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[leelai]

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Hi and welcome to the Forum!

Tangier island is certainly very beautiful....the whole area is. Love that church!

And all those water courses......definitely a slice of heaven.

Thank you for showing us!

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[giradman]

Oh my.....what amazing bridges cross the bay.

Would love to travel on those bridges....especially the bridge tunnel......that's one heck of an idea to do it like that. Just amazing what can be accomplished and it's so very long. That tunnel must drop quite quickly too......... So very impressive!

Hi Leelai - I've been across that LONG bridge-tunnel 4x now (and want to do it again!) - it is an amazing human project; the tunnel drop is about the same as going across the Holland or Lincoln Tunnels from New Jersey to Manhattan, so not a frightening experience @ all - it's an experience to go 18 miles across the entry of the bay into the Atlantic ocean.

I wanted to add some pics of Tangier Island in the center of the Chesapeake Bay... The only way to get there is by boat or small airplane.. Best crab cakes in the world! Come visit sometime!

Thanks Searchngal for your comments about Tangier Island - I've not been there, BUT I must say that around the huge Chesapeake Bay area that MANY would claim to have the best 'crab cakes' (as we were told on Solomons Island and elsewhere over the years of my many visits there) - NOW, just for those who do not know this area, let me yet show another map w/ some arrows - HEE HEE!

The 'red pin' is Tangier Island (assume a boat or plane are the ways to get there); the 'blue arrow' at the top is Solomons Island of our recent visit to this western shore; the 'green arrow' is Chincoteague Island (a previous visit in 2012); and the 'red arrow' is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel location, and yes that is an 18 mile stretch! Dave

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[J. A.]

This deer seemed to think I don't see it if it doesn't move.

 

[The OB]

.........I've been across that LONG bridge-tunnel 4x now (and want to do it again!) - it is an amazing human project; the tunnel drop is about the same as going across the Holland or Lincoln Tunnel bridges from New Jersey to Manhattan, so not a frightening experience @ all - it's an experience to go 18 miles across the entry of the bay into the Atlantic ocean.........

Another fascinating segment Dave! I agree it would be a great experience to drive over that long expanse of water and to appreciate the size of that construction program. The closest (and only) time I experienced anything like that was some years ago, driving across the Afsluitdijk (Enclosure Dyke) in North Holland, a 32 km (20 mile) "road across the sea" damming off the Zuiderzee part of the North Sea. The most exciting part was at the half-way point where you were out of sight of land in any direction:

A very eerie feeling of driving over water! To have that experience you describe, and then stop to try those wonderful crab cakes, would make my day I reckon
Andrew




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[The OB]

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This deer seemed to think I don't see it if it doesn't move.

Great photo Johanna, and a lucky moment to snap it I was just wondering, is that something tied on to the deer's antler? Or just an example of the rare Austrian Deer Tree growing there?
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[J. A.]

Great photo Johanna, and a lucky moment to snap it I was just wondering, is that something tied on to the deer's antler? Or just an example of the rare Austrian Deer Tree growing there? Andrew Sent from Oz using Tapatalk

Lol
If it's a deer tree, it's international. I guess you'll find this in Hungary as well. Like: Central European Deer Tree.

Thank you, Andrew!
I'm not certain what it could be. Perhaps some remnants of the velvet that covers the antlers, before it's lost in May.

 

[giradman]

Another fascinating segment Dave! I agree it would be a great experience to drive over that long expanse of water and to appreciate the size of that construction program. The closest (and only) time I experienced anything like that was some years ago, driving across the Afsluitdijk (Enclosure Dyke) in North Holland, a 32 km (20 mile) "road across the sea" damming off the Zuiderzee part of the North Sea. The most exciting part was at the half-way point where you were out of sight of land in any direction:

A very eerie feeling of driving over water! To have that experience you describe, and then stop to try those wonderful crab cakes, would make my day I reckon
Andrew

Hi Andrew - Susan & I have also made that drive on the dyke - another amazing feat of engineering keeping the sea out of the Netherlands!

These long bridges close to the water can certainly produce an 'eerie' feeling, kind of like your car is actually rolling on the water - probably the closest I've come to that feeling is in the Florida Keys where the bridges are quite close to the water and have no super structures above to suggest that you're on bridges, but a fun drive also. Dave
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[giradman]

Well, for a number of years, I've been showing our yard in bloom but mainly the azaleas & dogwood trees - in the front but back mostly, we have some ​rhododendrons which bloom later in spring after the others have lost their flowers - below a couple of pics from the back yard - the flowers are beautiful -

In a week our so, we will be visiting one our mountain get-aways, Blowing Rock - rhododendrons are quite common in the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially along the Parkway (believe that I have a travelogue from the past) and the bushes bloom later of course due to the added elevation - SO, expect to see a lot of rhodys w/ flowers of different colors. Dave
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[J. A.]

Parts of a bush in our schoolyard

 

[J. A.]

Here's a stork's nest with camera:

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Admiral Adama meets Admiral Adama at Ottawa ComiCon.



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[twerppoet]

Admiral Adama meets Admiral Adama at Ottawa ComiCon.

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Congratulations. I'm betting it was great meeting him.

 

[leelai]

Admiral Adama meets Admiral Adama at Ottawa ComiCon. <img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=56146"/> Sent from my iPhone using iPF

Woohoo! How good that must have been for you! A sweet moment I'm sure Admiral!

Just brilliant!! Great pic also!!

 

[AdmiralAdama]

Woohoo! How good that must have been for you! A sweet moment I'm sure Admiral! Just brilliant!! Great pic also!!

So say we all.

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[J. A.]

This is something that I noticed for the first time today:




Usually the rows of our vineyards are parallel, these look like the slice of a cake between more or less parallel rows.