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[I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257895] Mo, 17 April 2006 15:49
Flesh-eating Dragon  
On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
by about an hour's walk).

I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?

http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm

(These will not be on my website permanently, so be quick!)

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257899 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:06
Torak  
8'FED wrote:
> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
> by about an hour's walk).
>
> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?

Not very.

I mean, I'm no fan of beaches, but in SW Scotland we've got a lot of
beaches that look very similar. :-D
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257903 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:15
Andy Davison  
On Monday 17 April 2006 14:49, 8'FED wrote:

> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome

Get rid of the width=100%. In Firefox it stretches the pics on my screen and
makes them pixelate.

> - for
> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?

Not really a beach person.
--
Andy Davison
andy [at] oiyou.force9.co.uk
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257904 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:21
sphira9343  
8'FED wrote:

> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
> by about an hour's walk).
> I have just uploaded six of these photographs...

Those are lovely :-) I think the second one (Balgowan looking North)
is my favourite. The sun on the sea is beautiful in all of them.
CCA
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257907 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:27
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Torak wrote:
> 8'FED wrote:

>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>
> Not very.
>
> I mean, I'm no fan of beaches, but in SW Scotland we've got a lot of beaches
> that look very similar. :-D

But you don't have the weather to go with them. We do.

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257908 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:27
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Andy Davison wrote:
> On Monday 17 April 2006 14:49, 8'FED wrote:
>
>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome
>
> Get rid of the width=100%. In Firefox it stretches the pics on my screen and
> makes them pixelate.

Wow, you must have a high screen resolution ... :-)

OK.

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257916 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:34
Flesh-eating Dragon  
CCA wrote:
> 8'FED wrote:

>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs...
>
> Those are lovely :-) I think the second one (Balgowan looking North)
> is my favourite. The sun on the sea is beautiful in all of them.

Thanks. :-)

"Balgowan looking North" is a bit too dark on my monitor, but it looks
very much better on my Dad's monitor, which I suspect is more like
yours.

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257919 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:47
Daibhid Ceannaideach  
Also Sprach 8'FED:

> Torak wrote:
>> 8'FED wrote:
>
>>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments
>>> welcome - for example, which are your favourites and (for
>>> afpers who don't live near a good beach) exactly how
>>> jealous do they make you?
>>
>> Not very.
>>
>> I mean, I'm no fan of beaches, but in SW Scotland we've
>> got a lot of beaches that look very similar. :-D
>
> But you don't have the weather to go with them. We do.

*Our* weather protects us from harmful UV rays 8-)...

--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
"Sometimes scientific progress requires personal sacrifice.
Personally, I sacrifice Beaker." -Dr Bunsen Honeydew
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257920 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:54
Lesley Weston  
in article e206jj$ho2$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote on
17/04/2006 6:49 AM:

> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
> by about an hour's walk).
>
> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>
> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm
>
> (These will not be on my website permanently, so be quick!)

The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around Vancouver
too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow sand, so the first
time we went to a beach here it was quite a surprise; but perhaps it's grey
that's the norm and yellow the anomaly.

--
Lesley Weston.

Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257921 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 16:54
Torak  
8'FED wrote:
> Andy Davison wrote:
>
>>On Monday 17 April 2006 14:49, 8'FED wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome
>>
>>Get rid of the width=100%. In Firefox it stretches the pics on my screen and
>>makes them pixelate.
>
>
> Wow, you must have a high screen resolution ... :-)
>
> OK.

I'm only using 1600x1200 and didn't have any trouble with it, FWIW.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257947 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 18:16
Sofia  
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 00:04:13 +0930, 8'FED wrote:

>
> "Balgowan looking North" is a bit too dark on my monitor, but it looks
> very much better on my Dad's monitor, which I suspect is more like
> yours.


The "Balgowan looking North" is my favourite too - very romantic, as if I
could envisage it on a post card or holiday brochure. It doesn't
particularly look dark on my monitor either, it's absolutely breathtaking,
I love it!


All the best


Sofie

--
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Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257956 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 18:44
Stacie Hanes  
Lesley Weston wrote:

> The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around
> Vancouver too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow
> sand, so the first time we went to a beach here it was quite a
> surprise; but perhaps it's grey that's the norm and yellow the
> anomaly.

I've also seen white and black. Hawaii has lots of black sand beaches.

--
Stacie, 4th swordswoman of the afpocalypse.
AFPMinister of Flexible Weapons, Bondage-happy predator,
Speaker-To-Students, AFPMistress to peachy ashie passion &
AFPDeliciousSnack to 8'FED "If you can't be a good example, you'll
just have to be a horrible warning." C. Aird, _His Burial Too_
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #257996 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 21:03
Matthew Seaman  
"Stacie Hanes" <house_damodred [at] yahoo.com> writes:

> Lesley Weston wrote:
>
> > The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around
> > Vancouver too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow
> > sand, so the first time we went to a beach here it was quite a
> > surprise; but perhaps it's grey that's the norm and yellow the
> > anomaly.
>
> I've also seen white and black. Hawaii has lots of black sand beaches.

Round here, the rocks are white[1], the shingle is black[2] and the
sea[3] is grey. We rely on the green slimey stuff growing all over
the sea defenses to add a touch of colour. The sand is vaguely sand
coloured though, except when it's mud, in which case, it's the same
colour as the sea.

Cheers,

Matthew

[1] Chalk
[2] Flint
[3] Right about where the North Sea, the English Channel and the
Thames Estuary almost meet.

--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate
Kent, CT11 9PW
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258015 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 22:15
sphira9343  
Stacie Hanes wrote:

> Hawaii has lots of black sand beaches.

So do the Canary Islands, especially Lanzarote and Tenerife. They're
volcanic sand.

CCA
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258094 ] Mo, 17 April 2006 23:47
Arthur Hagen  
8'FED <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:
> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
> by about an hour's walk).
>
> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?

There's not enough (>0) bikini-clad women to make me jealous.

Regards,
--
*Art
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258176 ] Di, 18 April 2006 09:43
redtiger  
"Arthur Hagen" <art [at] broomstick.com> wrote in message
news:e212e9$u47$1 [at] tree.broomstick.com...
> 8'FED <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:
>> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>> by about an hour's walk).
>>
>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>
> There's not enough (>0) bikini-clad women to make me jealous.
>
> Regards,
> --
> *Art

I didn't know you wanted to look like a bikini-clad woman. :-)

Anthony

--
Beware of the dog!
The cat is also untrustworthy.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258329 ] Di, 18 April 2006 18:31
Maaike Charron  
Stacie Hanes wrote:

> Lesley Weston wrote:
>
>> The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around
>> Vancouver too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow
>> sand, so the first time we went to a beach here it was quite a
>> surprise; but perhaps it's grey that's the norm and yellow the
>> anomaly.
>
> I've also seen white and black. Hawaii has lots of black sand beaches.
>
If you're lucky enough to find a beach around here with sand instead of
rock, there's a chance it'll be blue and purple. Maybe green in spots.

-Maaike
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258344 ] Mi, 19 April 2006 05:57
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
> Also Sprach 8'FED:
>> Torak wrote:

>>> I mean, I'm no fan of beaches, but in SW Scotland we've
>>> got a lot of beaches that look very similar. :-D
>>
>> But you don't have the weather to go with them. We do.
>
> *Our* weather protects us from harmful UV rays 8-)...

Your weather gives you an incentive not to risk exposing yourself to
UV rays in the first place....

We follow the Scottish custom of rolling eggs down hills until they
break - in our case, chocolate eggs down sandhills. One of the
photographs that I didn't upload shows where mine landed. I play by
the rules that you can't deliberately aim for a hard object (such as a
tree root), but if you can, uh, _arrange_ for the egg to
_accidentally_ hit a hard object, that's OK.

(A lot of people are _much_ more liberal in this area.)

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258363 ] Mi, 19 April 2006 11:32
Diane L  
Maaike wrote:

<colours of sand>
> If you're lucky enough to find a beach around here with sand instead
> of rock, there's a chance it'll be blue and purple. Maybe green in
> spots.

Ooh, that sounds interesting. Do you have any pictures?

Diane L.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258364 ] Mi, 19 April 2006 12:09
Andy Davison  
On Monday 17 April 2006 15:27, 8'FED wrote:

> Wow, you must have a high screen resolution ... :-)

Not high but widescreen. I use a laptop set at 1280x800
--
Andy Davison
andy [at] oiyou.force9.co.uk
Re: Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258387 ] Mi, 19 April 2006 17:54
Mindi  
Lesley Weston wrote:
> in article e206jj$ho2$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote on
> 17/04/2006 6:49 AM:
>
> > On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
> > visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
> > by about an hour's walk).
> >
> > I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
> > example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
> > a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
> >
> > http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm
> >
> > (These will not be on my website permanently, so be quick!)
>
> The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around Vancouver
> too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow sand, so the first
> time we went to a beach here it was quite a surprise; but perhaps it's grey
> that's the norm and yellow the anomaly.
>
> --
> Lesley Weston.
>
> Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
> that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
> changing spelling and spacing as required.

Nope yellow is normal for Aussie beaches, but because we have so much
beach any colour could be normal. I have been led to believe that
England had lots of stoney or pebbled beaches, I didn't realise you
also got sand.

Mindi
Re: Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258484 ] Do, 20 April 2006 01:20
Aggie  
"Mindi" <mindikingsun [at] dodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:1145462053.374305.16980 [at] v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>
> Lesley Weston wrote:
>> in article e206jj$ho2$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote
>> on
>> 17/04/2006 6:49 AM:
>>
>> > On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>> > visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>> > by about an hour's walk).
>> >
>> > I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>> > example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>> > a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>> >
>> > http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm
>> >
>> > (These will not be on my website permanently, so be quick!)
>>
>> The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around Vancouver
>> too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow sand, so the first
>> time we went to a beach here it was quite a surprise; but perhaps it's
>> grey
>> that's the norm and yellow the anomaly.
>>
>> --
>> Lesley Weston.

I'm not sure where the original message is. I don't think my browser DL it
for some reason. But I want to say, those are beautiful pictures. I would
love to visit that beach.
:)
Aggie
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258509 ] Do, 20 April 2006 01:33
raltbos  
"8'FED" <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:

> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
> by about an hour's walk).
>
> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>
> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm

I like the texture of the rocks on the top one. I'm not a great fan of
beach recreation, but your sea is pretty.

Richard
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258516 ] Do, 20 April 2006 02:03
Aggie  
> 8'FED <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:
>> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>> by about an hour's walk).
>>
>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?

They make me jealous, but I've got a pretty good view as well. These are
the grounds where my office is located. There are some pictures of a couple
of my colleagues and their kids as well. I've taken these over the past
couple of weeks. I've actually got some better ones, but I think they're
still on the camera at work.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001430. jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001335. jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001329a .jpg

Aggie
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258545 ] Do, 20 April 2006 10:28
Hendrik Schober  
Aggie <aggieangst [at] ymynospaceway.invalid> wrote:
>> 8'FED <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:
>>> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>>> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>>> by about an hour's walk).
>>>
>>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>
> They make me jealous, but I've got a pretty good view as well. These are
> the grounds where my office is located. There are some pictures of a couple
> of my colleagues and their kids as well. I've taken these over the past
> couple of weeks. I've actually got some better ones, but I think they're
> still on the camera at work.
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001430. jpg
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001335. jpg
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001329a .jpg

Oh. /Now/ I know why you prefer to take the kids
out into the woods, instead of teaching them! <g>

Schobi

--
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I'm Schobi at suespammers dot org

"The sarcasm is mightier than the sword."
Eric Jarvis
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258561 ] Do, 20 April 2006 11:09
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Richard Bos wrote:
> 8'FED wrote:
>
>> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>> by about an hour's walk).
>>
>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>>
>> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm
>
> I like the texture of the rocks on the top one. I'm not a great fan of
> beach recreation, but your sea is pretty.

Balgowan is a very nice beach and the Carybdea rastonii think so too.

The rocks are good for playing on if you're a child. There are little
caves there, not very impressive to an adult, but good enough to
excite a kid.

Plenty of memories in those beaches. I had to go to swimming lessons
at Balgowan.

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258562 ] Do, 20 April 2006 11:12
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Aggie wrote:

> They make me jealous, but I've got a pretty good view as well. These are the
> grounds where my office is located. There are some pictures of a couple of my
> colleagues and their kids as well. I've taken these over the past couple of
> weeks. I've actually got some better ones, but I think they're still on the
> camera at work.
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001430. jpg
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001335. jpg
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001329a .jpg

I'd get claustrophobic if I had to spend all day there without a
horizon in sight, but still, very pretty. Nice colours.

Adrian.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258563 ] Do, 20 April 2006 11:25
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Aggie wrote:

> I'm not sure where the original message is. I don't think my browser DL it for
> some reason. But I want to say, those are beautiful pictures. I would love
> to visit that beach.
> :)

Any time ... http://www.yorkeregion.on.net/map.htm

8'FED.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258648 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 00:10
Aggie  
"8'FED" <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote in message
news:e27k3d$2dkf$3 [at] mud.stack.nl...
> Aggie wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure where the original message is. I don't think my browser DL
>> it for some reason. But I want to say, those are beautiful pictures. I
>> would love to visit that beach.
>> :)
>
> Any time ... http://www.yorkeregion.on.net/map.htm
>
> 8'FED.

:)
Thanky. Hopefully it will be before I'm too old to enjoy it. ;)

Aggie
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258653 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 00:25
Aggie  
"Hendrik Schober" <SpamTrap [at] gmx.de> wrote in message
news:e27gv9$q6r$1 [at] murphy.mediascape.de...
> Aggie <aggieangst [at] ymynospaceway.invalid> wrote:
>>> 8'FED <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote:
>>>> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>>>> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>>>> by about an hour's walk).
>>>>
>>>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>>>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>>>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>>
>> They make me jealous, but I've got a pretty good view as well. These are
>> the grounds where my office is located. There are some pictures of a
>> couple
>> of my colleagues and their kids as well. I've taken these over the past
>> couple of weeks. I've actually got some better ones, but I think they're
>> still on the camera at work.
>>
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001430. jpg
>>
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001335. jpg
>>
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001329a .jpg
>
> Oh. /Now/ I know why you prefer to take the kids
> out into the woods, instead of teaching them! <g>
>
> Schobi

Those babies follow me all over and I'm not sure why. I don't feed them. I
think I ought to be paid extra for goat walking. :)

Aggie
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258654 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 00:27
Aggie  
"8'FED" <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote in message
news:e27k3b$2dkf$2 [at] mud.stack.nl...
> Aggie wrote:
>
>> They make me jealous, but I've got a pretty good view as well. These are
>> the grounds where my office is located. There are some pictures of a
>> couple of my colleagues and their kids as well. I've taken these over the
>> past couple of weeks. I've actually got some better ones, but I think
>> they're still on the camera at work.
>>
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001430. jpg
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001335. jpg
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/Aggie_Angst/IM001329a .jpg
>
> I'd get claustrophobic if I had to spend all day there without a
> horizon in sight, but still, very pretty. Nice colours.
>
> Adrian.

It's on top of a mountain. It's not a very big mountain however. We're at
the foothills of the Appalachian chain, so there's not much height left by
the time they get here. The view off the mountain isn't too good though. We
have way too many crazed developers running amok and spoiling the natural
landscape. :\

Aggie
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258690 ] Do, 20 April 2006 19:18
Maaike Charron  
Diane L wrote:

> Maaike wrote:
>
> <colours of sand>
>> If you're lucky enough to find a beach around here with sand instead
>> of rock, there's a chance it'll be blue and purple. Maybe green in
>> spots.
>
> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Do you have any pictures?
>
I don't, but Google threw up a good one:
http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/sands/sand294.html

Middle Cove actually has more rock than sand, but what's there covers the
range of colours pretty well. Most beaches are one main colour with a few
specks of other stuff thrown in.

-Maaike
Re: Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258703 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 05:23
Lesley Weston  
in article 1145462053.374305.16980 [at] v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com, Mindi at
mindikingsun [at] dodo.com.au wrote on 19/04/2006 8:54 AM:

>
> Lesley Weston wrote:
>> in article e206jj$ho2$1 [at] mud.stack.nl, 8'FED at dragon [at] netyp.com.au wrote on
>> 17/04/2006 6:49 AM:
>>
>>> On Sunday morning I took some photographs of the local beach my family
>>> visits most often (two beaches really, but they're adjacent, seperated
>>> by about an hour's walk).
>>>
>>> I have just uploaded six of these photographs. Comments welcome - for
>>> example, which are your favourites and (for afpers who don't live near
>>> a good beach) exactly how jealous do they make you?
>>>
>>> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/temp/beachviews.htm
>>>
>>> (These will not be on my website permanently, so be quick!)
>>
>> The sand looks grey in your pictures, and it's grey here around Vancouver
>> too. Having grown up in England, I was used to yellow sand, so the first
>> time we went to a beach here it was quite a surprise; but perhaps it's grey
>> that's the norm and yellow the anomaly.
>>
>> --
>> Lesley Weston.
>>
>> Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
>> that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
>> changing spelling and spacing as required.
>
> Nope yellow is normal for Aussie beaches, but because we have so much
> beach any colour could be normal. I have been led to believe that
> England had lots of stoney or pebbled beaches, I didn't realise you
> also got sand.

Where you do get sand in England, it's yellow - "Come unto these yellow
sands", and so forth. The sand on the beaches we go to most often was put on
top of the rocks that form the true coastline after it was dredged out in
the thirties (?) to make a nice deep shipping channel into the harbour. It
was startlingly grey when we first came here in the seventies, but I think
it's taking on a slightly yellowish tinge now - perhaps it's something to do
with exposure to the air; or perhaps I'm just used to it at last.

--
Lesley Weston.

Brightly_coloured_blob is real, but I don't often check even the few bits
that get through Yahoo's filters. To reach me, use leswes att shaw dott ca,
changing spelling and spacing as required.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258793 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 15:42
Diane L  
Maaike wrote:
> Diane L wrote:
>
>> Maaike wrote:
>>
>> <colours of sand>
>>> If you're lucky enough to find a beach around here with sand instead
>>> of rock, there's a chance it'll be blue and purple. Maybe green in
>>> spots.
>>
>> Ooh, that sounds interesting. Do you have any pictures?
>>
> I don't, but Google threw up a good one:
> http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/sands/sand294.html
>
> Middle Cove actually has more rock than sand, but what's there covers
> the range of colours pretty well. Most beaches are one main colour
> with a few specks of other stuff thrown in.

Thanks. I wouldn't call that sand, though, it's more gravel. In the UK,
most beaches are either sand (yellow, as Leslay says) or pebbles.
This is the beach we used to take family holidays near when I was
a kid:
http://www.picturesofengland.com/pictures/500/Mablethorpe_11 11497767.jpg

and this is a pebble beach, from Brighton.

http://www.painetworks.com/photos/hj/hj1308.JPG

Diane L.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258795 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 16:03
news0604  
Diane L wrote:
> Maaike wrote:

> > http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/sands/sand294.html

> Thanks. I wouldn't call that sand, though, it's more gravel.

You did see the scale, didn't you?

Michael
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258797 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 16:10
Diane L  
Michael J. Schülke wrote:
> Diane L wrote:
>> Maaike wrote:
>
>>> http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/sands/sand294.html
>
>> Thanks. I wouldn't call that sand, though, it's more gravel.
>
> You did see the scale, didn't you?

Um, yes, it says 1cm. That means it's about half the size it appears
on my screen. So it looks like fine gravel.

Diane L.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258799 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 16:22
news0604  
Diane L wrote:
> Um, yes, it says 1cm. That means it's about half the size it appears
> on my screen. So it looks like fine gravel.
>
>
IIRC, the boundary between sand and gravel is at an average grain size
of 2 mm. Most of the grains in that picture look much smaller, maybe
around 1 mm. A few look significantly bigger, but without counting, they
appear to the the exception.

Michael
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258818 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 19:32
Diane L  
Michael J. Schülke wrote:
> Diane L wrote:
>> Um, yes, it says 1cm. That means it's about half the size it appears
>> on my screen. So it looks like fine gravel.
>>
>>
> IIRC, the boundary between sand and gravel is at an average grain size
> of 2 mm. Most of the grains in that picture look much smaller, maybe
> around 1 mm. A few look significantly bigger, but without counting,
> they appear to the the exception.

OK, fair enough. I had no idea what the technical definition of gravel is
(or sand, for that matter). It still looks like fine gravel to me, but if
you
tell me it's sand, I'll believe you.

Diane L.
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258852 ] Fr, 21 April 2006 22:54
Arthur Hagen  
Michael J. Schülke <news0604 [at] mjschuelke.de> wrote:
> Diane L wrote:
>> Maaike wrote:
>
>>> http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/sands/sand294.html
>
>> Thanks. I wouldn't call that sand, though, it's more gravel.
>
> You did see the scale, didn't you?

I'd call that pebbles. If the pieces of rock are big enough to penetrate
your skin, I wouldn't call it sand.

Regards,
--
*Art
Re: [I] Easter Morning Beach Photographs [message #258910 ] Sa, 22 April 2006 09:54
Flesh-eating Dragon  
Aggie wrote:

> It's on top of a mountain. It's not a very big mountain however.

I'm Australian - my idea of a mountain is your idea of a little bump.

Adrian.

P.S. I've taken down the beach photographs now, as I think everyone's
had a fair opportunity to see them.
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