Comments on: Invasion of the Yellow Ducks, Bath Toys, Coastal Defence, and Oceanographic Advances http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/ Politics, Commentary, Culture, Technology. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:55:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: admin http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-6120 admin Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:56:35 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-6120 Thanks for the visit, Andy. Matt Thanks for the visit, Andy.

Matt

]]> By: Andy Lane http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-6118 Andy Lane Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:19:26 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-6118 I have just got around to say, yes I found one of these ducks in the high tide flotsam and jetsum at Zarautz, north Spain in early February 2005. At the time was used as a ball to chase by my collie dog, Bonnie. Presuming it is one of the 1992 contingent, it has survived as faded yellow, generally unmarked but harbouring a small amount of black gunge. Andy I have just got around to say, yes I found one of these ducks in the high tide flotsam and jetsum at Zarautz, north Spain in early February 2005. At the time was used as a ball to chase by my collie dog, Bonnie.
Presuming it is one of the 1992 contingent, it has survived as faded yellow, generally unmarked but harbouring a small amount of black gunge.

Andy

]]> By: admin http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5985 admin Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:44:00 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5985 George I came across that trip when writing the article, but I did not keep the link. Matt George

I came across that trip when writing the article, but I did not keep the link.

Matt

]]> By: george wells http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5984 george wells Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:02:51 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5984 Matt I may beating dead horse but a few years if I recall correctly a ship set sail from Santa Barbara under the auspices of NOAA to collect garbage from the Pacific . Unfortunately I do not recall the results of this endeavor . My concern is probably driven by the fact that I live and in care about my environment and as I visited other parts of your web site I realized that this is probably the least of your concerns and I mean this in a good way . We here the USA are really tired of the B.S. we have spread thru-out the world . Thank you again fot letting me vent . I am of Mexican-American descent but my grandfather is of English descent . Matt I may beating dead horse but a few years if I recall correctly a ship set sail from Santa Barbara under the auspices of NOAA to collect garbage from the Pacific . Unfortunately I do not recall the results of this endeavor . My concern is probably driven by the fact that I live and in care about my environment and as I visited other parts of your web site I realized that this is probably the least of your concerns and I mean this in a good way . We here the USA are really tired of the B.S. we have spread thru-out the world .
Thank you again fot letting me vent . I am of Mexican-American
descent but my grandfather is of English descent .

]]> By: george wells http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5982 george wells Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:18:25 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5982 Matt thanks for the listen and problably will hear from me again . I have done commercial fishing in our beautiful Santa Barbara Channel and have seen many of nature's wonders . This last September I had witnessed a pod of Blue Whales in our waters feeding on krill .Hopefully we will not endanger that privilege . I will start visiting the rest of your web site . Maybe I can become part of your network . There are a lot local people here (surfers and fisherman alike) that care about what is happening . Thanks Again-George Matt thanks for the listen and problably will hear from me again . I have done commercial fishing in our beautiful Santa Barbara Channel and have seen many of nature’s wonders . This last September I had witnessed a pod of Blue Whales in our waters feeding on krill .Hopefully we will not endanger that privilege . I will start visiting the rest of your web site . Maybe I can become part of your network . There are a lot local people here (surfers and fisherman alike) that care about what is happening .
Thanks Again-George

]]> By: admin http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5968 admin Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:36:43 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5968 Thanks for the visit, George. Part of the problem with the North Pacific Garbage Patch is that no ships go through there - so no one sees it. Cheers. Matt. Thanks for the visit, George.

Part of the problem with the North Pacific Garbage Patch is that no ships go through there - so no one sees it.

Cheers. Matt.

]]> By: george wells http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5966 george wells Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:57:13 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5966 How sad that it I heard about this today not sooner . I would like to have felt that I was a little more well informed . Do some of us remeber how New York City used to dispose of their garbage ? They would haul barges full of their garbage out to sea and dump it and this was way before the yellow ducks manage to find their way into the Alantic . Imagine the nasty shit they dumped . What are we doing to our oceans you Rush Limbaugh clones who think that global warming is is natural . In 1986 I went to New York (my first time back East) . Santa Barbara is my home , my room mate was getting married and invited me to her wedding who was brought up in Westchester County . After getting there I spent time with her family and after dinner I offered to collect the beverage containers and put them in a recyle bin . They looked at me like I was from Mars , recyle bins ??? Mind her father is a doctor and her mother a librarian at Colmbia so these are well educated people . What are we coming to ?? Ignorance is bliss . Mother Nature will take herself she always has and it will happen again !! God Bless and hope that people will smell the stench that we are leaving for future generations( I have two beautiful nieces) . How sad that it I heard about this today not sooner . I would like to have felt that I was a little more well informed . Do some of us remeber how New York City used to dispose of their garbage ? They would haul barges full of their garbage out to sea and dump it and this was way before the yellow ducks manage to find their way into the Alantic . Imagine the nasty shit they dumped . What are we doing to our oceans you Rush Limbaugh clones who think that global warming is is natural . In 1986 I went to New York (my first time back East) . Santa Barbara is my home , my room mate was getting married and invited me to her wedding who was brought up in Westchester County . After getting there I spent time with her family and after dinner I offered to collect the beverage containers and put them in a recyle bin . They looked at me like I was from Mars , recyle bins ??? Mind her father is a doctor and her mother a librarian at Colmbia so these are well educated people . What are we coming to ?? Ignorance is bliss . Mother Nature will take herself she always has and it will happen again !! God Bless and hope that people will smell the stench that we are leaving for future generations( I have two beautiful nieces) .

]]> By: Prophet Iain Dale: A plague on all your houses, O Oxfordshire ! | The Wardman Wire http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5664 Prophet Iain Dale: A plague on all your houses, O Oxfordshire ! | The Wardman Wire Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:24:13 +0000 http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/12/28/invasion-of-the-yellow-ducks-bath-toys-coastal-defence-and-oceanographic-advances/#comment-5664 [...] I was pulling together my article about the 29,000 ocean current monitoring yellow plastic bath ducks last week, I came across the elite force of 700,000 anti-locust ducks trained up by the Chinese [...] […] I was pulling together my article about the 29,000 ocean current monitoring yellow plastic bath ducks last week, I came across the elite force of 700,000 anti-locust ducks trained up by the Chinese […]

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