No ducks this morning. I did get what I think is a nice picture of the Moon and Venus rising behind Gunner.
Pretty twilight in the blind
- Thread starter SJ Fairbank
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Dismal number of birds would be an improvement over here. [:\] I was close enough to 95 to hear shooting south of the highway. Only three volleys with a dozen boats at the launch. Glad I came home early, the fog you mentioned was being held upriver by the flooding tide. As soon as it switches I bet it'll close right in.
Dani said:
Thanks. I'm not much for composing photos, for me that moment captured the early morning calm and anticipation I believe we all feel before legal shooting. Nowhere close to as well composed as the ones you post however.
Todd Duncan Tennyson
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I remember running the lower Columbia early in the season.
The first run out was usually into a thick bank of fog and still air.
In the dark and fog, the headlights were almost as bad as no light at all. The water was dark and featureless and the tide was slack. There was not a breath of air. The fog with lights looked like a billion tiny particles suspended against a black blanket.
We'd get below the big island and have to cut the engine and listen in the dark for the freighters and timber ships that rolled up and down under radar assistance before we attempted to cross. I always worried that we'd get hammered by one while crossing and they'd never even notice as they made their way out to the Pacific.
Things like that happen out there.
The first run out was usually into a thick bank of fog and still air.
In the dark and fog, the headlights were almost as bad as no light at all. The water was dark and featureless and the tide was slack. There was not a breath of air. The fog with lights looked like a billion tiny particles suspended against a black blanket.
We'd get below the big island and have to cut the engine and listen in the dark for the freighters and timber ships that rolled up and down under radar assistance before we attempted to cross. I always worried that we'd get hammered by one while crossing and they'd never even notice as they made their way out to the Pacific.
Things like that happen out there.