There is some spectacular scenery under the polar ice. Antarctica must have amazing features. A good setting for Lovecraft’s mountains of madness. Adelsteen Normann (1848–1918) Adelsteen Normann had a talent for capturing the drama of Norway’s fjords. He painted them with crisp light, sweeping perspective, and a sense of scale that makes you …
Author: Sea Run
Kudu!
Kruger National Park Kudu bull. There was a lot of flap online if it was real but it seems to check out. Hemingway was looking for one like that in his Green Hills of Africa. Chapter 67 in Steve’s A Sportsman’s Library. Another pic for comparison. The record horns. Bob Kuhn (1920 – 2007)Bull Kudu and …
Seamounts
An “enormous” submerged mountain that rivals peaks in the Rockies has been mapped for the first time in a previously unexplored area of the western Pacific, according to NOAA Ocean Exploration. The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau—an island country east of the Philippines—and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet …
Caribou “superhighway”
Around 9,000 years ago, when water levels were much lower, a limestone ridge stretched from Alpena, Michigan, all the way to Ontario. Early Native hunters used it to track migrating caribou, building stone hunting blinds, and drive lanes right where fish swim today. Archaeologists call it the Alpena-Amberley Ridge, and at nearly 120 feet underwater, …
I wondered about that.
Oil spills from tankers have fallen to less than one-thirtieth of the levels seen in the 1970s— We’ve all seen the dramatic images of vast parts of the ocean caked in oil; birds and other wildlife stuck in the thick, dark liquid. These spills are both environmentally damaging and expensive to clean up. As the …
Haboob August 25, 2025
I have waited SO many years for shots like today and I finally got it. My buddy Garrett hit me up a few days ago mentioning the possibility of monsoon picking up. So I threw the dice for a few days to see if anything would happen and I ended up getting a haboob of …
Euro Dogs
Romania is also very high for cat ownership. Note the cultural bias in Turkey. A common Islamic sentiment.
New Monte Burke book, etc
An author I will read anything by: Monte Burke, who writes about football and fishing (generally not at the same time). He documented the quest to catch a world-record tarpon using a fly rod in Lords of the Fly, a gorgeous book that is meticulously reported and researched. I’d recommend it to anyone, whether or not …
Redtail Ballet and Peregrine Prey
A graceful display by a Redtail. I saw one in the field by the shed, last week. I wondered what it was doing on the ground. I tried to see if it had something but couldn’t get a good enough look. Peregrines with a squirrel. Unusal prey for them. More
Mendel came to mind.
Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (Swedish painter, 1851-1890) – Monk Gardening, 1884