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The stark beauty of the Algarve Sandstone coastline which is sadly eroding very rapidly
Photograph was taken from a cave on the beach which you walk through from another beach
Another look at the Great Blue Heron Rookery on Terry Lake. With the COVID lock down I've been spending a bunch of time in the canoe paddling around Terry Lake looking for images - some days I find them, some days they hide.
Saw this unique fence created with canoe paddles on our drive to Banff. There was also a canoe but I saw it too late to capture this was a drive by shot.
Paddling along Hoople Island, Long Sault, Ontario. Best wishes to all mu Canadian Flickr contacts for Thanksgiving.
Proof we paddled here…
This shot reminded me of the native Cree canoe paddle Motif.
The legend is that the panther is on the hunt for his pray (the rabbit). The rabbit is smoking his pipe and is not concerned because he is smarter than the panther. This legend reminds us to be smart and not make mistakes when in the wild. The image of the panther is on one side of paddle, and the image of the rabbit is on the other.
A similar paddle was featured in the 1997 movie The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin where an intellectual billionaire and two other men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a Kodiak Bear hunting them down, filmed near Golden BC.
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Canoeing on Floyds Fork
Broad Run Park
The Parklands
Louisville, Kentucky
Camera - Nikon D7100
Lens - Tamron 24-70mm f2.8 vc
Photo uploaded May 7, 2020
My mobile phone sleeps with the fishes now. Due to windier conditions I cancelled my plans to get back there today with a fish net and some strong magnets to try and recover it as it was not a cheap device and I think I have insurance of some sort on it. lol! It will have to wait for another super calm day like yesterday.
I am a captain of my canoe.
Paddling it up a very lonely creek.
Sometime I find in the middle of nowhere.
And sometimes,
In the middle of nowhere I find myself.
When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes has never known. Canon70D 18-135mm
Rather rough water and moderate wind but safe for us to paddle 5 km to and from the Sheek Island on the St. Lawrence River.
Initial view with camera just above water with the low section of the canoe on the left, paddle in middle and sunset low on right. Below, closer view sunset…
This was one of those moments where everything fell into place... just when I was least expecting it to!
I had actually come to Nature's Valley to photograph a particularly attractive rock in the shallows of the lagoon at sunrise. I'd noticed this rock the afternoon before... and was certain that the best moment to capture my imagined composition would be just as the morning sun touched the rock. I'd already decided that this was a perfect location for a nice fat, multi-image panorama... and I had my camera all setup on it's tripod well before the sunrise. There was a hill directly to my right which blocked out the sun as it rose (the hill is on the left in this shot)... but just as the sun peeped over the distant hills... it lit up the early morning coastal fog so beautifully... that I swung the camera round and started shooting that instead. Then... just as luck would have it... this chap paddled past me in his canoe... at just the right moment!
Fortunately I also managed to shoot my pre-conceived rock pano at just the right moment... and so far... that is my favourite image from my trip.
Oh... and by the way... this is a slightly cropped single-frame image. :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 20mm, aperture of f9, with a 1/320th second exposure.
"The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten."
- Sigurd F. Olson
Anonymous canoeists on Gunflint Lake in the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota. The lake is one of many gems along the Gunflint Trail National Scenic Byway which runs 57 miles inland from Grand Marais on Lake Superior to Sea Gull Lake near the Canadian border. The lake in this photo is right on the Canadian border, in fact you are looking across the lake at Canada.
Little do these two guys know that they've been on the internet in one platform or another for about 25 years, starting way back in the days when access via AOL was still one of only a few ways you could get online.
Paddling a section of underwater vortex ring where air bubbles occupies the core of this section. The paddles from our canoe bring it up.
Another view below…
Spent a lot of time with my favorite subject in the early morning light of Armand Bayou as he waited for a tasty treat to swim by! And no he didn't lose his balance! Quite an amazing grip!
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At least if you're one of the hapless little fish in the group! A young Tri-colored heron demonstrates his talents for doing whatever it takes to get the job done! Another shot with some of the baitfish fleeing for their lives! Taken on Armand Bayou!
I should have mentioned that the tides were extremely high that day and the birds were scrambling for any vantage point that they could get to hunt from!
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This definitely doesn’t look like winter paddling as all this section of St.Lawrence River is entirely open with no water ice. However ice is still near the shorelines and even Hoople Bay fully frozen with ongoing access of the Ice Huts on ice. No more cares driving onto it as it’s definitely gotten thinner. A recent view of the Hoople Bay ice region at the same time open water here St. Lawrence River….
early in the fall on Cameron Lake in Waterton Lakes National Park - southern Alberta, Canada.
A beautiful lake high in the mountains with just a hint of the fall colors starting to show through.
Mirrored reflections of Autumn along the Cornwall Canal.
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90/100 Paddles, 2016.
Christina asked me to post some of our White Pelicans which I might add are far far more skittish than the Pelicans from Australia. Our Brown Pelicans are fairly tolerant, but the White Pelicans begin moving away long before I even think about picking up my camera. I have managed a few shots of them but they are only on rare occasions. This is a distant shot at a trio of them near the mouth of Horsepen Bayou on a foggy morning.
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Snakebird, darter, American darter, water turkey, or Anhinga…you name it and I’m sure that it has a few more choice names that people call it. This one is hung out to dry on Horsepen Bayou as it was obviously swimming in the bayou and needed to dry out those wet feathers. Anhinga captured on the bayou in the early morning hours.
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The alternative to my last post, Sunset Paddle, this is more focused on the paddle splashing water off the still St Lawrence River.
These were the final shots of the sunrise a couple of weeks ago on the bayou when I arrived a bit late! They are quite similar but I know that some of you prefer the bow of the canoe in the shot while some do not!!! Take your pick either way as it's a very similar sky to enjoy!!! This is once again a view looking across the waters of Armand Bayou from near Bay Area Park!!! Many thanks to everyone for your comments and your support and thank you'll for being a friend!! Wishing a beautiful warm week to all of those who are still dealing with the cold!!
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or any other thing I can wrap them around. A Brown Pelican perches on an old snag on Armand Bayou near the spot where I launch my canoe near Bay Area Park.
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The weather forecast was 90% rain today, but fortunately just 10% and we were able to canoe this amazing area with enough water to let us through. Hopefully back in it again tomorrow with even better conditions.
Still water and clear sky as we transition from winter to spring. Our goal was to capture a beautiful sunset on the first Spring evening paddle.
I visited Gig Harbor, WA last summer - what a wonderful little community on the water. Down at the harbor there was kayaking, canoeing, paddle boarding and fishing. It was a perfect semi-cloudy day. In this area, clouds don't stop the fun.
Canoeing on Dalesville River, near Lake Louisa, Quebec. Just before it's inevitable freeze-up. No better time to be paddling.
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114/100 Paddles, 2016.
Was able to solo paddle towards the lowest and earliest sunset of the year December 21, the shortest day commencing Winter. However the view from the canoe with no ice on the St. Lawrence River can appear like summer. An amazing twilight on the clouds appeared 20 minutes later…
“Hut” is the canoe term to change the bow paddle to the other side in order to maintain direction as per the aim of the stern paddler. This image from the bottom of the canoe reveals the round opening of the water from the last paddle on the port side and the water ripples from the paddle water drops as it’s taken to the opposite starboard. The reason for this hut was to turn the canoe to the left to align towards the sunset as viewed below…
Evening paddle last night with clear sky and still water, only slight wind and cool as no clouds. After the sun went down, a full moon came up too!
I managed to jump another hurdle in my life. For some crazy reason I have never had my wisdom teeth pulled out. They started causing problems recently and the dentist advised that I should get two of them removed. I am in my 50's and thought maybe I avoided all that mess.
This image comes again from a pond near Caddo Lake in East Texas. I shot so many photos there and was so excited to finally take it all in. This simple bald cypress tree was all alone in this area and yet there were hundreds around it. I wonder if people feel like this often?
Here's to the last few weeks of year. I hope they find you well, happy, healthy, and with friends and family near. If not, then know I am thinking of you and praying for you. I do believe in prayer. I believe in Jesus Christ. I believe in you.