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Skipjack Joe
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Hola Stickers. Your picture looks like some of the valley oaks we passed up at coe state park yesterday. I wonder if that's a total coincidence or
some law of physics that applies equally to both (growth towards light vs. outflow towards sea).
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Mango
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Natalie Ann
Wow, Stickers, I love that shot! Nature can be so.... artsy.
There is still that same effect of the water running out from breaks in the concrete which dams the Colorado. I do not believe the little streams
leaving it now are as long or intricate as in your shot. I found that whole area to be surrealistically beautiful and incredibly sad at the same
time. I couldn't help but wonder what it all must have looked like in the days that the mighty Colorado flowed freely all the way to the Sea.
Here's how it looked to us:
(Edit: the pinkish cast on the left of the photos is not actual landscape color, it's light bouncing off the plexiglass window)
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I'm glad to see this thread revived. 
I took a small trip over to the river just south of the US border last month, and it was bone dry. Very sad. There were some dikes with masses of
dry trees and brush between just waiting to spring to life in the old river channel.
I just pray "climate change" may bring good change to this region in the long run. It would be nice to see this river flow again.
I had a landscape design teacher that told me once.. that all plants are "native", they just haven't found their home yet. It's an ever changing
world and it likes to run in cycles. It will flow again; but, we may not be around to see it.
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Stickers
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Hola Stickers. Your picture looks like some of the valley oaks we passed up at coe state park yesterday. I wonder if that's a total coincidence or
some law of physics that applies equally to both (growth towards light vs. outflow towards sea). |
Joe, I have wondered the same thing. These forms in nature look similar to others. Even our own vascular system and bronchial systems resemble the
same tree like forms.
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bajaandy
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Awesome pics Natalie Ann! You've such a good eye!
subvert the dominant paradigm
"If you travel with a man, you must either fall out with him or make him your good friend."
JBL Noel
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bacquito
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Isle. Montegue
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bacquito
I live in Yuma and have kayaked down to Morelas Dam but not below it (no water). There is good kayaking north of Yuma towards Laguna Dam and Imperial
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I've read that at some point south of the border you can put in and paddle/motor to Isla Montegue - Do you know where this put in point is? Have any
photos to share of your yak adventures?  [/quote Where is Isle. Montegue? All of my Kayaking has been done around
Yuma and mainly north of Yuma at the Imperial Wild Life preserve.. Hopefully, I'll get more involved in Baja now that I'm retired and before I get too
old-the race in on!! |
bacquito
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Skipjack Joe
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Stickers
| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Hola Stickers. Your picture looks like some of the valley oaks we passed up at coe state park yesterday. I wonder if that's a total coincidence or
some law of physics that applies equally to both (growth towards light vs. outflow towards sea). |
Joe, I have wondered the same thing. These forms in nature look similar to others. Even our own vascular system and bronchial systems resemble the
same tree like forms.
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Yep, yep, yep.
It looks like that design is the most efficient way of getting 'stuff' by collecting and transporting from a physical area to a channel. With trees:
you're maximizing the ability of nutrients from where it's created to the storage area, the trunk. With the vascular system it's the best way of
draining an area of your body into the heart and later the lungs. With our brains it's passing the largest amount of stimuli to the spine. Different
tasks but using very similar network strategies.
But those are all systems actively built by our bodies. Here there is no great design. All you have is a mud flat, water, and gravity. And you end up
with the same solution.
I think it's neat.
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Natalie Ann
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
I think it's neat. |
Me, too.
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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