Thread: Road pics

Originally Posted by MickR

No I hate history, why else would I shave with a cut-throat . That's my sarcastic way of saying post the history, what is one mans trash is anothers treasure, as the saying goes. Same reason why you never get a reasonable answer to the question, "What's it like where you're from?" People from 'there' usually find it dull .


Mick

I have to laugh at myself. I have traveled hundreds of mile to go to museums and haven't been to all of them in my home town. People fail to look at the beauty that is around them every day.

Tim

No road pics here (though I've got hundreds I need to pick through). I just want to know what happened to Wullie, the guy who started this thread?

Well, maybe this one. This old shot up car is actually now miles from a road, but sits near one of probably the best brook trout streams in the southern Appalachians. There are remnants of old railroad/logging camps miles up the trail, as there are on so many mountain drainages in this area.

I was driving back from the Metropolis of Biggs Ca, population 1707 and snapped a pic of the Sutter Buttes, the Middle Mountain. The World's smallest mountain range!! Which, I've always thought would be like being the World's tallest Pygmy! But anyway, this is looking from North to South.

I wish I could get some fresh road pics to add, but I would need a very waterproof camera to do it. If it ain't drought, it's fire, if it ain't fire it's flood, it it ain't floods its cyclones, if it ain't cyclones it's tornados. Life is a bit damp at the moment, but I still wish I had a wet weather camera, because you should see the ocean at the moment! Wow is it wild...And windy. The waves are breaking against and over the seawall and the spume and spray is being picked up en masse and being carried straight as an arrow across the buffer zone to be pelted into the fronts of the houses. Quite dramatic stuff. Just about blown off my feet trying to go around and check the creeks and waterways around my house this morning.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I wish I could get some fresh road pics to add, but I would need a very waterproof camera to do it. If it ain't drought, it's fire, if it ain't fire it's flood, it it ain't floods its cyclones, if it ain't cyclones it's tornados. Life is a bit damp at the moment, but I still wish I had a wet weather camera, because you should see the ocean at the moment! Wow is it wild...And windy. The waves are breaking against and over the seawall and the spume and spray is being picked up en masse and being carried straight as an arrow across the buffer zone to be pelted into the fronts of the houses. Quite dramatic stuff. Just about blown off my feet trying to go around and check the creeks and waterways around my house this morning.


Mick

Crikey!! Seems like just last week you were melting to things and wishing for rain! Now you say ya gotta crawl around town wearing a snorkel. I see that camera companies are starting to advertise water resistant cameras. And, with competition comes price lowering. I'm going to look around for something that can go underwater, I'm not friggin' Jacques Cousteau, but you don't need to be. The best stuff is within ten foot from the top!

That's us Don! Land of extremes! Nothing is done in half measures. Makes for an interesting way of life if nothing else. We've still got bushfires down south as well I think. I had to call off my farm work due to a good chance I might not have been able to get home again on time, and it looks like that just may have been the case. No doubt I could have found a detour or two, but that may have been hours out of my way too.


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

I wish I could get some fresh road pics to add, but I would need a very waterproof camera to do it. If it ain't drought, it's fire, if it ain't fire it's flood, it it ain't floods its cyclones, if it ain't cyclones it's tornados. Life is a bit damp at the moment, but I still wish I had a wet weather camera, because you should see the ocean at the moment! Wow is it wild...And windy. The waves are breaking against and over the seawall and the spume and spray is being picked up en masse and being carried straight as an arrow across the buffer zone to be pelted into the fronts of the houses. Quite dramatic stuff. Just about blown off my feet trying to go around and check the creeks and waterways around my house this morning.


Mick

We need somepics of this carnage,any pics will do

Originally Posted by MickR

That's us Don! Land of extremes! Nothing is done in half measures. Makes for an interesting way of life if nothing else. We've still got bushfires down south as well I think. I had to call off my farm work due to a good chance I might not have been able to get home again on time, and it looks like that just may have been the case. No doubt I could have found a detour or two, but that may have been hours out of my way too.


Mick

Amazon.com: 2.7" Dual Screen Orange Aqua5800 Underwater Camera: Camera & Photo

50. bucks. But, I saw some other ones for more that were, let's say, more suited for the job, from a good brand name. Ya can grab a nice closeup of Mr White!! While in a boat, of course.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

We need somepics of this carnage,any pics will do

That just ain't gonna happen. I'm not going out in that again if I can help it! I'll see what I can hunt down on the 'net. I saw my area on the news, so there would have to be something.


Don, I think I'm going to look at waterproof cases for my DSLR, but a nice compact like that looks pretty cool too.


Mick

When my fiance and I drove across the country when she moved to Las Vegas, we took I-70 from Pittsburgh through Utah then hit 15 into Nevada. some VERY nice sights along the way through KS, MO, CO, UT, etc. The below is the view from out hotel in Bachelor Gulch, Co. - definitely my favorite from the trip

We made the trip in 2 and 1/2 days so we didn't have much time to stop and sight see but we did hit Arches National Park in Utah and were then both struck with food poisoning. Good times