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A view looking SW from Mt. Alyeska across the Turnagain Arm at low tide toward the Kenai mountains.
"Turnagain Arm was named by William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame. Bligh served as Cook's Sailing Master on his 3rd and final voyage, the aim of which was discovery of the Northwest Passage. Upon reaching the head of Cook Inlet, Bligh was of the opinion that both Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm were the mouths of rivers and not the opening to the Northwest Passage. Under Cook's orders Bligh organized a party to travel up Knik Arm, which quickly returned to report Knik Arm indeed led only to a river.
Afterwards a second party was dispatched up Turnagain Arm and it too returned to report only a river lay ahead. As a result of this frustration the second body of water was given the disingenuous name "Turn Again".
Wikipedia
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Trying to make the most of an overcast cloudy day, A visit to Herne Bay to try and find some colour!
Mt. Shuksan and Shuksan Arm. (The most photographed mountain in the US). Near Mt. Baker Ski Resort, in Glacier, WA.
While visiting the sunshine coast we ventured to the Laughing Oyster Restaurant just outside Okeover Provincial Park for dinner. We walked down to the wharf to capture this view looking north up the arm.
Taken in Hillock Wood, Buckinghamshire, before the storms we had earlier, this tree with arm aloft stands among the wreckage of some of its neighbours. Having briefly visited the site after the storms I was expecting carnage, but all seemed to have survived, ready for me to explore more when the mist returns.
Stadersand near hamburg
2022.05.12
AIS Name EVER ARM
Type Container ship
Flag of Taiwan
IMO 9893931
MMSI 416070000
Callsign BHJG
Year Built 2022
Length 400 m
Width 62 m
Draught Avg 12.6 m / ...
Speed Avg/Max / 21.5 kn
Deadweight 241960 tons
Gross Tonnage 235579
AIS Class A
Container Capacity
23992 TEU
Just a simple tourist type Snapograph taken at Dover Kent UK of the Harbour Arm walkway near the Eastern Docks.
X-H1, 10-14mm Lens, 1/640th @ F5.6, ISO-200, Handheld.
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With a train of stone loads from Plum Run, CCET rolls west past an N&W doll arm intermediate just east of Peebles. This was something I didn't know even existed until recently, and I can't think of anywhere else something like it is still standing. It also seems that someone came back here to clean up the brush recently, opening up what I can only imagine was an overgrown mess. I'm glad to reap the fruits of their labor, and it was a treat to be able to shoot such a unique scene.
Es war Winter, und es war kalt. Schnee war viel zu wenig. Dennoch freuten sich Kinder und auch große Kinder. Sie bauten einen Schneemann - mit dem was da war. Der Schneemann stand, er hielt dem Wetter stand, er hielt dem sich ankündigenten Frühling noch lange stand - bis er letztendlich doch verschwand. Was blieb, das diente Vögeln zum Nestbau. Nun ist nichts mehr schmutzig und grau. Die Wiesen grünen, Blumen blühen, und oft ist auch der Himmel blau. So ist der Gang der Dinge.
It was winter, and it was cold. Snow was too little. Nevertheless, children and big children were happy. They built a snowman - with what was there. The snowman stood, he withstood the weather, he withstood the approaching spring for a long time - until he finally disappeared. What remained was what birds used to build nests. Now nothing is dirty and gray. The meadows are green, flowers are blooming, and often the sky is blue. Such is the way of things.
We went looking for Dall Sheep and found some along the Seward Highway. It was late in the day sun-wise (but only 4 PM) and the tide was rushing in so I took this shot looking down the Seward Highway towards the end of Turnagain Arm, well past the peninsula of land jutting out from the left and extending far to the right in the image. The tidal variance on the Turnagain Arm is quite spectacular, similar to the Bay of Fundy on the East coast of Canada. Here it's beginning to cover the wet glacial till, a flour-like mixture, which has been deadly to those who wade out and get stuck in it.
Taken 15 November 2020 on the Seward Highway, outside Anchorage, Alaska.
Today I was super lucky to see an ABA Code 4 Fieldfare! The bird was first found and stunningly photographed by Roger Beardmore and his wife Nan and their friends Peter and Sharon Lawless. It is the second record for the province of BC.
It took just shy of 5 hours to get there and it was a lovely drive.One of my fave twitches as it is a bird I have always wanted to see in BC. It was a lifer for me! ABA bird # 696 and BC Bird # 425. Many Birders from the Pacific Coast will twitch this bird and especially BC listers because the last record was a one day single observer sighting from 2003 by my friend Larry Cowan.
I was really struck by the elegant beauty of this bird.
Good luck to all who twitch this bird go ASAP because all the berries on the bushes are being heavily eaten by a large flock of Bohemian Waxwings and some Robins he's loosely hanging with.
Newhaven Harbour, East Sussex. Waves from the open sea on the other side crash over the harbour arm during a storm.
At low tide, the shallow sea is almost empty. A water roller rolls at 20 to 25 km / hour into the silt at high tide. The silt is very dangerous because of drifting sand. In this bay Captain Cook had to turn back in his quest for the northwest passage. The bay got the name Turnagain Arm.
"knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison
Located about 45 miles south of Juneau, Alaska, Tracy Arm ends with the impressive North Sawyer Glacier
Steaming Malla fells in the background. In fact, they are in the clouds, The photo was taken from the Saana slope towards Malla National Park in Kilpisjärvi, Lapland (DSC01653-2).
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Near Sawyer Glacier, in Tracy Arm Fjord, we saw a bunch of seals riding on the ice floes.
Alaska
Notkalvin Photography
Alaska Railroad Train 120S bound for the barge in Whittier is seen hustling along the Turnagain Arm just south of Beluga Point behind a trio of the railroad's geeps. With two of the three remaining as delivered black geeps in this consist, this made for a memorable chase from Potter Marsh down to Portage.