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urbaindk

urbaindk

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Jul 12, 2004
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Okay I didn't take this this week and I've already posted it before but it's pretty and fits the theme so I thought I'd share it again:

 
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Nice shots so far to all.

Greyhound, nice flower shot!! BUT, It looks like you had the camera in one hand and the spray bottle in the other though. Shoulda wetted some of the tulips neighbors...

Crashby: where'd ya find a squirrel *that* big? It's friggin (Billy Fuccillo) HUGE. ;)


Marc
 
Greyhound

Greyhound

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S.n.a.k.e. said:
Nice shots so far to all.

Greyhound, nice flower shot!! BUT, It looks like you had the camera in one hand and the spray bottle in the other though. Shoulda wetted some of the tulips neighbors...
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Nope. Right after a rainstorm. Nothing staged in my photos. I'm not smart enough to do that. BTW....they're amerylis flowers.
 
syadasti

syadasti

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Was only able to get two shots off before Topi became camera shy and this was the best one.

Really likes to take a bath

 
syadasti

syadasti

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Here are some other moisture shots I took or are in (not from this week though):

Girl dipping in Fran Joseph Glacier, NZ (I took a dip too)


Me Sledging in Rotovegas, NZ
3m (7.5 feet) Falls


7m (21 feet) Tutea Waterfall (tallest commercially sledged/rafted falls in the world - 3 tons/sec waterflow)


One of our guides in Costa Rica Diving
 
urbaindk

urbaindk

The Real Dr. Science
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syadasti said:
Here are some other moisture shots I took or are in:

Me Sledging in Rotovegas, NZ
3m (12 feet) Falls

7m (21 feet) Falls (tallest commercially sledged falls in the world)
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Not to nitpick, but are those drops in pinkbike feet? I've done quite a bit if WW boating. The first drop looks like a 4-6 footer. The second looks like it's maybe 8 to 10 feet. That looks like a kick ass run, don't get me wrong, but the biggest drop I've done was a 18 footer and it was a hell of a lot taller than that last shot.
 
syadasti

syadasti

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jdschall said:
Not to nitpick, but are those drops in pinkbike feet? I've done quite a bit if WW boating. The first drop looks like a 4-6 footer. The second looks like it's maybe 8 to 10 feet. That looks like a kick ass run, don't get me wrong, but the biggest drop I've done was a 18 footer and it was a hell of a lot taller than that last shot.
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You can't see the bottom in the second shot and its hard to see the start/top. Thats what the guides and guidebooks say, you can't measure when you are sledging and probably depends on waterflow during the time of year, but it still around 20 ft...

Here are a couple more shots, it is 7m (23 feet actually) - Kaituna River - Tutea Waterfall







The Kaituna (meaning Eel Food) Grade 5 boasts the highest commercially rafted waterfall (7 metres) in the world. In fact, there are three waterfalls among the 14 rapids, two smaller waterfalls to practise on before attacking the 7 metre drop named Tutea Falls. This was the site of the first hydro-electric power station to supply a township with power in New Zealand.
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urbaindk

urbaindk

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syadasti said:
Thats what the guides said
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I think the guides might have, excuse the pun, 'misguided' you a little bit to play up the extreme. Still there's no way I'd hurl myself off either one of those head first. (In a boat, hell yes.) You have to some serious balls to do that. When you go in, do you go deep and resurface out past the foam / boil?

edit: I see from you other pictures that they are probably measuring from the top of the falls (where it starts to roll over) an not the actual vertical drop of the water. That's cool. I still say that the vert is 10 feet maybe a little more using the raft as a judge.
 
syadasti

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jdschall said:
I think the guides might have, excuse the pun, 'misguided' you a little bit to play up the extreme. Still there's no way I'd hurl myself off either one of those head first. (In a boat, hell yes.) You have to some serious balls to do that. When you go in, do you go deep and resurface out past the foam / boil?
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Yeah thats what the hockey helmet is for. You have nose it and land like you are diving otherwise its like a huge belly flop. One guy on our trip landed a bit flat and cut his chin open even though he had the helmet on.

The smaller one is measured at 7.5 feet, I just looked it up. I've never seen Tutea Waterfall listed at any other height (including paddling sites) other than 7m (which is shown at 21-23 feet, depending on the site). They are definately measuring the start of the falls to the bottom, not the vertical straight drop - you are right. Kaituna River is a high IV or easier V - the literature says V.

Huku Falls in Taupo - now thats a hydrualic you don't want to mess with....

The Huka Falls are a set of waterfalls on the Waikato River that drains Lake Taupo in New Zealand.

A few hundred metres upstream from the Huka Falls, the Waikato River narrows from roughly 100 metres across into a hard rock granite canyon only 15 metres across.

The volume of water flowing through often approaches 220,000 litres per second.

At the top of the falls is a set of small waterfalls dropping over about 8 metres. The most impressive, final stage of the falls (pictured here) is an 11 metre drop. A jetboat takes tourists within a few meters of the bottom of the final stage.

The falls were brought to national attention in February 1989 when the body of cricket umpire, Peter Plumley-Walker was found immediately downsteam, with wrists and ankles bound. The resulting investigation lifted the lid on the Auckland bondage scene and the prurient news media had a field day. Dominatrix Renee Chignall was acquitted of his murder after three trials.

The falls supply water to the 90 MW Aratiatia hydro electric power station.
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I don't have my photo of it, but I do have one at home, its awesome (here is someone else's)

 
Jeronimo

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So, what happened to all of the "date nazis" who were all up in arms about the "rules" of the theme of the week?

Edit:
Oh yeah, I forgot that hypocrites usually don't acknowledge their problem, especially e-pocrites.
 
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