Some of you arrive here because you’ve clicked a link on a forum. Or you’ve found us listed on someone’s blog roll. Or more and more these days, you come purposefully looking for us.  We know this by the search term you put into Google – WordPress, like most popular blog software, provides all sorts of useful (and even useless) statistics for their bloggers.

Butterfly & Barnacle

Buttlefy and Banacle

Barnicals and Butterflys

And so on. We get all sorts of variations on the Butterfly and Barnacle theme, but all are usually clear enough to show the Googler knew who they were looking for.

But some visitors who wash up here must wonder what the deuce they’ve stumbled on.  Their Google search terms consist of words that can be found in this blog (which presumably is why Google has led them here) but which have absolutely nothing to do with sailing, boats, cruising or us. Every few days we are blessed with a real gem.  So just for fun, I’ve decided to start a running log of the best and most unusual Google searches that have transported unwary Googlers to our humble, windswept shore of cyberspace. Beginning with today’s pick …

8 facts about the moon in a poem

How does the temperature affect the butt

sorry for your lost poem

wiring bonsai

strange prickly plant

What does “forteleza” mean?

feets

how to get a rusted shrew out of a showe

albert einstein speaks to a butterfly

how to treat barnicle cuts on dogs paws

the boy worked steadily through the day

More coming, so watch this space …