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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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richross, I think A Dare has gone back on my do-list for summer. Been a long time since I climbed it.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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MH2, as for jellyfish, including giant poisonous ones so numerous they kill all the fish
and smother the beach ... I heard a lot about them last fall at a meeting of the North Pacific
Marine Science Organization. One phrase that stuck in my mind:
"The current era of jellyfish ascendancy"
No one mentioned Jackson's "Brave New Ocean" thesis, but in data-rich paper after paper,
there it was.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Here's my best jellyfish, but it's not having a good day.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there ... wow, lots of neat stuff going on over here.... will take me awhile to soak it all in...
great share, chiloe and guys thanks...
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 3, 2009 - 11:35pm PT
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That is one evil-looking jellyfish.
Although shucking golf balls into the marine ecosystem may be disquieting,
let's not make the golfer our poster-girl enemy, lest we lose the fight.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Naw, nothing against her. Just reminded me that the oceans are where it all goes.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2009 - 04:29am PT
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Gulls are marvels of the seaside.
Anything that would eat a starfish raw would have to be.
Where seabirds like to park on the traverse. And egest bits of starfish. Don’t step on those.
My only sea otter picture. Taken with the more expendable camera, as in the birdlime example above.
I got into what, if it were in Britain and a whole lot bigger, would be a zawn.
There was something sinister-looking below the tide line but it wasn’t hostile.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Let's sea...
Norwegian Sea:
Labrador Sea:
Yellow Sea:
Anybody got some more?
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2009 - 05:52pm PT
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Good stuff.
Today those pictures happen to recall what I felt like as an 8-year old heading out the door in the early morning.
To look beyond the houses.
To find ponds, turtles, snakes, or a new mystery like the clear-wing moth.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Distant mountains of North Africa, brooding on the horizon at sunset, across the Mediterranean Sea.
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perswig
climber
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Posted on another thread, but more appropo here, maybe...
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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^^^ The Gulf of Maine, I'll wager.
And the Chukchi Sea:
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Just down the coast from MH2's favorite traverse
And then this is quite a bit the other way, towards Squamish
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Seal Cove in that last shot, right? I think I've actuall seen seals there almost every visit. Beautiful spot at day's end.
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2009 - 10:28pm PT
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Beautiful spot at day's end.
My thanks to all who have made such far-ranging and often spectacular contributions to this small corner of the Taco.
I sometimes worry whether I may have devoted too much attention to a piece of rock only 25 feet long.
It does however, when all is said and done, at the end of the day, offer a good view over the water.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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My thanks to all who have made such far-ranging and often spectacular contributions to
this small corner of the Taco.
Well we need threads now and then that range far from California granite. Some of us, anyhow.
From cold Greenland Sea waters,
to the warm Adriatic,
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MH2
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2009 - 03:09pm PT
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Ah for a dry climate and a dark blue sea. What are those inclusions in the Adriatic?
From the other hemisphere
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Ah for a dry climate and a dark blue sea. What are those inclusions in the Adriatic?
Mariculture. They're raising mussels, I think, on long ropes descending from floating barrels.
As seem in the vicinity of Mali Ston, Croatia.
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perswig
climber
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I was picturing a 'hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore' ala the Police. Whole lotta angst in the world, you know...
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