Saturday, 20 June 2015

Saga of the Chinchaga


Well…he sees you, do you see him? Of all my critter encounters, It’s my best wilderness Waldo impression I have ever photographed in the Chinchaga. Let me know by comment if you find him.

This landscape still has that graze of wildness and unpredictability. The sounds are free of humanized clatter.  A light rain awakens the smell of deep forest and rocky soil.  It cools my nostrils to inhale a deep breath of this pure earthy goodness, and my body has no other option but to relax.

The gentle rain gives way to beams of sunlight, which severs holes through heaps of puffed clouds, golden white on top and menacing blue to the bottom.  Close your eyes. Concentrate your mind to feel the gentle warmth of a sun beam striking the face.   The trees are animated by a gentle breeze, and in the absence of that sound there would be nothing…..


Ahh the Chinchaga, the big wood river.  And while this land is hard on the body and even harder on equipment, it is good for my soul.

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  1. I see him right between the trees that resemble a slingshot, slightly right of center.

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  2. Yup, that's a kangaroo all right.

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  3. OK that comment pretty much brought me to tears of laughter.

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  4. After 5 minutes with my nose against my phone I see him! My eyes hurt now.

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