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MH2
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Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - May 31, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
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Foreshadowing.
Upcoming Yosemite TR.
If so on and so forth...
My internet-assisted guess: Erythranthe tilingii
Probably a cousin beside the trail to upper Yosemite Falls:
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 11:12am PT
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The park in which the traverse is found is a place of quiet beauty.
WARNING
SOME OF WHAT FOLLOWS MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS
CONTENT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN
My eyesight is not sharp. I noticed something unusual out in the water but it was too far off, about 400 metres, until I looked at the tele photos. It was drifting away and this image is a sequence collected over several minutes.
Maybe the root system of an old-growth stump upside down and mostly submerged?
Doesn’t account for what looks like a head on the left with a mouth that opens and closes.
Later in the sequence
I could not visualize a geometry that would shift and rotate to present those views.
What I could visualize was this:
A plesiosaur grabbed a seal and then got attacked by a shark. Pretty cool!
RETURN TO REGULAR PROGRAMMING
Adult program will resume after a short break.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 12:22pm PT
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I was told by the paddle-boarder that these are sea lions.
They yell OORT! OORT! OORT!
I never noticed them before, if they were around, but they are hard to miss.
Out of the corner of my eye:
Next day, confirmation.
Passing directly off shore from the traverse:
Sea lions in same location but different angle, doing idon’wannaknowwhut.
Whale nearing the same place:
And the answer to it all?
Small fish.
Many of them.
Maybe recovering as pollutant sources go the way of the past.
Bringing back whales, dolphins, sea lions, and eagles trying to shake down sea gulls.
And people.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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I was not aware. Being an adult is not easy.
Do not approach sea lions.
Do not feed them.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 29, 2017 - 07:04am PT
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The lure of the sea to earn a living. 18th century copper and tin mines in Cornwall. Would you dig a vertical shaft down in order to dig an adit out beneath the sea floor?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I'm damned if I can find something to climb here next summer.
Maybe I'll just go fishing.
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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I recall doing the traverse at Lighthouse (not Kmans) back in the early 90s on many a spring/summer eve to be greeted by the chuff of a sea lion surfacing below me. never seen that many though! bitd you were lucky to have one.
Let's hear it for the herring and for SES doing the herring mesh wraps of creosote pilings. As well as for the remedy of the Brittania toxic discharge and for the shutdown of Woodfibre toxic discharge. Those three things seem to be giving us the livelier Sound. Huzzah
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 6, 2017 - 04:35pm PT
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I prefer warm water, too. And dry rock.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2017 - 09:57am PT
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The Runner.
Nearby.
I ran away soon after this, but it was a sketchy retreat:
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Cool... That's no sea for old men...
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2017 - 08:31am PT
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Dick Culbert well remembered. Thanks for putting that here. The Rock itself looks ghost-like in the last shot.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2017 - 11:25am PT
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Beautiful shining colours and an arrow pointing to The Rock.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 10, 2017 - 08:35am PT
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I prefer warm water, too. And dry rock.
Gotchya covered, braj! Capri’s yer game!
The approach is sano and the apres-send ain’t bad neither!
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Oct 10, 2017 - 09:30am PT
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The original S'i'lix seems like a much better name to me from here on out than Siwash
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2017 - 07:52pm PT
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Perfect time, Greg.
We may live to see the park re-named.
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Hoser
climber
Vancouver,Rome
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IF you climb ice on the west coast you may recognize this Brit - always taking the cover shot.
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couchmaster
climber
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Stand back folks, professional writer at work. Let her work...!!! LOL. Classic Tami, I had to read it twice and I'm still laughing - so funny. Tami noted: "I've spent enough time by the sea to know that barnacles don't have to run around like raccoons on a double espresso to cause you real damage..."
So true. side note, has anyone eaten the barnacles they cook up in Spain? Suppose to be awesome.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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More often than knott if there are barnies there are mussels. Case closed.
Then there was the time we were kayaking up the west coast of Vancouver Island, merrily eating mussels and cockles all the day long.
Then we pulled into some bucolic vestige of civilisation and saw the DANGER - RED TIDE! posters. Oops! Luckily, they were crankloons.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 6, 2017 - 12:21pm PT
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has anyone eaten the barnacles they cook up in Spain?
No.
But I did take a course from a neurophysiologist at the University of Chicago.
There were only 3 of us in the course. Our friend from Japan once amused us by calling our professor Spiro-u-op-or-us.
Constantine S. Spyropoulus liked to study axons from lobster. He did not like to eat lobster but he generously gave the non-axon parts to other staff.
We 3 thrown-together students of a clearly eccentric, or off-the-rails teacher were told we were going to be putting our micro-electrodes into the vital parts of giant barnacles, once the barnacle got delivered to Chicago.
The 3 of us were joking about various things one day, probably the day our Japanese colleague showed his understanding of our understanding by launching his non-Western pronunciation and immediately laughing, allowing the other 2 of us to laugh also, and then 3rd of us (not me and from a place stranger to me than Japan) memorably called our briefly shared experience, Waiting for Barnacle.
It's odd what we remember. Thanks to the age we live in, I found a bit of corroborating evidence that my story might be true:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/03009738009179192
edit:
The barnacles never came.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2017 - 08:40am PT
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Thanks, John Okner!
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