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Wordpress' rivereagle has this story about the airstrip that was on Botany Bay Heritage Preserve (then called Greenway Plantation) in 1948:
"It has been said that, “A Lycoming radial engine ran as smooth as sipping whiskey, and sounded . . . . .well, there is no sound on earth like a round engine, up close and far away. Especially far away, when you are on the ground and the sound comes from the sky, a deep low hum. No matter where I am or what I’m doing, when I hear that radial engine sound, I freeze and search the sky. If I’m lucky, I spot the airplane moving sedately against a blue or cloudy sky, singing of flight. Even when she disappears, I close my eyes and listen to the throb of that engine. Sometimes I can feel it even after it has completely faded from view.”. So it was on that late August morning in 1948 that I began my romance with the land that is now called Botany Bay Plantation. As my cousins and I splashed in the surf of Edisto Beach, near the newly built palmetto log groin, a low rumble came along the coast from the north. A bright shining Stearman bi-plane came just overhead and the pilot’s wave from the open cockpit made us feel a huge connection with the mysterious world of flight. Who was this genial pilot and where did he come from? The answer to these questions came from the fount of Edisto knowledge, Marion H. Whaley Sr., who along with his wife Becky, operated a tin shed “store” inappropriately named “South Point Services” at the site of what is now Bay Creek Park. Marion informed us that the pilot was Dr. Greenway’s son, John Cowan Greenway Jr., who kept his plane at a private air strip on Indian Point on what was then know as Greenway Plantation.
After a bit of prodding, my father agreed to drive us out to the plantation to see the plane close up. The basic trip was a familiar one since Wilkinson’s Landing and Frampton Inlet were my Dad’s favorite fishing spot in those early years. An unfamiliar left turn at the end of the county road took us through a white board fence and gate and down the lane toward Indian Point. The woods on either side, through what was originally Sharegold Plantation, were much as they remain today, but leaving them, the land was completely open with the exception of the acreage immediately surrounding Dr. Greenway’s house, which had been built in 1940. The airstrip ran along the left of Indian Point and a small hanger was just beyond a farm gate.
James Greenway Jr. was a quiet, but pleasant, gentleman who allows us to take turns sitting in the cockpit and taking photos. My Mother asked if it would be possible for us to visit Botany Bay Beach and he readily agreed. The only stipulation was that we should record our visit in the guest register that Dr. Greenway maintained on the beach. The drive over to the beach was far different then as there were two arched white bridges that crossed the creeks. The first located at the site of the current bridge and a second that was about fifty yards south of Pockoy Island(both bridges were destroyed by Hurricane Gracie in 1959). In 1948 the road to the beach continued almost a half mile past Pockoy and the “bone-yard” of trees on the beach was a residual of what had been Botany Bay Island. The great hurricane of 1893 had taken much of the island and the hurricane of 1940 had taken the old Townsend cottages and the last of the big woods. At the end of the beach road was an oyster shell parking lot that would hold a dozen or more vehicles and a large wooded box that contained the guest register with columns for names, addresses, and comments on what fish you had caught and shells you had found."
An hour after I'd landed on the long haul back from LHR, here I am standing (jet-lagged) on the other side of the planet, at the edge of Botany Bay. It's 2 days after the shortest day of the year (June 21st) and it's a perfect early winter's day in Sydney. The city centre can be seen on the skyline slightly left of centre, with the tower blocks of Bondi Junction right of centre and you can just make out a 747 taxiing for take off at Sydney airport on the foreshore below.
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Description des plantes nouvelles et peu connues :.
A Paris :De l'imprimerie de Crapelet,an 8, [i.e. 1799 or 1800].
Family: Apocynaceae
Florida Distribution: nearly throughout
Ecosystem Type: flatwoods, scrub
Rarity: frequent
Interesting Facts: excellent butterfly nectar plant
nature study of roadside specimen framed in handmade muted frames. The triangular frame remembers road signage asking you pay attention to your surroundings.
Family: Orchidaceae
Florida Distribution: nearly throughout
Ecosystem Type: bogs, wet roadsides, wet flatwoods
Rarity: occasional
Interesting Facts: threatened in florida
From the Swallowtail Garden Seeds collection of botanical photographs and illustrations. We hope you will enjoy these images as much as we do.
Navy blue fleece lined with polyester tricot and decorated with fleece machine applique, also some beads and couching by hand. The pockets are inside.
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, a Nikon D850 FX Pro body as companion to my D7200 DX, I travel light with less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 23.925+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on May 3rd 2018
CREATIVE RF gty.im/955641444 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 3,155th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five metres in the golden hour around sunrise, (Sunrise was at precisely 05:26am), at 05:31am on Thursday May 3rd 2018 off Botany Road and Foreness Close on the sandy shoreline of Botany Bay, the northern most of seven bays in Broadstairs , Kent, England.
Thanet offshore windfarm was officially opened on September 23rd 2010 and was for a time, the largest offshore windfarm project in the world. The eight lines of turbines, one hundred of them in total, run north-west to south-east, covering a total area of 35sq km off Foreness Point near Margate. Each turbine is 115 metres high with 44-metre blades, and the project cost between £780-900million
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Nikon D850 75mm 1/500s (Electronic front curtain) f/4.0 iso64 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L 8256 x 5504 FX). Colour space Adobe RGB. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto 0 white balance (8030K). Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control Normal.
Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Manfrotto 055Xprob Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections. Manfrotto 327RC2 Magnesium Ball Head. Manfrotto quick release plate 200PL-14. Jessops Tripod bag.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 23m 19.00s
LONGITUDE: E 1d 26m 15.90s
ALTITUDE: 5.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB (NEF 89.0mb)
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 29.30MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.01 (16/01/2018) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Growing among Soft Rush, Juncus effusus with Broad-leaved Pondweed, Potamogeton natans, and with Great Reedmace, Typha latifolia, in the background.
Family: Cyperaceae
Florida Distribution: northern and central peninsula, west to central panhandle
Ecosystem Type: swamps, marshes, hydric hammocks
Rarity: occasional
Interesting Facts: carex seeds are a good bird food
I am annoyed with myself for keep forgetting my camera whenever I go anywhere so I end up using my phone for photos, grr