Crossed The River !!!

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pitdog

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I have hiked alongside this river for many a hike now and have always looked for a way to cross ( without getting wet !!! ) anways today I finally found a way and managed to cross only to find Private Property Keep Out signs scattered amongst the tree's.....Oh well they can shove it, I have enough to look at on my side anyway !!!

This was as I was halfway across....
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Getting wet doesn't bother everyone....
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Found this interesting...did you know a spiders web could hold water ?
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Found this unusual tree....
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Finally arrived at the Inlet....
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I sometimes wonder if I'll ever find a better rest spot !
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Gave my DM a little workout....:D
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In the pic with the sailboat. . .with the logs vertical in the water. . .did that used to be a pier or something? Why isn't it in use?
 
Wow! Awesome pictures! Your knife though, cuts wood as if it were a STIHL chainsaw :D.
 
Every time I see your pics, I try to figure out where they were taken since I grew up on the Island and a lot of these places are familiar to me...this time I am thinking that park out by Brentwood Bay, can't remember the name. Looks like the Highlands to me but a little wetter.
 
Ahh i remember green!
Thanks from Atlantic Canada (now buried under the "white" stuff )!
Strangely occasionally some of the landscapes/terrain in your pics remind me of Newfoundland. Of course we don't have enormous redwoods etc but still some similarities there.
Hmmm BC Newfoundland-ish but minus the long sloppy/ice-y winters?
Yet another reason for me to move west!
:)
 
Pitdog
Great photos as always.
Slight off thread question; I know it has been said before (but without the search feature) what breed of dog is it that you have?
Cheers
 
I never tire of seeing your photos Pitdog! The spider's web is most interesting. Thanks much!
 
misanthropist said:
Every time I see your pics, I try to figure out where they were taken since I grew up on the Island and a lot of these places are familiar to me...this time I am thinking that park out by Brentwood Bay, can't remember the name. Looks like the Highlands to me but a little wetter.
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Yup that's the right park !!!!:thumbup:

Bare Rib, she is an English Bull terrier/ English staffordshire Bull Terrier cross !!!
 
Cpl Punishment said:
In the pic with the sailboat. . .with the logs vertical in the water. . .did that used to be a pier or something? Why isn't it in use?
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You see lots of old pilings on the coastal inlets. Many are leftovers from logging, fish processing, and other commercial uses. On the North River on the Washington coast, you can find the old pilings from a railroad that went out to the bay to load logs right onto the ships. San Francisco was built from wood hauled out of the Pacific Northwest this way. Large lumber schooners went up and down the coast. Did you know that the original Skid Row was in Seattle? They skidded logs down the hill to the mill and loaded lumber right onto the ships in Elliot Bay.

Those old pilings make for exciting navigation when they finally rot below the water line and you can't see them at high tide. West Coast tides run 12+ feet, so they can be fully exposed at low tide and hidden dangers for boats at higher tides. The old harbors of Puget Sound can be full of them. Olympia and Shelton are good examples.
 
Great pics Pitdog. Having scene your rest stop a few times now from different hikes, I was reminded of a coffee table book we had a while back. The photographer had this tree, a solitary oak, in a field behind his house. The book was basically the same shot of the same tree taken over a 15 year period. All different weather conditions and seasons. It was a really cool idea. I think the photographer set up some kind of brackets or something for his tri-pod so it would ensure the same frame each time.

Anyhow, maybe it would be a good project for you to think about, compiling your rest-stop pics together over time.

Happy holidays to the pit-family!
 
Great pics as usual. Nice job chopping those trees, Amazingly straight cuts, must have been a really big baton :)
 
Not only do spider webs hold water, they also stop bleeding. Pack some into a wound for an emergency coagulant. I've never actuallt tried that though. Great pics!
 
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