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Someone I follow on Instagram recently posted a photo from Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. I wanted to leave a comment about how I have a photo of the cool movie theater in town on Flickr. Alas, that photo was not on Flickr. In fact, I've taken several day trips to eastern Pennsylvania the past couple of years but have mysteriously even to myself not put many of them online.
Anyway, here is the Gap Theatre. It opened in 1947 and is still going strong, showing a mix of live performances and movies. It is a single, curved-screen theater (the 1 and 2 are showtimes, not screens) that was recently renovated.
Pelion Gap is at the track junction of the Overland Track and the side-tracks to Mt. Ossa and Mt. Pelion East.
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.
Definitely Dreaming - Week 42 Abandoned
The cafe at Birling Gap was being knocked down, before it fell into the sea.
An ice penetrating radar is deployed from a string of kayaks to survey a section of the Petermann glacier in Greenland. Three scientists, working in partnership with Greenpeace fit a radar transmitter, receiver and antennas to a chain of four kayaks, to obtain valuable data on the processes operating over floating ice shelves. This will reveal more of the complex nature of the ice thickness, basal melt-rates and insight into the breakup at the front section of Petermann. The scientists are Jason Box, Richard Bates and Alun Hubbard, the three took turns to paddle the kayaks whilst running the radar, over the carefully selected 25 kilometer course along a meltwater channel which runs down the middle of the glacier's floating ice shelf. Kayaking the occasionally hazardous route they were careful to stop just short of a 'whirlpool' which Dr Bates had previously cast with a CTD, finding it to reach the seawater currents in the fjord, 60m below. The team of scientists are on board the Arctic Sunrise during the 1st leg of Greenpeace's 3 month long Arctic Impacts expedition, to document the effects of climate change on the Arctic environment ahead of the Copenhagen summit which will be held in December 2009
Technical notes.
1. The entire route was seaward of the glacier's grounding line and therefore on the 'floating tongue' of the glacier which floats in seawater in the Petermann fjord.
2. The transmitter is installed inside the green un-manned kayak (pictured with solar panel). The receiver in the forward red kayak paddled by scientists Hubbard and Bates.
3. The two 40m antennas (inside the orange rubber hosing) were floated in the water attached to rope between the kayaks.
4. The ice radar works by sending short, discrete bursts of radio waves in the High Frequency range at very high power (4kV pulses) which 'bounce' off internal and basal reflectors creating return waves. A broadband digital spectrum analyser at the receiver decodes and records this information from the return signal received.
5. The radar (aka radio-echo sounder) is a 'deep-look' type, operating in High Frequency range with a high power output, customised by Hubbard in collaboration with Uppsala University.
6. A simple diagram of the setup is available on request, as source material to make graphics.
7. The science team are concentrating their research on the qualities of submarine melting, holding the view that there has is a huge gap in our understanding of this field, over the traditional area of atmospheric melting. They hope to contribute to much needed research that will inform more accurate predictions of sea level rise.
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.
I decided to brave the cold and frost this morning to head down to Hope Gap for sunrise experiment with my new upgrade, Nikon D7000.The camera is such a improvement over my old Nikon D50
LEE 0.6 proglass standard
LEE 0.6 Hardgrad
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.
Morning after the snowpocalypse. Pennsylvania side of the Delaware Water Gap.
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A favorite view of mine, looking south where the Delaware River cuts through the Blue Mountains. NJ on left, PA on right.