Showing posts with label jumping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jumping. Show all posts

Monday, 18 February 2019

They shoot cormorants, don't they?

Big Game Hunter successfully brings down UFO with a Canon:













Great shot - but where would one mount the trophy? Better catch and release?

Is it fair to camouflage like a channel marker? "Red right running" into or out of Orillia Harbour?
Just a thought, just a simple question. And how long is the hunting season?

Wise Old Bird

Friday, 10 March 2017

Details from Sat October 1st 2011

The wind was steady and the actors keen and active. So I left the balcony and walked 170m over to the public beach, now unsupervised for swimming and the swimming area markers removed. The stunts were performed approx 100m off shore to onshore and from chest deep to just wet.








Quite something.

W O B

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Go fly a kite, Part II with gusts up to 80kmh!

Well, we still have a long way to go to open water. However, there has been some interest in kite flying, so I thought I would fly back to Oct 15, 2010, I think a Friday?  when I observed these daring young people on their flying trapezes. First a "total view northward toward Washago:

The island just left of the flagpole is Horseshoe and is 6km away. There is a green channel marker near the leftmost kiter that is 1km away - it is sometimes seen in an image well infront of the left end of Horseshoe although parallax - my shifting position on the balcony - can cause its position to shift slightly. So now lets see how one gets "up":
Upper body strength is required - as in a chin-up.
The kite is fortunately already "up":
Now let me show you a sequence of 7 shots as another kite flys by:






Confusing? Here are 2 jumpers - several meters through the air and several meters above the ends of their wakes:


And they are not alone, either on Oct 15:

Crazy.

W O B