Why it’s the JAX 9-B!
The JAX-9B weather facsimile receiver is a very compact and lightweight solution, incorporating a set of enhanced features that allows for flexible operation.
And tomorrow IS Fathers’ Day…
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I find a lot of appliances and couches at the local boat ramp on the Sabine River.
The most interesting thing I’ve found was a Santa Muerta shrine hidden behind a tree. The candle had been completely burned down and empty beer cans surrounded it.
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Hmm, a weather fax would probably have been very useful to a professional fisherman and there are a few of those within a relatively short distance of the forest where I found this.
Thanks for that information, now I won’t need to keep wondering about it.
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Perhaps this story doesn’t exactly fit the topic, but I’d thought I’d include since it was so funny.
I was in a local park when I look ahead and spot a black, bushy tail sticking out of a trash can. It was a squirrel and it was looking for a food. Eventually, it took out a small container of what looked to be chocolate and vanilla ice cream. It then ran up into a nearby tree and began to feast. I followed it around the park taking photos of the squirrel.
When it was all said and done, I had a pretty entertaining observation.
Observation here:
https://inaturalist.ca/observations/11062081
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2016: On the beach in Cape Town, Bantry Bay specifically, I found a rusted 9mm handgun… I tried to be a good person and turn it into the authorities at the local SAPS office… I waited for a half hour before I talked to some detectives who could hardly hold back the laughter after they saw how corroded and decomposed the metal was, just the shape of the pistol remained…
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You’re more kind and reasonable, more than most, and I’m sure you mean well…
and I know I’m going to get screamed at with a million defensive replies from hiking bros, ect… (come at me Brad!) but in North America, “rock stacking” is basically hippie-coded racism disguised as mysticism…
It symbolizes the ideology of bigoted folks like John Muir… with theories directly and indirectly rooted in extreme racism, specifically against indigenous native americans.
Leave no trace isn’t as innocent as it sounds.
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Are you going to explain this?
The Seven Principles of Leave No Trace provide an easily understood framework of minimum impact practices for anyone visiting the outdoors. Although Leave No Trace has its roots in backcountry settings, the Principles have been adapted so that they can be applied anywhere — from remote wilderness areas, to local parks and even in your own backyard. They also apply to almost every recreational activity.
- Plan Ahead & Prepare
- Travel & Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave what you Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Others
Source: Leave No Trace (lnt.org)
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You have lost me. Not in North America. (Ecuador - so you are between my Cape Town and the USA) We use cairns to mark the route of trails, but the art is a new problem.
Here ‘rock stacking’ is art. But still destroying habitat in favour of humans and hardscape.
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you funny.
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Hi All,
Just a reminder to please keep the discussion focused on the original question/topic, and discuss/criticize ideas, not individual people.
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Agreed, a badminton shuttlecock that has a light for playing night games (with the feather part of the shuttlecock missing). I know these exist but haven’t examined one myself, but that seems a very good ID.
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with all due respect, where would a conversation like this best be placed?
Stacking rocks is cultural appropriation, environmental graffiti, and literal habitat destruction, saying nothing, or approving of this activity is effectively promotion poor practices in nature.
If you are not against habit destruction, what kind of naturalist are you?
This is trash I find near turtle nesting sites constantly, now it applies the OP.
https://www.austintexas.gov/blog/rock-stacking-can-harm-nature
https://www.treehugger.com/stacking-rocks-why-i-stopped-4868720
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/issues/rock-cairns.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/rock-stone-stacking-hiking-cairns/2020/08/27/3059a9c8-e70d-11ea-970a-64c73a1c2392_story.html
https://www.visitaruba.com/blog/about-aruba/why-rock-stacking-needs-to-stop/
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Ask curators to reopen https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/rock-stacking-is-it-ok/24187
But what @cthawley wrote was to stop people commenting about you instead of what you wrote while you’re right, it’s consuming foreign culture for ig posts.
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Understood. Your wealth of knowledge (and patience) never ceases to impress me. Cheers!
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I must be out of the loop, as I don’t know whose culture is being appropriated there.
In American Canyon, they are called kindness rocks. There is one park in particular which serves as the repository – it literally has a sign indicating the kindness rocks garden. The American Canyon Parks Department sometimes hosts “Wetlands Coffee Morning” where they set up at the wetlands trailhead, and there is often a kindness rocks painting table. People can place these rocks in various outdoor places – usually developed parks – and I will see newcomers commenting about them on Nextdoor, whereupon the residents who have been here a while will explain about them. I don’t have mixed feelings because the kindness rocks stay within the city, in places that have already been altered. It doesn’t make much sense to bring a “leave no trace” ethic to a place that is regularly mowed and actively landscaped.
I’m not sure how painted rocks, or even stacked rocks, got into a thread about the “strangest” trash found, because they really aren’t very strange (in the sense of unusual or unexpected).
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Have you ever had human trash dumped on you while you were in the field doing naturalist stuff? I came close. I was doing wildlife surveys along a stream in Alabama, where apparently it’s not uncommon for locals to throw their household refuse off of bridges. I was wading a stream in a rural area and had just walked under a bridge when I heard a vehicle stop on the span above me. I hesitated for a moment there under the bridge and a good thing too …. A rain of garbage came down into the stream right in front of me. It was mostly organic stuff, but still it was an unpleasant encounter. I’m sure the dumper wasn’t even aware I was there.
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Creepy geocache. I spotted a green plant braving the November chill in suburban Chicago, and a plastic lanyard intertwined with the stem. I pulled on the lanyard, saw a watertight plastic container, opened it. Realized that it contained items of spotless chrome, glass, and a note with a complicated social engineering message. I decided to wipe all items for fingerprints, good thing I have wetwipes and gloves, gardening as well as nitrile. Also deleted the plant observation. Never looked back or photographed anything there again.
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My colleagues and I found a computer that had been executed by firing squad. I felt some sympathy for the shooters.
This past week, the grass identification class a friend was leading in central Oregon found a land mine. Apparently a dummy left over from some National Guard exercises, but it caused some excitement.
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Holy moly!