In terms of the best 'keeper from our shores of all time, a mention has to be made of Ray 'Jet' Jennings: another abrasive character from the golden (although unproven) era of South African cricket from the seventies through to the eighties.
As a teenager in Manhattan, Mr. Shore spent a lot of time at Warhol's Factory, photographing and helping out with sound for the Velvet Underground and lighting for several Warhol films.
We didn't have a lot of shore time so we did some hiking to visit the historic landmarks in Charlotte Amalie and then decided to grab a bite to eat before we headed back to our ship.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, several species of large whales are found off the mid-Atlantic coast and close to shore this time of year, including humpbacks, fin whales, right whales and minke whales.
I've been down to the Jersey Shore a couple of times, and it's nothing like that at all.
In December 1883, a humpback whale appeared in the Firth of Tay off the shore of Dundee, at that time the country's major whaling port, and attracted much local interest.
"They're on the north shore of Hawaii, which this time of year is big waves and swells, so there's a salvage ship there and they have been challenged to get out there and do their business," he said.
In running for his own reëlection this year, he's already casting the re-opening of the Shore in time for the summer season as one of his big campaign themes.
Piracy varies by region in terms of frequency, violence, distance from the shore, time of day and the ship's position (Nincic 2009; Twyman-Ghoshal and Pierce 2014).
MATT DELLINGER: Your story this week, about your mile-long swim from a boat to the shore of Antarctica, reads at times like an adventure thriller.
