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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
May 31, 2009
Description:
At 7 o'clock, Windmill Point was at my 8 o'clock.
The James is tidal there--three feet--but the water is officially fresh. A salometer that I ordered online arrived today, so I hope to measure the salinity at various places, just to satisfy my curiosity about what 'officially fresh' might mean. Not that it matters. The waterways around here are so lovely that I'd land in them even if they were pure salt.
Date Taken:
May 31, 2009
Place Taken:
SE VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
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Larry Woods - May 31,2009
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Hi Don:<br /><br />Super set of pics.<br />Makes me wish my bird was finished and flying.<br /><br />Best,<br />Larry
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Scott Peters - May 31,2009
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Hi ya Don:<br /><br />We get rather brackish here at the plant during the dry days of summer (we'll compare numbers). You could not have put it any better about 'our' waterways.<br /><br />Thanks for all your great pictures and writings. Would like to get together again one day.
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Kenneth Leonard - May 31,2009
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Don - I thought you could check salinity by weighing a set volume of water?
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Don Maxwell - May 31,2009
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You can, Ken. But you need a graduate, a scale and a steady surface. Here's what I found that--I hope--will work in a SeaRey: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matfer-Salometer/dp/B000KEPEC0">http://www.amazon.com/Matfer-Salometer/dp/B000KEPEC0</a><br /><br />It's intended for cooking, so I'm not sure of the calibration or the range, but it ought to be good enough for relative approximations. I'll let you know tomorrow.
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Eric Batterman - May 31,2009
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Don, You could go even cheaper buying one at a pet store:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.petmountain.com/show_product/502129/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_term=502129">http://www.petmountain.com/show_product/502129/?utm_source=f<br>roogle&utm_medium=datafeed&utm_term=502129</a>
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Don Maxwell - Jun 01,2009
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Alors, crepe! And the writing in in English, too. Well, when this one breaks I'll know where to go for another. Thanks, Eric.
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Eric Batterman - Jun 01,2009
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They're cheap enough you could drop one overboard on a low flyby and then decide if you will land.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 02,2009
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I took three samples today in water that I thought might be brackish. Nope. Fresh--or, at least, the float floated low, with the top line (0 salt) on the surface. Evidence of nothing.
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Rick Oreair - Jun 03,2009
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Why don't you just taste it? Your tongue is incredibly sensitive to the salt.
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Don Maxwell - Jun 03,2009
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I'd already tasted it, Rick. Was just curious to see if it was going to be easy to quantify the salinity. This morning I read that all the rivers around here are rather high--but don't look high--because of the rain we got last week. So that's probably why the water was fresh even where I expected it to be fairly salty (at high tide, east of Jamestown Island).
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Matt Tucciarone - Jun 03,2009
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Some people just have too much time on their hands.
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Rick Oreair - Jun 03,2009
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Yeah, when I grow up I'm going to retire too!
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Philip Mendelson - Jun 03,2009
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AMEN BROTHER....
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Dennis Scearce - Jun 04,2009
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I donno, Rick. Retirement is hard work. Like last Tuesday, when I had to fly down to York, SC to get 3 gallons of fresh strawberries and a fresh peach slushy. Then stop by Gastonia, NC on the way back to share them and some ice cream with my daughter and grandsons. Then fix my own strawberry short cake after I got back home. Really tough job.
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Dave Lima - Jun 04,2009
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Ah, the typical Grandparent, spoil em rotten, wind em up with sugar and then send em home to their parents.
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