Dare I say.. Camera 8?

Chris had said the camera should be on it's way to me this week. After a quick Florida vacation here (80F and sunny today ), it should then be on it's way to Europe.

What???? We are at the end? Already?

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Nope, I don't think so! I don't have the camera, I just remembered the camera. Sorry my post was confusing!

Where is 8.1 anyway?

lmn said:

Nope, I don't think so! I don't have the camera, I just remembered the camera. Sorry my post was confusing!

Where is 8.1 anyway?

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In the Great Frozen North.

tim in san jose

I handed 8.1 off to MartinB last week. So it's in good hands!

Tim... don't rub it in. There's snow on the ground here.

The Great Frozen North? Well then, looks like I can disappear for another few months!

That'll be alright. Matt, John and I will come pounding on your door when Matt brings the camera down. All I ask is you have some Nachos ready.

Not so fast with the disappearing!

I should be moving 8.1 along to Matt tomorrow where it is not so frozen. Its a pretty short hop across the border at that point.
Here, skiing has been open since mid October. I just mounted new studded winter tires on my bicycle on Fri - in time for the 1st snow storm that clogged up the morning rush hour. I can report that Camera 8.1 works pefectly fine in -13 C temperatures. (thats 8 F)

Martin

lmn said:

The Great Frozen North? Well then, looks like I can disappear for another few months!

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8.2 is resting comfortably in Florida

semeuse said:

8.2 is resting comfortably in Florida

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Getting a little sun at the beach?

hallo

florida has contacted me.
target-coordinates are submitted

waiting for the cam and hope for a smoothly delivery.
--
thomas

semeuse said:

8.2 is resting comfortably in Florida

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Semeuse,
Apologies for the delay. I still wasn't able to get to the waterfalls I had planned to photograph... maybe another time.
Instead I picked up two photos of my travels.
Have a beer at the Ale House for me.

Chris

I think we can safely say things are moving along nice and smoothly.... something has to be wrong!!

NOW is NOT the time to start jinxing it, Síle!

Almost done!! Wow - all in WELL under a year perhaps?

Shawn Rahman said:

NOW is NOT the time to start jinxing it, Síle!

Almost done!! Wow - all in WELL under a year perhaps?

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:devil: Sorry the horns must be left over from Hallowe'en.. I'll behave now.. I promise....

Síle said:

:devil: Sorry the horns must be left over from Hallowe'en.. I'll behave now.. I promise....

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Love your quote

Síle said:

:devil: <snip> I'll behave now.. I promise....

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My guess: not for long.

8.2 arrived just in time to accompany me on a little side trip to Lake Okeechobee. And now it's packed up and ready to spring across the pond.

The closer you get to that lake, the further back in time you go. Is Stuart/Jensen Beach still getting yucky water from there?

thebanana said:

Love your quote

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Thank you sir ... me too!

cdholden said:

My guess: not for long.

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Well I never!!! (Behaved that is... )

semeuse said:

8.2 arrived just in time to accompany me on a little side trip to Lake Okeechobee. And now it's packed up and ready to spring across the pond.

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Excellent news on the moving front.. but is that really a real name for a lake? Okeechobee? Sounds a bit like Okiedokie.. which definitely isn't a lake - so far as I know!

Sile,
Yes, even in text, your pronunciation is correct. It does sound like that.
My question about Stuart/Jensen Beach comes from an unknown (then, not sure aboout now) issue with E. Coli and other nasties showing up in the Inlet right there at the Stuart bridge. It was going on for a few years, but I'm not sure if they ever found a definitive source. Combine waste with summer algae bloom and you've got a recipe for disaster when it comes to water recreation.
I spent some time exploring the waterways when I lived down there. To make a long story short, all those kids that visit Disneyworld (or is Disneyland? I forget.) have all of their urine and feces float down the Kissimmee River with a few other waterways and collect in Lake Okeechobee, an abomination created by the Army Corps of Engineers. This water is then distributed to south Florida via a network of canals and rivers for irrigation and treatment to be used for drinking, bathing, and most importantly, enabling wet t-shirt contests. In addition to the central part of the state's population's waste matter, it also passes through a lot of commercial farming area... sugar, corn, soy, etc. Along the way, some of their waste water and fertilizer by-products get dumped into this water supply before it ever gets to people. The high mineral deposits wreak havoc on the ecosystem. Nitrogen, among many other things dumped, are a catalyst to help the non-native vegetation spread like wildfire to choke out and kill some of the good filtering grasses of what is physically known as the River of Grass. Most people know this label as The Everglades. The national park of the same name is just a very small small part of this when you look at it in its entirety.
So the Army's Corps of Engineers decided long ago that they would dike this body of water to make a lake, and distribute it for the growing population in the first half of the 1900s. By not passing legislation to protect what goes into the water (corruption maybe? we can discuss after I adjust my tin foil hat), the government is actually allowing large commercial farming companies to chemically harm the same people they originally intended to help. It's so much easier for them to dump or "accidentally spill" some of this onto the fields after harvest or into the canals, than to actually pay for proper disposal.
Confusing and frustrating all in the same project. This is just one of many. Welcome to America. We're too busy meddling in the affairs of others to fix our own problems.
In case you're wondering, yes... I have been known to hug a tree or two.

Síle said:

:devil: Sorry the horns must be left over from Hallowe'en.. I'll behave now.. I promise....

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Sorry to hear that.

Flew over your house yesterday. Couldn't see it for the clouds.

tim in cambridge gb

local chickens are molting. don't know if this is good omen or bad.

Lisa

cdholden said:

The closer you get to that lake, the further back in time you go. Is Stuart/Jensen Beach still getting yucky water from there?

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Not as bad as it was - but still, every once in awhile, someone opens that gate and...

cdholden said:

In case you're wondering, yes... I have been known to hug a tree or two.

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Sounds like a wonderful place for a vacation Chris... but the real question is this.. has a tree ever hugged you back?

k_jupiter said:

Flew over your house yesterday. Couldn't see it for the clouds.

tim in cambridge gb

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Excellent.. my cloud invisibility spells are working well then! Drop in on your way home.. I'll even fire up the grill

lmn said:

local chickens are molting. don't know if this is good omen or bad.

Lisa

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Bad... Oh bad...

semeuse said:

Not as bad as it was - but still, every once in awhile, someone opens that gate and...

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The gate is well and truly open...

Síle said:

Excellent.. my cloud invisibility spells are working well then! Drop in on your way home.. I'll even fire up the grill

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I wish. That plane won't stop for me and the first step is a doozy.

I'll be back in Aachen in a couple of weeks. The land of warmth and sunshine NOT!

Good light to all, keep it moving (The bran flakes slogan).

tim in cambridge gb