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Started by kits, Feb 09 06 02:47

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P.C.

WOW....nice eagle pics Michel.  I particularly like the first one.

  I also LOVE this one.  

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Arbutus are such cool looking trees.  I keep hoping to find a nice bough after a wind, to put in the garden with wee white lights on it.  They don't stay that fabulous rust colour though.  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Michel


van_guy

 Orik wrote:
those pictures are marvelous van_guy thank you so much for sharing them. i love the shadows and the reflection in the water.. absolutely stunning. so tranquil so beautiful it makes me so very  jealous and more than a little  sad at the same time...

who is the lucky fisherman... and was he catching many fish . what kinds of fish

is it the snakehead ? or one of these monsters

 Thanks Orik, yeah the light was really nice.
 Looks can be deceiving there was a very busy street a few 100m away
 not sure what kind of fish they were catching.
 they definitely weren't the crazy fish you found. the fishing rods were pretty light weight for that.

 


 
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

van_guy

 Michel wrote:
      Some loser pics from We[span style="color: rgb(208, 208, 208);"]s[/span]t Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay area, Wet place on Earth. So exotic lol...

Some great pics there michel, exotic all depends where you live - from these parts what you shot is exotic.        
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

van_guy

 My old office

     
view from the corner office
 
my commute


Another office



Another view from office 2

 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

Michel


van_guy

 Michel wrote:
 lol you would have felt home if you ever went for that job at Labrador city. [img style="font-style: italic;" src="/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/4.gif[/img]  Except for the cold. No way you could drive a skidoo there with no mittens nor the coat open, somebody would have picked up your fingers on the ground before the end of the day. Probably an arctic fox.

I'm surprised they make you work when there so much snow, you must dig a long time before reaching the main rock.

Yeah, I grew up in northern Ab - i have worked outside all day in -50 degrees'  haven't lost any fingers yet - but i did come close once.  frostbite is about the most pain i have ever been in.  I rank it above getting hit on the thumb with a 12 pound sledge hammer but below having a bulldozer blade land on my foot.

Here in Terrace it was a very nice day.  probably -5 degrees. but it got down to -40 degrees - i did up my jacket.

I had a secret weapon to deal with the snow.


But before the snow cat came we had to it by hand - i think we had 27 feet of snow


The rocks were very sexy - thats why we do this in the snow - in some ways it is actually easier in the winter than in the summer.  we can use snowmobiles to get around instead of walking or using a 1,000 dollar / hour helicopter

 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

Michel


P.C.

Great pics van guy.        
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Sportsdude

"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

van_guy

 Michel wrote:
Ah ok it was a warm day. I don't understand. How come it's more easy in the snow than during summer? Less grass to hide the rocks?

We were drilling - so we don't look at the rocks on the surface but rather rocks that come from below the surface.  

Easier because the drill  pads may be 1-2 km from camp - easy to get there by skidoo difficult to get to by foot.  Plus we can service the rig using snow cat (bring fuel etc...) we can use skidoo to haul core boxes and samples etc.... around,  otherwise you have to use helicopter ($1,000 / hr+)

 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

van_guy

 P.C. wrote:
Great pics van guy.

Thanks.  

 
 

 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

van_guy

 Sportsdude wrote:
fun job.  

most days it is a lot of fun - some days it sucks pretty hard

my good days i would pay money to do it.
my bad days are REALLY REALLY bad.

-40 degrees (BC / Arctic)
+50 degrees (mongolia)
monsoons (SE asia)
leeches / snakes  (SE asia)
hideous bugs (Arctic)
ticks / snakes / scorpions (Gobi desert and Eastern China)
falling into crevasse (Alaska)
hideous bush / jungle / thorns / poisonous plants (BC Alaska / Eastern china / SE Asia)
sand storms (I had to lie down to avoid being blown on a mountain Gobi desert)
wind storms (nearly killed in the arctic)
snow storms (Arctic / Northern BC)
falling down cliffs (most every where)
elevation (Tibetan Plateu - western china)
being away from family (everywhere)
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

van_guy


1 out of 100 leeches that day
i was not a happy camper
 
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness (Mark Twain)

Michel


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