Bill Schell's "BeachWeb" for April 2012
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Try this Link - you will like the VIDEO that his here...

WELL! - another week, another week-end (and it RAINED SOME on Sunday Morning!):

    1.) Anniversaries and web-sites:      This week we passed Mr. Bill's 10th anniversary of being laid-off by (the former) Motorola (on 26 April, 2002)...    I wouldn't have known this except for some pension documentation I received in the postal-mail.  

It's VERY INTERESTING how some databases form the 'basis' for some web-sites...    Now this particular web-site (which shall remain nameless) seems to KNOW my wife's birth-date, but they also claim I'm not married? ???? hmmm?

They also find a way to show you many dates which are ambiguous: -  8-9-2000  could be the 9th of August or the 8th of September? - and they haven't figured this out - but - well - they are DEFINITELY NOT THE ONLY ONE...

    2.) I protest, also, about all the squirrels who never received my e-mail saying that "If you want a peanut then you have to pose for a picture"...

    3.) there's a brief opportunity here (in Stuart, and maybe other places) for a 'Mobile Peanut Distribution Center' (and squirrel support psychologist)...

    4.) Animal Life:     We MUST say that when one goes cycling in the early morning (like before 07:30 a.m. or so) - that the Animal Life one can see is wonderful! - the birds, the bunny-rabbits, the squirrels and other things... - it's AMAZING what you can see!

    5.) Eye Doctor and Shattered Glass:     This past week, after MANY weeks of TALKING but not ACTING, I finally went to see about new glasses.  The Eye doctor-guy was floored that I had not been in before.  Said he couldn't understand how I could actually see out of the ones I had.  So I ordered new ones.  When I returned to the parking-lot the mini-van's back-door (tailgate) glass was shattered... - ??? - The ( Safelite )guy who replaced it said it could have been either a weed-eater throwing a rock or the sun on it the wrong way or BOTH... - cost me $100 auto-insurance deductible and a couple hours on the phone and waiting around but now it has a new glass.

    6.) Snowboard Gear (pants and outer-jacket-shell:     Be careful what you wish for: I 'wished-for' new snowboarding gear, not really thinking that would happen (at all) - AND trashed my existing snowboard gear by working in it for 10 days on the Olympic Peninsula... HOWEVER, when I realized my snowboard jacket-shell and pants were well over 10 years old, AND that this is the RIGHT TIME to buy 'winter-gear' - AND that we have this GREAT SOURCE where we generally get abut 70% off retail AND free-shippng, so needless to say it was 'the right thing at the right time.  Ms. May, of COURSE, did 90% of the WORK (invested the hours) and I 'approved' and we've got some REALLY GREAT stuff coming on the way...!!!

    7. ) Tools and Bags:     AND Another order I'd recently issued for some tools got 'double-shipped'  (yes I e-mailed them back, noting this - they couldn't have cared less!) - so - well - now I have more than I bargained for.    I'm seriously considering investing some of my hard-earned-dollars in a very nice (available at Lowe's) tool-specific back-pack that I can put most of my tools in and just leave it in the mini-van - that would be good! - I wouldn't have to load and un-load things all the time!  The other great features of a back-pack style bag is that:  a.) it leaves both hands free to climb / walk / etc and b.) with a zipper to close everything all up  - even if I drop it I have not lost all my tools.  They may be in a jumbled mess but at least I won't lose them!


Today is Saturday, 21 April, 2012:

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No, this picture has NOTHING to do with 21 April, I just happen to like it (A LOT!)


There's nothing earth-shattering (or of any other 'value') to report - sorry - wish my week had been more 'newsworthy', but it was not... - you'll have to settle for items that happened earlier in the month (read-on below!)

However, some VERY MINOR things happened this week...


And guess what - the AMOUNT OF ROOM and FREE SPACE and SHELF SPACE that I'm freeing-up is ASTONISHING.  Pretty soon now I'll think I have to move to a different house because I'm not using all the space we have, here, now...???

Spring Cleaning - you should try it too, you might LIKE IT! (you are SURE to like the space it gives you back) !


Today is 14 April (Saturday), 2012:

Today I rode a bit over 30 miles on my recumbent tricycle.  WHILE doing my tri-cycling, a friend (hang-gliding friend from Brazil) telephoned me, and said that his hang-gliding event (about 100 minute drive SW of here) had been 'blown-out' (and when it's BLOWN OUT for the past 2-3-4 years or so he and I have found a place and a way to go kite-boarding...)   So - he and a couple of friends (one hang-glider-pilot (also a kite-boarder)) and one 'driver'; drove over here and we went kite-boarding (and YES I now "HURT ALL OVER" but it was GOOD...


Mid-March, 2012:

In  mid-March, Ms. May and I flew to Vancouver (on separate flights (well - the airlines didn't want us flying together - apparently we make too much of a fuss when we do)) but we both arrived on 13 March into Vancouver.  The next 7 days was six days of snow-boarding at Mount Seymour and it was EXCELLENT.   As EXCELLENT as we have ever had it in the 15 or so years we've been snowboarding...    The snow was excellent - if sometimes almost 'whited-out' - but nevertheless very very good for those of us that don't snowboard very often.  And we both bought new helmets and new goggles (the two have to fit together), so we got some 'shopping' in also... 


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Mr. Bill with a 'bit' of ice in his beard.  This was the first day we went snowboarding, and Ms. May took this picture.


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Mr. Bill attempting to look like he knows what he's doing (we know better, don't we! (pictures by Mr. Alex the Photo-Geek!))

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The three of us NOT attempting to look like we know what we're doing (and what we are doing is getting ready to head for home! (picture by Mr. Alex, the wonderful guy who loaned us his car so we could travel and sight-see on the Olympic Peninsula (and a GREAT little car it was - handled well in the Snow and the Ice and the RAIN, and because it was SMALL it was terrific in many places that just would not have handled a bigger car!))


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Every ONCE in a WHILE the clouds-would-lift off the mountain for just a few moments and we could SEE FOR MILES to the east...


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AND - Mr. Bill spent most of his time on the "Mystery Chair Lift" (it goes by Mystery Lake but one would never figure this out with the kind of 'White Out' conditions that existed most of the week... - the above picture is a 'sample'; to get the BIG PICTURE click HERE!   AND _ if you are REALLY REALLY interested (some will be; some won't be!) - if you look REALLY REALLY closely - in either this picture or the BIG ONE, then you'll see Mr. Bill right underneath the "?" where I'm waiting to load the lift...

It became evident (after Mr. Bill worked for about 10 days on the Olympic Peninsula (doing 'camera-system-work' (same thing he does off and on in Florida))) - except that the Olympic Peninsula is very different (climatically) than Florida beaches (and even from Vancouver (VanCOLD!).   ANYWAY - he spent the better part of 10 days working in less than 45 degrees F, and rain, and wind, and such - and he needs NEW SNOWBOARD GEAR (the old-stuff sufficed, but it was not a pretty picture).   The old stuff is OLD, so it's TIME FOR NEW GEAR (Pants & Jacket!)) (see above for how this actually happened!).


Working on camera-systems on the Olympic Peninsula is HERE:

Most of the output of the camera-work is represented at this link: http://www.video-monitoring.com/construction/olympic/js.htm .
There are six-cameras represented in the link.    I helped-out other Erdman Video Systems staff move two of these to new locations (the two on the right-hand-end in the  (above noted) web-page).    In the midst of all the camera-re-location-work we managed to take a ride (in a LARGE crane man-basket) to bolt-up a moved Solar Panel, and that ride in the man-basket was a significant highlight of the trip.    The view from the man-basket - suspended at the end of 280 foot crane-boom was spectacular.   A Mr. Nick-shot-Video-of-that is at this Facebook link


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One of the Biggest (expletive deleted) cranes I have ever seen with my own eyes, and we got a ride in the 'man-basket' suspended from this BF crane to install some concrete anchors to mount a solar-panel...  When they installed and assembled this crane in this location it took something on the order of about 20 truck-loads to get this thing (in MANY MANY PIECES) up this one-lane-mountain-road.  I suspect that 'dis-assembling dams is a BIG project costing LOTs of money!

(you can see the solar-panel, in the picture below (almost dead-center top-to-bottom and  about 1/3 the way from the left edge of the picture)) - after we mounted it. Interesting note, here, about the mounting.  We never 'aimed' the camera.  Just took it off the tree where it had been mounted, moved it to this new location, drilled some holes in the concrete and mounted the camera and the view was damned near perfect.. - VERY weird, unexpected and interesting..)

The guy who's hand you see in the lower-left of the above picture is Chuck and he had a radio and the guy operating the crane (a VERY VERY SMOOTH operator, we might note!) was Mr. Andy, and he had another radio.  Together they used their radios and coordinated the positioning of the "man-basket" we were riding in and our positioning and helped us install the concrete anchors.  They were both super guys and we really enjoyed working with them.

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Here's the re-located camera 'almost' finished doing the install - I had another couple of hours work, here at this  (Lake Mills) camera-site, after this shot was taken, but it did not change the basic view of the installed system...   Note the hammer-drill in the lower-right of the picture - it is demolishing the dam 'as we speak' and the demolished debris is washed over the dam.   The guys operating the hammer have to take two weeks off for every 15 feet of vertical dam de-construction, to let the 'up-stream-side' of the water / sediments 'catch-up' to them.  They were off the weekend of 31 March and 1 April and so then will start again about tax-time (15 April, 2012).


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Here's me(with the borrowed "hard-hat" with the re-located (Lake Mills (the lake 'behind' the Glines Canyon Dam)) camera almost just right over my head on the 'up-stream-side' of what still shows in this view as the dam (you can see three (easily) and a part of the fourth of the dam's flood-gates (now closed).    The previous picture was taken from above and one can clearly see the hammer-drill knocking-down a significant portion of the dam.  They still have about 100 feet or so (vertically) of the dam to demolish.   In this view almost all-over-every-where-you-see is RIVER MUCK because where I am standing would have been 30-40 feet under water a year or so ago.


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This panorama was taken by a co-worker ((Mr. Nick) with his Motorola Droid cell-phone) and he e-mailed to me - it shows the Glines Canyon Dam site and what it looked-like in late March.  It may look significantly different today, as more work has been done, the water-level has dropped, and the above-noted web-page does not have "panorama" style digital images.



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This is a picture of Mr. Kevin on the top of the ladder (at the Elwha Dam camera-site (YES there USED TO BE 'a dam' there!)...  Since Kevin weighs even less than I do (and I weigh less than Nick) we frequently would put Mr. Kevin on the top of the ladder to work on the camera-system(s)...   I would hand tools to Mr. Kevin, while Mr. Nick (mostly the brains of the operation) would do the 'brainy-things' while Mr. Kevin and I did most of the 'mechanical 'stuff' '.    I also would contribute 'less-than-brainy' comments as Mr. Kevin and Mr. Nick worked...  that was about the extent of the 'help'...  This was a good separation of labour - especially since in the COLD my brain didn't function very well.

Mr. Kevin showed-up on Sunday, 25 March (at SeaTac (Seattle)) airport.   Mr. Nick and I drove from our rental-house near Port Angeles to SeaTac to pick-him-up.   Then we drove back to Port Angeles - round trip was ABOUT 7 hours in the  (rental - 2-wheel-drive (YES! we got STUCK ONCE (but ONLY ONCE, and a really friendly / helpful guy pulled-us-up-the-hill with is farm-tractor!).    A LONG DAMNED WAY to pick-up someone from SeaTac.  We didn't REALIZE how long it would take us and we were 'a bit' late, but not too much...

Once Kevin arrived, we got NEW INSTRUCTIONS (and via the nice people at UPS a 'kit' of parts) from the Miami office.

So - then with three of us working, we proceeded to update / upgrade 5 of the 6 cameras (in the RAIN!).   Since Kevin showed up (and he's from Connecticut (and it RAINS there a LOT (but not as much as here))) it began to rain (significantly) and so there are very very few pictures of that work (in the RAIN!), since I mostly left the iPhone back at the rental house because I did not want it to get wet and muddy in the rainy weather...

Several Generalities of working in / on the Olympic Peninsula:

1.) the weather forecast is ALWAYS for RAIN and temps less than 45 F (high)... - this turns out to be only partially true - it pours rain for 15 minutes, then it drizzles for two hours then the sun comes out for 40 minutes - then the cycle starts all over again (and it typically gets COLDER when it's raining).
2.) KNEE-HIGH rubber boots are NOT REQUIRED but they are recommended
3.) I had ankle-high Vasque shoes and some Gore-Tex socks and some Outdoor Research 'gaiters' and my feet were toasty warm and dry for nearly 10 days. - The socks and gaiters were pricey, but the guy at REI-Seattle said the combination would be WAY WAY BETTER than rubber-boots and he was RIGHT ON...
4.) Though some we know were 'pushing-hard' for an 'early-finish' it wasn't to be;  but we had fun, we learned a lot, no one got hurt (bad), and we did everything we were meant to do - so that's a pretty good record
5.) Though this should be 'seafood heaven' (much like Stuart, where we live) it was not to be - apparently this is NOT the season (we saw ALLL the floating docks on dry land in a place called Sekiu where we once ate dinner)... - and when NOT the season all the seafood is FROZEN (but still not bad).
6.) it is COLD and RAINY and sometimes WINDY and that makes it hard on exposed fingers and bodies subject to bursitis problems
7.) one needs a LOT of food to support the WORK and the COLD
8.) having 3 (experienced) people working on any given camera-system-problem is GREAT - when you all work towards a common-goal, when you all know what needs to be done and can all do it - it is truly rewarding to sometimes get the chance to be a part of a great working team...
9.) in a 'remote' area like this (and further areas of the Olympic Peninsula (it turns out)) having three people with three differernt cell-phones with three differernt service providers can be a 'god-send'... - we had:
   
    Nick's Motorola Droid phone with Verizon service which is the same service as the Verizon GSM-cell-modems in all the camera systems. Verizon offers 4 bars (100%)
    Bill's Apple iPhone 4S with A T & T service (which wasn't much good, most of the time on the Olympic Peninsula) but the iPhone has 5 'bars' at the '100%' service level - it was NEVER 5 bars...
    Kevin had his service with Sprint (which is good in Connecticut where he comes from, it offers six bars at 100%, and an ITC smart-phone

There's no question that Nick's Verizon phone was more USEFUL than Kevin's but it was good to have three smart-phones most of the time...

AND - to credit Verizon's service out there in the 'no-where' - we needed a bubble-level at one point to verify a camera-system was mounted correctly.      Mr. Nick had such GREAT Verizon Service, he found a bubble level application on a web-site; downloaded it to his Motorola Droid phone, enabled it and handed it to Mr. Kevin on the ladder.   Turns out Mr. Kevin has a VERY ACCURATE EYE - he'd mounted the camera and it was ONLY off by 2.7 degrees, pretty darned close for 'eyeballing it'....


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Several people have asked 'Where did you STAY' - well - here's a picture of me (in the foreground), but the background is "Maple Grove" a small weekend & vacation community about 20 minutes WSW of Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula.   The Gang at Erdman rented us a house here, and that is where we stayed...  It's VERY PRETTY, and as you can see mountains in the background.  What you do NOT see in this image is the very nice lake that the community is built-around and you also do not see the house we actually stayed in.  - Sorry.

AND - AND - AND - one should ALWAYS take care and let the local PBS station 'say it's thing... They did an EXCELLENT piece on "Un-Damming the Elwha" and you can find it here:   http://kcts9.org/undamming-elwha


The Last Week  (1 April through 7 April, 2012)  we did some driving, hiking, taking pictures, seeing the sights (all in the RAIN) on the Olympic Peninsula... ... ...

Ms. May had spent the better part of a week in and around Seattle, with her good friends Lily and John Hasegawa (pottery-friends from Paducah Kentucky)...    Ms. May was visiting with her friends, learning about pottery and attending the "NCECA Conference" in downtown Seattle, and attending some workshops...

But Ms. May joined me and then we (she and I) took-off on a counter-clockwise journey around the Olympic Peninsula - mostly on a road called US-101 which goes west, then south then east and, well, it goes in MANY directions, (mostly in a circle) unlike most other roads that merely go from point "A" to point "B". - More information on that trip is to follow - with MANY pictures...


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At about 06:30 a.m. on the first of April we got a text-message on Mr. Bill's iPhone.  It was the above picture of
Ms. May's recently Wood Fired Pottery that had been taken-out of the kiln back in Jupiter Farms, Florida, near where we live.
Needless to say on our return to Florida it was a priority to get to Jupiter Farms and retrieve her terrific new stuff.


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One of the very first places we went was to Dungeness Bay (a little to the east of Port Angeles).  This picture is of the "Dungeness Spit",
which is a rare-find at nearly 4 miles long, all natural, and enclosing the 'bay' to the right.   If you want to see the original picture,
you can 'click-here' for an image that is most probably WAY LARGER than your monitor (16" wide at 100 pixels per inch).


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We saw this (very cute) picture on one of the Park Service's postings / placards...


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This picture, taken on the Dungeness Spit, by Ms. May, with her Nikon, is, in my opinion, one of the best pictures of the
whole trip.     I like it SO MUCH that I've 'adopted' it for use in other places / ways.  - if you want to see the HUGEREST
version then 'click-here'...

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Barnes Creek - just one of the MANY places we visited and images we shot... (I can't remember if this is an
iPhone picture or a Nikon picture, but it's pretty good)!



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This is (believe it or not) an 'average' sized log on some of the beaches around here.  This one has obviously been 'hollowed-out' on the inside, but STILL a DAMNED BIG LOG...



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This is a picture of a typical (legacy) glacier lake.  It has that characteristic look. This is called Crescent Lake - you can look it up on Google Earth (It's in Washington State), and it is about 600 feet deep!



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This was ANOTHER BIG (DAMNED) LOG - if I could take a picture (with my iPhone) of Ms. May taking a picture of ME with her Nikon - this is a Big LOG - and remember this was the HOLE in the stump of the log!


About half-way-down the Pacific Coast of the "Olympic Peninsula" is a place called "Kalaloch" with an ancient Lodge and a bunch of cabins - the history is long and interesting - look it up on the Wikipedia Link (previously noted) if you like.


ANYWAY - while there (and on the Garmin GPSMap's (marine-chart-database) I noticed a place called "Destruction Island" (<= Wikipedia Link).  It has an interesting history (noted in the previous link).   Later in the trip (at a place called the "Westport Maritime Museum") we found the Fresnel Lens for this light(house) - which was taken-out-of-service by the US Coast Guard in 2008.  A very interesting place, lighthouse, etc.


At the very last place we stayed "on the beach" (Washington's Pacific Coast) - this was the Bed & Breakfast (run by Mim and Paul (who were VERY NICE to us!) in a place (a VERY VERY TINY PLACE) called Pacific Beach...

ANYWAY - we got up on Saturday morning, early (before 07:00 a.m.) - and saw - what - maybe a dozen people walking down the road towards the beach with a bit of 'clamming-gear'.  Now, mind you, the temperature outside is something like 36 F and these people had on enough layers to start a new REI or Patagonia store and so we figured they must be dedicated individuals.  We thought, we'd never seen people looking for clams  - so maybe we'd tag-along and learn something... - Well LEARN WE DID...

We found not 10s of people on the beach, not 100's but perhaps a couple THOUSAND people on the beach, no kidding - HUNDREDS of cars and some had just walked... Turns out (after asking a LOT of questions) that there was a two-day-season on what they call "Razor Clams" - (picture below).

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Each PERSON can take up to 15 clams and you MUST TAKE whatever you dig-up... - Blah - Blah - Blah - there's a LOT to this - but the DEDICATION of these people against the 'elements' (cold and some wind) was stunning! - last time they had a couple day season, we're told, it was SNOWING!....  to learn more about 'razor clams' you can go here(Washington State Fish & Game, here (Wikipedia), or here (how-to, etc.)... ((all web-links!))


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This was me and the Blackberry Milk Shake that we found at the Blackberry Cafe, in Joyce Washington...  This milk-shake was SOOOOOOoooooo..... good that we even went back there later in the day but they had run-out of ice-cream to make the milk-shakes so we didn't get a second one! - UGH UGH UGH! How-so-ever we DID find out that Joyce, Washington seems to be the place to be at "Blackberry Festival" time...


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Here is the face that Mr. Bill makes while eating "Marion Berry Cobbler" in "Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort" (Sol Duc is sometimes spelled Sole Duck, but we won't go there.) Marion Berries are known for their 'tartness' and that probably explains the expression on my face, here...

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Here's Mr. Bill (amongst others) is/are eating the last dessert we'll have, together,
in Washington State.  This is (was, actually) a "Berrylicious" shake at the "Cascadia Grill"
on 4th Street in Olympia... - it was VERY GOOD!...


AND - AND - AND - for those who are interested in such things (and some are; some are not) - I finally (after many years of asking myself this question) got 'around to' really researching the difference(s) between "prawn" and "shrimp"...

MANY people use the terms interchangeably, much marketing literature does the same.  HOWEVER, there IS A DIFFERENCE.... - there are some 'language' differences (in English), I assume in other languages, also.  In the UK and other "commonwealth" countries, the word "prawn" typically dominates, whereas in the USA the word "shrimp" dominates... - But if you use a dictionary and/or Wikipedia, and/or just a "Google Search" you WILL FIND a difference.  Here's the Wikipedia Link for Shrimp and here's the one for Prawn - just to get you started.  The basic difference is very hard to discern 'to the naked eye' but - there is a difference.



Needless to say FOOD has been a SIGNIFICANT PORTION of this trip. - and today (Friday, 6 April) we managed to get dinner with the "Early Bird" or "Happy Hour" menu at a place called the Mill 109 Restaurant in a place called Seabrook (some people say this 'development' was started in 2004 by someone from Florida but we have no confirmation that this is actually true.)  Nevertheless the food was pretty fare for the "Happy Hour Price", though the service was a bit slow...

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We saw this sign, and just HAD to take a picture... - Apparently this area of the Olympic Peninsula
is now featured, prominently, in some current TV show about Vampires.   We also have a couple
of pottery-friends who cautioned us to 'be careful of the vampires out there' (meaning on the
Olympic Peninsula.  This was on the side of a quick-stop-food-place at a local gas-station.



One other thing of note on our last-day-in-paradise' (if you call less than 50 F paradise) was running across a 'group' of kiteboarders (one already out and doing his thing, and another 1/2 dozen or so ready to go out).    These guys (and they were REAL MEN, REAL LUNATICS, and REALLY DEDICATED had on (near as we could tell) wet-suits UNDER dry-suits and a Lot of REALLY GOOD GEAR....  We saw these guys on a spit-of-land at a place called "Ocean Shores" (<= Wikipedia Link).  Ocean Shores is the NW corner of a body of water called "Gray's Harbour" (<= Wikipedia Link)...  THEN while perusing the fishing-village of "Westport" (on the SW corner of Gray's Harbour, we saw one more kiteboarder out - doing his thing - but never quite figured out how to drive down to his launch-point.  We think he might have been kiting off the US Coast Guard station in Westport, but we're not sure...

THESE GUYS are REAL MEN to brave the COLD and the WIND, (it was probably 15-20 knots at least)... - we were REALLY IMPRESSED!

Now - just so you know - that there is SOME SEMBLANCE of "Intelligence" left here, the SANITY wants to have you know these things about living in Florida:

1.) you do NOT have to worry if the electricity goes off,  you can still take a shower (the house pipes are not frozen)
2.) similar with house-heat
3.) you can wear sandals 24 x 7 x 365 at any time of the day or night and NOT get frostbite on your toes
4.) MOST evenings you can see the moon and stars
5.) one set of clothes consists of 3 tee shirts, 3 pairs of underwear and 3 pairs of shorts - that is ALL one needs to live in (south) Florida! - for formal wear we consider a tee shirt with no holes nor stains and socks with our shoes and SHORTS! "Layers" are only something that comes in Lasagna.
6.) We DO HAVE TO WEAR SUN-BLOCK when going outside because the sun SHINES more than it is overcast
7.) the word "FREEZE" is not even in the dictionary down here; much less the word "hill" or "mountain" and certainly not "SNOW"...
8.) the concept of a frozen roadway or bridge does not even think about existing here, children are never taught these things...
9.) mountains / hills are non-existent (that means you can do ANYTHING with a 40 horsepower car!)
10.) there is NO REI store in the entire STATE of Florida!
11.) Patagonia (for Floridians) is a place in Argentina, not a clothing brand (though I gotta admit I was VERY HAPPY
to have my Patagonia stuff while WORKING in the COLD FROZEN NORTHWEST, and while Walking the Beaches with
my Huggly Hunny Bunch!


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updated: 19:24   p.m. (USA-EDT) on Thursday,  10 October, 2013;  by: Mr._Bill on the Apple Macintosh 'Mac Mini' - revID:  1p