today i went to jodphur trailhead for my sloppy trail hike. mixed slush, ice, mud and puddles. blossom enjoyed the puddles. i really liked this shot above. wide angle and black and white...my favorites...well for tonight anyway.
i took the coastal route back which is always a bit anxiety inducing with Rio. blindness on thin trails with a drop off...not the best.
spent some time on the computer today. started to set up a web page. it will be a bit more time consuming than i figured. blogs much easier to set up. got started but decided i need some more study time about walrus and the issues in order to better design my web page. i have the name selected though so i hope it's an okay name...pretty much came to me in the shower.
Walrus Advocates of Round Island Sanctuary (WARIS) this kinda sounds like walrus and walrus and round island are searchable. i figured friends of round island...doubtful it would hit the search engines very often. so i took a break from working out the web page and set up a facebook group page instead. i'm pretty green at this project so i know it will take some time
i think there was some study group on the dunes...looked funny them all lined up as i walked past on the trails below.
did get my we ain't got no funds letter from the office of the Govenor. at least i'm writing letters and getting responses. not sure they do much especially when i fear i'm one of only a few writing these letters. less than 50 people visit the place every year and even less are willing to write letters...doesn't bode well for making it a place that gets a lot of attention. it's a start though. wrote a few notes back to others who i know care about the island...at least we are talking a bit.
over 80 young women from a boarding school in Nigeria were kidnapped this week. the kidnappers came in dressed in military uniforms and told the head mistress that they needed to evacuate...they helped get the poor girls loaded on buses and then turned the guns on the staff i guess...sounds like a group of girls were able to escape but that staff must feel terrible being tricked like that. just another sad tale in this big world of ours. i'm always surprised at how people here complain about their lives...really?
Rio is tired, but she is in great shape, considering. she may outlive us all...haha.
another sad story in the paper today was that at least 13 sherpa's are dead after an avalanche took them out on Everest. the sherpa's do all the heavy lifting, carrying gear, setting ropes...all for $125 per run up the mountain. it seems to me that having someone carry your load and prepped your route up means your success on a climb is tainted. at least in my mind. carry your own shit and then bring it back down yourself too.
driving around i pass places that remind me of Lesley. Long Branch Saloon with it's burgers and the place where she and Larry were married. i was at the pet store yesterday when a song from Mamma Mia came on. she had gotten her older daughter hooked on the music and took her to the play when it came to town...her young daughter was too having too much fun at the play and they were asked to leave...man was she ticked off. haha. the promo's had encouraged you to sing and dance along, guess they weren't really serious. i know she's like that i'm attempted to help the walrus. being from South Africa originally she would post things on facebook about the rhino's and the poaching that was happening, it angered her to no end. she was a spitfire, had opinons..i love people with opinions. so much more interesting and fun to talk to.
these are the dunes...of course, i always think about what a terrible place this would be to be at if the big quake were to happen. it would be like quicksand and they'd never find you, you'd just get sucked under.
cruised out to Potters Marsh just to see if there was any activity. not much. a few geese but this place will be going nuts in a week or so, birds will be flying in from as far away as Antarctica. it's crazy!!
many villages in Alaska have no police force available to them, instead they have unarmed village safety officers and police are on call to fly/boat in if weather allows. a bill just passed that will allow these safety officers to be armed after some training. one was recently killed and had no means to defend himself due to current rules
i walked the boardwalk though as it was a nice day...best to enjoy the great weather.
redoubt in the distance..from the coastal trail in kincaid.
did read a blip that Japan plans to reinstate it's "whale research". so annoying. they have whale meat stockpiled as most of their citizens no longer prefer it anyway. just a total waste!!
a few shore birds have arrived. nice to hear the different sounds of birds returning. there was a rumor of sandhill cranes being sited. if they were it may have been on the other side of the highway. i didn't hear any though. they are usually pretty loud. saw a few canadian geese, but they flew off.
i also cruised past the bear tree, she's not out yet...always someone there waiting and hoping they get the first sightings.
catching up on the papers. haven't been as focused this past few weeks on the news. it's mostly bad anyway.
moose prints in the snow...
watched this early bird get the worm...or small fish as it were.
when i was in the bog the other day the magpies were doing their usual squawking..i suspect they try to establish their territories before all these migrating birds come up and set up their nests. the bog will fill up soon with birds as well.
a few ducks...but really i saw very few birds out there today. still always a nice place to stop by...good idea to stop by these places more this time of year...all those birds are great fun to watch and photograph. some times you get lucky.
a few more from my wide angle out there. always love the trees in certain parts of this trail.
thankfully this park has a lot of advocates, but all the natural area's get inched in on anytime those politicians can sink their teeth into them. they can't be trusted.
one day i'll be dead and the walrus will be gone and what will it all matter...that seems to be the mentality, that these things don't matter.
we are all related though and how we treat the plants and animals we share this earth with is a reflection of who we are. i tend to think if some one person created this earth and the animals in it, that creator invested a great deal of time in all the details and i suspect that creator is not going to look to kindly on those who seemed hell bent to destroy rather than protect. i'm just one voice though.
every so often the earth speaks up, a big quake, a mudslide, a tornado or some other disaster, just to remind us we aren't as in charge as we seem to think we are.
thankful for...1. a sun that is feeling more warm than cold, i'm ready for the change 2...the opportunity to help a place i love, even if i only help a tiny bit. 3.. the return of the migrating birds..welcome back!!
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