Author: Marty Luster

I'm Marty Luster, a retired attorney and politician. In 2010 my wife, mother-in-law, dog and I relocated from Central NY to Gloucester. I hope my photographs and poetry(?) reflect my love for this place and her people. My picture-poem posts can be seen at http://matchedpairs.wordpress.com and selected black and white images can be found at http://slicesoflifeimages.wordpress.com

AFRICA, Part 2

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This second installment features our first game drive in open vehicles in Chobe  National Park, a few miles over bumpy trails from our camp. Elephants, magnificent scenery and the roar of a nearby lion  at dusk (which sent us scurrying back to our vehicles) are some of the highlights of that day.

AFRICA

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Barbara and I recently returned from a 17-day visit to Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It was an adventure that we will always remember.

As you might have guessed, I took a few (thousand) photos and video clips. Rather than share them all with you (although I know you would love that), I thought it best to post several short composite still and movie videos on YouTube intermittently over several days.

Video is a medium I am just beginning to learn, so please bear with me as I aspire to reach the very high standards of GMG’s Craig Kimberly and Kim Smith.

Here is the first effort featuring our arrival in Johannesburg and a cruise on the Chobe River in Botswana.

The tour was booked through Boston based Overseas Adventure Travel. We stayed in tented camps and rustic lodges and were transported from place to place by open vehicle, bus, light planes and small boats.

Soundtrack music is by Ingonyama whom we were lucky enough to see and hear around a campfire in Zimbabwe.

Fish on Fridays

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The Fish on Fridays series is a collaboration between Gloucester photographers Kathy Chapman and Marty Luster. Look for various aspects of Gloucester’s centuries-old fishing industry highlighted here on Fridays.

This week we look at flounder. The F/V Padre Pio  and F/V Marie G.S.‘s catch is filleted at Steve Connolly Seafood.

Sole is similar flounder. From ehow: “Both fish are flat, with both eyes on one side of their face so they can hide on the ocean floor and watch for prey. While both are oval in shape, flounder is more rounded. They are two separate species with slightly different looks and tastes.”

And from Asian Recipes Blog: “There are many species of sole and flounder, all flat fish with tiny scales and a white belly. The newly hatched fish have one eye symmetrically on each side of the head. When they grow to 2 cm long, one eye begins to move towards the top of the head, then crosses to the other side to lie adjacent to the other eye. As this happens, the pigment on the opposite side becomes lighter and turns almost white.

Both sole and flounder have a gill cover with another bone in front of it. In a sole these are joined together; in a flounder they are separate and you can insert your fingernail between them.

Both varieties of fish have white, soft flesh with a very fine flake, on a fine-boned skeleton. In most recipes, whether they are used whole or as fillets, sole and flounder are interchangable.”

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