Kayaking at Rose's Bluff St. Marys, GA May 10, 2011
Kayaking in St. Marys, GA and the Bell's River, FL along Rose's Bluff. Kayakers, from Up The Creek Xpeditions in St. Marys, GA, put-in at the St. Marys waterfront and paddle across the St. Marys River Harbor and through a narrow cut in the marsh separating the St. Marys and Bell's Rivers. Once in the Bell's River, kayakers drift and paddle along Rose's Bluff and back into the St. Marys River just west of Downtown St. Marys. Dolphins and a variety of Coastal Bird-life (including several Wood Storks) joined us on this trip; and a River Otter met us at the take-out! What a great trip with a great group of people! The song choice, Fire Woman, is a tribute to the amazing women we had on this trip AND the fact that there really was, Smoke on the horizon..., and our kayaks were dusted with ASH from the Okefenokee Swamp where the Honey Prairie Fire has been burning since April 28th, when a lightning strike started the fire.
Kayaking on Lofton Creek with Up The Creek Xpeditions
Employees, Families and Friends of The Sage Group Kayaking on Lofton Creek -- in Yulee, Florida -- Friday, November 5, 2010, with Up The Creek Xpeditions and The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island. Lofton Creek is a Blackwater Creek that connects a large marsh swamp to the Intercoastal Waterway via the Nassau River. From the launch off Florida A1A, we traveled North into a hardwood and Cypress swamp (to the South is marsh and more open, brackish water). The weather was perfect and the paddlers all had a blast! Kayaks and Guides provided by Up The Creek Xpeditions, St. Marys, Georgia (UpTheCreekX.com); Trip arrangements and ground transportation provided by The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island ( and Dana's Limousine and Transportation Services (
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Paddling the St Marys River, April 2, 2011
Winter time fishing the St Marys river
Well wanted to get away from the salt water and fish my back yard in the St. Marys river, and picked the coldest day of the week to go it looks like. tough conditions, but very peaceful. Look forward to going back when the fish are a lil bit more active.
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Tropical Storm Beryl: Aftermath in St. Marys, Georgia
Aftermath of Tropical Storm Beryl in St. Marys, Georgia at the Waterfront. The heavy winds downed numerous trees and hammered boats and docks while high water and waves washed across docks and broke boats loose from their moorings and washed several boats into the marsh. As the high waters receded, debris and cord grass was piled high on docks and boats were left high and dry up in the marsh. As Tropical Storms go, this was not a bad one, but the damage to the waterfront was considerable.
Walking in the middle of the St. Mary's River
Sandbar in the middle of the river
St Mary's River to Tippity Wichity Kayaking
A whole lot of walking, not so much kayaking. Traveled from the Great Mills launch out to the St. Mary's River Sanctuary and around Tippity Wichity island.
Tail Mail with Weeki Wachee Mermaid Charlene from Georgia in Saint Mary's, GA
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Strain Hunters Jamaica Expedition (Full Length)
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Here we go again!
We board a flight from Amsterdam and in 9 hours we are in the Caribbean. After a layover of just a couple of hours on Curacao, we fly on to Jamaica. We land in Kingston around 11 am local time. The air is hot, but not too humid.
We have a 3 hours layover, so we decide to get out of the airport and go have lunch in Port Royal, half an hour away on the coast. It's a bit of a ghost-town, once a very rich merchant harbor, destroyed at the end of the seventeenth century by a powerful earthquake. It looks like it never really recovered…
We eat lunch in a small fish-restaurant, famous for its snapper. But I eat jerk chicken because I am picky with my fish, and the jerk-spices here are amazing!
Of course we drink some Red Stripe beers, and Simon and myself decide it's time to find some weed. It does not take long before we hit the jackpot: literally on the side of the local Police station, along the seaside, there are some barracks and shacks; inside a group of Rastas is busy cleaning and chopping weed and rolling it up in small balls, using rolling papers as containers.
We ask if we can buy some, and the guys are thrilled. It's cheap, less than 1 Euro per gram. But it's a bit bitter, very leafy, and we enjoy it just because it's been a while since we smoked in Amsterdam! Some of the Rastas in the back are smoking crack cocaine in a glass pipe, the smell is terribly sour. They ask if we like some, and we politely tell them we are just here for the ganja; they nod, and scream Jah Rastafari!
We sit and smoke a joint with them, and chat a bit about the local weed, and the cops. It's incredible that this is all happening next to the Police station.
We leave as soon as the joint is over, and we go back to the restaurant to join the rest of the crew.
It's time to get back to the airport and catch a Jamaican Airlines flight to Montego Bay, where our local contacts are waiting. The flight is really short, under half hour, and we arrive in MoBay before sunset. Bigga, Shanti, Nampo and Taleban are waiting for us and it's great to see them again; Arjan and myself spent some crazy days with these guys not long ago, during our scouting trips on the island.
These guys are a tight crew, and they are going to take care of us during the next days of this filming trip.
Nampo is a older Rasta, wise man, with lots of contacts and very respected.
Taleban, his friend, is a grower and a smuggler, a real pirate and one of the funniest guys we ever had with us during our expeditions.
Bigga is our driver/bodyguard, he's a man of the road and he knows who and what you need to know to keep us safe.
Shanti is a local singer, a reggae artist with an amazing talent and a great personality. I know him since he was 10 years old, back in 1994, when I spent a few weeks near where he lived with his father (the man supplying me with fine herb at the time). It was really special to find Shanti during our scouting trips back in July, he's now a grown up man… and I am getting old! Shanti will come along and make sure the soundtrack of our travels is inspiring and inspired.
We get the cars, two Toyota Fortuner, and we load up the mountain of gear we are carrying. Then we drive down to Negril in the sunset light, and when we arrive it's already dark. We decide to spend the first night at the Blue Cave Castle, a really cozy place on the rocky cliffs of Negril.
It's another true 1994-flashback for me, this is one of the places where I stayed when I was a 20-years-old ganja-traveler, already a Strain Hunter without knowing it…. Of course to make the flashback even more intense the same room where I slept then is available, so I take it.
It still looks the same.
We are tired from the long travel, and we decide to go for some food. Unfortunately the chef is sick, so we decide to find something not too far away. We hit a jerk-chicken stand by the side of the road and we eat like there's no tomorrow.
After a few Red Stripes and a few joints we go back to the hotel, where we smoke some good amount of high-grade weed, and some gum, the local finger-hash.
The weed is definitely an indica-cross, it tastes sweet and strong, and they say it's from a site not too far from where we are. We make a plan for tomorrow, and we go to sleep. Jamaica is great. It's a true privilege to be here again.
Jah Bless!
And now we are back with MisterX pics, the man is a true artist..... enjoy!
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Mine to Mine Challenge 2012
Mine to Mine Challenge 2012. Date: October 13, 2012. Time: 10:00 a.m. Where: The race will take place in Cripple Creek, Colorado; starting across from the Mollie Kathleen Mine at the Cripple Creek Heritage Center and ending at the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mine. Distance: 9k. Entry Fee: $35 + Active.com fees. Race day sign-up cost is $45. Kid's Race is FREE. Registration: To register, go to Active.com - Mine to Mine Challenge 2012. Prizes: Top men's and women's overall winners win, in real GOLD NUGGETS: 1st place winners win $500, 2nd place winners win $200, 3rd place winners win $100. Age Group winners will be awarded a one-of-a-kind flouride ore prize from the mines! Fun prizes for participants of the Kid's Race! All runners will be automatically entered into a drawing for exciting Cripple Creek prizes!
Attributes: This road race is point-to-point and includes mixed flats and hills. A bag-drop service will be available for all runners. Transportation will be provided from the Finish Line to the Brass Ass Beer Garden and to the Start Line.
Conditions: This road race takes place at an altitude of 9,494 feet. Please hydrate accordingly and take necessary precautions. Temperature is approximately 10 degrees cooler than Colorado Springs.
Description: History meets Modern Day in this unique road race from a historic Old West Mine to a present day working mine. The City of Cripple Creek will host its First Annual Mine to Mine Challenge race on October 13, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Enjoy an exciting run down State Highway 67 from the Mollie Kathleen Mine to the Cripple Creek and Victor Mine. The 9k trail presents scenery so stunning, the runners may need a reminder to keep breathing! Runners of all levels are encouraged to participate!
The Brass Ass Casino And that's not all - a Beer Garden, Live Bands, and delicious treats will be available to runners after the race at the Brass Ass parking lot from 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. Come join in the fun at the race After Party!
264 East Bennett Avenue (the Brass Ass Parking Lot is located just behind the casino along Myers Avenue) ~ Look for the party that you just can't miss!
Race packets will be available for pick-up on Friday, October 12, 2012 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Jack Quinn's Irish Pub in downtown Colorado Springs.
Jack Quinn's Irish Pub
21 South Tejon Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.385.0766
Packet pick-up will also be available on race day at the Cripple Creek Heritage Center starting at 8 a.m. on Saturday, October 13.
Cripple Creek Heritage Center
9283 South Highway 67
Cripple Creek, CO 80813
719.689.3289
Amelia Island Lofton Creek bass
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Kayaking to Cumberland Island
In preparation for our trip to the Everglades later that Spring, we drove from Atlanta to St. Mary's and paddled to Cumberland Island from Crooked State Park. It was a 13-mile paddle to the backcountry camp site on the Northern end of the Island, the wildlife was amazing!
Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc.® presents: The Storm Mine, Ouray County, Colorado
The Storm Gold Mining Property is located in in the southern end of the Red Mountain Mining District. The mine consists of a series of adits and small prospects cut on an assumed trend of outcrops indicating gold mineralization. The primary portal has been closed by the Colorado Division of Reclamation (date unknown) and the actual depth and details of the workings are currently not known.
The primary portal has a waste dump size of an estimated 25k tons. This material shows quartz, iron and gold and returns assay values of .6 oz/T. There are two other iron and quartz outcrops which appear to have been lightly prospected but not developed. There were no samples taken from these prospects.
Northeast of the main portal there is a small adit, known as the upper adit. This adit is roughly 30’ in depth and is chasing iron/quartz/gold deposits. There is some good gold ore visible in small stringers inside the adit. A very old mining road connects the upper and primary adits on the claim.
The mine is positioned at roughly 11,600’ in the upper basin of Grey Copper Gulch. The Vernon Mine, a noted gold producer, is located less than ¾ mile north of the Storm.
The primary output of the Storm Mine is and was gold. The mine was never largely developed due to the logistics, climate conditions and values of gold when the district was being developed. Silver deposits which returned $100-150 per ton in silver were common, so gold deposits, even high value deposits of a few ounces per ton, were still overshadowed by silver deposits. Add to this that mills and processing facilities in the region were set up to process silver and not gold.
With this information in mind it is obvious why gold mines were never largely developed until the latter half of the 20th century.
The Storm Mine is a high value gold mining claim that is projected to return approximately $75k per year in profit after costs
Historic Liddia Mine - Leadville, Colorado - 2016
Historic Uintah Mine - Leadville, Co.
Anyone who has been to Leadville knows that Mining claims are all but impossible to find. With that in mind we put an exorbitant amount of work and effort into locating this documented gold producer. The substantial and historic mine is set in the Mount Sherman district, just a few miles out of Leadville. Its a very old claim that likely dates back into the 1870s in regards to location. The mine itself is assumed to have been commercially worked from 1900-1920 based on the machinery and many other factors. It has been sporadically worked up to 1981 for the free milling gold values. This has been mostly placer operations as the old drifts and tunnels appear to have been collapsed for at least 30 years.
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San Juan River Packraft-Honaker to Slickhorn
Thanksgiving 2014 4 day solo trip. Hiked down the Honaker Trail, floated 20ish miles of river, hiked up Slickhorn canyon. Started with a 30 mile bike shuttle to drop the car at the take out. Classic trip.
Mining Built This Country - Gold Rush Expeditions - 2017
Mining acted as a catalyst for the growth and expansion of the United States, as it drove thousands of pioneers westward for the prospect of riches. Where ever there was gold, there would be people, boom towns, and industry.
Mining built this country.
At Gold Rush Expeditions, we are dedicated to keeping that history alive and reminding the world that mining is still a valuable and profitable endeavor.
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Ludlow, 100 Years Later: A Colorado Independent Event
Some wounds take longer to heal than others.
One hundred years ago this week 11 children and two women died at Ludlow, a tent colony of workers striking against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The Colorado Coal War also took countless more victims — striking miners, union busters hired by the Rockefellers and national militia dispatched by a Governor on behalf of the world's richest family.
The Colorado Independent is marking the anniversary with a multimedia series about the scabs left a century after the Ludlow Massacre.
On Thursday April 10, the Independent sponsored a forum of people whose lives, rather directly or indirectly, have been shaped by the events at Ludlow. They include: Bob Butero, Region 4 director of the United Mine Workers Union and a third-generation Colorado miner; Frank and Mary Petrucci, the son of a striker at Ludlow and his daughter, named after her grandmother who survived the massacre; Dave Mason, Colorado's poet laureate, professor at Colorado College and author of a verse novel called Ludlow; Wil Smith, an employment attorney in Boulder who speaks about where we as workers and Coloradans stand a century after the tragic massacre; Monica Martinez-Vargas, a retired janitor, lead organizer in Justice for Janitors and longtime member of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union); Lauren Martens, executive director of SEIU's Colorado State Council, will be interpreting from Spanish for Monica.
Pearson Brothers Winery films 15ft Great White Shark and they also make a Great White Wine
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Uncut and unedited video clips of encounter with White Shark. There was no cell service at the location this was shot. There is no Marine Rescue in Mexico for sharks. The shark was observed and filmed nothing more could be done. It swam away after 20 min.
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Kayak Trip - Kayak Amelia
In this episode of Cheap Family Travel ( Nick, Regan, Maggie, and Kate took a kayak tour to Amelia Island in Jacksonville, Florida. River kayaking trips are popular in Florida, as one can paddle past dolphins and manatees, and out to the island that is home to beautiful beaches and unique wildlife. We joined the Family Tour which is a specifically designed for families with kids. Our guides from Kayak Amelia gave our group a quick lesson in kayaking, and led us to the island, where the kids collected shells and finished a scavenger hunt. Captain Ray even shared his huge homemade chocolate chip cookies! Kayak Amelia also offers many unique paddling trips, stand up paddleboard trips (SUP), bike tours, kayak fishing trips, overnight kayak trips, and kayak and canoe rentals. Florida kayaking trips are a great way to get to less-crowded and more beautiful beaches, and we sure found those on Amelia Island in Talbot State Park. Get more information at kayakamelia.com