It had been threatening to rain all day, but the sun managed to find the holes in the clouds most of the time. But down here it let loose. There's a hint of a rainbow in this picture of Turnagain Arm.
Here's a picture of the mudflats.
To make more sense out of the previous picture, here it is with the mountains to give it some context.
Mudflats at the mouth of birdcreek, with a run of salmon coming in.
There's a street off the Seward Highway at Bird Creek with this street sign. Problem is, the jay
is named after the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller who discovered them in 1741 (Evans 1986).(wikipediaOn the one hand you could say just leave it. But it has nothing to do with the stars, it's about Georg Wilhelm Steller. If you leave it, people will see it and think it should be spelled this way.
(from Wikipedia)
It smelled pretty bad here as there was a fair amount of rotting salmon waiting for the gulls to clean them up.
Now we're on the boardwalk at Potter Marsh.
We saw the swans as we drove along the Marsh. The belted kingfisher (sorry, but real birders will recognize it from this shot) was there briefly. The bald eagle's been there all summer at a next. I took this through someone's spotting scope.
It really wasn't this dark, but my choice was to make the foreground dark or wipe out the sky.
Today my dad bought a new bike so I may ride more.
ReplyDeleteRopi, does that mean you're going to ride his bike? Or the two of you will bike together?
ReplyDeleteWell, I have my bike but my brother destroyed it a bit. He wanted to do tricks. However I used to ride bike a lot. He rarely used it.
ReplyDelete