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[imagew]https://imgur.com/a/uYR6gqE[/imagew]

Thanks, Randi! I used Imgur (for the first time ever! It's good to learn new things). I tried both image uploading methods but have no idea why it's not working. Anyway, here's your birthday otter! https://imgur.com/a/uYR6gqE

You almost had it!

From https://imgur.com/a/uYR6gqE, in Firefox, right click on the image and select Copy Image Link.
Other browsers might have slightly different wording.
That gives: https://i.imgur.com/yIUgG7R.jpeg

Put that in the imagew with a width (200 here):
[imagew=200]https://i.imgur.com/yIUgG7R.jpeg[/imagew]
and you get:

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Thank you!!!

Ah... I SEE! Thank you!! You can tell how tech savvy I am, yes?

I have learned a lot working on OW!!!

Happy Birthday, Randi!!!

Thank you!

Really cute otter, Sandy

Happy Birthday!!

Thank you!

Randi wrote: ↑Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:45 pm Potty-trained cattle could help reduce pollution

I now have a picture of Lulu and Daisy rushing up the field to the barn in a caught-short moment ... only to find a queue for the moo-loo

Happy Birthday Randi, though I am late! May your weather be sunny and warm, may it only rain softly at night, and may someone share half their hold full of chocolate on your special day.
Morgan

(And thanks for the instructions on posting images.)

Thanks, Morgan!

For anyone who is interested: there is a documentary series on Discovery Plus about an expedition team's mission of diving to the deepest points in all five oceans. It's called 'Expedition Deep Ocean.' Here is a trailer for the series:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/s_6q0GSk5L4

The fifth and final episode is on the Arctic Ocean. It's a great way to see what conditions our sailing and whaling vessels experienced (though they had it much rougher, being without today's fancy machinery). The entire series is very well done.

You can watch either through Amazon's subscription of Discovery Plus, or directly through Discovery Plus. The subscription either way would cost money, but I signed up for the free seven-day trial. If you do that, be sure to watch before the weeklong trial is up and to cancel before they charge you (unless you take a liking to it).

Enjoy!

This tale was sent to me yesterday, (if I do not post it now, I will forget on New yrs eve next century.)
I looked on Wikipedia where may have come from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Warrimoo
Do we have the log book somewhere?

"The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia.
The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS.Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo's position was LAT 0º
31' N and LONG 179 30' W. The date was 31 December 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton broke in, "We're only a few miles from the
intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line". Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity
for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.
He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship's position.
He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.
The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the
International Date Line!

The consequences of this bizarre position were many:

The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.
The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.
The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899.
In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.
This ship was therefore not only in:
Two different days,
Two different months,
Two different years,
Two different seasons
But in two different centuries - all at the same time!

The story was still in popular print circulation in 1942,[8] was popularized by an article in the magazine Ships and the Sea in 1953,[9] and was in online circulation on social media in 2021.[10] However, the navigational technology of the time was not accurate enough to have fixed her position so precisely. Whether Warrimoo ever achieved the feat claimed cannot be verified.[11]

Very cool. I remember seeing this some time ago.

I think New Zealand has lots of log books. Maybe they have for that ship. I doubt the U. S. would have them.

That was seriously cool sailing Stuart What a great idea. So glad that they went for it!