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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Aug 14, 2013
Description:
upper picture...the resort
islands....bottom of picture
the fresh water tea
line...miles of tea colored
fresh water surrounds the
resorts...owners NOT
happy.
Date Taken:
Aug 14, 2013
Place Taken:
gulf Coast
Owner:
wayne Nagy
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Category:
34, Florida Flying
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Don Maxwell - Aug 14,2013
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Interesting shots, Wayne. Up here in central-southeast Virginia there are rivers of various colors. The Chickahominy, for example, is a short river so tea colored from swampland tannin that it's more like black coffee; but it has almost no silt. In contrast, the James often looks like cafe au lait because of the silt it picks up from countless farms and construction runoff, beginning hundreds of miles upstream, even up in the Shenandoah Valley. <br /><br />(Actually, I'm not sure where it becomes cafe au lait--but intend to get up a SeaRey Expedition soon to fly the entire length of the James and camp near the headwaters, at the foot of the Appalachians, to find out and document it.)<br /><br />But there are some quite clean, clear rivers in the area. The Chowan, a few miles south of here in Virginia and North Carolina, is clean water. It's not exactly clear water, but it sure doesn't look like either tea or cafe au lait. The Chowan flows mostly through land that is wooded, but not swampy, and with few farms or real estate development to sully it.<br /><br />I imagine that the James was clear water when John Smith arrived from England, back in 1607 and Pocahontas took a liking to him. (She married his pal, John Rolfe though.) We've done a rotten job of taking care of it since then.<br /><br />The one river success story I know of is the Hudson, in New York state. Before Pete Seeger started working to clean it up it was pretty much a big open sewer. When I landed the SeaRey on it above NYC, a couple of years ago, it was blue-green, and I didn't see a single dead cow or turd floating in it.
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Dan Nickens - Aug 15,2013
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Are the owners unhappy because the water stains their dentures or because the real estate agents didn't advise them they would be buying in a natural environment subject to change. You buy a place on a barrier island and don't expect change? If they wanted crystal clear water year round they should move to Orlando. Disney has a theme park for that!
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Frank A. Carr - Aug 15,2013
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Maybe Dan, they're like the folks that build near an airport and then complain about airplane noise. I picture Captiva residents this way. They also prohibit parking near the Gulf. Actually I think they don't want you on THEIR Island.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Wayne Nagy - Aug 15,2013
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Resort owners are not happy because it affects their bottom line...<br />Mother nature is all powerful...they blame it on the Lake O releases....the sugar <br />industry...but the bottom line here is Mother Nature reigns supreme!
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Dan Nickens - Aug 15,2013
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So what do they expect the Corpse of Engineers and Swift Mud to do? Discharge all that dirty water to the Everglades? Oh, wait! Can't do that! It's a National Park. It would get all wet and yucky.
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