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Posted By:
Nickens, Dan
Date Posted:
Feb 13, 2017
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There was an official with the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority that told me you can do most anything in an airplane as long as no one is watching. He even explained that his favorite activity involved finding a deserted beach to land on. Way out on the west coast on the Tasman Sea it seemed as if I had done that.
(Near the Waipoua Settlement and the Waipoua River in the Northlands, New Zealand)
Date Taken:
Jan. 20, 2017
Place Taken:
Northlands, NZ
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Nickens, Dan
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Deserted beach? Not so much. I hadn't be on it for more than five minutes before spotting the SUV barreling down the beach towards the plane. Sigh. At least the natives were friendly.
(Near the Waipoua Settlement and the Waipoua River in the Northlands, New Zealand)
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Beach Party 3266
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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It was a good plan. Avoid the popular and populated east coast, full of airplane haters, and find acceptance out on the wild west coast. The lightly populated coast has an occasional ranch, isolated, small communities, and stretches of nothing civilized for miles. There was little evidence of the large, sumptuous glass-encased houses of busy-bodies crowding the east side.
(Near the Waipoua Settlement and the Waipoua River in the Northlands, New Zealand)
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Down to the Tasman 3223
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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The west coast has plenty of sandy coastline interspersed with rocky outcrops. Huge dunes soar hundreds of meters high. Some of the older ones from when sea level was higher and the climate drier are thinly covered with vegetation.
(Near the Waipoua Settlement and the Waipoua River in the Northlands, New Zealand)
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Covered Dunes 3232
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Waves break unabated from the depths of the Tasman onto the west coast of the north island.
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Coming In 3279
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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When the big waves face a strong wind, something is bound to break.
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Waves1 3243
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Mist rolls off the crest of waves expending themselves against the shore.
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Rolling Mist 3316
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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One of the largest of the old dunes...if you don't believe in climate change, visit the New Zealand coast. Climate change predates people by many millennia.
(North Head of the Hokianga Harbour Entrance, Northlands, NZ)
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Big Dune 3440
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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The entrance to the flooded river valley is bounded by a big dune to the north, and a rocky ridge on the south.
(North Head of the Hokianga Harbour Entrance, Northlands, NZ)
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Wave Block 3393
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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The twin gates hold back the Tasman waves. This one is the south gate post.
(South Head of the Hokianga Harbour Entrance, Northlands, NZ)
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Wave Gate 3399
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Behind the north side there is plenty of sand organized into strange patterns.
(North Head of the Hokianga Harbour Entrance, Northlands, NZ)
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Beach Striping 3431
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Carr, Frank - Feb 11,2017
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More organized (or not) sand.
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Sands
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 11,2017
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That's organized and makes sense, Frank, assuming rippling is parallel to the shore and waves. The beach striping at Hokianga was perpendicular to the shoreline. (But maybe it is a relic of current that runs parallel to the shore when the tide is high?)
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Carr, Frank - Feb 28,2017
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The rippling was indeed parallel to the shore line and what we call waves, here in on Florida's Gulf Coast. Instead of a Continent or
more away, these rippling sands were seen on Sanibel Island, FL.
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Don Maxwell - Feb 09,2017
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That really is a strange one, Dan. I've never seen anything like it before.
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 09,2017
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Like a giant snakeskin maybe?
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Don Maxwell - Feb 10,2017
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Yeah! Right! Hey, wait a minute, Dan. That sounds like an alternative fact.
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Even the sandy dune side has a hard undercore.
(North Head of the Hokianga Harbour Entrance, Northlands, NZ)
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Rock Break 3420
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Carr, Frank - Feb 11,2017
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Quite a puzzle this
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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On the rocky side waves get washed white.
(South Head of the Hokianga Harbour Entrance, Northlands, NZ)
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Rock Washing 3364
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Back behind the raging waves the water is at peace.
(Hokianga Harbour, Northlands, NZ)
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Tongue of Sea 3459
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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The clear ocean water meanders over the land.
(Hokianga Harbour, Northlands, NZ)
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Backstream 3462
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Colorful crops fill the curves in some of the back waters.
(Hokianga Harbour, Northlands, NZ)
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Crop Curves 3465
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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Back bays are great places for the SeaRey to play, with attention to shallow flats, oyster bars and glassy water.
(Hokianga Harbour, Northlands, NZ)
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Back Bays 3493
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 08,2017
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After a fine naturally beautiful tour I returned to the east coast. The signs were clear, with lots of beautiful homes sprinkled with industrial debris (this one an old cement plant).
(Whangarei Harbour, Northlands, NZ)
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Industrial Ruin 3203
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 10,2017
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Video of wave running by a SeaRey passenger with slo mo effects (I have no idea how she did it).
"WATCH OUT FOR THOSE BIRDS!"
"Oh, no worries. The birds are faster than the SeaRey."
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Wave Running
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Carr, Frank - Feb 11,2017
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The color of the water seems a very deep, dark blue; is that a true color or an artifact of something?
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 11,2017
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The blues were lighter, Frank, until the video was ""automatically edited"" by YouTube. I will try to undo the edit if I ever figure out
how to sign in again.
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 11,2017
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Forget it! Too much to learn. Yep, Frank the water was really really very very deep and dark blue. Maybe a tanker full of ink sank just off shore?
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Don Maxwell - Feb 11,2017
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If those are iPhone videos, she probably recorded them in slo-mo and time-lapse. It's dead simple (once you know the selections are there).
What are those big, long-winged birds? One with shorter wings looks a bit like a goose, but the others are built for long distance soaring.
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 12,2017
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I can't say with certainty, Don, though my impression is that there were some black swans out on the beach that day. I was surprised because usually they are found in estuaries and inland lakes. Whatever, when you see them in flight they are spectacular with white wing tips clashing mightily with a large black body.
O ailing Love, compose your struggling wing!
Confess you mortal; be content to die.
How better dead, than be this awkward thing
Dragging in dust its feathers of the sky;
Hitching and rearing, plunging beak to loam,
Upturned, disheveled, uttering a weak sound
Less proud than of the gull that rakes the foam,
Less kind than of the hawk that scours the ground.
While yet your awful beauty, even at bay,
Beats off the impious eye, the outstretched hand,
And what your hue or fashion none can say,
Vanish, be fled, leave me a wingless land . . .
Save where one moment down the quiet tide
Fades a white swan, with a black swan beside.
— Edna St Vincent Millay - See more at: http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/blackswan.html#sthash.bkauXibI.dpuf
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Don Maxwell - Feb 12,2017
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Vincent Millay was probably the best sonneteer since um, well, Shakespeare probably. I don't recall ever reading this one before, but it has an especially nice image in the couplet at the end. (Its has an English sonnet form, by the way, with two or three logical parts, plus a kind of resolution--essentially an epiphany--in the last two lines: abab cdcd efef gg, often called a Shakespearean sonnet because more than anyone else he popularized that form as feeling ""English"" in contrast to the Italian form that has only two parts, an octet and a sestet, without the resolution).
Most of hers are so good that you don't really think of them as sonnets, and the best of them whack you senseless at the end.
She wrote my mother's favorite poem ever, that I remember her reciting to me when I was 5 or 6:
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
I didn't understand it then, as a child, but I could tell that it meant everything to her. (She had given up her college teaching career to marry my father.)
That's not a sonnet, of course. Here's one about... urges that nearly a century later might still scare the bejesus out of horny guys:
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body’s weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn with pity, —let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.
(Propinquity is bodily closeness, proximity.)
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 13,2017
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It is such a pleasure to get a late education in matters of poetry and literature, Don. Thank you. (Well, not so much for the last verse, which is scary no matter what state of maleness one happens to be in.) Where else is the poetry of life and flight in such evidence as right here!
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 12,2017
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And here is evidence that I should not be relied upon for bird identification.....
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Not a Duck
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Don Maxwell - Feb 12,2017
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Spectacular birds!
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 10,2017
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She said she shot this video from the SeaRey. I say no way. SeaReys are definitely not so fast. (Good thing no birds were around for this one.)
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Fast SeaRey Surfing
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Don Maxwell - Feb 10,2017
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Bummer, Dan. Both videos are unavailable, here in the US, anyway.
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 11,2017
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Likely it's my fault, Don. I don't know U-Tube and selected ""private"" for the upload. Does that mean only I can see it?
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Nickens, Dan - Feb 11,2017
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Maybe I fixed it...changed it to public. Hope that is the correct classification?
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Don Maxwell - Feb 11,2017
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Yes, that did the trick, Dan. When ""private"" is selected, you have to send viewers a special link to watch the video.
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