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Posted By: Don Maxwell
Date Posted: Feb 7, 2016
Description: This is my view from about 200 feet up this afternoon. You can see something in the water--but the field of view is already narrowed and defined. You can't see the rest of the miles wide river, the trees onshore, the sky. The geese and cormorants. Eagles.

And the truth is, I happened to notice the object as I flew past it at about 20 feet on short final.

I went around and climbed to see if I could get a better look. I had to circle 4 or 5 times before spotting it again. That's when I took this photo.
Date Taken: 2016-02-02
Place Taken: Tar Bay, VA
Owner: Don Maxwell
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Don Maxwell - Feb 02,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Then I circled a couple more times, lower, trying to find it again and get a better shot.


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Don Maxwell - Feb 02,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    And on another circle this is the best I could do from the air.


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Don Maxwell - Feb 02,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Here's that shot enhanced.

There's no indication of scale in these photos. As far as I could tell, the log was about 10 or 12 feet long. All of it was below the surface except for the knob at the right end.

Sorry, there's no story here, no drama, no lesson. Just a piece of flotsam.


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Chuck Cavanaugh - Feb 03,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    I see them all the time on lake Apopka. Thanks for clearing it up....I always wondered what they were     
  
Dennis Scearce - Feb 03,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Looks like a Searey killer to me.     
  
Carr, Frank  - Feb 03,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    I see something that could ruin your day.     
  
Philippe Lefresne - Feb 03,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    The Loch Ness Monster....     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 03,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    By coincidence, right after landing at KFCI yesterday I was chatting with a friend, Pat, who told me about flying an F-18 in Afghanistan and trying to spot a small red tarp marking the house that an American GI was holed up in. He said he flew low level circles all around the area but never could find the tarp. He told the story in another context altogether--about a near-miss with a Predator--but it reminded me of how hard it was to spot this log in a slow Searey. (Pat, if you see this, I hope I got that story right.)     
  
Troy iRMT Heavy Maint. Enriquez - Feb 05,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    I'm with Phil, definitely a Loch Ness Monster.     
  
Brian Furnell - Feb 05,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    ever see the movie Lake Placid?     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 07,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Hah! It turns out that the reason I had trouble finding that log is because I had expected the current to take it downstream and was looking in the wrong place. But a couple of days ago it turned up just upstream of our pier, and today it's lodged just downstream of it. There must be a branch underneath somewhere, dragging on the river bottom. The visible part is as big as the piling.


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Eric Batterman - Feb 08,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    I think you found the HL Hunley II     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 08,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    Could be!

But, no, it's actually most of a whole tree trunk. It's way too big to wrestle onto the beach far enough to dry and burn it, so at high tide this morning I towed it downstream and ran it aground near the point you see in the background above. That's bad practice, as it's a hazard to navigation, even if it stays there, but at least it's out of the seaplane lanes. The trunk is about 2 feet in diameter, and there's a fork at the end without the knob, with 10 or 15 feet of big branch under water.

The water was right chilly, by the way. I first walked out to it in my insulated waders and could feel the cold through 1/4"" of foam. That's when I decided to tow it with the boat. 		    
  
Carr, Frank  - Feb 08,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    I wonder if asked if the local USCG will remove a hazard to navigation?     
  
Don Maxwell - Feb 09,2016   Viewers  | Reply
    They should. They service the shipping channel buoys about twice a year. If the hazard comes back this way, I'll call them and find out.     


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