[Leica] opening bell

[r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)]

B.D. - Finally read that, did you?


>All this time and we've been talking about bleeping CHRISTMAS ISLAND
>every week?! DOH!!!! :-)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 12:01 PM
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] opening bell
>
>
>In the village of Kirimati, in the country of Kiribati, it
>is just after sunrise (06:01) on Friday, so the Leica
>Users Group 'For-sale Friday' is officially open for
>business.
>
>Kirimati is pronounced "Kee-ree-mass" and Kiribati is
>prounced "Kee-ree-bus". The island is known both as
>Kirimati and Kiritimati. Kiritimati is pronounced "Kee-ri-see-mass".
>(Say it out loud.) When it was an English colony, it was  known as
>Christmas Island. There is another unrelated island with that name (an
>Australian territory in the Indian ocean). Kirimati is part of the Line
>Islands archipelago.
>
>Kirimati is big enough to have two hotels and air service. Despite its
>being a former British nuclear test site, it is now safe in terms of
>radiation hazard. There is a lot of cast-off military hardware littering
>the edges of the island, but it serves more as a replacement for
>pandanus leaves in the roofs of huts than as a danger. Piles of rusting
>scrap metal serve as landmarks.
>
>There is spectacular fishing for bonefish on the shallow
>sand flats around the island.  It's slow film country; the light is
>incredibly intense, being very near the equator.
>
>
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Regards,

Dick
Boston MA