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I'm betting they let him keep it....

 

It was a lovely, quiet day on the lake when I paddled into a goose no go zone ...

 

looks like they are all coming at you
out at the ranch thats cause for a nice goose dinner

 

Re: Post 3154.

It was me, but the wound healed up nicely, and the scar is hard to see among all the others.

Seriously.

Lance.

 

They were! Aggressive blighter, the canadian goose, not very Canadian at all. Canadian are always saying "I'm sorry" - the goose is the reason for that.

My long-gone labrador used to swim out into the lake just to say hi, and they used to herd her back to the shore just like they are trying to do to me in that image. Geese run a kind of day-care center in the local pond, with maybe 4 big ones looking after a few dozen recently-launched nestlings while the parents are off raiding a farmers field nearby: I avoid those like the plague because they will not back off when they think they are defending the young.

Where I worked before retiring they used to put convincing models of dead geese on the grounds to keep the geese from invading. it worked at first but they figured it out after a couple of seasons. One nested on the canteen patio, which cancelled the Friday cookout until the bird and its offspring left. I recall on one occasion about a dozen of big geese decided to take over the main entrance: they marched up the steps and patrolled up and down in front of the front windows and main door for a half-hour, but could figure out how to get in. Just as well.

We used to have a family of beavers, friendly little guys, but I think the geese drove them off. This is a goose town.

 

For anyone who's never seen a desert thunderstorm.

This clip was taken a few miles from where I work (not by me). It starts off a little slow, but keep watching; it's only a minute and a half. And it gets pretty spectacular. I was working that evening, and stood outside the control room for a few minutes watching the storm. It wasn't raining where I was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-aGtii_7nU

 

Here is a good set of pictures of a salvage operation gone wrong

but

the real point is how beautifull the dreaded Cape fo Storms can be on a calm day

frightening deceitfull

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Stranded-ship-left-to-burn-20100603

check out the last beautifull pic of Table mountain

very hard to believe that such a beautifull place can turn into HELL within hours

crazy ****

 

Riverboat with an attitude?

Just a guess based on the shallow draft.

http://www.portierramaryaire.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=528&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30




Maybe not a riverboat.


EDIT..........Translation of text:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/omard/3388306905/

ARC 51 Almirante Padilla
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?141031-Navy-Of-Your-Country/page4

 

ZUBR CLASS Hovercraft
militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?141031-Navy-Of-Your-Country/page4

 

Prince Charles...

 

looks like hes bout to check her cup size

 

I wonder if that photo put a bur under Camilla's saddle?

 

It's obviously a fishing story ... not a very big one by the looks of it.

 

if only the camera's weren't rolling

 

Cod, perhaps?