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[Cupajo]

This is an exercise to see how well the Fuji WP does under extreme conditions!

I took it out in a 50+ MPH north wind @14F to take these shots of my tide reference rock so that readers can see how much the tide can fluctuate here on the Ct. shore.

At first glance these may not look like different shots, but there are four different shots.

I finally figured out how to size the pics so you can click on them and get a larger view!

One shot is sized differently than the rest so it doesn't enlarge as much!

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This is how far the wind and moon/tide of winter can drop the water level.

At "normal" low tide the stone is a couple of feet deeper in the water!

It would certainly be too blasted cold to take advantage of the low water, but there are times when it gets nearly as low with warmer temperatures and I really look forward to those days!!

The wind has blown the lighter sand away exposing coins etc. and I found a quarter sitting on a sand "post" as I headed back to the warmth of my van.

I hope to have a chance to visually scan the beach before the winds cover everything up again!

GL&HH Friends,

 

[Micheal_R]

n/t

 

[Cupajo]

According to the weather report the wind chill is -7F Mikie!

Thanks, but no thanks!!

I'll wait a few days!

The way the weather has been lately I just might have a sun-screen day!!

CJ

 

[Bayrat76]

!4F with no wind maybe. With wild I will find a good movie on TV or break out A Band Of Brothers and watch that. I get cold thinking about it.

 

[George-CT]

many winters out doors right on the water. We erected the new waves and docks for the submarines at EB on the Thames, build lots of additions at Phyziers, build units 1, 2 & 3 nuke plants a Millstone Point, the second Gold Star Bridge over the Thames River and tons of work at the US Navy Base in Groton. Winters were not fun. Plus I grew up there on the Thames by Electric Boat at my fathers marina. What stands out most if the winds every day coming up around 10:00 am up the river. Except August, then no wind at all. We will get more decent days in between all this cold weather. Mid February, this will seem like a nice day. I always wanted to hit Block Island after a big storm but so far have not made it there. I think most of the boats run out of Point Judith, RI on a regular sked, but I think New London is a once a day or less in the winter. Fishers Island runs daily still but I've never done well there even in summer. Some stuff but their east shore takes a lot of hard hits.

Enjoy the pictures none the less. Here is my winter attire.........and a shot of the water fall on the way down. These should be pretty clear. I reduced them down from almost 600k files to about 150k or so.

George-CT

 

[Cupajo]

Nice shots George!!

Looks like I have more to learn about "sizing" my pics!!

How are you protecting your hands in winter?

That's one honkin big coil you're using!

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[Micheal_R]

n/t

 

[George-CT]

On the gloves, as a rule I don't wear them. But when I do if I'm out in the water and my hands are getting wet in temps in the teens, I wear diver gloves. Your hands are wet but they stay warm, at least mind do. I could never wear insulated work boots either as my feet would sweat from them and then I was in trouble for the day. I find a little bit of discomfort at first, then the tingling stops and I'm good for the day. I tried the big lineman gloves but again, they sweat inside and hands freeze up.

That coil is a WOT coil. 15 inch coil. Its kind of a you hate it or love it coil. I like it on the edge of the water and wet sand or even dry, just not in the water unless shallow water. To hard to figure out where it is at times. I pin point off the tip of it or the rear. If on a big beach, it covers a lot of ground and goes nice and deep. Down side is as you well know, a lot of those targets are junk and you get tired of digging. Need a mini backhoe... Not a good coil if in a trashy area. But in those so called hunted out areas, for me it works wonders. I bounce it between my Sovergin Minelab and my Excalibur. Its good on short hunts like 2 hours. After that you know your swinging a garbage can lid and it wears you down. But for 2 hours your king of the hill or better still those big flat beaches. I got it for hunting down in Charleston, SC. Miles of beaches with 400 yards to the water in areas by miles wide. I had plans of mounting it on my quad for wet sand. Nice and smooth, pass over target, mark with a poke in the ground and move on with another digger. Never did it but it is still in my mind. Winter time they allow them on the beach in a lot of states, like RI if your a RIBA member or Rhode Island beach buggy association.

Pictures. One tip would be... Take them in large format 500 or 600 K size or 1024 x 728, then when you get them home, resize them in Paint shop Pro or any other program to say 800x600. That will make them around 150k but still keep the detail in them.

Good day today, wind died down, 30 this afternoon. All and all, not bad for late January.

George-CT

 

[Cupajo]

Thanks for all the info George!!

I'll see how well I understand the picture sizing info when I Post again!

Happy New Year,

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

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This is an experiment to see how big I can make a panarama.

Please bear with me!

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

At 10F the beach this AM was truly frozen here on the Ct shore!!

Four layers of warm clothing and feeling like the Michelin Man helped, but I could still feel the biting cold.

The north wind had settled to a gentle stirring of air from the north and somehow the cold didn't seem to penetrate as badly as yesterday at the same time when the wind was gusty.

I fully expected my footprints to be the first on the wet sand at the waters edge as I moved along watching the sun-rise, but alas there were others from someone walking a large (from the paw-prints) dog!

When I saw this view of the "Tide Rock" I realized I would have to share it with you readers and a second view as I returned from the eastern end of the beach.

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In the second shot (I'm really liking this little Fuji) Long Island is barely visible on the left edge of the picture and a tiny bit of Ct on the right.


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NY City would be somewhere over the W/SW horizon behind the "Tide Rock".

The water was lots warmer than the air so I could see wisps of vapor rising, but they aren't apparent in the pics.

If the temps will just move up into the 30F range and the water will just stay so calm I'll be doing some hunting to post about.

GL&HH Fellow Hunters,

CJ

Hey George,

I think I finally got the picture "sizing" thing worked out!!

Thanks again for your help Friend!!

 

[Cupajo]

16F this AM and brisk N wind!!

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This is my favorite view of the "Tide Rock" at any time of day or tide!!

It's different every time I look at it!

That old sun is slowly moving back northward and peeking over the horizon a few minutes earlier every day!

Soon the new year can really begin!!

Happy Days All,

CJ

 

[Cupajo]

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I got a "thing" for this stone!!

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It seems that I can take pictures of it all day and not get a duplicate in the bunch!

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There is a constantly changing background, the light changes. the water changes and I have dozens of shots each somehow different.

There is a bit of flare in the light from the sun reflecting in the camera optics that adds (I think) to the shots somehow.

These are three of my favorites of sun-rise and the "Tide Rock!" taken with the little Water Proof Fuji 33.

CJ