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[foxfish]

The worst story I have heard was about a three person team in the Sarks Hope mine, 600’ deep and 200’ out to sea.
The father, brother and son team were boring a 1.5” hole in the ganite with timed blows of a 9lb hammer while the boring rod was twisted by the young 16 year old son. This was just before dynamite was invented so gun powder was used but the hole size needed to be quite large to work effectively.
The team used candles to light the up the work space but as you can imagine the conditions were dire and a miss placed strike from the fathers hammer struck the son in the head and killed hime outright!
There were other deaths related to flooding and drowning plus's uncountable maimings and loss of digits etc…. and all this happened in just a few years of the working mine!

 

[mort]

That reminded me foxface of another thing the Llechwedd miners had to buy, fuses. Apparently because they were quite expensive they would try and cut them as short as possible to save money and you can imagine the consequences of doing so in a pitch black cavern.

 

[NotoriousENG]

All this talk about mining inspired me to dig up a picture I took of a mine lake in Minnesota. These lakes occured due strip mining in the Cuyuna Iron range. There are many pit lakes, but the deepest is reported at over 450 ft. Now a days these lakes are popular with local dive clubs, anglers, and the surrounding are is an excellent mountian biking park.

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[Nont]

Went to national park today. There are many interesting plants, but sadly only one Cryptocoryne crispatula was found.

 

[foxfish]

Here is another video from the summer when we went to find an old silver mine.

 

[Fiske]

Short trip to a nearby forest a week ago












Seems like I need to resize every single image, which sets a natural limit for post spamming

 

[Tim Harrison]

Room with a view. Elveden Forest, Suffolk.


Lakenheath Warren SSSI, Suffolk, Inland sand dunes.

 

[Tim Harrison]

An emerald jewel within the heart of Charnwood Forest.

 

[Fiske]

Bidstrup Forest 20th October.

 

[Fiske]

For some reason some wouldn't attach as images. What is the size requirements? Max 6000 pixels and 20MB right? I have several getting an error despite being smaller than that,,,
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[foxfish]

Candie Gardens, very late fall.
Candie Gardens

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Candie Gardens, very late fall.

Ginkgo's are just great. I remember <"this one from 2020">.

cheers Darrel

 

[mort]

Salthouse, North Norfolk on a pretty manky day.

 

[mort]

 

[mort]

Be thankful pictures don't smell, the native goats of the Great Orme

 

[foxfish]

Great picture, I used to look after a billy goat, he was really good fun.
He had been castrated and did not smell to bad but those two look like real fine specimens!

 

[mort]

You can easily smell them from half a mile away if the wind isn't kind to you. They have quite an interesting history

Llandudno Goats - The Great Orme - Kashmiri Goats - Llandudno.com

Read about the origin of Llandudno's renowned goats, where they come from and how they live on "Llandudno's Mountain" The Great Orme.

www.llandudno.com

Snowdonia seems to have a few populations, there are similar goats I've seen at the top of Tryfan and we saw some very impressive different ones, with the biggest handlebars I've seen on a goat, wandering around the Dinorwic quarry.

 

[Nont]

I was in Trang province down southern Thailand for a vacation. We went to the restaurant with sea view this afternoon, these Cryptocoryne ciliata is also beside the place. Some plant are over 40 cm tall!
I managed to collect some of it, although I got strange look from every people inside the place

 

[foxfish]

I came across this outdoor, upside down, jade plant, it was hanging outside what was a pottery shop where they made and sold the upside down plant pots.
The pottery closed 15 years ago so I guess this plant has remained unattended for that long!

 

[hypnogogia]

The pottery closed 15 years ago so I guess this plant has remained unattended for that long!

Interesting. How does the pant access water? Are there holes in the top (bottom) of the upside down plant pot?