Pictures from outdoor exercise.
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Wow! That is amazing country. Where is this?0
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Very nice 8 mile hike in the sunshine. Mid 80’s here today. This is the Cape Split Trail, one of the best hikes in Nova Scotia. Fantastic views off the headland at the trails end. If you ever get to Nova Scotia, this is a bucket list hike. Contact me, I’ll go with you.5 -
So much awesome!!
If you had an extra fifteen minutes, you could amuse yourself with the video I put together from or trip
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Great video! I subscribed. Love the blues soundtrack. There’s some serious paddling skills in your group. Looks like a fantastic trip. I make ocean going kayaks, www.farback.ca, I’d like to get myself a white water play boat. Looks like a lot of fun.
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If you had an extra fifteen minutes, you could amuse yourself with the video I put together from or trip
Mark
Great video! I subscribed. Love the blues soundtrack. There’s some serious paddling skills in your group. Looks like a fantastic trip. I make ocean going kayaks, www.farback.ca, I’d like to get myself a white water play boat. Looks like a lot of fun.
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I attempted to fix the URL in THIS post so the link above points to the video; I actually took the original down, and the revised one lives at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veWnsASyADM.
It was a GREAT group even though just four of us. I kayak, too. I have a couple sea kayaks, but they don't get much use. One is a Pygmy Arctic Tern 14 that I built from a kit. I have a couple whitewater canoes, and I like getting them out. I also have a few whitewater kayaks, but not as many as I used to. Lately I've really enjoyed rowing the 15-foot raft. So comfy, and I can carry gear for multi-day trips. That second video of Bob surfing is at the Solitude wave; it's a great surf wave. It made me kind of wish I was in a kayak. Bob is one of the few people I know, maybe the only one, who likes kayak surfing more than I do.
I love rivers!
I visited your web page after you posted some pictures of your boat(s) that had some really nice inlay work if I recall.
This image is from a trip earlier in the month. Same river!
We get to go back again in October for a PUMPKIN RUN just like last year.
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I did a raft trip on the Nantahalla river in Tennessee once while in SC for a few weeks on a project (former Michelin guy). Loads of fun.0
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Just back from a five-day SCUBA trip to the California Channel Islands. We typically did four dives per day, plus a night dive some nights. I skipped the night dives in favor of happy hour. We only could fit in three dives the last day and still get back to port on time. That's better than some years when we only get two dives in on day five. Food was excellent, and I ate a lot of it. I didn't gain an ounce.
Species I saw included:
Garibaldi, Kelp Bass (Calico), Giant Kelp, Oar Weed, Island Kelpfish, Giant Kelpfish, Strawberry anemone, California bat ray, Sheephead, Blacksmith, Senorita, Blackeye Goby, Blueband Goby, Zebra Goby, Rock Wrasse, California Sea Cucumber, Wavy Turbin Snail, Chestnut Cowry, Gorgonians of several species, Purple urchins, brown urchins, Black perch, Shiner surfperch, Treefish, Octopus, Moray eel, Rock Scallop, California Scorpionfish, Rainbow Scorpionfish, Red Sea Hare, Black Sea Hare, Ocean Whitefish, Orange puffball, Bat Star, Soupfin Shark (a.k.a. Tope shark), Spanish Shawl, purple hydrocoral, spiny lobster, painted greenling, Leopard Dorid, Northern Abalone, Cabazon, Red Irish Lord, Blue Rockfish, Brown Rockfish, barracuda, Spot prawn, speckled sand dab, Giant Black Sea Bass, California Sea Lion, and Harbor seal. Well, and plenty of other species I couldn't identify 100%. We spooked up a halibut while navigating over sand in pretty low visibility, but didn't get a 100% look at it. The captain shot a yellowtail, and he gave up a loin for hamachi sashimi for an afternoon snack. He also shot a halibut. The galley crew made goyotaku from each of them before they filleted them. Onboard the boat, we also saw numerous birds, pods of dolphins, and a Mola Mola. I'll be making a video of the trip at some point, but most of my underwater images weren't so good. Some of the images below are from a previous trip.
I am already looking forward to next year's trip!
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Soundsa. like a great trip.0
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Sounds like a great trip. I can’t wait to get on some Jamaican reefs again. I did a snorkel dive here last week in my 2mm suit, and froze.1
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Preliminary plans for a dive trip to Caymen Brac sometime this winter. [crosses fingers]
Still need a checkout dive in local water to get my new dive computer wet.0 -
I've never done ANY tropical diving. This last trip was pretty warm though -- it was as high as 72 on the surface in the southern islands. At depth it was 58 - 64 in general. I was comfy cozy! I didn't even wear a hood on San Clemente or Catalina. Up here in Oregon we get low 50s or high 40s. That's also about what we have in the aquarium at Newport where I'm a volunteer diver. Having sixty degree (or warmer) water was really nice.
Between a less buoyant drysuit and losing about 24 pounds, I was able to take six pounds of lead off my kit. Last time I was on the boat, I was diving with about 22 pounds. I tried that on the first dive, and was way overweighted. Next dive I took off four pounds, and the next dive I took off two more. I can hardly believe I am down to a ten pound belt and six pounds of releasable weight. Nice!
I was pleased my navigation skills are still adequate. We had one low viz dive over featureless sand. It was a short dive, but I got us right back to the swim step on the back of the boat. Others were surfacing far from the boat.
I actually haven't done any ~real~ diving (outside a box of water in the aquarium) in a couple years. Yeah. I know. I'm motivated to get back in the water locally. There's a number of nice friendly tides coming up in the next couple months (exchanges less than about five feet with slack tide during the daylight hours). I plan to get out and revisit some sites and explore some more that have been on my list. And I hear that the crabs are getting full, so maybe I'll go chase some of those around and have some delicious dungies to give away soon.
I'll post a link to my trip video when I get done with it.
The galley crew made goyotaku with the yellowtail and the halibut. Fun!
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The video from our dive trip is now available.1
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We went out for a little paddle today. I forgot it was Paddle Oregon. It was kind of fun to run into people I knew paddling by. We went slow. Pulled out to fish. Had a beer. Let them go by. Said hi to old friends drifting by. Did catch one nice smallmouth that did NOT want to come visit me on the surface. I eventually convinced her otherwise so I could unhook her.
After things quieted down, we came across a couple birds having brunch. Pretty cool.
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I was a little surprised that the Parks department didn't cancel our Ultimate game last night due to unhealthy air. At least the smoke helped keep the temperature down a bit.
We're the yellow team. They call us Lemon Jello. Watch us wiggle. See us jiggle. Half of our team is over 50!
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I was a little surprised that the Parks department didn't cancel our Ultimate game last night due to unhealthy air. At least the smoke helped keep the temperature down a bit.
We're the yellow team. They call us Lemon Jello. Watch us wiggle. See us jiggle. Half of our team is over 50!
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Off to Kejimkujic National Park in the morning for a few days of hiking in the back country. I had planned to to do the 30 mile circumnavigation over four nights, starting yesterday, but thunderstorms and rain changed those plans. I’ll stay two nights at site 44, 14 km in from the trailhead on my revised plan. Might get a bit wet on the way in and out, but Friday looks like 100% sunshine for my stay day. I need to be out Saturday since it’s our 40th anniversary, and whatshername expects to see me.4
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Had a great trip. 9 mile hike in and out with a 48 (45 on the way out minus food, fuel and scotch) pound pack. A couple miles exploring on my stay day. Heavy rain forecast for today, so up at 6 am, moving by 7. Rained during the last mile out, but i was wet from sweat anyway, so didnt bother with raingear. A bit moredemanding at62 than it was ar 22, but still within this geezer’s reach. Dropped 5 pounds in the process.
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Went through this thread the other day and love all your pictures. I'm on S Ohio right now and there are some really pretty parks here when you get deep inside them. Wish I had more local pics from when I used to do trail running (my body didn't hold up to continue that!).
We're moving to Green Valley next year (S of Tucson) near Mt Wrightson, the largest mountain in AZ. We'll be right next to Madeira Canyon and a national park. I hope to have many more pics then to share. Can't wait to get out of all this rain!!
Really impressive woodworking skills Farback! I hope to get into some woodworking myself in the future. We're moving to a 55 and over active adult community with access to a fantastic woodshop. That's the one hobby I have a strong interest in. My Dad did a ton of woodworking over the years when I was a kid.0 -
Thanks very much Mike. Once my looks started to go I had to get good at something.0
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A couple pictures from yesterday’s walk. Canada geese in the river and some hay harvest symmetry.
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The sun is rising later every day on my bike commute to work.
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Little schrooms in a hollow log on the trail behind my house.0
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I went out looking for lobster mushrooms last weekend. The only thing fruiting in the woods I was in was blackberries. We just got an inch of rain the last couple days, so maybe I should head back out. Chanterelles are just a few more rainstorms away!
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I wish I'd had a camera during today's outdoor exercise.
We were sculling a double shell in a heavy fog, with a thick coating of bright-green duckweed on the dead-calm river. So quiet! Behind us, we left something that looked like an alligator track, where the duckweed was displaced: There was a central slither-mark, and "footprints" at each point where the oarblades had dipped in/out of the water.
Magically surreal morning.
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I wish I'd had a camera during today's outdoor exercise.
We were sculling a double shell in a heavy fog, with a thick coating of bright-green duckweed on the dead-calm river. So quiet! Behind us, we left something that looked like an alligator track, where the duckweed was displaced: There was a central slither-mark, and "footprints" at each point where the oarblades had dipped in/out of the water.
Magically surreal morning.
I love being on the water in the morning. Still water, sounds carry forever.3
