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RE: BoulderSunday meets Sunset meets 420 meets "higher math"
that island is one big boulder! lol. amazing sir keith and very interesting about the photography, I mean the camera settings as well as wonderful scenery! In other words another great post!
Well, it's made out of rock, so I just don't know where boulders end and islands begin! :) Thank you!
Howdy sir keithboone...that's a wild area if everything is rock! Is that a local section of Victoria coastline?
That is a bit of shoreline quite close to home, here in Victoria. The island is called Trial Island, and I believe this name comes from the British Royal Navy who maintained a Pacific Northwest naval station here in the mid 1850's. During that time they did some shipbuilding here, although I haven't found many details about that. I imagine they were fairly small ships and I've heard that part of a new ship's "Sea Trials" would involve sailing out of the navy base and up the coast to here, and then around the island - most likely dealing with winds and rip-tides etc. So a ship, and commander, would need to deal with basic trials of sailing.
Howdy again sir keithboone! Oh that is very interesting too and makes perfect logical sense! Thanks for the information.
It's a Canadian Navy base now, with several ships headquartered here, although I'm pretty sure they can no longer fit through the tiny gap around that island.
howdy tonight sir Keith! oh Canada has a navy? lol. just teasing. yeah if one of those big ones tried to fit around that island they'd get stuck.
We're a country surrounded by ocean on three sides, and you lot on the other... Pretty sure we're going to need a wall soon!
wow no one talks about building a wall between us, we can't even get one built down South, I guess you guys would have to build it.
@janton a sister ship of the one above is in the Black Sea today along with two US ships and one each from Italy, Germany, and Turkey. They are being threatened by the Russian navy and buzzed by jets.
holy moly I didn't know that but then I'm bad about following the news closely anymore If something big happens someone on steemit will post about it!