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Taken during a photo walk around Vancouver, BC back in September. Metro Vancouver was engulfed in haze from the wildfires in BC and Washington back then. The sky was very bleak.
September 12, 2024 - This morning we had an optional excursion to Horseshoe Bend. "Horseshoe Bend has been featured as a landmark for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, the Cities of Page AZ, Kanab UT, St George UT, and the Navajo Nation. Boundary lines are very close in some places. Horseshoe Bend itself, and that part of the Colorado River, are a part of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. About nine miles downstream is where Grand Canyon National Park begins. US Highway 89, the land north of the trail to the Horseshoe Bend overlook, and the parking area for the trailhead are in the City of Page. The land south of the parking area and the trail and overlook are on the Navajo Nation. This mixture of jurisdictions provides a unique opportunity in the management of this magnificent trail and overlook." Previous text: www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/horseshoe-bend.htm
September 11, 2024 - The Cameron Suspension Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
"In March of 1911, Congress appropriated $90,000 for construction of a bridge built by the Midland Bridge Co. for the Office of Indian Affairs.
“At that time, there were hardly any cars,” Carson said. “It was a bridge for the Navajo people. The bridge was the earliest safe crossing of the river. It was meant for walking across with your cattle or your sheep.”
There's even a story that in 1937 a large herd of sheep crossing the bridge caused it to sway badly and nearly collapse, leading to some repairs to shore it up.
The Cameron Construction Bridge is an engineering marvel that played a large role in Arizona’s growth, according to an Arizona State Historic Preservation Office report.
According to the report, the bridge “is significant for its association with the initial growth of Arizona’s highway system as a major bridge which opened the northern portion of the state to development … A hybrid of suspension and truss forms, the bridge has engineering significance as the oldest surviving highway suspension bridge in the state and that utilized novel engineering techniques to cross the wide canyon of the Little Colorado River. Decades passed, technology advanced and foot traffic gave way to large vehicles. By the mid-1950s this became a problem as the old bridge was not capable of carrying heavy construction equipment needed to build the Glen Canyon Dam." Previous description from: azdot.gov/blog-article/big-bridge-history-near-little-cam...
June 16, 2017 - Looking back at Tiananmen Square from Tiananmen Tower. You can see the The Monument to the People's Heroes and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong in the background.
Nearing the end of Leg 10 of this cruse, Powell River-Westview.
The North Island Princess heads out of the Westview Terminal into the smokey haze on its way to Blubber Bay on Texada Island.
Regional landscape of Rajasthan from behind the bastions overlooking the terrain and mountains from the fortification
A dusty red sun sets over Dublin Airport as seen from the Howth Cliff Walk at the end of a hazy, fine April day.
September 15, 2016 - San Agustin Urubamba Hotel. Located at Avenue Ferrocarril SN, Urubamba, Cusco, 84, Peru
June 18, 2017 - Our next stop was a visit and walk on the Xi'an City Wall. "At 12 meters high and 15 meters wide, the 14-kilometer-long Xi'an City Wall is the most complete ancient city wall in China" previous text from an article from CNN published in 2015.
November 29, 2020 - Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts and the Huntington Building located on South High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
From the bayside near Corpus Christi, Texas in July 2015. Hazy morning created an interesting effect with the sunrise.
The still smokey haze makes for a wonderful sunset as the sun sets over Lund at the end of Leg 5 of this cruise.
September 15, 2016 - San Agustin Urubamba Hotel. Located at Avenue Ferrocarril SN, Urubamba, Cusco, 84, Peru
The still smokey haze makes for a wonderful sunset as the sun sets over Lund at the end of Leg 5 of this cruise.
September 15, 2016 - San Agustin Urubamba Hotel. Located at Avenue Ferrocarril SN, Urubamba, Cusco, 84, Peru
Good-bye Secret Cove!!Heading back into Malaspina Strait and towards Welcome Passage.
The wind is picking up, maybe the smoke will go away!
The end of the 12th leg of TARA's summer cruise, "Secret Cove".
The smoke is still thick, I went for a long walk, which I usually do after I tie TARA up, but the smoke was so thick, it was burning inside my lungs as I climbed the hill from the Marina, My eyes were watering. Not a good way to end a day on the water.
Entering Manson Passage between Hernando and Savary Islands. This is very shallow passage, and in the smokey haze it was tricky to pick out the markers. I was dependant on my my depth sounder and GPS to find my way safely through. The wind was light, so with my trusty Yamaha outboard running I safely navigated through.
Montlake, 2023
#hazyskies
In what has been an otherwise fantastic summer, smoke came into the region this morning on the heals of a 4-5 day heatwave. The temperatures are more back to normal (mid-70s), but smoke from regional forest fires has entered the picture.
#smoke #haze #forestfires #montlakebridge #seattle #pacificnorthwest #eveningwalk #sunset #glimpse #westernskies
The "North Island Princess" pulls out of the Westview Terminal for the last trip of the day to Blubber Bay, Texada Island.
TARA tied up in one of my favourite places, a return visit to Lund. Lund is truly the jumping off place to Desolation Sound, and for boats heading back South.
September 11, 2024 - "Indian Watchtower at Desert View (1932). The Indian Watchtower at Desert View (1932), the last of this series of Colter buildings, stands at the eastern end of the south rim of the grand Canyon. From a distance the building's silhouette looks like the Anasazi watchtower it was meant to mimic. In plan the structure is composed of one enormous circle at the north, a small circle at the south, and gently arched forms connecting the two. As Virginia L. Grattan wrote in Mary Colter Builder Upon the Red Earth, "The Indian watchtower at Desert View was not a copy, but what Colter called a 're-creation' of an Indian watchtower." Standing at 70 feet, with a 30-foot base, the tower was unique in having a concrete foundation and a steel framework well hidden in the stones of the tower. The ground level of the tower was a large, round observation room with a spectacular view of the Grand Canyon. Upstairs the Hopi Room presents paintings by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie, who took the room's theme from the Hopi Snake Dance. An outdoor observation deck is directly above the observation room." I took the above text from a photograph I took from my 2015 visit however the link no longer is viable but I am still including it here. Text was from the following website:
June 18, 2017 - Our next stop was a visit and walk on the Xi'an City Wall. "At 12 meters high and 15 meters wide, the 14-kilometer-long Xi'an City Wall is the most complete ancient city wall in China" previous text from an article from CNN published in 2015.
Nearing the end of Leg 10 of this cruse, Powell River-Westview.
The North Island Princess pulled up to the Westview Terminal.
September 11, 2024 - Cedar Mountain seen from the rooftop terrace of Desert View Watchtower. The sky colors are a result of smoke from a wildfire burning in the Southwest United States.
The still smokey haze makes for a wonderful sunset as the sun sets over Lund at the end of Leg 5 of this cruise.
September 12, 2024 - This morning we had an optional excursion to Horseshoe Bend. "Horseshoe Bend has been featured as a landmark for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, the Cities of Page AZ, Kanab UT, St George UT, and the Navajo Nation. Boundary lines are very close in some places. Horseshoe Bend itself, and that part of the Colorado River, are a part of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. About nine miles downstream is where Grand Canyon National Park begins. US Highway 89, the land north of the trail to the Horseshoe Bend overlook, and the parking area for the trailhead are in the City of Page. The land south of the parking area and the trail and overlook are on the Navajo Nation. This mixture of jurisdictions provides a unique opportunity in the management of this magnificent trail and overlook." Previous text: www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/horseshoe-bend.htm
September 12, 2024 - This morning we had an optional excursion to Horseshoe Bend. "Horseshoe Bend has been featured as a landmark for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Grand Canyon National Park, the Cities of Page AZ, Kanab UT, St George UT, and the Navajo Nation. Boundary lines are very close in some places. Horseshoe Bend itself, and that part of the Colorado River, are a part of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. About nine miles downstream is where Grand Canyon National Park begins. US Highway 89, the land north of the trail to the Horseshoe Bend overlook, and the parking area for the trailhead are in the City of Page. The land south of the parking area and the trail and overlook are on the Navajo Nation. This mixture of jurisdictions provides a unique opportunity in the management of this magnificent trail and overlook." Previous text: www.nps.gov/glca/planyourvisit/horseshoe-bend.htm
Taken during a photo walk around Vancouver, BC back in September. Metro Vancouver was engulfed in haze from the wildfires in BC and Washington back then. The sky was very bleak.