Caption contest!
Friday, Mar 22, 2024 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Gov. JB Pritzker tweeted this week that he’d recently visited Shedd Aquarium’s research vessel, the R/V Coral Reef II. From the aquarium’s website…
The aquarium’s seagoing satellite is based in Miami, but for much of the year it’s a familiar sight throughout the Bahamian archipelago. For more than two decades, the boat has given Shedd researchers and teams of volunteer community scientists access to far-flung cays in the Bahamas to study critically endangered rock iguanas.
The ocean-going vessel also enables our scientists to conduct open-water studies, including population surveys of the economically and ecologically important queen conch and nassau grouper; studies on coral health and resiliency to climate change; and shark demographic studies. Our research projects are conducted in collaboration with the Bahamian government and local conservation organizations.
Each year the boat also takes Chicago-area college and high school students enrolled in both the ACCA Marine and Island Ecology of The Bahamas and Teen Science Expedition program to nature’s classroom in the Bahamas, where they study reef and island ecology in the water and in a lab on deck.
* Anyway, a pic…
Hope he didn’t get busted for speeding again.
- Ginseng - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:40 am:
“Pritzker sets sail to check on his offshore trust funds.”
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:41 am:
I am the captain now.
Big tent, big boat, big everything.
- 47th Ward - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:51 am:
“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I’m going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.”
- Rabid - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:51 am:
So that’s where ken griffin lives now
- Bruce( no not him) - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:53 am:
“This is a nice little boat. I gotta get one of these for my pool”
- Rabid - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:55 am:
Iceberg detectors on the ship of state
- ItsMillerTime - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:58 am:
Governor Pritzker preparing to rescue the spelunkers of misery who got trapped in an undersea cave while searching for bad news for their doom grift.
- Gravitas - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:58 am:
Hey, Little Buddy, it’s only a three hour cruise. What harm could result from Thurston Howell III taking the wheel?
- OneMan - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 9:59 am:
Governor Pritzker was photographed looking at tender options for his family yacht “Hey JB’.
- Keyrock - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:01 am:
“Think Big.”
- ChrisB - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:02 am:
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
- Rich Miller - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:11 am:
Alright, I know a great little waterfront spot in Nassau, not far from where my family trust funds are stashed. Just tell me how to turn this thing on and we’re there, man.
- TJ - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:21 am:
Trying to find Bailey’s electability in the Bermuda Triangle.
- Rabid - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:24 am:
taking the pension debt to the Bermuda Triangle
- JS Mill - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:34 am:
Captain Courageous at the helm taking Illinois to the Sea of Tranquility.
- Southside Markie - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:37 am:
I think we’re going to need a bigger boat.
- just because - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:41 am:
Hey MK what about getting each of the kids one of these.
- ;) - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 10:46 am:
“Is this chair regulation sized because it’s snug”
- cermak_rd - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 11:07 am:
I’d like one of these for my office, it feels more impressive than my normal desk.
- DEE - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 11:36 am:
Governor make the appropriate hand gesture, then states ‘this is all my Personal Property’
- Donnie Elgin - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 11:50 am:
It’s easy to grin when your ship comes in and you’ve got the stock market beat…
- Flyin'Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:05 pm:
The man knows how to live.
Caption-
Boat Drinks by Jimmy Buffet.
- Amalia - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:17 pm:
So powerful he doesn’t even have to touch the wheel
- thisjustinagain - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:41 pm:
“You know, boys, the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee….” - from Gorden Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
- Pot calling kettle - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 12:52 pm:
“Free boat ride for three. Now, who should I take? MJ aaaand…….T-Pain.”
Any hint of a boat ride triggers the sharing of this video (language: not quite safe for work).
https://youtu.be/avaSdC0QOUM
So many good lines that could be used as captions for this photo.
“Everybody look at me ’cause I’m sailin’ on a boat.”
- Give Us Barabbas - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 2:49 pm:
“When you get Rauner and Griffin’s yacht on the scopes, go to General Quarters and prepare boarding parties… helm, give me ramming speed….
- Rudy’s teeth - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 3:26 pm:
We’re heading for the Playpen near Oak Street Beach.
- Dotnonymous x - Friday, Mar 22, 24 @ 3:41 pm:
A Governor, a Dentist and a Lawyer were in a boat together when a wave came along and washed them all overboard.
Unable to get back into the boat, they decided two would hold on to the boat and the third would swim to shore for help.
They noticed that there were hundreds of sharks between them and land.
Without a word the lawyer took off! As he swam the sharks move aside.
The dentist yelled: “It’s a miracle!”
“No”, said the Governor, “That’s professional courtesy!”