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Antico Borgo: osteria lombardo-sicula a San Giuliano

L'Osteria Antico Borgo, apre nel 1995, gestita da Olivia e Fabio. Il menù propone piatti lombardi e specialità siciliane con pasta fatta in casa e secondi stagionali di carne, pesce e selvaggina. Tra i primi si consiglia di provare i i ravioli con ricotta e ortica al burro fuso e pomodorino, con trevisana e speck al burro fuso o con zucca al burro fuso e salvia. Tra i secondi la cotoletta alla milanese o la tagliata di filetto di scottone con scamorza fusa e rucola. Il locale organizza anche serate di degustazione di vini - sulla carta almeno 200 etichette - e cibi. E' apero dal martedì alla domenica soltanto e dispone anche di un ampio parcheggio interno e riservato.

Sei in giro per la Versilia e non sai dove cenare? Il ristorante della discoteca Bussola ti aspetta: tel. 347 477 477 2 o mail: bussolaversilia@gmail.com per informazioni e prenotazioni. Ma eccoti una panoramica completa sulle alternative.

RISTORANTI VERSILIA

RISTORANTI FORTE DEI MARMI
o Ristoranti a Forte dei Marmi

Ristorante AGO Via Martiri di S.Anna n. 18 Tel: 0584/784221
Ristorante ALBA ROSA Via Sant'Elme n. 6 Tel: 0584/81376
Ristorante IL BOCCONCINO Piazza Garibaldi n. 7 Tel: 0584/80375
Ristorante AL POETA Via Sant'Elme n. 4 Tel: 0584/81376
Ristorante Bambaissa Via Arenile n. 3 Tel: 0584/787239
Ristorante BISTROT Viale Franceschi n. 14 Tel:0584/89879
Ristorante BLITZ Via Piave n. 98 Tel: 0584/81023
Ristorante CERVO BIANCO Via Risorgimento n. 9 Tel: 0584/89640
Ristorante DA MARIO Viale della Repubblica n. 29 Tel: 0584/82219
Ristorante DA VALE' Piazza Garibaldi n. 4 Tel: 0584/89361
Ristorante FortiBaci Viale Morin n. 2 Tel: 0584/82997
Ristorante FREDDY Piazza Garibaldi n. 2 Tel: 0584/80862
Ristorante GILDA Via Arenile n. 85 Tel: 0584.880397
Ristorante GOLF Via P.I. da Carrara n. 56 Tel: 0584/752849
Ristorante IL GUSTO VIA G. MAZZINI n. 234 Tel:0584/881613
Ristorante IL MIRAGGIO VIA GIULIO CESARE n. 8 Tel:0584/881212
Ristorante IL NAVICELLO Viale Italico n. 5 Tel: 0584/82410
Ristorante IL PLATANO Via De'Medici n. 47 Tel: 0584/881177
Ristorante IL SOGNO Via Nenni n. 69 Tel: 0584. 876358
Ristorante LA BARCA Viale Italico n. 3 Tel: 0584.89323
Ristorante LA CANTINA VIA CASONE n.6 STRETTOIA Tel:0584/799729
Ristorante LA GAZZELLA Via Dell' Acqua n. 5 Tel:0584/82291
Ristorante LOCANDA DEL FORTE Via Stagio Stagi n. 66/a Tel: 0584/83937
Ristorante LA MAGNOLIA DEL BYRON Viale Morin n. 46 Tel: 0584/787052
Ristorante LA PLAYA Via G. Cesare n. 8 Tel: 0584/881212
Ristorante LE PIANO Viale Arenile n. 82 Tel: 0584/881020
Ristorante LORENZO Via Carducci, 62 tel: 0584.874030 - 0584.89671
Ristorante L' ORSA MAGGIORE Viale Arenile n. 29 Tel: 0584/82219
Ristorante IL Mariannagane Via Provinciale n. 152 Tel:0584/89555
Ristorante MARCONI Via Duca D'Aosta n. 13 Tel: 0584/89553
Ristorante MADAI Via Della Barbiera n. 44 Tel:0584/787933
Ristorante MADEO Via G. B. Vico n. 75 Tel: 0584/84068
Ristorante MAITO' Viale Arenile n. 28 Tel: 0584/80940
Ristorante MILANO Viale Morin n. 17 Tel: 0584/83143
Ristorante MODERNO AL MARE Viale Italico n. 9/11 Tel: 0584/89513
Ristorante MOKAMBO Viale della Repubblica, 22 Tel: 0584/89446
Ristorante OLTREMARE Via Arenile n. 86 Tel: 0584/881020
Ristorante OSTERIA DEL MARE Viale Franceschi n. 4 Tel: 0584/83661
Ristorante PANCINO Via Duca d'Aosta n. 4 Tel: 0584/81162
Ristorante TANDEM Via Mazzini n. 318 Tel: 0584/881222
Ristorante TRE STELLE Via Montauti n. 6 Tel: 0584/80220

RISTORANTI VIAREGGIO
o Ristoranti a Viareggio

Ristorante ADRIANO Via S. Francesco n. 75 Tel: 0584/30376
Ristorante AL PORTO LOCALE SEGNALATO DA VERSILIA BY NIGHT
Ristorante AMARO Via San Martino n. 73 Tel: 0584/962183
Ristorante ANGELO Viale Europa n. 20 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341668
Ristorante ANTARES Via Mazzini n. 160 Tel: 0584/944850
Ristorante ANTONIO Viale Puccini n. 260 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341877
Ristorante Armanda Viale Europa n. 59 Tel: 0584/392376
Ristorante ARSENIO Via Foscolo n. 79 Tel: 0584/943379
Ristorante Barabba Via Aurelia Nord n. 84 Tel: 0584/945937
Ristorante Bar Sotto il Mare Via Coppino n. 307 Tel: 0584/388107
Ristorante BARCOBESTIA Via Coppino n. 201 Tel: 0584/384416
Ristorante BARRUMBA Viale Kennedy n. 6 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/351735
Ristorante BIJOUX Via Ciabattini n. 97 Tel: 0584/945300
Ristorante BONELLI Piazza Mercato Vecchio n. 94 Tel: 0584/961264
Ristorante BUCA DEI VAGERI Via dei Lecci n. 83/A Tel: 0584/384533
Ristorante Buonamico Via S.Andrea n. 27 Tel: 0584/943266
Ristorante CABREO Via Firenze n. 14 Tel: 0584/54643
Ristorante CAFFE' DEL MARE Viale Europa Torre del Lago.Telefono 0584 353218
Ristorante Caffe' DEGLI ANGELI Via Fratti n. 18 Tel: 0584/945850
Ristorante CALIMERO Viale Europa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/340264
Ristorante CAPINERA Via Paladini n. 125 Tel: 0584/391728
Ristorante CASINA BIANCA Viale Europa Tel: 0584/391005
Ristorante CINESE CANTON Via Aurelia Sud n. 53 Tel: 0584/389182
Ristorante CINESE HANG ZHOU Via Mazzini n. 62 Tel: 0584/49888
Ristorante DA BOMBETTA Via Fratti n. 27 Tel: 0584/961380
Ristorante DA CECCO Viale Puccini (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341022
Ristorante DA FRANCESCO Viale dei Tigli n. 15 Tel: 0584/384530
Ristorante DA GIACOMINO Viale Europa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/350988
Ristorante DA MANUELE Via Aurelia Sud n. 433 Tel: 0584/350369
Ristorante DA MIRO Via Coppino n. 289 Tel: 0584/384065
Ristorante DA ROMANO LOCALE SEGNALATO DA VERSILIA BY NIGHT
Ristorante DA STEFANO Via Matteotti n. 21 Tel: 0584/31009
Ristorante DIRIDONI Viale Eurpoa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/340301
Ristorante EDEN Viale Margherita n. 21 Tel: 0584/48887
Ristorante EL SOMBRERO Via Dei lecci ang. Via Dei Comparini Tel:0584/390303
Ristorante EUROPA Viale Europa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/350273
Ristorante FAMBRINI Viale Kennedy n. 20 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/359533
Ristorante GAUDI' Viale Carducci n. 5 Tel: 0584/49833
Ristorante GIANNINI ARRICHELLO Via Fratti n. 86 Tel: 0584/963928
Ristorante GARIBALDINO Via Fratti n. 66 Tel: 0584/961337
Ristorante Giordano Bruno Viale Europa Viareggio Tel: 0584/392201
Ristorante GIORGIO Via Zanardelli n. 71 Tel: 0584/44493
Ristorante Gusmano HOLIDAYS Via Pardini n. 65 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/350993
Ristorante IL BRIGANTINO Via Pardini n. 65 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/350993
Ristorante IL CANCELLO Viale Carducci n. 28/A Tel: 0584/31320
Ristorante IL FARO Viale Europa n. 242 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/35944
Ristorante IL GIARDINO DELL'EDEN Via zanardelli n. 57 Tel: 0584/45852
Ristorante IL LAGO Viale Puccini n. 257 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341561
Ristorante IL LUCCIO Via di Montramito n. 333 Tel: 0584/941616
Ristorante IL PESCATORE
Ristorante IL PUNTO DI VINO Via Mazzini n. 229 Tel: 0584/31046
Ristorante IL QUADRIFOGLIO Via Zanardelli n. 71 Tel: 0584/44493
Ristorante IL TINO D'ORO Via della Gronda n. 88 Tel: 0584/960266
Ristorante IL VELIERO Viale Europa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/340060
Ristorante IL VELIERO 2 Viale Europa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/359623
Ristorante La Darsena Trattoria
Ristorante LA BARACCHINA Lungocanale Est Tel: 0584/31583
Ristorante LA BARCA Viale Europa n. 15 Tel: 0584/392622
Ristorante LA BARRACUDA Viale europa Tel:0584/392956
Ristorante LA CASINA Via Marco Polo n. 4 Tel: 0584/50134
Ristorante LA CORTE Via Matteotti n. 10 Tel: 0584/945303
Ristorante LA GHENGA Via Verdi n. 95 Tel: 0584/581908
Ristorante LA LAMPARA Piazza D'Azeglio n. 32 Tel: 0584/46193
Ristorante LA LAMPARA Viale Europa (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/359072
Ristorante la perla viale Europa n. 51 Tel: 0584/383109
Ristorante LA PINETA Via Indipendenza n. 84 Tel: 0584/388637
Ristorante LA RIVA Viale Europa n. 27 Tel: 0584/392192
Ristorante LA SELVA Viale Marconi n. 341/int. (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341213
Ristorante LA TAVERNA Via Coppino n. 307 Tel: 0584/395066
Ristorante LA TENUTA Via del Foddo Legname n. 22 Tel: 0584/963251
Ristorante LA TERRAZZA Piazza D'Azeglio n. 1 Tel: 0584/44449
Ristorante LIDO Viale Europa n. 28 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341134
Ristorante LILLY E IL MORO Viale Europa n. 31 (Tore del Lago) Tel: 0584/359255
Ristorante L'ALTRA LUNA Via Matteotti n. 56 Tel: 0584/961484
Ristorante L'Imbuto Via Fratti n. 308 Tel: 0584/48906
Ristorante L'IPPOCAMPO Via dei Pescatori n. 41 Tel: 0584/389038
Ristorante L'OCA BIANCA Via Coppino n. 409 Tel: 0584/388477
Ristorante LOMBARDI Via Aurelia n. 127 (Torre del Lago) Tel: 0584/341044
Ristorante LO SPARNOCCHIO Viale Europa n. 25 Tel: 0584/390036

RISTORANTI MARINA PIETRASANTA
o
Ristoranti a Marina di Pietrasanta

Ristorante Alex Via Versilia n. 157 Tel: 0584/746070
Ristorante AMICI MIEI Viale Roma n. 16 (Loc. Fiumetto) Tel: 0584/745936
Ristorante ARCIMBOLDO Viale Roma n. 94 (Loc. Motrone) Tel: 0584/22749
Ristorante BAFFARDELLO Via Ficalucci n. 46 Tel: 0584/21034
Ristorante BUSSOLA viale Roma, 44 Focette Tel: 347 477 477 2
Ristorante Blanco Lounge Restaurant Via Verdi, angolo via Ricasoli Tel: 0584/747674
Ristorante BONGO Viale Roma n. 16 Tel: 0584/745936
Ristorante DA MICHELE Viale Roma n. 20 (Loc. Fiumetto) Tel: 0584/20446
Ristorante DONIDA AL MARE Via Giosue' Carducci n. 112 Tel: 0584/745630
Ristorante DA RICCA' Via Carducci, 112 (Loc. Fiumetto) Tel: 0584/745630
Ristorante FUSIONCAFE' Via Lungomare n. 30 Tel: 0584/267150
Ristorante JOLLY Via Dalmazia n. 28 (Loc. Focette) Tel: 0584/21077
Ristorante L'ARSELLA Via Palestro n. 41 Tel: 0584/22862
Ristorante LIDO BISTROT Viale Roma n. 27 Tel: 0584/745481
Ristorante LO SCORFANO BLU VIA Carducci n. 275 Tel: 0584/21281
Ristorante MALIBU' (Loc. Fiumetto) Tel: 0584/21879
Ristorante NAVARI STEFANO Piazza XXIV Maggio, 19 (Loc. Tonfano) Tel: 0584.21052
Ristorante TAMATA Via Versilia n. 107 Tel: 0584/267131
Ristorante TRATTORIA DA CARLINO Via Versilia n. 79 Tel: 0584/20692
Ristorante TRATTORIA DEL PESCE Viale Roma n. 6/8 (Loc. Fiumetto) Tel: 0584/22121

RISTORANTI LIDO CAMAIORE
Ristoranti a Lido di Camaiore

Ristorante ARISTON MARE Viale Colombo n. 660 Tel: 0584/904747
Ristorante BARRACUDA Viale Colombo n. 136 Tel: 0584/617073
Ristorante BERTACCA Viale Pistelli n. 135 Tel: 0584/617073
Ristorante BIXIO Viale Colombo n. 395 Tel: 0584/610558
Ristorante CAPANNINA DEL LIDO Via Aurelia n. 108 Tel: 0584/617256
Ristorante CAVALLINO BIANCO Via Lorenzi n. 13 tel: 0584.610752
Ristorante CLARA Via Aurelia n. 291 Tel: 0584/904520
Ristorante DA MARIO Viale Colombo n. 82 Tel: 0584/66096
Ristorante LA CANTINA Via Italica n. 61 Tel: 0584/67624
Ristorante LA LAMPARA Viale Europa n. 181 Tel: 0584/617436
Ristorante LA LANTERNA DI MARIO Viale Colombo n. 388 Tel: 0584/617254
Ristorante LA LUNA Via del Fortino n. 67 Tel: 0584/650283
Ristorante LA MIA TOSCANA Viale Colombo n. 334 Tel: 0584/617615
Ristorante LA LUNA Via del Fortino n. 67 Tel: 0584/60283
Ristorante L' ARCANO Via Papini n. 9 Tel: 0584/66960
Ristorante LA PERGOLA Via del Fortino n. 97 Tel: 0584/67893
Ristorante LA RISACCA Viale Colombo n. 604 Tel: 0584/619219
Ristorante LA TAVERNA Via delle Camelie n. 14 Tel: 0584/905215
Ristorante Oly Pizza Viale Europa n. 78 Tel :0584/617426
Ristorante TRATTORIA LA ROSA Via Italica n. 94 Tel: 0584/90272

RISTORANTI CAMAIORE
o Ristoranti a Camaiore

Ristorante AL PIOPPO Via della Cava n. 93 (Loc. Orbicciano) Tel: 0584/956052
Ristorante Bernardone via di nocchi n. 110 Tel: 0584/951118
Ristorante CAPRICCIO Via Provinciale n. 2 Tel: 0584/980199
Ristorante CENTRO STORICO VIA BATTISTI n. 66 Tel: 0584/989786
Ristorante DA FRANCO Via Provinciale n. 22 (Montemagno) Tel: 0584/951028
Ristorante DANTE Via Fibbialla n. 72 (Loc. Fibbialla) Tel: 0584/956046
Ristorante DA PIETRO Via Pieve (Loc. Pieve di Camaiore) Tel: 0584/981894
Ristorante EMILIO & BONA Via Lombrici n. 19 Tel: 0584/989289
Ristorante FRATELLI PARDINI Via Casoli n. 248 (Loc. Tre Scolli) Tel: 0584/988019
Ristorante IL CAMPAGNOLO Via Italica n. 302 (Loc. Capezzano) Tel: 0584/913675
Ristorante IL CAPRICCIO Via Bellosguardo n. 2 Tel: 0584/980199
Ristorante IL CASERECCIO Via Italica n. 266 (Capezzano) Tel: 0584/915402
Ristorante IL Colosseo Via Tabarrani n. 26 Camaiore Tel: 0584/982046
Ristorante IL VIGNACCIO Via S. Lucia, 26 (Loc. S. Lucia) Tel: 0584/914200
Ristorante LA DOGANA Via Sarzanese n. 442 (Capezzano) Tel: 0584/915159
Ristorante LA MEA Via Provinciale n. 1 (Loc. Valpromaro) Tel: 0584/956047
Ristorante LA NUOVA BADIA Via Gallena n. 1 Tel: 0584/989466
Ristorante LA TAVERNETTA (Lago Teneri) Tel: 0584/989466
Ristorante TRATTORIA LE COLONNE Via V. Emanuele n. 62 Tel: 0584/981377
Ristorante LE MERAVIGLIE Via Provinciale n. 18 Tel: 0584/951750
Ristorante LOCANDA LE MONACHE SEGNALATO DA VERSILIA BY NIGHT
Ristorante LUCESE Via Comunale per il Passo di Lucese n. 1 Tel: 0584/971885
Ristorante MASSEI Via Provinciale n. 308 Tel: 0584/905051
Ristorante NABIRA Via Cesare Battisti n. 14 Tel: 0584/989741
Ristorante OSTERIA AL GREPPO Via Greppolungo n. 30/A (Greppolungo) Tel: 0584/981164
Ristorante OSTERIA IL SOGGIORNO Via Risorgimento n. 52 (Loc. Pedona) Tel: 0584/989218
Ristorante TRE TERRAZZE Via Monteggiori n. 4 (Loc. Monteggiori) Tel: 0584/913801
Ristorante Villa Peruzzi Via Nocchi n. 11( Loc. Nocchi ) Tel: 0584/951475

RISTORANTE PIETRASANTA
o I Ristoranti a Pietrasanta

Ristorante Da Beppino Via Valdicastello Carducci n. 32 Tel: 0584/790400
Ristorante Da MILLO Via Paradisino n.19 (Loc. Strettoia) Tel: 320/8218060
Ristorante DA PIERO Via Traversagna n. 3 Tel: 0584/790031
Ristorante DA ROMANO Via Provinciale Vallecchia n. 224 Tel: 0584/71234
Ristorante GAMBA Via Aurelia (Loc. Pontenuovo) Tel: 0584/790645
Ristorante GROTTA AZZURRA (Capriglia) Via Le Piane n. 20 Tel: 0584.771024
Ristorante CAPANNINA DEL POLLINO (Loc. Pontenuovo) Tel: 0584/790180
Ristorante ENOTECA MARCUCCI Via Garibaldi n. 40 Tel: 0584/791962
Ristorante IL CIRCO Piazzetta S. Antonio n. 28 Tel: 0584/70436
Ristorante IL FICO Via Comunale n. 138 (Loc. Strettoia) Tel: 0584/798090
Ristorante IL PATIO Via Arginello n. 24 Tel: 0584/791200
Ristorante IL POSTO PIAZZA CARDUCCI n .12 Tel: 0584/791416
Ristorante Il Sentiero Loc.Sennari Stazzema Tel: 0584/772217
Ristorante IL VATICANO Via del Marzocco n. 132 Tel: 0584/72185
Ristorante LA CAMPAGNOLA Via Pisanica n. 89 Tel: 0584/793348
Ristorante LA Bottega dei Piastroni Via Dei Piastroni n. 66 Tel: 0584/792147
Ristorante LA Locanda del Gusto Via Marzocco n. 82 (Centro Storico) Tel: 0584/283091
Ristorante LA ROCCHETTA Via della Chiesa n. 29 (Loc. Strettoia) Tel: 0584/799728
Ristorante LE TERRAZZA Via Campetto n. 29 (Loc. Capriglia) Tel: 0584/796074
Ristorante LOCANDA DI BRUNO Tel: 0584/790887 Segnalato da Versilia by Night
Ristorante LO SPROCCO Via P. E. Barsanti n. 22 Tel: 0584/70793
Ristorante MARTINATICA Via Martinatica n. 20 (Loc. Baccatoio) Tel: 0584/792534
Ristorante NETTUNO ALBA V. Lungomare n. 87 Tel: 0584/21721
Ristorante OSTERIA ALLA GIUDEA Via P. E. Barsanti n. 4 Tel: 0584/71514
Ristorante OSTERIA DEL PESCE POVERO CORSO GARIBALDI n. 81 Tel:0584/22050
Ristorante SPAGHETTERIA PEPE E SALE V. Aurelia n.159 Loc. Strettoia Tel: 0584/881322
Ristorante STIPINO Via Provinciale n. 50 Tel: 0584/72421
Ristorante TAMATA Via Versilia n. 107 Tel:0584/267131
Ristorante TRATTORIA DA BEPPINO Via Valdicastello Carducci n. 34 Tel: 0584/790400
Ristorante TRATTORIA S. MARTINO Via Garibaldi n. 17 Tel: 0584/790190
Ristorante TRATTORIA DA COPPO Via Aurelia n. 121 (Loc Pontestrada) Tel: 0584/70350
Ristorante TRATTORIA IL GATTO NERO Piazza G. Carducci n. 32 Tel: 0584/70135
Ristorante TRATTORIA LA PORTA Via Garibaldi n. 81 Tel: 0584/791211
Ristorante TRATTORIA PUCCI Via S. Maria a Rio n. 89 (Loc. Strettoia) Tel: 0584/799630
Ristorante VECCHIA OSTERIA di BACCO Via Sarzanese N. 49 ( loc. cannoreto ) Tel: 0584/793956
Ristorante ZENZERO Via Pirandello n. 31 Tel: 0584/742360

A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green.Up From the Deep: Piloted by a joystick jockey at the surface of the water, the Sawfish can cut 250 trees in eight hours. 1) COMMAND AND CONTROL: Lowered into the water by a crane, the sub connects to a diesel generator on the surface with a 720-foot cord. Inside a container on the barge, a pilot (inset) scans video from eight under-water cameras and maneuvers the Sawfish with a joystick. 2) ROAM: The ROV has a 75-HP engine and seven directional thrusters, allowing it to move safely through treacherous terrain. 3) CUT: To fell a tree, the Sawfish clasps the trunk with its steel pincers so its 54-inch chain saw can rip through the wood. 4) RETRIEVE: Waterlogged wood doesn't float, so the Sawfish screws airbags into the tree trunks using a hydraulic ratchet. The buoyant bags raise the trunks to the surface. 5) STORE: A tugboat rigged with a pair of hydraulic claws drags cut logs onto one of several floating storage bunks.I’m standing on a steel barge in the center of Ootsa Lake, a 154-square-mile reservoir in northwestern British Columbia. A chafing wind blows from the west, where the snowy, nearly treeless slopes of the Kitimat Range vanish into overcast skies. I jump as a voice booms over the outdoor PA system: “Clear to cut!” A few seconds later, a massive spruce tree erupts from the murky water.Two hundred feet below, a remotely operated vehicle dubbed the Sawfish is wielding a 54-inch-long chain saw. On the deck of the barge, an operator sits inside a cramped, dimly lit control room made from a shipping container. He’s maneuvering the Sawfish with a joystick, and his eyes are locked on a video feed of footage from eight underwater cameras embedded in the contraption. A generator delivers power to the sub through a 720-foot-long high-voltage cable that also encloses a set of fiber-optic lines to transmit guidance commands from the pilot.If you’re on the shoreline or live nearby, underwater timber harvesting is remarkably quiet: no screaming chain saws or smoke-belching heavy machinery. In a steady, splashing procession, tree after tree bobs to the surface, where a small tugboat rigged with a pair of hydraulic claws grabs the trunks and tows them into something called a bunk, a partly submerged U-shaped cradle. I can see three bunks from the barge. Each stores up to 300 trees and can be raised onto a second transport barge that holds up to 1,000 logs. The Sawfish and its four-person crew will fill it in just four days.This unusual harvesting method is made possible by a submersible that can probe the deepest reservoirs for under-water trees to cut and deliver to the surface. It was developed by Chris Godsall, the 38-year-old founder and CEO of Triton Logging. The company is based near Victoria, but the principal underwater logging operation is at Ootsa Lake, almost 750 miles to the north. The lake was formed in 1954, when Alcan, the world’s second-largest aluminum producer, built a hydroelectric dam here to power its smelter. The water behind the dam flooded millions of lodgepole pine, spruce, Douglas fir, and hemlock trees, leaving some $1.2 billion worth of timber preserved in a kind of suspended animation. In the cold, dark, oxygen-poor water, tree wood won’t decay for thousands of years. And Ootsa is one of 45,000 spots around the globe where dams have inundated valleys and submerged vast forests. By some estimates, there is $50 billion worth of marketable timber at the bottom of these man-made lakes. Godsall is quick to point out that he has the only technology able to retrieve it.To gather up a few logs, it might seem like lunacy to deploy the same kind of sophisticated and pricey ROVs used to explore the Titanic or investigate 9,000-foot-deep geothermal vents along the mid-Atlantic seafloor. But do the math and Godsall’s method starts to make good financial sense. Operated by just one person, a so-called feller buncher—the fastest and cheapest way to harvest timber on land—can cut at least 500 trees a day. But then it takes an additional three-member crew up to three weeks to trim and load the trees for transport. A single Sawfish is more efficient. It may clear only 250 trees in an eight-hour shift with four crew members, but there’s no need to skid the logs down a hillside and truck them to a mill. Instead, a barge delivers the trees to the mill faster and more cheaply, and because they’ve been submerged they’re generally already stripped of foliage and bark. A Sawfish, including the control room, tool shop, and power generator, costs $800,000 to $1 million, depending on the gadgetry packed into the ROV. That’s significantly less than the onetime equipment cost of roughly $1.5 million needed to run a comparable feller buncher operation. Add up all the numbers and, while conventional harvesting costs about $50 per cubic meter of wood, Peter Keyes, an executive at a global timber wholesaler and marketer, estimates Godsall’s cost at closer to $40. “Sure, there are big R&D costs to pay down,” Keyes says. “But the technology has given Godsall access to all these trees as if they were on land. It’s like finding a new penny.”There are environmental advantages to the Sawfish method as well. Conventional aboveground harvesting contributes to deforestation, a cause of global warming that’s responsible for the release of 25 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions. But because underwater trees are already dead, cutting them down doesn’t worsen the situation. And with underwater logging, there are no unsightly clear-cuts and no spotted owls to worry about.I first meet Godsall when he arrives at my motel in Burns Lake, a soggy, desolate logging outpost about a two-hour drive from Ootsa. Tall and lean, with neatly combed brown hair, he’s wearing tennis shoes, faded jeans, and a blue windbreaker. Later, as we drive through dense forestlands in his rented sedan, Godsall tells me how he got interested in trees. Nine years ago, while working as a marketing consultant in Toronto, he took on a client in the log salvage business. Wet Wood Underwater Fibre Recovery employed loggers to search riverbeds and shallow lakes for sunken timber with potential market value. Eventually, Godsall signed on with Wet Wood full-time as general manager. He soon realized that hunting for a log here and there wasn’t exactly the way to rake in the dough. It was akin to collecting soda cans for the five cent return deposit—profit margins were slim, and the work was tedious and time-consuming. Also, it could be unpopular with the public because scouring lake beds can upset ecosystems, churning up silt and debris that then threaten fish and wildlife.One day during a meeting, a client showed Godsall an image of an underwater forest at the bottom of a reservoir. “I had become so obsessed with retrieving lost logs that the picture of a whole forest of trees under-water seemed at once surreal, obscene, and too good to be true. I was convinced it was trick photography.” But the photo was genuine, and a few weeks later Godsall approached his bosses with a question: “Why are we hunting for sunken logs when there are entire forests waiting to be reclaimed?” Godsall suggested they build technology to go after all the standing underwater timber in the world. Everyone just laughed. Godsall resigned two days later, and in May 2000 he launched Triton.Godsall is from a clan of overachievers—his father, he says, is a “compulsive entrepreneur”; his mother, an “extremely creative” art gallery owner. One brother is a Hollywood director; another battles infectious diseases in Africa. But building a new, unproven technology from scratch made him nervous. “I am not an engineer,” he admits. “It was one thing to have a good idea, quite another to execute it.” He assembled a design team from a cross-section of fields, including commercial aviation, undersea exploration, and marine biology—there was even an engineer from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.During his years as a consultant, Godsall had seen all sorts of contraptions and schemes for retrieving sunken logs—submersible cranes, scuba divers with pneumatic chain saws, and a “tree mower” that was dragged like a straight razor along shallow lake beds. Most didn’t work, some were extremely dangerous, and very few could go much deeper than 60 feet. But Godsall knew that in Ootsa, nearly three-quarters of the good timber is more than 60 feet below the surface. “We had to make that our territory,” he says.The team needed to invent something totally new—like the Sawfish. About the size of a VW bus and painted bright yellow, the sub can dive to 1,100 feet—deeper than any reservoir on earth—and fell a tree in two seconds. Besides advanced video imaging, sonar, and GPS capabilities, the ROV has a 75-horsepower engine and seven directional thrusters, making it extremely agile. And the vehicle is robust enough to withstand an errant tree toppling on it underwater. The Sawfish has a set of 52-inch-long lobsterlike steel pincers used to attach the ROV to the base of a tree while cutting. A powerful waterproof chain saw, mounted on a hinged mechanical arm, can slash through trunks up to 8 feet wide.Perhaps the most ingenious innovation, though, is Godsall’s solution for bringing trees to the surface. Underwater timber is waterlogged and doesn’t float. So the Sawfish attaches airbags to each tree before cutting it. Using a mouse, keypad, and joystick, a remote pilot can load an airbag on a chain-driven conveyer belt located inside the belly of the Sawfish, then engage a hydraulic ratchet that ejects the bag, screws it onto a tree trunk, and fills it with 5 cubic feet of air. After the log floats to the surface, a tugboat drags it into a storage bunk, and a crew member removes the reusable bag. The Sawfish can deploy up to 50 airbags before engineers have to raise it for a refill.In August 2002, preparing for its maiden voyage, Triton engineers loaded the Sawfish onto the back of a semi and hauled the sub 14 hours to Ootsa Lake. “We cut the first tree and everybody cheered,” Godsall recalls. “We cut another tree and everybody cheered. Then we cut a third tree and the Sawfish broke and everybody went home.” There were other setbacks—airbags exploded, the Sawfish got its tether lines wrapped around branches—but Godsall persisted. To work out the kinks, he raised more money (for a total of roughly $1.2 million) and built a floating R&D lab on a reservoir near Triton’s headquarters.Triton now operates two Sawfish vehicles on Ootsa Lake, and Godsall plans to build 10 more. He aims to harvest 45,000 trees a year in Ootsa Lake and hundreds of thousands more in other reservoirs. The timing is perfect: Demand for decks, hardwood floors, and roofs crafted from sustainable timber is increasing. Just as organic food swept into grocery stores in the 1990s, Godsall is planning to line the lumber aisles of Home Depot and Lowe’s with underwater-harvested timber. He’s also talking to Ikea about an exclusive deal to provide wood for tables and chairs. And the Triton logo is becoming an “Intel Inside”-type seal that retailers can slap on products to attract green-minded buyers. A study by the Forest Stewardship Council, a nonprofit based in Germany, says the market for so-called good wood, which includes underwater logs, grew 25 percent in each of the previous two years to hit $5 billion in 2005.Godsall is also eager to expand operations beyond Canada. He recently met with reservoir managers in the US, Australia, South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia to broker additional deals. One project involves clearing trees from the bottom of Volta Lake in Ghana, where seasonal drops in the water level bring submerged timber dangerously close to the surface. Trees have punctured holes in boats and passenger ferries sinking them and killing hundreds of people in the past four years alone.Most salvage loggers believe that reservoirs conceal 200 million to 300 million trees worldwide. “That’s a low estimate,” Godsall says. “We’re continually discovering reservoirs with trees in them. There’s one in Brazil called Tucurui with $1 billion worth of timber.” Eastern Europe is another untapped frontier: “It has the largest reservoirs with the most trees.” But pinpointing underwater forests is tricky. Godsall’s team studies old maps that show where forests once stood. They also use specialized sonar to verify the existence of trees and underwater cameras to identify the variety—spruce, pine, fir, or rare hardwoods such as teak and ebony. Some species are more valuable than others, and Godsall wants the sticks that will bring in the most money.To snag the best logs, Godsall hires people who know trees and can make snap decisions about wood quality based on a quick scan of underwater camera footage. Take Josh Chernov, a marine biologist and one of Triton’s five pilots. He’s inside the Sawfish’s control room atop the barge, watching six LCD panels relay video from the submerged cameras. Sitting in a Star Trek-style captain’s chair, he uses a joystick to zoom around a stand of valuable lodgepole pines at the bottom of Ootsa Lake, ignoring nearby timber of lesser value. There’s a muffled whir in the corner from the 2.8-GHz off-the-shelf Wintel PC—that’s the Sawfish brain. Chernov clicks a button on the joystick to toggle between video feeds, panning a front-mounted camera across the lake bed. The scene is eerie: A lost forest beckons from the shadowy depths, ancient giants still standing proud in the 46-degree-Fahrenheit water.At the moment, however, Chernov is about to slice through the 3-foot-wide trunk of a lodgepole pine. He deftly glides the Sawfish to the base of the tree, where it hovers a few feet above the lake bed before clasping onto the trunk with its pincers. While the Sawfish clutches the tree, Chernov switches to a different camera, this time with a view from behind the hydraulic airbag ratchet. From this angle, I can see a column of fluorescent airbags stacked single file in a storage compartment. Another click on the joystick and the ratchet telescopes forward, snagging an airbag, bolting it to the tree, then inflating it.He radios over the PA: “Clear to cut?” “Roger, clear to cut,” a deckhand calls.Chernov starts the chain saw, which swings out from inside the nose cone of the Sawfish and slices through the trunk in seconds. Because the airbag is affixed to the base of the trunk, the tree inverts 180 degrees before beginning its ascent. I step out of the control room and onto the deck just as it bursts through the surface of the water. “It’s kind of like watching the Apollo rockets go up,” says Dave Menzies, a Sawfish operator who spent 20 years as a pilot for a commuter airline before joining Triton. Moments later, another log appears, then another. There is enough timber in Ootsa Lake to keep the Sawfish busy for 50 years—and plenty more lumber in Panama, Malaysia, and other countries where Godsall hopes to begin harvesting by 2008.“Mother Nature never intended for trees to be underwater,” Godsall says. But that’s where forest after forest has ended up. He still marvels at the perfect preservation of the submerged trees. Just waiting, he says, to be harvested guilt free and for profit, by the Sawfish.Michael Behar (michael@michaelbehar.com)OLD PICTURES...SEE DESCRIPTION ON THE RIGHT.Pneumatic Chain Saw: TYPE A IngersollMANUFACTURED BY:WOLF (Reed Prentice Corp.)INTRODUCED:1927MOTOR:Ingersoll Rand

• the Classic Movie Palaces (it's not surprising that some of the country's oldest and grandest theaters are located along Hollywood Boulevard -- what is amazing is that all but one of them are still in business, showing films and live stage productions ● The Egyptian opened in 1922, hosting the first ever film premiere for Douglas Fairbanks's "Robin Hood" ● The El Capitan started in 1926 as a stage theater, later hosted the world premiere of "Citizen Kane" when no other location would risk showing it, and is currently owned by Disney ● The Warner Bros. Theater opened in 1928, was renovated into a Cinerama for 133 weeks in the 1950's, and boasts Carol Burnett's star out front because she worked there as an usher in 1957 -- it closed in 1994 due to damage from the Northridge Earthquake and has since been converted into a church ● The Pantages has been around since 1930, first as part of the Vaudeville circuit, then as a film theater owned by Howard Hughes and the home of the Oscars from 1949 to 1959, and now as one of the prime locations for live stage productions in L.A. ● the granddaddy of them all, Grauman's Chinese Theater opened in 1927 and immediately became a favorite spot for film premieres -- it is also home of the most famous concrete footprints and signatures in the world, a calculated move by Grauman and founding partners Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks to make the forecourt more interesting, regardless of any stories about someone "accidentally" stepping in wet cement --  see if you can find Harold Lloyd's glasses, Groucho Marx's cigar, the Harry Potter stars' wands, Betty Grable's legs, John Wayne's fist, Jimmy Durante's nose, Roy Rogers's gun and Trigger's hoofprints -- Matt and I saw "Mars Attacks" at the theater, an oddly appropriate choice for such an overblown film!)

• the Hollywood Masonic Temple (right next to the El Capitan, you'll find a neoclassical building that was designed in 1921 by John Austin, the architect who created the Griffith Observatory, and built by Charles Toberman, who gave us the Hollywood Bowl, Grauman's Theatre, the Roosevelt, and the Max Factor Building -- many stars were Masons, and the temple's lodge rooms were routinely used by Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Cecil B. DeMille, John Wayne, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry -- there were even unconfirmed rumors of a secret tunnel running  under Hollywood Boulevard, connecting the temple to the theater, so celebs could avoid the crowds -- D.W. Griffith's memorial was held in the ballroom with hymns played on a built-in pipe organ, and long-time Mason Harold Lloyd has his star right in front of the building -- the building is now owned by Disney and houses the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" show, which we tried to see while in town -- if you request tickets for a taping, stay glued to your computer until you get the confirmation or you will lose out -- we requested tickets 2 weeks ahead, and I checked for a confirmation every day -- they finally sent me the email on Sunday before the Monday taping -- Matt and I were at the Ren Faire and I didn't get the email until Monday morning -- by then, they had already given away our tickets because we didn't "confirm" fast enough -- bastards!)
  

• the Roosevelt Hotel (built in 1927 and financed by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and Louis B. Mayer, this grand Hollywood icon was named after Theodore Roosevelt -- the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929 was held in the ballroom, and the Roosevelt has been featured prominently in many films throughout the ages -- numerous celebrities have lived here at one time or another, including Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Sinatra, and Judy Garland -- Marilyn Monroe stayed in suite 246 for two years and had her first magazine shoot by the pool -- a number of of incredibly gullible people also claim to have seen her ghost dancing in the ballroom -- all a bunch of foolishness, but it's fun to go inside and scare yourself for a minute or two)

• the Capitol Records tower (the most recognizable symbol of Hollywood, aside from the sign, was built in 1956 -- the world's first circular office building, it was designed to be completely earthquake-proof, and thus far, has lived up to its reputation -- although the building was never intended to look like a stack of 45 albums, the resemblance has been noted more than once -- I guess younger generations might think that it looks like a CD spindle -- Capitol was the first record label with a base on the west coast, a fact that president Alan Livingston advertised by having the blinking beacon on top spell out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code -- small bit of trivia: Samuel Morse's granddaughter Lyla threw the switch, turning the light on -- the first album recorded in the studio was by Frank Sinatra, the building is known as "The House That Nat Built" thanks to the vast number of albums Nat King Cole sold for the company, and the recording studio boasts an echo chamber designed by Les Paul and built 20 feet below ground -- a pretty cool history!)

Keeping Yourself Entertained

Some people will tell you that there's nothing to do on Hollywood Boulevard anymore -- I would say that these folks just don't know where to look for entertainment. Even if all you do is hang out on a street corner and people-watch, you can fill an entire day checking out all the freaks and fashion victims (they don't call it "Hollyweird" for nothing!) If you want a real eyeful, stick around until the sun goes down and hit a few of the clubs -- you've never seen so many self-important goofballs in your life! I personally love just wandering around, taking pictures, and enjoying the crowds of clueless tourists -- but if that's too passive for you, and you seek a few more diverting activities, here are some suggestions:

• the Walk Of Fame (this landmark runs along Hollywood from Gower to La Brea and on Vine between Yucca and Sunset, an easy 3.5-mile round-trip walk -- the first star was placed in 1960 honoring Joanne Woodward, and since then, more than 2,000 members of the entertainment industry have been memorialized in terrazzo -- if you recognize half of the names along the walk, you're doing well, as many of them are old-timey personalities or behind-the-scenes folks most people have never heard of -- traditionally, folks could receive stars for their contributions to film, television, recording, radio, or live theater, although they've also given stars to politicians, athletes, fictional characters, astronauts, and corporations -- nowadays, you must be in the industry for 5 years and willing to pay a $25,000 fee to get a star, but any other requirements are suspiciously ambiguous -- you decide for yourself, but I'm personally convinced that minor celebrities are simply "buying" their stars when I see Vanna White and Christina Aguilera included in the walk -- you can search the city's official directory to see if you favorite performer has been honored -- if not, you'll find instructions for submitting a nomination)

• Hollywood And Vine (during the golden age of  motion pictures, Hollywood and Vine became the center of the movie universe -- it was the busiest intersection in the city for filming, and home to the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, the Oscar ceremonies at the Pantages  Theater, the Brown Derby restaurant, the Walk Of Fame, Capitol Records, and  the Broadway-Hollywood department store which inspired Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" -- many 1930's radio stations broadcasted "live from Hollywood and Vine," and the area gained a reputation as a hangout for starlets and wolves -- these days, it's full of expensive lofts and  offices, there's nothing much to attract tourists except the street sign)

• the Hollywood History Museum (if you love film memorabilia the Hollywood History Museum should definitely be a stop on your list -- visit the historic Max Factor building, and you can see 4 floors worth of treasures, 35,000 square feet of history, over 10,000 individual costumes and set pieces and props from your favorite movies, up close and personal -- check out Rocky's boxing gloves, Marilyn Monroe's private beauty salon, Scarlett O'Hara's dress, Elvis Presley's favorite bathrobe, Indiana Jones's whip, Pamela Anderson's "Baywatch" swimsuit, Cary Grant's Rolls-Royce, the shark from "Jaws," and Tom Cruise's eyeballs from "Minority Report," as well as items from "The Sopranos," "Harry Potter," "Star Trek," "I Love Lucy," and more -- and if you have a dark side like me, make a beeline to the lower level , which was once was a bowling alley and speakeasy during Prohibition, and now houses "all things creepy and scary" -- but no photos!)
  

• the Wax Museums (opened in 1965, The Hollywood Wax Museum used to be the only one of its kind, dedicated entirely to celebrities -- this is no longer the case, but it's still one of the most popular tourist attractions along the boulevard -- it's cheesy, it's overpriced, and we will probably never need to go again after the one visit -- they offer a rotating collection of 180+ wax figures with a questionable resemblance to the real person -- some classics, like Marilyn, will always be there -- others come and go depending on the latest film releases -- my personal favorites are the Last Supper where Jesus sits in front of a plate of coins tossed by tourists seeking salvation, and the evolution of Arnold from Conan to Terminator to Governor ● they were also in the process of finishing up a Madame Tussauds right down from the Chinese Theater when Matt and I were in town --  Marie Tussaud was a wax sculptor who focused heavily on historical figures and politicians, starting with her first image of Voltaire in 1777 -- she was well-known for her death masks during the French Revolution and her original Chamber Of Horrors filled with famous murderers -- while this is a wax museum with much higher credentials, you really have to visit the original in London to see Marie's actual work)

• the cheesy side of touristing (if you like to go to chain attractions that can be found anywhere in the world, then you won't want to miss the Hollywood versions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not and the Guinness World Record Museum -- these also fall into the "overpriced and tacky" category, but they are actually fairly entertaining amusement options...the first time you see them -- to be fair, each Odditorium tries to offer different types of displays, and some have additional attractions like aquariums and arcades and haunted houses, but the one in Hollywood is pretty standard -- and if you've been to one Guinness museum, you've been to all of them -- still, I'm sure it's a good way to keep a pile of cranky children occupied for the afternoon)

• harassing the Scientologists (I made the mistake on our first trip to L.A. of filling out a "personality quiz" offered by a kindly-looking man in a white shirt and navy pants -- turns out he was a Scientologist, and they sent me pamphlets and other crap I didn't want in the mail for years -- I was finally able to get off of their mailing list after three moves, but I have never forgiven them for bugging me so mercilessly -- this "religion" is headquartered in Los Angeles, where they can take advantage of gullible celebrities and their bank accounts -- the entire organization is reprehensible, so I make it my mission to annoy them as much as they annoyed me -- if you have a second, stop in their Hollywood Boulevard location and fill out a questionnaire with the most psychotic responses you can think of, then give the address of someone that you really can't stand -- if you have a whole afternoon to waste, you can get into an entertaining debate with one of their members about psychiatry, whether Tom Cruise's kid is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard, and when they expect the mothership to arrive -- just don't drink the kool-aid!)
  

Eating Out

Don't waste your time on the chi-chi nouveau cuisine places at Hollywood and Highland -- it's better to go old school when eating out in Hollywood. While the famous Brown Derby  (which was NOT shaped like a hat in this location) was destroyed by a fire in 1987, Musso And Frank Grill is still going at it, the oldest still-functioning business on the boulevard. They've been serving food to celebrities and regular people alike since 1919, and it feels as though the restaurant hasn't changed since the doors opened -- lots of dark wood,  well-worn seats in the booths, the same Welsh rarebit and jellied consommé menu that chef Jean Rue created in the 20's, and the place is still run by the families of the original owners.

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Westmore Apartments is an apartment community located in Lombard , IL . The following apartment communities are located nearby: Yorktown Green Condo Association ( 1.8 miles), Versailles On The Lakes ( 1.8 miles), and Yorktown Ii Apartments ( 1.8 miles).

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Westmore Apartments is an apartment community located in Lombard , IL . The following apartment communities are located nearby: Yorktown Green Condo Association ( 1.8 miles), Versailles On The Lakes ( 1.8 miles), and Yorktown Ii Apartments ( 1.8 miles).

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