Pictures from MACNA/Boston

[MtnDewMan]

Hey everyone. I returned from Boston last night and had a nice time. Sure there were lots of controversies there, Anthony not being let in, vendors in wind-blown tents, speakers competing with 2 other speakers at the same time, water taxis, aquarium banquets that did not have enough room for everyone in one place, and an hour and a half speaking engagement sitting on benches with no backs ... but I really enjoyed meeting friends I have talked to for a long time and hanging out, enjoying the scenery, the history of Boston, meeting some of our sponsors .... all in all I enjoyed my visit. Here are some pictures of both Boston and the MACNA event.


The Boston Skyline, what a pretty city ...

The USS Constitution ...

Part of the Boston Tour we went on ...

 

[MtnDewMan]

Barry and Gene from Clams Direct ...

Doug from Deltec ...

Jeremy from Premium Aquatics ...

New England Aquarium Gals showing off their cold water aquarium ...

Outside the vendor tent ...

 

[MtnDewMan]

One of the vendor tents from the outside ...

An inside look at the vendor tent ...

Our own Curt having fun at the frag exchange booth ...

My Reef Crystals boxes on display (I couldn't pass this photo up) ...

Quite the crew in this discussion, huh? ...

 

[MtnDewMan]

Some shots of the penguins at the New England Aquarium ...

And last but not least, the Boston skyline at night ...

 

[Scooterman]

WOW, nice shots, sounds like all the fun I missed!

 

[NaH2O]

Awesome, Chuck! I'll get some of the pics I took posted, too. You left out the part about servers getting trained on our table....everyday -

Just so everyone knows....Chuck spent ALOT of time at the NEAquarium booth, learning about the creatures in that cold water tank, and helping the girls figure out the ºC conversion to ºF.

Barry of Clams Direct and Gene/zhenya were awesome to meet......Barry had a couple of rare invisible clams for me in that display tank.

I was also able to meet with Tony/Acropora of Reef Exotics one of our sponsors.

Pictured at the table above starting from the left is: Sharks/Mark, Curt, Mike, Me, Cath, and Cheeks/Robert

 

[MtnDewMan]

Just so everyone knows....Chuck spent ALOT of time at the NEAquarium booth, learning about the creatures in that cold water tank, and helping the girls figure out the ºC conversion to ºF.

They needed some technical consulting is all

 

[MikeS]

Looks like fun....maybe someday I'll make it to one....where will it be next year?

MikeS

 

[Witfull]

Washington....





DC that is,,,,,,,got ya!

 

[MtnDewMan]

Washingto DC should be a fun time

I forgot one of Cath ....

I have one of Mike trying to figure out his camera but he may not be happy with me if I show that one ...

 

[CarlaW]

Awesome, what's the deal with Anthony not gettin in?
Great pics Chuck, thanx for the tour!

 

[sharks]

WOW awesome shots Chuck!
I still need to go through mine and see what sticks.
It was a pleasure meeting all of you. I had a great time.
Specially seeing Nikki's Frag session :shock: LOL
I look forward to IMAC and the next MACNA.
I'll post pics when I can

 

[NaH2O]

Well, Sharks, not much to say about the workshop, except - "oops" - you were a blast to hang around, btw

Here are some shots I took. Chucks are better, but thought I'd post mine anyway.

Here was the view from my room at night:

This is a flag on the USS Constitution:

Here are a couple more from my room:

in this one you can see the New England Aquarium. It is at the bottom center of the photo...it has the big tent in front of it. That is where the banquet was held. The overflow was inside the aquarium....and where we ate. It was nice inside with great conversation - Larry Jackson and Bruce Carlson were awesome.

 

[MtnDewMan]

Mark

It was good to meet you. Nice to put the face to the name .... as it was with the rest of the crew I met. Getting together like we did made the whole trip enjoyable for sure. Show us your pictures when you get a chance.

Hey Nikki, your skyline is a better one for sure. Like that closeup of Boston too ... It sure is a pretty city huh?

Nice pictures.

 

[cath]

geeeeeze, Chuck... you coulda told someone to pinch me or something...I look like I look like an old reefin' chick about to go to sleep.

 

[cheeks69]

It was a pleasure to meet all of ya unfortunately the dinner was all sold out so I'm sure I missed alot of fun.

I just couldn't get enough of this tank.

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Way awesome stuff, thanks for the photos and great to see everyone!

 

[GumHead]

It was great meeting everyone, I wish I had more time to hang out with you guys/girls.

I have a bunch of pics I will be posting as soon as I have some free time.

Here's one for now tho...

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Who da man in the middle?

 

[Alice]

Wow, I've seen more pics of Mikey on the net in the last couple of days than I have in the last 5 years, lol. I think he must be mellowing with age I'm wondering what Chuck's thinking in that pic, tho

Glad you all had a good time!