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No dead fish allowed

6/27/2016

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Okay, I know what this sign means, but it is just too fun not to post.
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No bones about it, dead fish are not welcome here at Lake Buffalo, WV
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Lunch in Seoul, South Korea

7/27/2014

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Long layover here in Seoul so Warren and I went into town for lunch.  It was busy, busy, busy.
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Big market in the Wolmi area of Seoul
And everyone was crowding in to get some chicken.
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Three deep at the chicken joint
Somewhat less of a rush for the dried fish.
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The blurred bit on a stick is an automatic fly shooer! It keeps the flies away while you have more important things to do
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These were the longest, craziest ice cream cones I've ever seen. And I sampled a bit of one and yes, they taste like ice cream cones. They are hollow and I believe the ice cream is pressure loaded into them with length to order
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A sight that really caught my eye. I can not explain it
And finally, I don't know what a Pocari is, but I was drinking a bottle of its sweat all day.  Honestly wasn't very good.
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Yes, it really does look and taste like Pocari sweat. Truth in advertising at last
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Heading home

7/26/2014

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As I am heading home, my internet is getting much faster but time is getting shorter for posting.  Once home I will put up a bunch of stuff that was too much to deal with in Sukau.

Back in Kota Kinabalu I walked around the Saturday evening seafood outdoor grill.  A huge area with all kinds of seafood ready to eat and at prices way less than the restaurants.
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Cooking, selling, and consumption of seafood. This was during Ramadan, however, so the big feast doesn't start until after sundown
I am currently in Seoul, South Korea, and only have a minute for one more pic.  I don't think I ever posted this Brahminy Kite that I saw above the Kinabatangen River in Sukau.
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One of a pair of Brahminy kites that were hunting along the Kinabatangen River, Sukau Malaysia
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And now the fish market

7/9/2014

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The fish market has such fresh fish that it does not smell like a fish market.  That alone tells one that things are fresh.  Just in from this morning, and that makes buying such better than most options.  Droves of people come and buy fresh fish, although I should really say fresh seafood, as there are crabs and prawns and other such things available.

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A pile of yellow tails
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Rows of squid (or are those cuttlefish, as I don't know the difference)
And while most of it I consider food from the sea (not that I agree with all the harvest), this pic is of something I don't like to see much of, and there was only this one stall selling such...
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Sharks! Little hammerheads and others. Plus a few puffer fish which I thought could be poisonous (need to look that up but have never seen them for sale before).
And while my opinion is that we should give the sharks a break, the selling of all things sea food goes on as a lively trade in KK
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A woman with a top notch set of fish works to prepare more
And to finish this bit, what doesn't get sold here during the day...  Well the whole area turns into a sea food restaurant of sorts at night and you can go and buy dinner made from the leftovers, which are still more fresh than what most buy in a supermarket.
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Kota Kinabalu, wharf area

7/9/2014

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Okay, so to get back to the wharf area and see if I can get pics up.  There is a central market area on the coast, where the boats come in and everything fish, fruit and vegetable is sold.  Pretty big place.  First up, the boats.
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Row of fishing boats at the docks
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I just love the organized chaos of a fishing boat. Things are wrapped up and put away in an orderly fasion, yet the overall picture is nearly mayhem at the docks
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Woman walking along the dock next to a fishing boat
Click on the previous picture to get a larger size, and you will see a lot of very big lights hanging from the orange crossbeams.  Apparently they can turn those on and use them to attract squid and fish to the boat.  Something I would like to look in to more at some point.
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Not all the fish are caught by boat
There were about eight people fishing along the wharf, and all were catching these small fish regularly.  This young gentleman just caught one and posed for me with his catch without me even asking him to.  In general, fish like this make great meals.

The fishing technique, however, was new to me.  Apparently hard to catch on a hook (small mouth or something), they put a scrap of bait about an inch above a medium-sized treble hook, and when they feel something nibbling on the bait, they yank hard and the treble hook snags the fish.  I saw this done with and without a bobber.
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Kids making the V sign, holding a pull-toy car, and one of the fish just caught. These kids were fun to talk to and posed like this when I asked if I could take their picture
And thus ends the short tour of the docks.  But there are certainly more fishing boats than what can actually be docked, so I end with a photo of some fishing boats moored offshore.
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A series of boats anchored together offshore of KK. One of the many islands nearby is in the background
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Burke Lake

7/2/2014

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Burke Lake is a nice place to go for a day.  Playgrounds, frisbee golf, and good birding are all there.

But they also rent boats, so we put down the cash and had an electric powered boat for the afternoon.  94 degrees out, and a-fighing we went.


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A female wood duck with her young.
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A walleye that Connor caught, with a radio tansmitter sticking out by the dorsal fin. We just let this one go.
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C & O Canal

5/1/2014

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Okay, that was not my best nuthatch pic.  I will upgrade such when I get a chance.
Today I got a chance to have a walk on the C&O Canal, after big flooding yesterday.  Sadly, the trail out to the Great Falls was closed due to the flooding.

A bit of video of the flood is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUMqYm53bz8

Aside from the flood, I got a few pics while on my walk.



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The trail along the canal.
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Great Blue heron soaring.
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No, no, no! I said no more great blue heron pics.
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Red-bellied cooter....putting it's right leg in and shaking it all about...
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A cooter on a log
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A largemouth bass, pre-spawn
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Snapping turtle on the surface
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Red-bellied cooters
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And to finish, a double-crested cormorant taking flight
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great blue heron at Burke Lake

10/16/2013

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Somehow this post got saved to my drafts folder instead of published yesterday.  So, this is actually the set of photos that should be dated Oct. 15, but such is what such is.  Either way, I took a few heron photos yesterday and thought they were up. 
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A great blue heron at Burke Lake, in northern Virginia, US.
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going fishing
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Caught one!
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The heron tossing the fish to get it ready to swallow.
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The weird neck fluffing thing after each fishing attempt.
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Big fishing boat in Tromsø, Norway

5/11/2013

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At first glance this looks like chaos after a hurricane, yet it sifts down to a quite organized bit when you look closer, of the mid-section of a fairly large fishing boat.
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Lysaker Area

11/15/2012

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It was a beautiful sunny day today, with temps around 5C.  I couldn't get out to hike in the hills, but did manage to spend an hour in the Lysaker area.
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A lady enjoying the sun at the end of the dock as a kayaker goes by
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Kayaker and herring gull on the Oslo fjord
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The fish ladder in Lysaker
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