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Putsborough is a beach on the coast of North Devon, England, between Croyde and Woolacombe. Putsborough beach is situated on the southern end of Woolacombe Sands. The surf works at all tide stages but mid to high tend to have an edge. It is the only beach in the area that benefits from some protection from the South/Southwesterly winds, thanks to Baggy Point headland. Peaks are scattered all along its length. It has a fairly slow waves which are suitable for beginners. The sandy beach has some rocky outcrops which provide paddling pools.
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Putsborough is a beach on the coast of North Devon, England, between Croyde and Woolacombe. Putsborough beach is situated on the southern end of Woolacombe Sands. The surf works at all tide stages but mid to high tend to have an edge. It is the only beach in the area that benefits from some protection from the South/Southwesterly winds, thanks to Baggy Point headland. Peaks are scattered all along its length. It has a fairly slow waves which are suitable for beginners. The sandy beach has some rocky outcrops which provide paddling pools.
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Putsborough is a beach on the coast of North Devon, England, between Croyde and Woolacombe. Putsborough beach is situated on the southern end of Woolacombe Sands. The surf works at all tide stages but mid to high tend to have an edge. It is the only beach in the area that benefits from some protection from the South/Southwesterly winds, thanks to Baggy Point headland. Peaks are scattered all along its length. It has a fairly slow waves which are suitable for beginners. The sandy beach has some rocky outcrops which provide paddling pools.
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Putsborough is a beach on the coast of North Devon, England, between Croyde and Woolacombe. Putsborough beach is situated on the southern end of Woolacombe Sands. The surf works at all tide stages but mid to high tend to have an edge. It is the only beach in the area that benefits from some protection from the South/Southwesterly winds, thanks to Baggy Point headland. Peaks are scattered all along its length. It has a fairly slow waves which are suitable for beginners. The sandy beach has some rocky outcrops which provide paddling pools.
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Putsborough is a beach on the coast of North Devon, England, between Croyde and Woolacombe. Putsborough beach is situated on the southern end of Woolacombe Sands. The surf works at all tide stages but mid to high tend to have an edge. It is the only beach in the area that benefits from some protection from the South/Southwesterly winds, thanks to Baggy Point headland. Peaks are scattered all along its length. It has a fairly slow waves which are suitable for beginners. The sandy beach has some rocky outcrops which provide paddling pools.
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Challenge winner.
by Eyal NahmiasI’m so excited. Just learned that my Pelican entry in the “Ready for My Clo…
I’m so excited. Just learned that my Pelican entry in the Ready for My Close Up challenge in the Pelican Group won first place. It is now featured in the Pelican Group featured section and I’m featured artist. / To everyone that voted for me, my sincere thanks and gratitude. It couldn’t have happened w/o your support and votes. Check out my previous journal about this month features and winnings…... :-) Eyal
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Kamali’i Pa’ani ma Ho’okipa Keiki hanau o ka ‘aina Child of the Island, Child of the land / A native son, one born on the land Featured Art 18 June 2009 Of Noble Birth Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009 / All Rights Reserved Two young brothers search the tidepools for Opihi and other treasures in natural evening light on Ho’okipa at Sunset on Maui Hawai’i / Best viewed full size Maui hoku ao nani e alohi e ana / Hawaiian Translation: Maui Brightest and Best Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Won the Animal Kingdom challenge.
by Eyal NahmiasWhat a wonderful surprise. Just fired up the computer and learned that my Young Elephant Seal pup...
What a wonderful surprise. Just fired up the computer and learned that my Young Elephant Seal pup image won the first place in the Animal Kingdom challenge hosted by the All Around the Styles group to all that voted for my image, THANK YOU!! I’m so happy and thankful for your support and vote of confidence.
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The Land Where Souls Play / Pa’ia Beach Maui Hawai’i * Copyright © Sharon Mau 2009* / All Rights Reserved “An awakening to dawn mist on the water, / flowing Spirit’s streams to God’s alter, / purifying essence whistles through the trees, / images of the sacred blowing in the breeze. / Flights of fancy from birds up high, / feathers of many colours filtering through the sky, sun, moon and stars envelops Earth’s dome, / we’re all birds of a feather, finding our way home. Spectacle of mesmerizing movements flashing in the mind, / melting pots of humans, secrets hard to find, love all embracing whispers on the wind, no physical presence, ecstasy from a light dimmed. Gifts of joy enmeshed in music and dance, visualizing images filtering in a trance, warriors in a drumbeat at journeys end, back to the womb of creation enmeshed in a substance blend. Wondrous dreams in the stillness of the dark, journey on uplifting voyages in paradise park, thunder and lightening points the way, a prelude to the land where Soul’s play.” Poetry by Michael Levy Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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“The Atlas Of Dreams” is an ongoing project started in 1999. Each ‘plate’ is composed of several different images combined to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Source images include historic engravings, NASA photos of space and the Earth’s surface, abstract images, the artwork of my father: Gus Maier, and of course my own artwork – recycled and reused. Watch out for stray butterflies, fish, snakes, and other animals… Color Plate 55 combines an engraving from Gustave Dore’s illustrations for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime Of The Ancient Mariner with a ‘melted wax painting’ created by my father, Gus Maier. Engraved fish swim surreptitiously throughout, and the frame is derived from one of my friend Brad Hitz’s Deterioration series of darkroom paintings.
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Standing here at sea level on the bleached white coral and black lava rocks of Kanaio Beach near this beautiful anchialine pond with my back to ocean about 30 feet behind me while gazing mauka (toward the mountain) at the green southern slopes of Haleakala rising before me it is interesting to know that the summit is 10,023 feet above. This is a composite of two portrait landscape shots stitched together with some dodge and burn to highlight the ripples in the water and the shadows on the mountain with slight selective colour saturation. The green low growing bush on the right is Milo and the grasses are called Makaloa. Sea Purslane (Akulikuli) and Naupaka (Scaevola taccada Naupaka which is native and indigenous, also known as Scaevola frutescens and Scaevola sericea) also grows here, Kanaio Beach is in a remote area of the protected Ahihi Kinau Nature Preserve, the site of the most recent lava flow on Maui when Haleakala volcano erupted in or about 1790. The only active volcano in Hawai`i outside the Big Island is Haleakala on Maui. The last eruption of Haleakala occurred in the late 1700s, possibly as late as 1790, on the lower southwest rift zone. The vents for these flows are just upslope of La Perouse Bay / If you enter here bring plenty of water, fresh unperishable food and a hat as there is no shade and of course no facilities. Sharon Anne Mau 13 March 2009 pano 3 gazing at Haleakala from one of the beautiful anchialine ponds of Kanaio Beach east of Ahihi Kinau (also known as La Perouse) / Ulupalakua Maui Hawai’i. It is important to protect this area of cultural and geological significance and when one hikes into this area you must stay on the trails and not venture off. Don’t leave anything behind and don’t bring anything out. You can still see the large smooth stepping stones in some places along the trail which are a part of the Hoapili Trail, the ancient Hawaiian King’s Trail or King’s Highway, it is also called Alaloa, a foot path which once encircled the entire island. Hand drystacked lava rock walls, ancient sacred Heiau’s (platforms and altars, places of worship), ancient foundations of homes and fascinating archeological sites are throughout this beautiful area. Around 1516 Kiha, son of Chief Piilani, completed constructing the Alaloa (Long Road) around Maui’s entire coastline which his father began. According to historian Inez Ashdown, what remains of the the road has been variously called The King’s Road, Piilani’s Highway, and Hoapili’s Horse Trail. It’s hard to believe, looking at the harsh, arid landscape of the southern part of Maui now, but in previous times, the native forests on the slopes of Haleakala extended from just below the cinder cones down to sea level. The rainforest trees attracted clouds which fed watercourses and underground springs and there were numerous villages all along the coastline. The Alaloa had few turns and no bridges, but travelers swam or swung by handmade ropes across streams that cut through the trail. Canoes sometimes ferried people across streams or along the shore. Trained, speedy runners (kukini) carried messages or fresh food for the chiefs along the Alaloa and people heaped their wares (hala mats, feathers, kapa, and various food offerings) in certain spots for the taxcollectors. When the first explorers sailed along Maui’s coast, they saw many villages along the Long Road. Today, the entire area is mostly uninhabited. Much of the Road has disappeared with modern road building, but one of the finest remaining portions is the original highway built by Piilani which begins at La Perouse Bay and extends eastward across a huge expanse of unstable jagged lava known as the Paea flow. The Paea flow is the last recorded flow from Haleakala. One part of the flow started above Puu Mahoe, the cone that stands above the Ulupalakua road as it winds from Ulupalakua to Hana. The lava meets the sea at the remains of two fishponds at the site of the ancient village of Lae Kinau, which is the name of the cape that is part of the Ahihi-Kinau Reserve. It is said that the goddess Pele was angered when Paea, a man she wanted, rejected her because he was in love with a woman, Kalua, who lived in the village. The signs of Pele’s rage remain still. In the sea at the bottom of the flow, there is a stone called Po’o Kanaka (Man’s Head), which Ashdown says resembles the island of Maui on a map. It is there that Pele’s flow caught the stubborn man who refused her advances. Seaward of the Ulupalakua road stands Puu Naio and Puu Kalualapa. Ka naio means the destruction. Kalua lapa is named for the woman whose lapa, or body, became the ridge forming part of Puu Naio. The existing remnant of the King’s Highway travels from La Perouse Bay, named for the French explorer who was the first recorded European to step ashore on Maui in 1787, to Nu’u, a village whose ruins lie entirely hidden by a heavy growth of koa haole. It traverses an area that is hot, dry and covered with clinkery sharp ‘a’a lava. Along the shore evidence of former habitation – house sites, heiau (temples), canoe sheds – still remain Here below are more informative and interesting links. Anchialine ponds exist in inland lava depressions near the ocean. They are fed by freshwater springs or from percolation from the water table. The water level rises and falls with the tide and salinity varies from fresh to saltier than sea water. Although the anchialine ponds do not have any direct connection to the ocean, somehow, the opae-ula colonized these ponds. Calliasmata pholidota live in the anchialine ponds of Ahihi-Kinau, Maui Anchialine ponds, where the shrimps live, are generally coastal ponds with no surface connection to the sea, but which rise and fall with the tides, suggesting some underground connection. They can range in salinity from nearly as salty as the ocean to quite fresh, with the fresh water often flowing from the mountains toward the sea. Often the water is layered, with the freshest water lying near the surface and saltier water below. Three of the six species of anchialine pool shrimp are candidates for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act,” said Lorena Wada, candidate conservation coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service for the Pacific islands. The three listed are the Metabetaeus, the Procaris and the Palaemonella. Hawaiian anchialine shrimps tend to be found in clean water in either lava coastlines or limestone areas with open sinkholes. The best known of the six Hawaiian anchialine ‘ōpae is the ‘ōpae ‘ula, of which eight distinct genetic lineages have been located—indicating that once these creatures take up residence in a new part of the island, they tend to be isolated there and evolve into unique forms. The ‘ōpae ‘ula are found on Maui, Hawai’i and O’ahu. Read more here on Raising Islands From the Honolulu Advertiser on State plans to close Maui’s Ahihi-Kinau reserve posted 03 February 2008 “A blind cave spider, brackish water shrimp and rugged dryland plants are among the native species living on and around the old lava flows protected by the Ahihi-Kinau Natural Area Reserve. But studies show the ecosystems of anchialine pools and lava tubes scattered along the edges of Cape Kinau are being degraded, trampled on, and contaminated with the litter and wastes of visitors trekking through the South Maui reserve. Historical archaeological features are also being damaged, according to the staff responsible for protecting the 2,000 acres of lava intruding into the ocean between Ahihi Bay and La Perouse Bay. With a preservation plan to help the natural area recover and to prevent further damage, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources is proposing to temporarily restrict access to portions of the popular and heavily used reserve for two years. The closure will allow reserve personnel to formally establish and mark trails, install educational signs, and prepare baseline measurements of the marine, geological and cultural resources to compare against the condition of the resources after the areas are reopened to the public Natural area reserves are designated by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to protect biologically rich and geologically unique areas. When Ahihi-Kinau was designated, it was known to be a habitat for a number of rare and endangered plants and animals, most of them so small few observers would even recognize their unique qualities. Endemic species found in the reserve include an endangered coastal plant, awikiwiki, spiders unique to the lava tubes in Hawaii and shrimps found only in anchialine ponds. Ramsey said researchers pointed out that degradation is occurring in and around anchialine ponds – brackish pools formed in the lava fields from ocean water seeping through the porous rocks – with people walking in ponds, picking up tiny shrimps and dumping their waste. The rules for natural area reserves prohibit taking materials or damaging the natural habitat, but enforcement is difficult. Researchers recommended that the state bar people from the ponds and from using trails that come close to the ponds, Ramsey said. The anchialine ponds in the reserve are considered the premiere examples of the marine feature, with six of eight known rare anchialine species found in the Ahihi-Kinau reserve. Anchialine ponds are unique in that marine species are found in them although the ponds have no direct connection to the ocean” Information Source: Honolulu Advertiser story posted 03 February 2008 The shoreline beyond the natural area reserve offers good ulua fishing and opportunities for diving on overnight trips. Shore casting for ulua – any of several species of jack fish, some growing to more than 100 pounds – normally is conducted at night, when the fish come closer to shore to feed. The committee and DLNR are committed to restricting access because an influx of often poorly informed visitors – around 700 a day – is causing damage to the natural and cultural resources in the area Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
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Sailing boat in open sea
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Boat race in open sea
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Boat race in open sea
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They just go on, and on, and on…
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Nothing else to say
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Picture of South African sea lion off Cape Town
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And the “too much spare time” award goes to…
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original photograph digitaly painted
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Pencil drawing. This potato cod approached me and followed me around a bit while I was diving at Cod Hole. I took some photos with a disposable camera, and later drew from the photos. He seemed to enjoy the company!
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This piece is originally a Mural on a bedroom wall, measuring approximately 12ftX16ft, Acrylic. / This was my first foray into painting, and remains one of my favorites.
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Florida has beautiful scenery and wonderous wildlife. The Manatee, or Sea-Cow, is a curious creature living along Florida Beaches. They’re friendly nature makes them very popular among Floridas many residents and visitors, though it can sometimes get them into trouble when they get to near motor boats. / The Manatee is an Endangered Species, due largely to boating accidents. This piece is 16inX20in, Acrylic on Canvas Board
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An abandoned shed on St Kilda Pier in Melbourne. The photo was taken during sunset. / Three 21mp images were stacked in order to get rid of all digital noise.
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