. Some claim it to be 12 billions. And still, there's the one billion. How is that possible? Well, half of it goes to livestock, right? At least. And livestock can't feed the whole world. People take thousands of tons of plants that could feed many many people and they give it to animals that can't feed even half of that amount. And they also say that if the world ate the same amount of meat as USA does today, we would had been without water fifteen years ago. It's unsustainable. And it's a very big waste of food and water.
In summary, animal agriculture is not sustainable AT ALL. It causes pollution, global warming, deforestation, extinction of species and world hunger. Just look at this picture bellow and compare the ultimate difference between vegans and non-vegans.
Big issue number two. Some time ago I read an article in the Guardian which stated that killing animals in slaughterhouses is the worst crime of our history. Adolf Hitler managed to get 17 millions of people killed in 11 years. Stalin – 23 million in 31 years. Mao Zedong – 75 million in 33 years. These are big numbers. But we also know that today, crazy 64 BILLIONS of animals are being killed EACH YEAR. It's freaking crazy. And now, what is really the difference between an animal and a human? Human is more intelligent (except for dolphins and some other exceptions) and more complicated. Well. That's it.That's all, actually. Animals feel just the same way as we do. They are sentient and smart beings who can feel pain, fear, love and happiness. They can recognize that the death is coming. They can recognize that they're never going to see their mothers again. They are not completely just the same as we are, but they are equal.
They don't speak our language, yet we understand them, right? Our dogs are our buddies. Our cats are our darlings. Our bunnies are our sweathearts. And our pigs are our steaks. Why do we treat some animals as if they were our kids and at the same time we eat dead bodies of others? Why do we give our dogs christmas presents just a while after we eat that carp? Yes, fish have feelings too.
And the fish industry is the worst industry of all. Did you know that for every pound of fish caught, up to five pounds of unintended marine species are caught and killed? It's called a by-kill or a by-catch. Today, 70% of our oceans are overexploited or fullyexploited. We are killing the oceans. And not just by throwing away the plastics (which is horrible and don't do it) but also by fishing. We fish so much that fish don't have enough time to reproduce. Actually, the oceans can be dead in 50 years. And if you're old like me, 17 years old or sometime about this age, I guess it sounds pretty scary. It is alarming. We can experience this.
And now, let's concentrate on pigs, cows and chickens. It seems to me that many people still live in the fantasy that these animals are actually treated well, they're fed by grass and they like their life. Which is not true at all. Okay, now I'll show you some disturbing photos. I know that people don't like to look at them. And doesn't that already mean that people don't want animals to suffer and they want them to be happy? I think that every human being understands the concept of veganism in their very soul. If they're not psycho and they don't like suffering itself.
Some of my czech friends say that animals raised on czech farms have a good life. Well, this photo is from a czech farm. I guess they don't beat the animals and they don't torture them physically. But is this good? Metal bars between a mother and her children? A space so small that she can't even turn around? No countryside, no light, no healthy air, nothing. There's literally nothing good about this.
Some people eat just chickens. Which is better than eating everything, but it seems to me that most people consider chickens to be somethings less than cows, pigs and sheeps. Why? They are sentient as well. Maybe they're not as cute as little pigs but they still feel, they want their space, they want to live well. And certainly they don't want to die.
And this is how we get milk. I'm going to talk about this topic more in the ethical section.
This is what some bio farms look like. It's better than those big farms with no air. But they're still in cages, right? And they still get killed and used for dairy. And labels like "Butcher's choice" and "Fresh made" don't make it any better. The animals still die either way. I mean, of course, they have a slightly better life and it's absolutely better than being inside the whole life and they certainly have more space. But it's still not good. Animals are our equals. And we don't lock our equals into cages. In any way, they will still end up like this:
I'm sorry for posting these pictures but this is the reality. We transform these corpses into sausages, steaks, wursts and salamis so it doesn't look like dead bodies. People don't really like to see corpses on their tables. I mean, people still do it with some animals – poor turkeys – but many of them don't like to see the truth. The truth that the sausage they're choking on is made of hooves, entrails, genitals and remains of meat. I get it – there are some defensive mechanisms going on and I will talk about it in the ethical section as well.
To sum it up, animals don't have a nice life before they become the steak on your plate. And even if they do eat grass instead of corn and soya, even if they do see the light, their throats are still being slit. Their life is stolen away from them. And do we really have the right to do so?
Honestly, I want this little buddy to have a happy long life without any pain and I want him to be my buddy, not a corpse in my stomach. My stomach is not a graveyard. And this animal is not my food.
It seems to me that many people who consider Veganism as a very good idea don't go vegan because they're worried about their health. We hear it everywhere, especially in the Czech Republic – being vegan is a stupidity, you need meat for your protein, you need milk for your calcium, you can't live on a plant based diet. What is really sad is that we also hear it from our doctors. Actually, just a few days back I was at my doctor because I wanted to see if I got everything I needed in my body. Well, my doctor told me that I only hurt myself and that I couldn't replace calcium from milk with calcium from plants and that I wasn't helping anything anyway. The next day the results from my blood tests came – and I'm perfectly alright. I've been vegan for three months now and I have everything I need in my body. No milk, no eggs, no cheese, no meat. And yet I'm healthy.
There are also many professional sportsmen who are vegans and they say that a plant based diet actually makes them feel better, not just mentally, but also physically. I'm not so much into sport but if you are, maybe you can recognise these names: Tony Gondalez, Hank Aaron, Venus Williams, Mike Tyson, Kendrick Farris and many others. They're all vegeterians or vegans. You can be vegan and you can do sports and you can be healthy.
There are loads of articles about bad vegan parents on the internet. Their children get malnourished and they have to go to the hospital and many other cases. I want you to remember that these cases are about vegans who don't respect a balanced vegan diet. You can be vegan and be healthy – but your diet has to be balanced. It has to. You have to eat lots of legumes, vegetables and fruits, kale, broccoli.. and you can also raise vegan children. That's another hoax – that pregnant mothers and children should not be vegan. It is not true.
World Health Organization and the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:
"Households should select predominantly plant-based diets rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, pulses or legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods."
American dietic associations and Canadian dietologists:
"A balanced vegan and vegetarian diet is suitable for every stadium of life, including pregnancy, breast-feeding stadium and children."
And you can find many of other associations and health organizations which claim the same. In many cases, vegan diet is actually healthier than a 'normal' way of eating.
The consumption of meat, dairy and eggs doesn't really make you healthier. Sure, you get some vitamins, some proteins, some calcium. But at the same time your cholesterol raises and in these days, consuming animal products kills more people than both world wars together. It leads to obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease and (although it's not 100% proven I think) in some cases also cancer.
Where do we get our protein? From plants, of course. And it's not true that you cannot replace meat with plants. Actually, look at this picure.
So, you can be healthy as a vegan and in fact, you can be healthier than people who eat animal products. And you also save so much land, so many pollution gases and so many lives. That's why vegans are vegans. Because the Earth is important, the nature is important, animals are important and our health is. And vegans want to take care of this as best as they can. We want to lower our impact on minimum. Because everything on Earth is linked – and nothing can live without other aspects. The air cannot live without the water and the water cannot live without the air. The oxygen cannot live without trees and trees cannot live without lands, lands cannot live without water and so cannot we. We need water, we need nature, we need this planet. Because it's the only place we have.
1. Milk. I've always drunk milk, as long as I remember. Since I was a child, everyone has been telling me that milk was important, that cows produced milk every day of their life, naturally, no pregnancy needed. And I remember the moment when I found out that cows actually had to be pregnant to give milk. I was really taken aback. And then I started realising how many people don't really know this thing. Even now, I still keep discovering that people think that cows don't need babies to produce milk and that if we didn't taken the milk away from them, their udders would hurt. Well. It is not TRUE. A cow mother is just the same as a human mother – they produce milk only when they have babies and some time afterwards. Their udders would hurt only if they didn't have any babies to feed. And so today, every single cow is being impregnated by robots which squirt sperm into their uterus. And then, when the calf is being born, it's immediately taken away from its mother so the milk that's supposed to be for the calf and only for the calf is used for us, people. And now the ethical view – 70% of people are intolerant to lactose. It's because when you're a child, you're supposed to drink your mother's milk, and when you're a grown-up, you're not supposed to do that anymore. We are the only species who drinks milk as adults. And we are also the only species who drinks milk of ANOTHER SPECIES. I mean, if you really look at it, it's kind of gross. It is not what other animals do and we know why – because it is just not supposed to be like that. Cow milk is for baby calfs. That's it. There is no in between. In that milk there are many things that should make a little calf grow into a big cow in a quite small amount of time. And people drink that – people who don't need these things because they're not calfs.
Now I'll show you another pretty disturbing picture – but this is exactly what is going on, only in the oposite way.
And then look at this picture – it seems to me that it immediately makes people feel kind of stupid about drinking milk. But maybe not, I don't know, it certainly does make me feel stupid.
Really, if you think about it, it's just ridiculous.
2. Recently I've seen a speach by Melanie Joy on TEDx Talks. She was talking about defensive mechanisms that people use every day. The interesting thing about people (and also the scariest I think) is how much they can actually ignore. We can ignore things that are literally happening in front of our eyes – and it's ridiculously easy to ignore things that are happening hundreds of miles away from us. We can just turn it off. We can watch a documentary about animals in slaughterhouses, we can feel sorry for them, we can think about going vegetarian for a few moments – and then we just turn it off. We start rationalising, we start making up arguments so we don't have to change things. And then we just forget about it. That's just the way it goes, every day and everywhere in this world.
She also pointed out this idea about three Ns. These three Ns are rooted in our history. They were used for justifying slavery, for justifying women humiliating. Normal. Natural. Necessary. Slavery was Normal. Natural. Necessary. The fact that women had no rights was Normal. Natural. Necessary. Killing animals is Normal. Natural. Necessary. And we use these three Ns do justify these things although we know that it is not right. Slavery and women oppression were not in any case Normal, Natural and Necessary. And so is not killing others.
And a step forward is when you stop rationalising, when you fight against these defensive mechanisms, when you tell yourself: "Alright, I know that this is happening, there's no denying it, I know that what I do is not good." Because the worst part of it for many people is admitting that it is their own fault – not just theirs, but they're a big part of it. It is their fault that these animals are being killed, because they're buying their bodies.
3. So, I very often hear this sentence (even my doctor said that to me, haha): "If you stop eating meat, you're not going to help it anyway. Other people will buy it instead of you." And it seems to me that these people just cannot understand the main concept of this problem. What economy is based on? The bigger the demand is, the bigger the offer is. And the smaller the demand is, the smaller the offer is. So when you stop buying meat, of course someone else will grab that package of meat instead of you – but there will be one meat bought instead of two. And that's the main thing that we're focusing on. We want to lower the demand. If the demand is lowered, they won't kill so many animals because it will be pointless, it will go to waste. So yes, every single vegan is helping just because they don't support this bussiness. Every single time you don't buy an animal product, you save one animal's life in the future. And what feels better – eating a steak or saving a precious life? That's on each of us to decide.
4. Children like animals. Children are the purest people on Earth, they're honest, they're innocent, they love. And they love animals. They don't want to hurt them, they find them to be their friends. I've seen many children crying because they didn't want to eat animals. And I've seen many parents telling them they had to because it was healthy for their bodies. Parents are killing the childish love for animals because they believe in some ideas that our society is based on. And children have to obey them, they have to forget what they knew, they have to learn how to use defensive mechanisms. They have to learn how to be blind. But when you open your eyes, when you start seeing clearly, you know. You know that these children are right, that this pureness is what this world needs. And children are friends with animals, they don't want them to die.
5. And so I've finally come to that question: Is it right to raise your children as vegans? Isn't it their own choice? And the answer is yes and yes. Yes, it is right. And yes, it is their choice. The thing is that every parent feeds his children. Some parents give them more chocolate than others, some take them to fast foods, some give them vegan food. Every child is forced to eat some food in a way. It always depends on the parent. And is it right to feed children with cheesburgers from McDonalds? No. Yet thousands of parents do it. Does someone complain about it? No. But when there's a vegan parent, everyone starts talking about how unhealthy it is. We've already explained that a balanced vegan diet is healthy and it's also healthy for children. So as long as your child doesn't become older and doesn't tell you: "Mum, I want to eat meat, I don't want to be vegan", you can raise him in a vegan way in my opinion. If the child decides to eat meat, then let him eat it. But there is nothing wrong about raising him as a vegan.
6. The last thing in this section. A year ago I tried to cut raw meat. I just wanted to cut it with a knife, like a normal person. And I just couldn't do it. I actually almost started to cry so I stopped doing it. I guess there aren't many people who are this sensitive. But the point is that I can't imagine killing a being. Every being. I'm kind of sad even if I kill a fly. And I think many people are not capable of killing some animals with their bare hands. Imagine that you're killing a dog, a cow, a rabbit. You're taking a life away from someone. I just can't do it. Many people can't. And yet they're doing it, just not with their bare hands, which is even worse because it's more cowardly. People buy dead animals without having to kill them because someone else kills it for them. But that's it – I don't want anyone to kill an animal for me if I am not capable of doing it myself. If I'm not able to look that animal into the eye and kill him, I don't want other people to do it and let me eat it. I would feel like a coward. In fact, I would kind of feel like a cheater. Death is something very precious – it's as precious as life, death and life are two equal things. If I can't stand up to death, I won't let them do it for me.
I think that this picture is really good – the bricks are arguments that people use to justify their bad actions.
Plants have feelings too.
So, the first of all – we only speculate about what they actually can feel. I myself also believe that plants do have feelings. In a strange and small way, but yes, I guess they can feel. They're live after all. But still, it's not 100% proven. But what is proven is that animals certainly have feelings, they certainly hear, think and they are aware of their lives and of their existence. They are 100% sentient. They scream when they're in pain and they are being playful when they're happy. So when a meat eater says that plants have feelings too, then maybe yes, maybe no, but this is not an argument for hurting other sentient beings. It's like saying: "If I were a vegan, I would still accidentally step on insect, so I will pay them for killing pigs, chickens, cows, sheeps and goats instead. Plus I will accidentally step on insect."
Also when you're a meat eater you eat ten times more plants than vegans because animals eat ten times more of them than people.
But eating animals is natural.
Yes, it is true that people are omnivores. But to me, it just means that we are able to survive on any balanced diet, no matter if it's with meat or without it. But you could also argument that vegans need to replace B12 with pills – and that is not natural at all. And you would be right. It is not natural. But is being natural right? Brushing our teeth is not natural. Washing ourselves every day is not natural. Monogamy is not very natural. Technologies aren't. Wearing shoes is not natural. We're living in an unnatural century. I'm not saying that it's right or wrong. But we are just doing so many unnatural things and so it doesn't seem to be a very good argument to veganism. It's not natural. But I think it is right.
People have always eaten animal products. Why not now?
Well, before there were like 10 millions people on our planet and now there are 7 billions of us. So that's why it worked before and it doesn't work now. Thousands of years ago people just went to hunt some animal and then they ate it. They also didn't do it very often, it's more likely that they ate plants because it's so much eaiser to find and make. So that's the first thing. Killing animals wasn't a big deal because it didn't have any impact on the whole cycle of life. It does now.
And frankly, the fact that people used to do it in our history doesn't really mean it's right. People used to enslave each other. We had two world wars. And was it right? Of course not. Concentration camps were not in any way right. And yet that's what animal farms are. We should learn from our history, not repeat it. And we should look forwards, not backwards.
Our teeth are made for eating meat.
There's only one answer to this.
If you have any more questions or arguments, just write them below and we can discuss it.
This one friend of mine once asked me what would happen if a whole world went vegan. What would happen to those animals? Where would they go?
And together with some other friend, we found a quite good result. If the change happened slowly, not all at once, people could consume animals (less and less) and stop breeding new. Then there would be only some amount of them left. And they would go. Animal farms would stop being built and so the forests could come back and 'domestic' animals could be wild again. The wild life would thrive again.
But what if they ate our food? My friend actually came up with a pretty good idea – greenhouses could be built to height, to the sky. The animals would not be able to eat it then and we would also save a lot of place.
This is not the idea of other vegans, it's just something that seems to be quite good to me. Some vegans might not agree with this and there could also be many holes in this theory. It's also true that many people would lose their jobs. But they would be able to find new jobs in vegan bussiness because it would be the only way of eating.
This all sounds very nice to me but I know it's kind of naive. I guess most of vegans know that we're not going to save the planet entirely. But we can try. It's always worth a try, right? And we can lower our impact on minimum. We can harm as least as possible. And that's what we're trying to do.
I hope this article was benefiting in some way and if you didn't understand Veganism before and now you do, I'm glad. If you have any questions or discussion topics, just write them below and we can talk about it. And the last thing:
Imagine that you have two ways of living a life.
- You can have a good life and let others die for you to survive.
- You can have a good life and let others live by your side and still survive.
What do you choose?
Denisa x


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27. Finland (Europe)
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32. US Virgin Islands (Americas)
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36. Grenada (Americas)
37. Jamaica (Americas)
38. South Sudan (Africa)
39. Austria (Europe)
40. Comoros (Africa)
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44. Belgium (Europe)
45. Djibouti (Africa)
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48. Reunion (Africa)
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50. Canada (Americas)
51. Guam (Asia-Pacific)
52. United Arab Emirates (Middle East)
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55. Falkland Islands (Americas)
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61. Taiwan (Asia-Pacific)
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63. Zambia (Africa)
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65. Uruguay (Americas)
66. Palestinian Territories (Middle East)
67. Maldives (Asia-Pacific)
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69. France (Europe)
70. Timor-Leste (Asia-Pacific)
71. Sudan (Africa)
72. Guadeloupe (Americas)
73. Tuvalu (Asia-Pacific)
74. Guernsey (Europe)
75. Dominica (Americas)
76. Netherlands Antilles (Americas)
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78. Niger (Africa)
79. Micronesia (Asia-Pacific)
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82. Vanuatu (Asia-Pacific)
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84. Jordan (Middle East)
85. Aruba (Americas)
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87. Democratic Republic of Korea (Asia-Pacific)
88. Argentina (Americas)
89. Marshall Islands (Asia-Pacific)
90. Puerto Rico (Americas)
91. Senegal (Africa)
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93. Brunei (Asia-Pacific)
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95. Saint Lucia (Americas)
96. Zimbabwe (Africa)
97. Syria (Middle East)
98. Palau (Asia-Pacific)
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124. Northern Mariana Islands (Asia-Pacific)
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126. Cote D'Ivoire (Africa)
127. Estonia (Europe)
128. Spain (Europe)
129. Turkmenistan (Asia-Pacific)
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131. Malaysia (Asia-Pacific)
132. Guinea (Africa)
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134. USA (Americas)
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137. Czech Republic (Europe)
138. South Africa (Africa)
139. Namibia (Africa)
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143. Kiribati (Asia-Pacific)
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146. Greece (Europe)
147. Mexico (Americas)
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151. Thailand (Asia-Pacific)
152. Mongolia (Asia-Pacific)
153. Colombia (Americas)
154. Lithuania (Europe)
155. Slovakia (Europe)
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189. Republic of Georgia (Europe)
190. Yemen (Middle East)
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|By: Paul S. Cilwa
|Viewed: 1/27/2020
Occurred: 6/10/2019
|Topics/Keywords: #Travel #Hawaii #Maui #Molokini
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|Snorkeling the reef off Molokini
Keith has never been snorkeling. That is a state that ended, today, as we boarded the Four Winds at Maalaea and headed for a couple of hours of snorkeling in the reef of the small island Molokini.
|Activity Day
|Starting Point
|Papalaua Beach Park
|Snorkeling, Maalaea
|Ending Point
|Olowalu Campground
|Miles Covered (by car)
|Miles Covered (by boat)
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Today's excursion was awesome but there was also an awesome mixup. I had prepurchased the tickets online, and gotten an email confirmation. However, when we got to the boat, we were not on the list. They let us board anyway. But partway there, the captain told me that our reservation had actually been for a different boat the day before. So he had to charge me again. (When I got home I discovered the mistake had indeed been mine, although I still can't figure out how I made it. Beginnings of Oldtimers' Disease?)
Maalaea Harbor is moderately busy. Of course, it isn't the only harbor on Maui. But most if not all the snorkeling trips seem to leave from here.
My handsome husband waiting for the engines to start.
We set out early. About 7:30 AM, the cloud veil that normally hides the top of Haleakala hadn't yet fully formed.
But it did so as we watched!
Molokini is tiny. It is, however, next door to Koho'olawe. We aren't allowed to land on that island, but I was fascinated to see as much of it as our passage revealed.
With little water or vegetation on it (it is in Haleakala's rain shadow), Koho'olawe was used in the 1700s as a men's penal colony. Life there was so difficult, more than one prisoner swam the seven miles between there and Maui.
Molokini is what's left of an ancient volcano. Most of it lies below water. Before stopping to anchor, the captain circumnavigated the islet (possibly so we wouldn't be tempted to swim there on our own, out of curiosity).
Finally we anchored and they began to let us put on our gear and enter the water.
I bought an inexpensive, waterproof digital camera. It's cheapness showed up; the latch that's supposed to keep the battery anchored wouldn't stay in place so I kept having to open it to re-anchor the battery. (Above water, obviously!) But the pictures it took weren't too bad.
Looking up at one point, I saw that the surface of Molokini is covered in some kind of moss or grass, along with a lot of sea birds.
Hang loose, Maui! (This hand signal, used by surfers everywhere, originated on Maui.)
A sea urchin! On my last trip to Maui, I got stung by one of these. So I gave this one a wide berth.
So, finally, the snorkeling ended and they served us a BBQ lunch as we turned around and headed back to Maalaea.
What makes Maalaea a harbor is its effective sea wall.
I asked the captain about the wind turbines. He explained that Maui's electricity is still generated by a coal-and-diesel plant. It's a monopoly. So the company that built the turbines, sells power to the plant, which then passes it on to consumers.
My original plan had us staying another night at Papalaua. But Keith really wanted a hot shower. And we were supposed to stay at Camp Olowalu (oh low VAH loo), which advertised hot showers, tomorrow night anyway. So we decided to just go there a night ahead.
Most of the bird species in Hawaii are endemic, descendents of probably one, single (but pregnant) finch. They are called honeycreepers, and there are many of them, as is common when a species enters a new environment that allows them to evolve specialties.
We found ourselves an almost private stretch of beach and settled in.
Very cool driftwood sticking out the sand. Would be less fun at high tide if one were swimming near it, I imagine.
And so, as the sun set, Keith and I went to enjoy our hot showers. Keith got one. I used a different shower stall and I had only cold water. However, it was hot enough anyway that I didn't mind. Then it was dinner, and bed!


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