[Leica] opening bell

[rhaightjr at yahoo.com (Bob Haight)]

Its always Christmas if you have a Leica. B. Haight
--- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> All this time and we've been talking about bleeping
> CHRISTMAS ISLAND
> every week?! DOH!!!! :-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 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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