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Mise Tales Thirty-Eight

March 29, 2014Adult Memories, Audio, Canada, Lighthouses, Ontario, Photographs, Photos, VideosCanada, lighthouse, litehouse, night, ocean, photo, photos, song, videoretlkpr

For an update on what a Mise Tale is then please see Mise Tales One.

As mentioned earlier on the front page of my website, any photos or cartoons, or short information will also be included again later in the next Misc Tales when it is removed from the front page. That way you can keep track of it, or copy it.

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Lovely night sky photographs including a couple with lighthouses, all by Miguel Claro.

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An excellent interactive article on Explore Canada’s ocean watersheds from Canadian Geographic. It shows how dependent we all are on our water supplies – from source to oceans. Keep them clean!

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A song sent to me on Facebook by my cousin. Lyrics are here.

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Two things I love best – lighthouses and trains!

From the site Railpictures.ca – CN 8839 with the 6018 and 8808 lead a northbound train at mile 22.7 on the CP’s Parry Sound Sub September 26, 2008

Japanese Debris On The BC Coast – Is it from the Japanese Tsunami?

December 19, 2011Beachcombing, Communication, Earthquake, Foreign, Glass Balls, Lighthouses, Recreation, Ships & Shipping, Tsunamibeachcombing, currents, drift, earthquake, garbage, glass balls, gyre, Japan, lighthouse, litehouse, ocean, tsunamiretlkpr

The next time you go to the beach and pick up a piece up something from the sand, think of the story of how it arrived there. Is it something lost from the local town, or something that has drifted for years to arrive here just for you?

Oceanic_gyres — Kuroshio Current (upper left)

Early in the 1900’s – commercial Japanese crab fishermen began replacing wooden and cork floats on their fishing nets with free blown glass floats. When the nets broke loose or were lost, the net rotted and the glass balls floated free from their nets and drifted across the Pacific, along with much other debris, on the Kuroshio Current (also known as the Black Stream or Japanese Current). This is a north-flowing ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean and it is part of the North Pacific ocean gyre¹.

1910 – PRESENT – Every year the Kuroshio Current brings material from Asia to North American shores – floats, shoes, boats, wood, bottles, cans, etc. – garbage! Continue reading Japanese Debris On The BC Coast – Is it from the Japanese Tsunami? →