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Post by Balfour on Jun 2, 2009 9:32:15 GMT -8
Excellent shots Fluge!
It's amazing what that Canon SX 10 can do!
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 2, 2009 9:49:39 GMT -8
Excellent shots Fluge! It's amazing what that Canon SX 10 can do! Amazing, yes. I'm really happy with the camera, and am still learning lots about to use it, and how to mess things up. Now I'm slowly building a collection of photos, which means that I'll be able to offer better nominations for the various flagships. I also really enjoy the editing and cropping, to see what things I've captured in my images. You never know what unexpected details are lurking in the backgrounds of the photos that you shoot....
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Post by johnnytindale on Jun 2, 2009 17:28:50 GMT -8
I've always been curious as to how exactly "the line" is formed as shown in Flugel's pics....I guess it's to do with the tides??
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 3, 2009 6:44:03 GMT -8
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jun 3, 2009 7:13:34 GMT -8
We always think of the ocean as one big lump of homogenious water. There are all sorts of defined layers that almost act like solid barriers. Temperature, salinity, current direction, tides and even amounts of plant matter/dirt, effect how water mixes. After a hard rain the fresh water flowing into the ocean is often loaded with silt that further changes the dynamics. Submarines that want to stay covert take advantage of this all the time. Hiding below or above the line where two waters of different temperature meet helps provide a sound barrier that bounces sound backward. There was a great display at the maritime museum, Nauticus in Norfolk, Virginia that explained all the various behaviour of water in great detail.
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Post by DENelson83 on Jun 3, 2009 8:12:26 GMT -8
Hiding below or above the line where two waters of different temperature meet helps provide a sound barrier that bounces sound backward. You describe what is known as a "thermocline."
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Post by D'Elete BC in NJ on Jun 3, 2009 8:48:31 GMT -8
Hiding below or above the line where two waters of different temperature meet helps provide a sound barrier that bounces sound backward. You describe what is known as a "thermocline." Careful...when NE sees technical terms, he starts hearing beeping and smoke comes out of his ears... ;D
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Post by Northern Exploration on Jun 3, 2009 10:24:11 GMT -8
I wasn't implying Flugel was wrong, simply that people often don't think of the differences in bodies of waters. BCinNJ better than smoke out of....
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Post by DENelson83 on Jun 3, 2009 17:46:32 GMT -8
Flugel caught the coho on this one.. Oh, he went to Port Angeles? ;D
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Post by WettCoast on Jun 3, 2009 18:23:15 GMT -8
The line in the water of course marks the boundary between the 'plume' of dirty brown Fraser River fresh water and the clearer salt water that is the norm in Georgia Strait. ( Here is a photo that vividly shows the Fraser's plume into Georgia St.). The Fraser's plume of course grows much larger at this time of year due to the heavy discharge caused by melting snow in the high country throughout the river's water shed. At this time of year the river's discharge is not only much greater in volume, but it also carries a much greater silt load, and hence the extended and deeper colouration of the waters of Georgia Strait. The river's silt is slowly but surely filling in Georgia Strait. At some distant date Galiano Island will be connected to the mainland with a plain of silt. The bluff at Tsawwassen used to be a Gulf Island a few thousand years ago. That silt is also one of the principal reasons why a bridge across this part of Georgia Strait is all but impossible. Putting bridge footings into the sea bottom that is hundreds of feet thick in Fraser muck is the issue. A personal recollection re the line in the water from back in the 1970's: I was on a Tsawwassen bound un-lifted 'V' which had just exited Active Pass. It was about this time of the year. A crew member was tightening up the anchor chains, a practise which continued on the V's until a few months ago. I was watching, and so was a young female tourist, who by her accent, sounded to be from the US of A. She asked the crew member re "What was the line in the water"? He replied 'We have just entered US waters, ma'am." I laughed. It is, of course, not far out from Active Pass that you do cross into US waters. The line in the water is, however, very much a made in Canada thing. The crew members remark might not be considered as 'appropriate' nowadays. It reminds me of how a one time employee of the Chateau Lake Louise lost his job. When a tourist asked how the lake got its astonishing turquoise colour, he replied that the CPR had the lake drained each spring so that the bottom could be painted. When management heard about this the offending employee was dismissed.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 4, 2009 6:03:13 GMT -8
Flugel caught the coho on this one.. Oh, he went to Port Angeles? ;D That's a good one. I was going to watch the Port Angeles Kings play the Astoria Ducks in an NHL game.
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Post by FNS on Jun 4, 2009 6:49:29 GMT -8
Oh, he went to Port Angeles? ;D That's a good one. I was going to watch the Port Angeles Kings play the Astoria Ducks in an NHL game. Great idea, Mr. Musical Moderator! On the other hand, I should be thinking about taking a trip to Yoho National Park and see the park Rangers try to impeach the Senators of the east!! ;D Classic newspaper sports headline: "Senators Impeached" ;D ;D
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Post by Curtis on Jun 9, 2009 17:45:17 GMT -8
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Post by fargowolf on Jun 10, 2009 18:28:40 GMT -8
Ganked this of the internet quite a while ago. The Kwuna was loading at Skidegate, but SOMEONE failed to read the tide table. Part way through loading, the tide went out. Oops. Glad I wasn't the one having to fill out the Incident Report. Ferry Fail:
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Post by FNS on Jun 10, 2009 18:46:01 GMT -8
Ganked this of the internet quite a while ago. The Kwuna was loading at Skidegate, but SOMEONE failed to read the tide table. Part way through loading, the tide went out. Oops. Glad I wasn't the one having to fill out the Incident Report. Ferry Fail: Now, that's one beached girl!Anyone remember 1979? After a ferocious February windstorm sank the western half of the Hood Canal Bridge, WSF initially ran passenger service on the Lofall-South Point run and the Edmonds-Port Townsend vehicle service. For commercial traffic, WSF ran an orange colored self-propelled barge named BEACH GIRL. I just wonder how many times they misread the tide tables on that one?! ;D The lovely BEACH GIRL. www.marcon.com/marcon2c.cfm?SectionListsID=31&PageID=1409www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/SR104HoodCanalBridgeEast/rststories.htm
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Post by Curtis on Jun 12, 2009 23:03:09 GMT -8
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Post by Mike C on Jun 13, 2009 11:00:33 GMT -8
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Jun 15, 2009 15:06:42 GMT -8
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Jun 15, 2009 16:50:16 GMT -8
Take a ride on a Coastal Class elevator accessing decks 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 (audio + pictures).
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 15, 2009 16:53:58 GMT -8
Similar to 2 weeks ago, I took a Route-30 trip yesterday. Except this time I concentrated my photography on the westward-view of Georgia Strait: Islands off of the South-East end of Gabriola: ------------ Forest cuts on Valdes Island, with some Mt. Maxwell fire haze: -------------- Hey, what's that marker doing in the middle of the Ocean. Must be a rock underneath (Chris told me about this one, off of Gabriola pass: ---------------- Sitting on a life-jacket locker on the outside of Deck-5 on the C'Inspy: what a view! ----------------- A windy sailing on Deck-7. Note the raised-railing that bisScottie told us about earlier.... ---------------------- At Tsawwassen. Picture taken from favourite vantage-point: the Berth-5 lounge patio. ------------------- I like this view of the departing 'Nanaimo. I like how there appears to be a horizontal-curve along the side of her hull along the blue-stripe. ----------- Mount Maxwell or Erskine (they look the same to me) on SSI, in the background: -------------------- Sunset as seen through the Q-Alberni's Deck-2 hatch. ---------- C'Inspy in the sunset haze: ---------------- On an evening Route-30 sailing just near the summer-solstice, the sun sets right into the strait: -----------
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Post by Canucks on Jun 15, 2009 20:25:47 GMT -8
The coastal elevators seem to have a bit of a speech impediment, especially on the vehicle decks.
Nice pictures of the Nanny Flugel, the one form the back shows some neat curves.
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Post by Kahloke on Jun 15, 2009 21:32:27 GMT -8
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Post by Quatchi on Jun 16, 2009 20:21:28 GMT -8
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Post by Neil on Jun 18, 2009 21:22:18 GMT -8
Okay, here they are... the long awaited first photos of the mighty Kahloke, back after her lengthy stint at the fleet surgeon's. Actually, I'm just posting these two shots to show that, from the travelling public's point of view, nothing has changed, other than a fresh paint job and the car deck receiving a light grey coating, which is already cracking in places, after less than two months in service. Why do they bother? I guess all the money was spent on boring stuff like engineering and keeping the old scow afloat for another twenty years or so. No improvements to the cafeteria, gift shop, or that annoying kid's play area near the bow windows. I think they washed the floor in the lounges, though.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jun 18, 2009 21:27:52 GMT -8
Neil: are those wooden chairs / bench in the left foreground of your picture? They look like something you'd see in a park. And it's good to know that there was a porta-john on the ferry, even if it was mounted on a truck. Thanks for living the Kahloke for all of us. ;D
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