"When -- ship and shadow blended both in one -- / Flames o'er thy mast the equatorial sun"

"Off Diamond Head": on moving to Hawaii at thirteen, with a surfboard.

Teahupo’o, Du Ciel: drone footage of surfers in Tahiti. (via)

Plus JPL offers us retro-futurist tourism posters for the solar system plus some bonus exoplanets. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Urania: A Rhymed Lesson," Oliver Wendell Holmes.