Pictures of our Wasaga Beach

These are pictures of our beach, all 14 kilometres of Wasaga Beach, Ontario at the absolute southern point of Georgian Bay

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Wasaga+Beach&state=ON

Within minutes, I can be running on the hardpack sand for as long as I can stand it.

In the off-season, I usually have the beach to myself.

This is a shot of a sunset, but early morning sunrises are just as spectacular. And, no, it is not Negril, but it is great motivation for the Reggae Marathon, December 5

Strewn along the shore

Some areas of the beach are lovely, soft white sand. Others are more rustic.

The sand fights with the vegitation and vice versa



Almost a full moon ... at 7 pm!

Yes, this is still Wasaga Beach

The secret to our Wasaga Beach is to head west...toward Beach Area 6. These pictures were taken with a Sony DSLR, A200 model http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/servlet/ProductDetailDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10001&productId=1004781&navigationPath=n32090n100268).

We took these pictures along the stretch of beach from 50th street to 60th street.

See you this summer...

Rolling Stone Magazine's take on the Global Financial situation

Rolling Stone Magazine Reporter Matt Taibbi published an article on March 19 entitled, "The Big Takeover". In it he comprehensively details how the world got into the financial mess. He lays the blame squarely on certain specific actions in the US financial markets, and goes on to postulate that a takeover play is underway.



While I do not agree with him on the takeover of the financial markets by the US Federal government, his article is one of the best in explaining the mess. Follow this link directly to the entire article in Rolling Stone Magazine:



http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover

Rice and Peas

This is the dish that can be served with every meal, especially ones with gravy. Sometimes I eat just a plate of rice and peas smothered in oxtail gravy.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups white rice


• 1 medium can red kidney beans


• 1 can coconut milk


• 6 pieces of cooked bacon (optional)


• 2 green onions, chopped


• 1 clove garlic, chopped


• 1 branch of fresh thyme


• 1 tbsp oil


• 1 scotch bonnet pepper (whole, do not chop up)


• water
  

Method:

• Drain the liquid from the can of beans into a measuring cup and add the can of coconut milk and enough water to make four cups of liquid


• Add liquid to a pot with beans, onions, garlic, thyme and oil, bring to a boil


• Add rice and stir for a minute. Reduce heat to Medium-Low


• Add bacon and scotch bonnet pepper on top of liquid and cover tightly for 30 minutes or until rice is cooked


• Remove scotch bonnet pepper before and thyme branch before serving

giraffe marketing blog merges with Mykals Report blog. Please continue to follow me

Thank you very much for following me over the past months on giraffe marketing (http://giraffemarketing.blogspot.com/). I have enjoyed the discussions, debate and comments on various topics. In particular, the post, "GM is dead; long live GM" http://giraffemarketing.blogspot.com/2009/03/gm-is-dead-long-live-gm.html provoked significant debate and discussion.

However after 6 months of managing 3+ separate blogs I am merging the blog, 'giraffe marketing' into this one, my primary blog, 'Mykals Report' (http://mykalsreport.blogspot.com/). You will now be able to see all the posts from all my previous blogs sorted by category by clicking on one of the labels at the top right of the home page. Look for the title, 'Morales Topics'. All the posts and comments from giraffe marketing have been transferred.

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