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From Deception Island, Antarctica.
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The beach on the other side is where my family used to picnick when I was a child. Dad used to try to teach me to skip stones on the water..
Storms roll in off of the Pacific quickly in the Spring. They are accompanied by howling winds, low clouds, and a steady light rain. Most people picture this sort of weather in their minds when they think of the Pacific Northwest. I enjoy this kind of weather and I love the stormy skies as you can easily see in my photostream. I was happy to photograph the Pass during one of these storms.
Captain Whidbey, Master of Vancouver's ship HMS Discovery, found that this body of water named Deception by earlier Spanish explorers was really a pass that connected the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the Saratoga Passage.
This meant that the peninsula to the South was really an Island which now bears his name. The pass also meant that everything coming onto or leaving this island had to go by boat. Every settlement had to have a wharf that the fleet of small boats supplied the island could tie up to. If a storm blew in and kept the fleet in port, nothing could leave the island. This prompted the residents to petition the state to build a bridge to provide a cheaper and more reliable way for them to ship their produce to the growing metropolis of Seattle. After several years of negotiation, Washington agreed to build the bridge, which is really two bridges, in the mid 1930's.
The bridge was finished one month short of a year and dramatically changed the life of Whidbey Island.
It seems I haven't mentioned geology in a while and this is an interesting spot to look at. The rocks in the foreground are what we call Mesozoic Metasedimentary rocks. Basically, they are Jurassic age ocean sediments that rode on top of an oceanic plate that eventually ran into and was thrust under the North American plate. Nobody knows exactly where this happened because we do know that after the collision, these parts of the sediments over the plate and parts of the oceanic plate itself where smeared northward, just like the land west of the San Andreas fault is being smeared northward today. This subduction and smearing generates a lot of heat and the former oceanic sediments are metamorphosed and that is why we call them metasediments.
A large fault crosses this photograph from left to right and the hills at the bridge are uplifted by the fault compared to the rocks I was standing on. The hills are part of the oceanic plate itself instead of the sediments lying on top of it. We call these relatively complete assemblages of oceanic plates ophioites. These rocks at the bridge are special because they are from the bottom of the plate or crust where it meets the mantle. We call this part of the ophiolite complex the dunite zone and these rocks are part of the Fidalgo Dunites.
It is amazing to to think that I am standing on rocks that were from the top of the crust and I am looking across the pass at rocks that came from the bottom of the crust....
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An old sealers' hut from the beginning of the 20th century on Deception Island at Antarctica. February 2009.
“The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.” !
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Deception Pass is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U.S. state of Washington. It connects Skagit Bay, part of Puget Sound, with the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
located about 78 miles (126 km) north of Seattle.
K-313-19 - Deception Bay, Ungava: Aerial view of Fibre Storage Shed and Loading Piers, Aug. 17, 1972
The deep sea dwarf tuna had no clue the glowing orb was drawing him into the jaws of an angler fish.
Orb and eye lit with a flashlight, fish lit also with overflow from the light. This was a composite of 3 frames layers in PSE9.
Shot for Macro Mondays "Deception" theme.
The Tye River, near Deception Falls, Washington - iPhone 6+ image using AvgCamPro - Moment 60mm lens
There is an ancient mechanism in us: it’s called fear, and we fear it.
Let’s be honest; there might be none of us that can call himself “completely fearless”. One can have a positive attitude towards it, as it might, for instance, prevent from unpleasant experiences if one is afraid or aware of the fact that meeting a car face-to-face on the street is frightening.
Obviously, this fear had a significant impact on the human survival until today. Its effects on other elements of modern life make it a suppressed problem for many.
We’re taught to fear. Behind every corner of human life, we assume the enemy. Where there is a trigger, there is a reaction, and so we respond within intense emotionality. Within all of these stressful feelings which guide us, we learn to fear even more. A self-made vicious circle.
Throughout we are drowning our freedom in favor of irrationalism, we do not understand that some “fears” might be smaller and less scary if one makes an effort and takes just a closer look.
Just got home from a week long vacation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This shot was taken at sunrise from Deception Pond. The color never really developed, but I was treated to an amazing light show that lasted for almost an hour.
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A photo of the Deception Reservoir Dam adjacent to the Sooke Lake Dam in the Victoria Water District.
This is the only photo of this dam on the internet.
Anacortes WA, Deception Pass State Park,
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I took early one morning from the bottom of Deception Pass. Pretty cool place to visit if you have never been there before.
Deception Creek in the background. This overflow channel is usually not quite so flooded as today after all the recent rain. Perhaps best viewed large for mossy temperate rainforest goodness.
Map of location.
Deception Pass is a tidal inlet that drains most of Skagit Bay, Saratoga Passage, and Penn Cove.
The tides are high here and so a great amount of water must flow through the pass on each tidal exchange. You can see that the tide is nearing its high point but the current is still surging
into the pass.
I wanted to photograph the bridge in rain and I got just what I wanted with low scud clouds emerging from the forest after a squall passed.
They were holding the annual marathon on Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands crossing this bridge in two days. I hope the weather was better for the runners because it was cold getting this photo.