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[fishguy242]

Hey Ron ,Happy Birthday , hope you are enjoying you're travels...

 

[Ron Reefman]

Hey Ron ,Happy Birthday , hope you are enjoying you're travels...

Thanks a lot, it's so nice to be remembered!

Travels are going OK. I had to skip one hike at Zion which was 2 miles out and up 1100 feet, then all the way back down.

I did some minor damage to my right knee about 10 weeks ago and it's still only about 50% recovered. I tripped and fell while walking a beach before sunrise. I had a headlight and a handheld flashlight, but I didn't see a small mangrove stump that had been uncovered by Hurricane Ian among the seaweed. I fell flat on my face as I was carrying a big camera and a tripod to try and capture this:

Was it worth it? I guess so.

And in a week I'll drive 2 hours to a very small boat ramp on the SE shore of Tampa Bay. I'll start out before 4:00am to arrive before the 6:00am setting of the almost full moon behind the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Sunrise is at 6:40am. And in the dark I'll have to walk a hundred yards or more to get the perfect (or best I can get) angle with the moon behind the center of the bridge. All that needs to be done in the shallow water as there is no beach, it's solid mangroves, no-see-ums and mosquitoes! Then set up my tripod in the water and take some long exposure photos. The hope is to improve on this shot by another photographer as the bridge will be lit up more like the bottom photo I took.