Neat one on Cut Cay. The purple stuff is algae covering the rocks.
Typical conditions at "The Gulf" (Athena and Tony)
Tight, slimy, wet little cave... (Athena and I)
The first sea cave we surveyed, on Rice Bay. Also the tallest.
Hmm... guess the tide's too high to survey this one. Grotto Beach.
Having a good time on Cut Cay.
Looking out of a big one at "the gulf".
Mylroie relaxing in "the cauldron", a perfectly hemispherical pothole at Grotto Beach. Really cool spot.
I like Grotto Beach.
Looking out from one on Cut Cay.
5 comments:
Willmo
Awesome photos. We are smoked in here as you might have guessed. Like living in an Oregon milltown in the 50's. Sun is blood red and generally an ash coat on the cars in the morning.
A sure sign for the need to loose weight is popping spokes. 3rd time this year. Last rebuild was with super heavy gauge spokes. Hit a pothole on Sundays ride
Hang in there
The old man
Whats your take on the Landis case? Guess we will know Saturday. I wonder about both the lab and the sampling plan. You would have thought that the drug testing would have popped up Landis before the tour or during earlier stages of the tour--sounds sort of fishy to me
The old man
Hmm... I probably still weight as much as you, and I never have spoke snapping problems. I've been running the same lightweight mavic rear wheel (28 spokes) for 3 years now, and haven't broken a spoke yet... including when I weighed 50 more than now... Maybe it's the build quality? Where are the spokes breaking? At the bend or at the nipple?
I don't know about Floyd. I'd like to think he's innocent because he's a lot less of a dick than Lance, and I think he probably was a doper, even though they never caught him. It's probably just the crazy politics of it all over there and them being pissed another American won it. Whatever. So many of them are dopers anyway. Kinda sucks, but sure does make for some awe-inspiring rides... Hope he's not guilty though...
Willmo
Send photos of your new mt bike curious to see it. Had to do a smoke air quality gig at the fire camp public meeting. Its quite a big show, about 50,000 acres now roughly a thousand folks working on the fire, must be 10 helicopters, bunch of water bombers working the fire. You can even buy fire T-shirts etc. Fire crews are from all over the US- the fire management team is a national team from North Carolina. According to the USFS they initially dropped 6 jumpers, the fire was 1 acre when they left the plane and grew to 10 acres when they hit the ground, by the time they got out of the chutes and got their gear together it was 40 acres, the fire was so hot and erratic the jump and 20 ground pounders beat feet out of the fire. You can follow the saga at the website: http://www.inciweb.org/incident/341/
One of the complex fires is in the area we did the mtn bike trip you trained for at So Farm.
Because of the smoke issues I get morning weather breifings. Supposed to get 20 mph winds and lightening by Monday. Pretty jumpy times in Conconully.
Hang in there
The old man
Wowzers...
any chance you can get me a shirt? That'd be cool. I remember that area sorta well, I remember Corral Butte for one... and the descent into Okanogan. I'd like to do more rides like that. Just not any mountains round here. Still doing laps of south farm though. Never tire of that place for some reason. Isn't that weird? Certainly not very inspiring riding or views, but I guess I like it because it makes me feel sorta like I'm "out there". About as "remote" as you can get around here I guess.
Anywho, no pictures of the bike just yet, since the camera is being repaired. Should be pretty soon though. It's a Salsa Ala Carte, orange, grey Marzocchi fork, XT/XTR components. Nice stuff but nothing to drool over. Rides/fits much better than the ol' S-works (RIP), though it is heavier...
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