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Page 68 • Latitude 38 • October, 2009
COURTESY ISLAND TIME
LETTERS
You have got to see this thing to believe it! We now do the
Netflix thing, and watch movies nearly every night. Our 'boat
theater' has blown away just about everyone who has visited
us — it's really funny. From sports to movies to concerts, the
viewing is just great.
As I kept the little flat screen mounted on the starboard
bulkhead for 'morning coffee' television, I had to buy a digital
converter. But I found that I was able to hook a pair of cables
from the back of the converter to the input at the rear of our
Movietime, allowing us to project the digital broadcasts with
the projector!
Mike & Mary Kelley
Island Time, Island Packet 40
Los Angeles Harbor
Readers — Please, let's not have any smart ass remarks
about Mary being a 'screen size queen'. What are the Kelleys'
f a v o r i t e
m o v i e s ?
"Captain
R o n i s
probably
our favorite,
so it's
what we
u s u a l l y
p u t o n
'Captain Ron', the secular patron saint of sailors, as seen
on 'Island Time's big screen.
when we
d e m o n -
strate the
set-up to
friends,"
says Mike. His other favorites are Black Hawk Down and
Meat Loaf Live With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Mary’s favorites are Sex in the City, True Blood and Metallica
S&M.
⇑⇓DON'T BOTHER US, WE'RE BUSY BEING FRIENDLY
As I was scanning the July Changes, the reference on page
135 to The Nature Conservancy jumped out at me — because
I'm now working for that organization in Nevada.
The caption on the photo spread that said TNC "kicked
out" cruisers struck me as making us seem, well, unfriendly.
But that's something that the TNC is definitely not. In fact,
TNC is so successful at finding "solutions that benefit people
and nature" because we are non-confrontational and we work
with everyone to protect critical habitat for biodiversity. And
as far as there being "all kinds of rules . . .", one of our biggest
challenges is how to allow people to enjoy fragile habitats
without unduly impacting them. In fact, I was impressed that
the crew of Cocokai got to stay at Palmyra for four whole days!
I guess that doesn’t seem very long to bluewater cruisers.
To learn more about why Palmyra is so special, go to www.
nature.org/wherewework/asiapacific/palmyra. There readers
will learn that if TNC had not purchased the Palmyra Atoll
in ‘00, it might be home to a nuclear waste dump or a casino
by now.
Anne Thomas
Raven, CM1200
Gardnerville, Nevada
Anne — We don't like to disagree with you, but if The Nature
Conservancy came across as being "unfriendly" for kicking the
Cocokai crew out after "four whole days," we think it's because
The Nature Conservancy was unfriendly. If they owned the only