Sandscape II
Another sandscape from Wells Cove on the west shore of Gwaii Haanas, Haida Gwaii.
See my earlier post Sandscape for more about this visit.
I am in off to Portland for a few days and thus likely will be slow to monitor comments and other activity around the blog.
But I will be really happy to read your comments when I get back.
Web Masters
Yesterday morning I drove past this meadow in Beacon Hill Park.
It is completely owned by spiders.
I had to turn around and take some pictures with my phone, the only camera I had with me.
There are more than these three photos, as you will see in the coming days.
There were hundreds and hundreds of webs.
All of them soaked in the dew, and most of them with their maker dead centre, also soaked in dew.
My Shirt Pocket
This is as close as this blog will come to a shot of me on a beach.
You all should be glad of this discretion.
My most recent field work involved walking on Haida Gwaii beaches all day long.
Searching for archaeological sites in the form of stone tools, rock walls and clearings in the beach, wooden fish traps, etc.
This was one of the easier beaches, not too slippery and no boulder veneer.
Low tide work usually means early starts and low raking light just after sunrise.
My shirt pocket usually holds a phone in a waterproof case.
The case makes it useless as a phone as it is too hard to make myself heard.
That is OK, because field work is usually off grid, and my phone is really a field computer.
I have designed electronic forms to use on it for data entry with GPS referencing and in-built photo acquisition.
The forms upload automatically to a spreadsheet when I am near a wi-fi connection.
The camera is also used apart from the forms for visual documentation,
(especially panoramas which it does better than my other cameras).
The GPS unit combined with GeoTIFF map files are useful for tracking my location, pinning places of interest,
and leading me to predetermined sampling targets.
The coastal navigation software with charts and tide and current tables can save propellers and lives.
Pretty damned good for one button-down shirt pocket.
Wood and Metal
Another shot from the building in yesterday’s post.
Is it only on the west coast that one finds metal and wood siding on one building?
Seems like a strange thing to do – maybe they were just blocking off some windows.
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Siding
The siding was well lit.
I think these buildings are slated for demolition, so this nice surface may not last much longer.
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Mayne Shore Pine
A final view from the deck of the place I stayed on Mayne Island a week ago.
Shore pine very often are wind battered into interesting shapes.
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