For over a year and counting, i have been living in a hut which dangles above the tides and surf of Monterey Bay in the thick of Cannery Row. Sandwiched between Steinbecks/Doc Ricketts' Marine Lab and the Monterey Bay Aquarium is an old cannery, long and lean, which, more than a quarter century ago, morphed from canning sardines to putting footage "in the can".
Sea Studios, a collective of inspired marine scientists and filmmakers led by Mark Shelley, have long been making cutting edge, award winning films to help our ocean and its creatures survive the onslaught of modern times. I have been the project manager on the latest project, an 85 minute feature-doc, donned for theatrical release, about the southern sea otter and the curious young woman who happens to find an orphaned otter pup on the beach one day.
The pump house out back is my office and residence, all in one. Its is high-fi wi-fied, but lacking plumbing. So though water is all around, none is flowing through the structure, per se. (which is probably a GOOD thing!)
This blog, for the moment, is about my life in the pump house. About my observations of the animals who are my neighbors and of the sea itself, so full of moods. Its not the first time that i have hunkered down into a little space, but it is certainly among the most special....
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