David Sobotta
I am a writer and photographer who enjoying boating, fishing, hikingand kayaking along the NC Coast.
I arrived on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast after a number of interesting stops.
One of the two most important periods of my life was the nearly twenty years that I worked for Apple Computer.
It was my second career and came after years on the farm, but certainly the skills learned at Apple are what got me on the web and propelled me into writing.
After my career at Apple, it has taken several years for me to settle into writing and photography as the two things that I enjoy the most.
My first career was eleven years of raising purebred cattle. The extraordinary effort of running a large farm far from a safety net is a great foundation for almost any job. Our farm was in Canada north of Fredericton, New Brunswick on the banks of the Tay River in what some would call wilderness.
Those first 30 years of my professional life on the farm and as a Silicon Valley computer soldier might seem unusual for someone who studied history and got his degree from Harvard.
Yet in the years of those two seemingly unrelated careers, at college and at McCallie School, the high school I attended, my foundation beliefs were forged and put to the test.
Life on the farm taught me that who you are is far more important than what you do. How much money you make is not the measure in life which matters. How you treat others is far more important than money
Corporate life reinforced the belief I gained through my education that standing up for what is right is fundamental to my character.
The coastal marsh pictured above is one of the key links in the chain of life on our planet. I value it as much as I do many of my core beliefs. How we treat the marsh is measure of how much we care for future generations.
I am fortunate to be able to live life among such extraordinary natural beauty, and I am happy to have made the decision that how I treat people is more important to me than how much money I make.
By doing the right thing for the right reasons, enough money to get by seems to make it to my bank count.
This site provides many links to my web world which covers everything from fishing, restaurants, photography, and cooking to technology. If you are really interested in living on the coast, you can browse an index of articles that I written recently about my life on the coast.
I am also the author of the Crystal Coast Life Blog which provides additional information about life on the Carolina coast.
I also have archived web pages that I enjoy at this site.
As February 2009, I have started uploading pictures to Google’s Panoramio. Here are some pictures of the coastal area placed on a map.
Additional information and pictures of the area can be found at this Crystal Coast site, my Picasa Web Albums site, and my Salt Water on my feet site.
-David Sobotta