The haze from all that has made its way into Texas today.
Thunderbird
August 21, 2018 10:13 am
Crimson Avenger – Have you ever been in Micronesia? In my younger years I have sailed through all the oceans including the Arctic; and many seas, and I find the Pacific the most exciting. Diving in Micronesia is an exciting adventure with coral reefs, WW2 ships, fish all in 400 feet clear visibility. Can’t find that anywhere else.
But each for their own sentimental reasons find beauty through the lens of our own imagination.
The Atlantic; especially the North Atlantic, I find dark and threatening with it’s mysterious rouge waves that one has to continuously look out for when one is crossing in the dead of winter.
I take it you like the cold dark waters of the Atlantic rather than the blue warm waters of the Pacific. I respect your choice.
Sorry, I was just trying to be a jackass (and, I thought, succeeding wildly). I got no beef with the other oceans, just used to spending most of my summer vacations on the Carolina shores.
goofyfoot
August 21, 2018 11:15 am
Lake Atlantic. It’s what us winter Joisey surfers call it during summer. Cool photography, enjoy the peace from work.
Wish we could see skies…..or even clouds. If I increase my salt intake all the smoke in the air will cure me like a piece of jerky. Sunday was the worst. I thought a local fire had broken out because there were thick clouds wafting between trees and buildings. Turns out that smoke was temporarily blown in from Canada. Looked like a huge fog bank had rolled in. The Sun was literally a pale red-orange orb wandering across the sky all day. You could comfortably look at it as long as you wanted until an hour before sunset when the smoke got so thick you couldn’t even see that!
Today is better, wind out of the west now but the sky and air is still white in every direction you look. A few weeks ago I came home from work at 3am and in the dark I could see a layer of ash was deposited on everything. I thought there was a fire in canyon just south of my home so I dove over to take a look. Nope. The ash had blown in from a fire about 100 miles away at Priest Rapids dam where I was salmon fishing last fall.
“If I increase my salt intake all the smoke in the air will cure me like a piece of jerky”
LOL. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read today.
Apparently, there are over 550 fires burning in BC alone (Never mind Alberta). The forests here are old and dry – the pine beetle saw to that. The flip side is the hunting will be incredible in this province in about 3 to 5 years once it starts to regenerate. So there’s that.
Ah……….the old pine beetle. Not long after I moved to Spokanistan I had an opportunity to tag along during the launch and recovery of one of NASA’s U2 spyplanes converted for high altitude research. This particular flight was contracted by the Canadian govt. and launched out of Fairchild AFB to study the bark beetle devastation. Pretty cool to think that wave lengths of light allow them to study things as small as bark beetles from the edge of space and now I help to build the sensors for that kind of work.
Besides the improved hunting a few years down the road, don’t forget that this years burned out areas will produce next years bumper crop of wild mushrooms.
Oddly I haven’t been doing as much wheezing as I expected. I have mild asthma and it usually does fuck with me during smoke season but since the chemtrails stopped this year, my asthma is almost non-existent.
When you are landlocked like I am photos are much appreciated. ?
The Atlantic Ocean is the best ocean. The Pacific can suck it.
Nice photos Avalon. You’re a natural.
Nice. Wish I could send similar photos of the west coast but the smoke from forest fires burning in the province is so thick we can’t see the sky.
Good times.
The haze from all that has made its way into Texas today.
Crimson Avenger – Have you ever been in Micronesia? In my younger years I have sailed through all the oceans including the Arctic; and many seas, and I find the Pacific the most exciting. Diving in Micronesia is an exciting adventure with coral reefs, WW2 ships, fish all in 400 feet clear visibility. Can’t find that anywhere else.
But each for their own sentimental reasons find beauty through the lens of our own imagination.
The Atlantic; especially the North Atlantic, I find dark and threatening with it’s mysterious rouge waves that one has to continuously look out for when one is crossing in the dead of winter.
I take it you like the cold dark waters of the Atlantic rather than the blue warm waters of the Pacific. I respect your choice.
Sorry, I was just trying to be a jackass (and, I thought, succeeding wildly). I got no beef with the other oceans, just used to spending most of my summer vacations on the Carolina shores.
Lake Atlantic. It’s what us winter Joisey surfers call it during summer. Cool photography, enjoy the peace from work.
Off topic.
Travesty!
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/silent-sam-confederate-monument-unc-chapel-hill/568006/
Wish we could see skies…..or even clouds. If I increase my salt intake all the smoke in the air will cure me like a piece of jerky. Sunday was the worst. I thought a local fire had broken out because there were thick clouds wafting between trees and buildings. Turns out that smoke was temporarily blown in from Canada. Looked like a huge fog bank had rolled in. The Sun was literally a pale red-orange orb wandering across the sky all day. You could comfortably look at it as long as you wanted until an hour before sunset when the smoke got so thick you couldn’t even see that!
Today is better, wind out of the west now but the sky and air is still white in every direction you look. A few weeks ago I came home from work at 3am and in the dark I could see a layer of ash was deposited on everything. I thought there was a fire in canyon just south of my home so I dove over to take a look. Nope. The ash had blown in from a fire about 100 miles away at Priest Rapids dam where I was salmon fishing last fall.
At least the kneegrow population is low!
“If I increase my salt intake all the smoke in the air will cure me like a piece of jerky”
LOL. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read today.
Apparently, there are over 550 fires burning in BC alone (Never mind Alberta). The forests here are old and dry – the pine beetle saw to that. The flip side is the hunting will be incredible in this province in about 3 to 5 years once it starts to regenerate. So there’s that.
In the meantime… cough, cough, cough, wheez!
Ah……….the old pine beetle. Not long after I moved to Spokanistan I had an opportunity to tag along during the launch and recovery of one of NASA’s U2 spyplanes converted for high altitude research. This particular flight was contracted by the Canadian govt. and launched out of Fairchild AFB to study the bark beetle devastation. Pretty cool to think that wave lengths of light allow them to study things as small as bark beetles from the edge of space and now I help to build the sensors for that kind of work.
Besides the improved hunting a few years down the road, don’t forget that this years burned out areas will produce next years bumper crop of wild mushrooms.
Oddly I haven’t been doing as much wheezing as I expected. I have mild asthma and it usually does fuck with me during smoke season but since the chemtrails stopped this year, my asthma is almost non-existent.