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Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL), located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies. WFF includes an extensively instrumented range to support launches of more than a dozen types of sounding rockets, small expendable suborbital and orbital rockets, high altitude balloon flights carrying scientific instruments for atmospheric and astronomical research and — using its Research Airport — flight tests of aeronautical research aircraft including unmanned aerial vehicles. The WFF range supports science missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and occasionally for foreign governments and commercial organizations. It also supports development tests and exercises involving U.S. Navy aircraft and ship-based electronics and weapon systems in the Virginia Capes operating area near the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay.
In addition to its fixed-location instrumentation assets, the WFF range includes mobile radars, telemetry receivers, and command transmitters that can be deployed by aircraft to locations around the world to establish a temporary range where no other instrumentation exists to ensure safety and collect data to enable and support suborbital rocket launches from remote sites.
The WFF mobile range assets have been used to support rocket launches from locations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, South America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and even at sea.
Workers at Wallops include approximately 1,000 full-time NASA civil service employees and contractors, 300 U.S. Navy personnel, and 100 NOAA employees.
Taken 1-16-2009 at the opening of the "Ebb & Flow" exhibit at the Huntington Beach Art Center. The exhibit celebrates the City's centennial with historical artifacts, photos, documents, etc.
See more Orange County historical images on the O.C. History Roundup: ochistorical.blogspot.com/
San Luis Obispo County, California, USA.
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This image was shot at the Shell Beach Memorial to the victims of Hurricane Katrina from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. Shell beach is outside the new flood wall erected around much of the Parish. It suffered flooding due to the sea surge related to Hurricane Isaac.
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The Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a small pelican found in the Americas. It is one of the best known and most prominent birds found in the coastal areas of the southern and western United States.
This bird is readily distinguished from the American White Pelican by its non-white plumage, smaller size and its habit of diving for fish from the air
Pelicans are very gregarious birds; they live in flocks of both sexes throughout the year. They are exceptionally buoyant due to the internal air sacks beneath their skin and in their bones, and as graceful in the air as they are clumsy on land. In level flight, pelicans fly in groups, with their heads held back on their shoulders, the bills resting on their folded necks.
When forage, pelicans fly to a considerable height over a school of fish and then dive at a high speed into the water, often completely submerging itself below the surface as it quickly snaps up its prey before it can swim away. The pelican then comes back to the surface and spills the water out of its throat pouch that had been caught in the plunge and then throw back their head to swallow the prey. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Pelican
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They are the only species of pelican that is strictly marine in habitat, never found more than 20 miles out to sea or inland on fresh water. They prefer shallow inshore waters such as estuaries and bays.http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/Facts/fact-brownpelican.cfm
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Carla Citlau relaxes at Shell Beach in a bathing suit of hot pink Helenca knit and bloused top.
Peron pensinsula Fence reaching into the waters of Shark Bay, WA.
Project Eden is a conservation project that aims to turn back the tide of extinction and ecological destruction in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area.
For this reason a 'Feral Proof Fence' has been constructed reaching from one end right across the Peron peninsula to the other.
Feral invader species, such as cats, foxes, rabbits and goats are being removed from the peninsula to give the indigenous animals a protected area to rebuild their numbers.
Seen sitting on the fence are mostly Pied cormorants.
The Louisiana Blue Crab are revered for their delicate sweet flavor and cooking versatility. The Blue Crab is found abundantly in the bayous, rivers and inlets of Louisiana and is one of the most popular of the more than 4,500 species of crabs found worldwide.
Louisiana Crab has become a standard of fine dining.
Blue crabs are harvested in traps year round, for sales across the country, with peak harvest levels coming in the warm summer and fall months. Called “beautiful swimmer,” Callinectes spaidus, because of its back legs flattened into paddles and its handsome blue-green shell. Blue crabs are a traditional Cajun favorite, and have found a wide following nationwide.
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This picture is from my visit to Shell Beach located at Shark Bay in Western Australia.
You can read more about my visit to this area at the link.
Fort Proctor is located in Lake Borgne near Shell Beach, Louisiana Fort Proctor is a nineteenth century fort ruin located on the shore of Lake Borgne just north of the mouth of Bayou Yscloskey.
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The construction of the Mississippi River - Gulf Outlet Canal in 1965 cut off all land access to the site. In 1978 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now completely surrounded by water ranging from four to six feet deep depending on the tide and marsh levels where it sits in a brackish mixture of water approximately one mile north from Frank Campo’s Marina, 1301 Yscloskey Hwy, St Bernard, LA 70085
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The coordinates for Fort Proctor are 89.678177 W and 29.867399 N
Fort Proctor (1856 - 1859) was partially constructed as part of the Third System of Defense (1816 - Civil War) and although it was never completed or used as planned, it is of national significance in the history of the Gulf Coastal defensive system. Characterized as a Martello Tower, the innovative design provided all - around fire capabilities and was constructed for durability with composite brick and concrete walls, iron beams, and granite. Fort Proctor also incorporated a highly efficient embrasure design. The quality of its materials and its innovative design make it one of the finest examples of the Third System of U.S. Fortifications.
Each year numerous hurricanes batter the fort such as Hurricane Katrina. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina passed through Lake Borgne and damaged Fort Proctor and the surrounding marsh.
The integrity of the fort (structural, material, and detail) is threatened by the deteriorating conditions at the site and it is this contemporary condition that mandates the urgency for this HABS documentation. Presently Fort Proctor sits in Lake Borgne separated from land and preserved from modern development. Because of coastal erosion and repeated storm actions, the marshy landscape that once surrounded the fort is gone.
In 1965, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dug the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, allowing for salt water from the Gulf of Mexico enter the lake, creating a brackish salt water/ fresh water mixture, ultimately killing off much of the vegetation serving as marshes protecting the fort. Presently there is a rock berm (rip-rap armor) in place to mitigate wave action, but the future existence of the fort is clearly at peril.
It is of the utmost need that this project be documented before it is completely destroyed by future storms and predicted seawater rise Its precarious position in Lake Borgne reflects the eroding condition of the Louisiana coast. lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/la/la0600/la0672/data/...
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The spotted seatrout, Cynoscion nebulosus, or as we call it in Louisiana, the speckled trout, is one of the most popular saltwater fish in the state. Besides being popular in many south Louisiana restaurants, it is targeted by more recreational fishermen than any other saltwater fish. In the last 10 years, recreational fishermen have harvested an average of 6,578,061 speckled trout from Louisiana waters annually – this is more than 93% of the combined recreational/ commercial harvest. The best year for recreational landings was 2000 with a take of 9,615,942 specks and the poorest year was 1990, the year after the great freeze, with 2,679,167 landings. www.seagrantfish.lsu.edu/resources/factsheets/speckledtro...
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from Swansea beach.
The Mumbles is a village in Swansea, Wales with adjacent headland stretching into Swansea Bay. The village includes the ruin of Oystermouth Castle and the Mumbles Lighthouse. Mumbles is also the name of a community made up of the Mayals, Newton, Oystermouth and West Cross electoral wards, and has an elected community council.
The origin of the placename 'Mumbles' is obscure. Wyn Owen and Morgan (2008) cite several possibilities: Middle English momele ("to mumble"), describing the 'mumbling' of the sea next to the rocks, Latin mamillae meaning "breasts" and Old Norse múli (snout, promontory).
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