Polysterene cup drifting on the sea, just south of the equator, , originally uploaded by blather.

Polysterene cup drifting on the sea, just south of the equator, northeast of Papua New Guinea. This was part of a wide grouping of trash stuck between two currents.

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Brown booby on the Esperanza, originally uploaded by blather.

Sula leucogaster, brown booby, sheltering on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza from a tropical storm in the North Pacific.

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Little Egret, another stowaway, originally uploaded by blather.

On board the Esperanza, near Taiwan.

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You lookin' at me?, originally uploaded by blather.

Eyeing me up, on the bow of the Esperanza, near the coast of Taiwan.

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Rainy night at the temple, Keelung, Taiwan, originally uploaded by blather.

Rainy night at the temple, Keelung, Taiwan

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Guan Yin, buddhist goddess of compassion and mercy, Keelung, Taiwan, originally uploaded by blather.

Guan Yin, buddhist goddess of compassion and mercy, Keelung, Taiwan

Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists, usually as a female. She is also known as the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion. Photographed on a rainy night in Keelung. Just me and the cats sheltering outside a temple.

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