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The Gap, the entrance to Sydney Harbour (originally Port Jackson), New South Wales, 6 April 2016. Many a sailing ship, having survived the long and dangerous voyage from Britain, came to grief on one of the headlands to the Harbour. The South Head is nearest, the North Head in the distance.
Ive lost track of my 365'ing.
To try and get me back on track I wrote a little tool using the new YQL interface to the Flickr APIs.
It shows a few gaps and also that I cannot count. Some of the gaps are glitches with my tool (videos dont show up and apparently Manish Water is not safe for view) but I have definitely missed some days through forgetfulness.
Im going to carry on anyway and maybe fill in the gaps later by some imaginative cheating.
Ill probably put out the tool when its working properly since i think it might be handy for other 365 people.
On Explore 26 May 2008, thanks guys! :)
There is indeed a gap in my life right now & am trying to bridge it... but conversations with self are always the hardest.
Gotta keep up the faith!
Photo of restored water tower, with southern stone building, windmill and pump house in background, Camp Gap Ranch, July 20, 2016, by Greg Shine, BLM.
Camp Gap Ranch, preserved and protected today by the Bureau of Land Management, was one of the original camps established in the 1930s to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was created in 1933 as a federal public works program to provide employment for out-of-work young men, particularly from the cities in the eastern United States. The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Gap Ranch was developed in 1934.
At first a tent camp, Camp Gap Ranch was soon transformed into a more permanent facility with wood-framed barracks, kitchen and mess hall, officers’ quarters, shops, and other support buildings.
The camp was staffed by up to 200 enrollees, supervisors, and officers and operated from 1934 to 1942. The men of Camp Gap Ranch worked for the U.S. Grazing Service and built range improvements such as fences and reservoirs, drilled wells, built roads and cut vast quantities of juniper posts for fencing projects.
Most of the buildings at Camp Gap Ranch were pre-fabricated and bolted together. When World War II began in 1941, all of the wooden buildings were dismantled and moved elsewhere to support the war effort. All that remained at the camp were a few rock buildings, water tower, pump house and windmill tower, rubble rock walls, rock-lined paths, and a seemingly random assortment of concrete foundations.
After being abandoned in 1942, the remaining buildings were left to deteriorate. By the 1970s, the Bureau of Land Management began to formally recognize the historic value of the site and re-roofed the remaining camp buildings.
During the 1980s, brush was cut down and burned in order to protect the camp from wild fire. In the late 1990s, the pump house and windmill tower was reconstructed, the southern stone building was restored, and the cold house was stabilized.
Hiking, exploring and discovering the historic structures scattered across Camp Gap Ranch are popular activities. Please take care to leave the site as you found it and do not disturb buildings or rock features to remove artifacts.
Be on the lookout for ticks and rattlesnakes which are present during spring and summer. Shade is limited and temperatures at Camp Gap Ranch can reach 100 degrees in July and August. With no potable water, restroom facilities, cell phone service, or designated camping areas, travelers should bring their own conveniences.
Directions to the Site
From Burns, take Highway 20 west for approximately 40 miles to milepost 91 and turn left onto the Camp Gap Ranch entrance road.
To learn more about the site and plan a visit, contact the BLM Burns District office through one of the options below:
BLM Burns District
28910 Hwy 20 West
Hines, OR 97738
Telephone: 541-573-4400
Fax: 541-573-4411
E-mail: BLM_OR_BU_Mail@blm.gov
Photo of restored cold house and water tower, Camp Gap Ranch, July 20, 2016, by Greg Shine, BLM.
Camp Gap Ranch, preserved and protected today by the Bureau of Land Management, was one of the original camps established in the 1930s to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was created in 1933 as a federal public works program to provide employment for out-of-work young men, particularly from the cities in the eastern United States. The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Gap Ranch was developed in 1934.
At first a tent camp, Camp Gap Ranch was soon transformed into a more permanent facility with wood-framed barracks, kitchen and mess hall, officers’ quarters, shops, and other support buildings.
The camp was staffed by up to 200 enrollees, supervisors, and officers and operated from 1934 to 1942. The men of Camp Gap Ranch worked for the U.S. Grazing Service and built range improvements such as fences and reservoirs, drilled wells, built roads and cut vast quantities of juniper posts for fencing projects.
Most of the buildings at Camp Gap Ranch were pre-fabricated and bolted together. When World War II began in 1941, all of the wooden buildings were dismantled and moved elsewhere to support the war effort. All that remained at the camp were a few rock buildings, water tower, pump house and windmill tower, rubble rock walls, rock-lined paths, and a seemingly random assortment of concrete foundations.
After being abandoned in 1942, the remaining buildings were left to deteriorate. By the 1970s, the Bureau of Land Management began to formally recognize the historic value of the site and re-roofed the remaining camp buildings.
During the 1980s, brush was cut down and burned in order to protect the camp from wild fire. In the late 1990s, the pump house and windmill tower was reconstructed, the southern stone building was restored, and the cold house was stabilized.
Hiking, exploring and discovering the historic structures scattered across Camp Gap Ranch are popular activities. Please take care to leave the site as you found it and do not disturb buildings or rock features to remove artifacts.
Be on the lookout for ticks and rattlesnakes which are present during spring and summer. Shade is limited and temperatures at Camp Gap Ranch can reach 100 degrees in July and August. With no potable water, restroom facilities, cell phone service, or designated camping areas, travelers should bring their own conveniences.
Directions to the Site
From Burns, take Highway 20 west for approximately 40 miles to milepost 91 and turn left onto the Camp Gap Ranch entrance road.
To learn more about the site and plan a visit, contact the BLM Burns District office through one of the options below:
BLM Burns District
28910 Hwy 20 West
Hines, OR 97738
Telephone: 541-573-4400
Fax: 541-573-4411
E-mail: BLM_OR_BU_Mail@blm.gov
Birling Gap, described by Wikipedia as a coastal hamlet, consists of a single road ending in a parking lot, where you'll find half a dozen fishing cottages, a hotel and a lifeguard station.
The Birling Gap Hotel describes itself as "a Victorian colonial style villa with its interior furnished in a 1930's style". It felt to me like something straight out of a Daphne du Maurier novel.
Birling Gap is notable for it's receding coastline. The cliffs are eroding and a row of cottages have already been removed. English Nature and National Trust have opposed a proposal to create a rock wall at the base of the cliffs to protect the remaining buildings.
"Allowing areas like Birling Gap to erode and maintain beaches is essential to help the coast protect us naturally from sea level rise. The cliffs at Birling Gap are not only a beautiful part of the local landscape but are also nationally important for the study and understanding of the Ice Ages. They provide the best example of a cross-section through a dry valley anywhere in Britain. Sites like Birling enable us to learn about past changes to our climate and to increase our understanding about how climate change may affect us in the future."
This photograph was taken last November. They were holding a raffle for a new lifeboat.
You should take a look at cedar_9's set for much more accomplished photographs of this beautiful spot.
Home of the Growsgreen Vertical Garden until end of summer 2011.
Photo courtesy of: James Everett Photography at www.photojames.com
It's been a while since I've posted. I haven't taken any good pictures.
Levi's 514 Slim Straight's
GAP V-neck yellow with green stripes. It has a great vintage look.
Falken hoodie.
Nike Air Stabs one of my prize pair of shoes, they rarely see the light of day.
Mind the gap... please mind the gap. Everything about British society is so charming and adorable, even the public warnings.
Photo of restored cold house (foreground), southern stone building, water tower, windmill and pump house, Camp Gap Ranch, February 1, 2017, by Greg Shine, BLM.
Camp Gap Ranch, preserved and protected today by the Bureau of Land Management, was one of the original camps established in the 1930s to support President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was created in 1933 as a federal public works program to provide employment for out-of-work young men, particularly from the cities in the eastern United States. The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Gap Ranch was developed in 1934.
At first a tent camp, Camp Gap Ranch was soon transformed into a more permanent facility with wood-framed barracks, kitchen and mess hall, officers’ quarters, shops, and other support buildings.
The camp was staffed by up to 200 enrollees, supervisors, and officers and operated from 1934 to 1942. The men of Camp Gap Ranch worked for the U.S. Grazing Service and built range improvements such as fences and reservoirs, drilled wells, built roads and cut vast quantities of juniper posts for fencing projects.
Most of the buildings at Camp Gap Ranch were pre-fabricated and bolted together. When World War II began in 1941, all of the wooden buildings were dismantled and moved elsewhere to support the war effort. All that remained at the camp were a few rock buildings, water tower, pump house and windmill tower, rubble rock walls, rock-lined paths, and a seemingly random assortment of concrete foundations.
After being abandoned in 1942, the remaining buildings were left to deteriorate. By the 1970s, the Bureau of Land Management began to formally recognize the historic value of the site and re-roofed the remaining camp buildings.
During the 1980s, brush was cut down and burned in order to protect the camp from wild fire. In the late 1990s, the pump house and windmill tower was reconstructed, the southern stone building was restored, and the cold house was stabilized.
Hiking, exploring and discovering the historic structures scattered across Camp Gap Ranch are popular activities. Please take care to leave the site as you found it and do not disturb buildings or rock features to remove artifacts.
Be on the lookout for ticks and rattlesnakes which are present during spring and summer. Shade is limited and temperatures at Camp Gap Ranch can reach 100 degrees in July and August. With no potable water, restroom facilities, cell phone service, or designated camping areas, travelers should bring their own conveniences.
Directions to the Site
From Burns, take Highway 20 west for approximately 40 miles to milepost 91 and turn left onto the Camp Gap Ranch entrance road.
To learn more about the site and plan a visit, contact the BLM Burns District office through one of the options below:
BLM Burns District
28910 Hwy 20 West
Hines, OR 97738
Telephone: 541-573-4400
Fax: 541-573-4411
E-mail: BLM_OR_BU_Mail@blm.gov
The Port Perry Bridge and its sister bridge, the Whitaker Bridge, were installed in one day in July 2010 to connect the trail between Duquesne at Grant Ave and the Waterfront and to provide a critical flyover of the Norfolk Southern and Union Railroad tracks. This portion of the trail opened in June 2011 and was the next-to-last missing link on the Great Allegheny Passage between Cumberland, Maryland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The GAP Trail joins the C & O Canal Trail in Cumberland, which goes to Washington, DC. Thus, this part of the trail was the next-to-last missing link between Pittsburgh and D.C.
Great Allegheny Passage @ Duquesne, Pennsylvania
Today was the beginning of the Pine Gap Four's trial. The Pine Gap Four are a group of Christians who are on trial for attempting to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the Pine Gap military base in the Northern Territory. They face seven years’ imprisonment for their actions.
Pine Gap is a joint US/Australian military facility that has played a significant role in the Iraq war. Its existence and activities call into question Australia’s sovereignty as a nation, and make us complicit in the many war crimes that have already taken place in Iraq in the last four years.
From 12 noon till 2pm today we had a prayer vigil, including reading aloud the names of people who've been killed in the Iraq War (both coalition forces and Iraqis). It was pretty full-on reading out the names of the people killed, and reading about who they were how they had died. A majority of the Iraqis were civilians – farmers, clerics, students, children.
Most of the people walking past ignored us (which wasn't surprising), but we still got to talk to a fair few people about Pine Gap, including one guy who lives in Alice Springs.
Also, we got a message from friends in Alice Springs, saying that the prosecutors were unsucessful in putting the Pine Gap Four under house arrest, which is good news.
The old colonial road from Tagmout to Issafn certainly was one of the highlights of the Atlas Mountain Race. And it was a real challenge, more so in the night for sure!
It seemed to never end. But even before that. There were two sections in the road where the race manual already warned, well, very mildly "two broken sections of road. That won’t stop us though, a short walk down and around the wash out, and you’ll be back on the road.“
Haha, what an understatement… I’m so glad I reached this section in the very fading daylight still. You can see the development in the photos. As I neared this section and saw that first eroded and washed away part I thought „Oh, that is supposed to be such a road gap? Well, that’s easy.“ Haha, oh no! Around another corner and I saw the first road gap.
Oh! OK. Oh wow, where do I even get down from the road? „Short walk down, haha - oh Nelson! ;-). That wasn’t so easy and I was as relieved to have made it across the gap as anxious how the second gap would be. Light was fading now rapidly as I saw another rider coming up quite a bit behind me. I continued and lo and behold - that second gap was an even bigger challenge. After a bit of pondering I could finally made out the route which would be feasible in the dark. From then on the riding was ok, but hard. And I would frequently encounter such stretches were half the road was gone and who knows how deep the drop would be. These continued even in the descend. But it still was a long way until that would start.
The climb seemingly got on forever in the dark. But I didn't want to relent and said to myself after somewhere after the road gaps "no - I'm not going to stop, I’m not going to dismount to push, until I'm at the summit. That gave a pretty overall decent time up there but I paid dearly. It was in the descent I realized I had pain in my left foot/lower leg. That pain that brought panic of tearing that very tendon again which I tore 2 years ago and which eventually forced me to practically nurse and limp my way all the way to the finish.
VAN NUYS - The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) took ownership of a brand-new $2.6 million-dollar helicopter, badged as FIRE-7.
The LAFD helicopter fleet is a combination of five medium-duty and two light-duty helicopters. The five medium-duty (AW-139) type helicopters fulfill a majority of the tactical mission needs including, but not limited to, aerial firefighting (water dropping), hoist rescue, air ambulance, swift water rescue, and high-rise firefighting support and evacuation.
This new light-duty helicopter is the second (Bell 505) aircraft the LAFD uses for HLCO (Helicopter Coordinator) and observation during incidents, including wildfires and other major emergencies requiring multiple aircraft. HLCO pilots are responsible for managing the air space and flight communications for all responding aircraft and providing real-time situational analysis for incident commanders.
This purchase was only possible because of the generous support from donors to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.
The LAFD Foundation consistently fills the gap in important equipment and training which our budget can not cover.
Photo Use Permitted via Creative Commons - Credit: LAFD Photo | John McCoy
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Morning after the snowpocalypse. Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Water Gap.
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