I just noticed in my eBay messages that I won a “Blue Star Award” for all the crap I’ve bought on eBay. Joy!

2011 New Years Eve Fireworks seen from boat in Biscayne Bay, Miami Florida

In 2011 I wrote 345 posts and added 3 pages to this website, with 947 photos/videos in total.

In 2011 the posts were commented 83 times.

TOP 10 commenters in 2011:

• Beachbum: 23 comments
• Doreen: 13 comments
• John: 7 comments
• Annonomous: 5 comments
• Johnny: 3 comments
• Jock Ames: 5 comments
• Kevin: 2 comments
• Mike: 2 comments
• Kristi: 2 comments

TOP 10 most commented posts in 2011:

• Fire!: 6 comments
• Severe front.: 3 comments
• Beer run.: 2 comments
• And I thought my boat is small.: 2 comments
• 2 week anniversary.: 2 comments
• The tooth fairy is a lie!: 2 comments
• Rigor mortise is setting in: 2 comments
• Speedy Delivery.: 2 comments
• Make the itching stop: 2 comments
• Replaced my Honda BF8a outboard boat motor water pump: 2 comments

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC will commence dredging operations on or about February 1, 2012 until approximately March 1, 2012. The project partially consists of placing approximately 250,000 cubic yards of sand from an offshore borrow area on approximately 4,000 feet of beach in North Miami Beach, FL. The trailing suction hopper dredge “LIBERTY ISLAND” will be dredging in a borrow area south of Government Cut with the following limits:
Latitude Longitude
NW 25 41 15.9 80 05 29.3
NE 25 41 16.5 80 05 24.8
E 25 40 57.8 80 05 25.0
S 25 40 49.7 80 05 36.6
W 25 40 57.2 80 05 45.4
After each dredge event the “Liberty Island” will sail north and pump the sand ashore through submerged steel pipeline via a floating hose pump out station located at the approximate location. Latitude Longitude 25 51 12.5 80 05 37.1
Upon completing a pump ashore event, the dredge will dump any rock collected from the borrow area in a 500 foot by 500 foot Rock Disposal Site centered at the following location:
Latitude Longitude
25 50 09.5 80 04 46.8
Pipeline mobilization will be commencing in early January and will be staged inside Bakers Haulover Inlet in the Intracoastal Waterway next to Haulover Beach Park. Demobilization will continue approximately three weeks after dredging operations cease. The following support equipment will be working on the project: a crew boat, a turbidity monitoring boat, a dive boat, 2 tug boats, a crane barge, and an anchor barge. All vessels will monitor marine VHF channels 13 and 16. Operations will be 7 days per week and 24 hours per day. Mariners are requested to exercise caution in and around the project areas. Diving operations will occur in the vicinity of the borrow area and pump out location several times per week to monitor environmental conditions. For further information contact the Project Manager, Mr. Dave Allen 305-793-8619 (cell) or DAllen@gldd.com Chart 11467

Winter is here. Brrrr.