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High winds made photography challenging this week. The winds also created high drama on the sea, churning the waves into white topped crests.
Granite Creek, North Bend, Washington
I hiked last Saturday on the Granite Creek trail. It was a lovely forest trail with dappled sunlight coming through the trees, and lots of bird song and forest sounds. For much of the hike the trail follows the creek, the sounds of which provided a lovely background accompaniment to the hike.
The creek was running high due to snow melt though, and in some areas the roar of the water was so loud it drowned out everything else. There were some nice spots with logs ore boulders to sit by the creek and just get lost in the sound.
An hour or two before the arrival of Winter Storm Elliott, the winds off the Atlantic Ocean were so strong that the beach was covered with seafoam. [oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/seafoam.html.]
It was hard to tell the whitecaps from the clouds. Within a few hours, the temperature dropped more than 40 degrees. I only regret that because of the Christmas holiday I couldn't come back to see the fantastic ice formations. Beach #5, Robert Moses State Park, Fire Island National Seashore, New York -- December 23, 2022
A panorama taken from the summit rocks of Eccles Pike. In the distance on the left is Chinley Churn with Mount Famine and South Head in the centre and Rushup Edge in the far right of the image.
The inlet developed over many thousands of years as wave action carved into the basalt shoreline, first forming a deep sea cave whose roof eventually collapsed. As the tide comes in it can throw spray several hundred feet into the air when the waves reach the end of the churn. Visitors are urged to be cautious when visiting the churn as it can be dangerous
A panorama from Eccles Pike taking in Chinley Churn (just catching the sunlight), Mount Famine and South Head.
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Go under one of these shore-breakers and you get a head full of sand. - Papohaku Beach, Island of Molokai (Hawaiian Islands)
Creeping Buttercup | Ranunculus repens | Ranunculaceae
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Chinley Churn catching the early morning light. With the shadows of the hills of South Head and Mount Famine on its lower slopes.
Here is Devil's Churn at Cape Perpetua on the Oregon coast, a part of the Siuslaw National Forest. What a grand place! A note to those who haven't ambled around on lava rock. It is quite slippery when wet, which it gets here as the tide heightens. Besides, the lava rock makes for good foreground, so stay back and live to take another photo!
resurrecting a little blue - seen at Uppark House (NT) one Christmas
I remember reading in my dad's PoW diaries about 'klim' and being rather puzzled by it until a friend had a lightbulb moment realising that 'klim' is just 'milk' spelt backwards.***
I guess it was dried milk in a tin for PoWs' consumption and also remember as a child seeing, in my mum's pantry, tins of National Dried Milk.
I found online: 'National Dried Milk was powdered full-cream milk that was roller-dried to a powder, then fortified with vitamin D. It was intended for feeding to children at a time of milk rationing.'
You can also now buy an empty National Dried Milk tin online for £26.....
*** www.amazon.co.uk/Till-We-Meet-Again-Gunner/dp/154404870X
Strokkur, arguably Iceland's most visited geysir- and for this very reason it's usually really hard to find a tourist-free spot to take pictures...
Being there in winter certainly helps. ;-)
Once again it was time to play down on the shoreline. The tides were out, and the waves were churning. Shot after shot, each long exposure delivered some interesting work.
Talk about fun, this was a wonderful experience. The crashing waves were entertaining to watch, and challenging to catch at just the right moment. This is a scene that needs more attention. I will be back.
Bison resting near the Churning Caldron, a large hot spring located near the top of the Mud Volcano area at Yellowstone National Park.
A dawn shot captured close to Shoalstone Pool, Brixham where a strong easterly wind was blowing, churning up the sea and throwing it on to the rocks.
Milk churns like these were once a common sight in the British countryside. Their usage reduced in the 1970's and stopped completely in 1979 when milk tankers replaced them.
SUNRISE - AT SEA - June 4th, 2023 - Atlantic Ocean
First Light - Sunday Morning - Day Two - Intense Dawn
40th Anniversary 8 Day Cruise - Saint Croix - Tortola
Adventure of the Seas - Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_of_the_Seas
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Croix
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - sunup middle - warm up-light]
*[Funny Story: I found out many cruises ago, when you go to bed, wrap your camera gear in towels and put it in a closet or drawer (in an 'airconditioned' cabin), otherwise, when you leave and encounter that very humid sea air...YOUR LENSES FOG UP!! I forgot to do that on this morning and was devastated when I couldn't clear them no matter what I did!! (Didn't want to miss this!!) Finally, I was able to salvage a few shots...but you can see they're still a touch foggy.]
Chinley Churn is a small hill just north of the town of Chinley in Derbyshire. Most noted for its previously quarried edge known as Cracken Edge. The quarry to be developed into the dip slope without excessive overburden - some- times even working two or more galleries - but mainly extending along the crest perpendicular to the dip.