We are in the process of completing a large project, for us anyway, of several miles of rural roads in Northwest Wellfleet. This is part of the Herring River restoration and involves about 3 miles of "low lying" roads that will probably be flooded when the project actually goes forward.
This is broken into 3 phases ironically. There are two different environmental firms, one has two phases and the other has a smaller phase. We received the first contract back at the end of January just days after the first blizzard hit here. Of course the client and the project owner dickered back and forth about 6 weeks before executing the contract so there we were, with 2 miles of road, wetlands, and side slopes to topo, and 3-4' of snow on the ground until the end of March. We hit it hard then, set up the trav, station the road and topo, topo, topo. Total station, RTK GPS, and we worked weekends through this past weekend.
Here is the last culvert down a long dirt road.
Looking downstream, to the south 41 56 37.14 N, 70 03 26.6 W
And as usual, our faithful survey dog, Banjo was on hand to supervise.
There were multiple crossings to locate, top of bank, bottom of bank etc. And two herring counter setups such as you can see in the background close to where Dawn is approaching the first creek cross section.
Upstream about a mile is the second automatic counters. And, by the way, the herring are running now! 🙂
Saturday we were able to knock out about 2/3's of Phase 2, and this morning completed it. Now we will wait for authorization on Phase 3.
Dtp
Don:
Looks like a good job, once it is done and the $ rolls in. I noticed that you are getting the green haze in the woods like we are out here, lots of buds and leaves popping, woods GPS will be dead soon.
Good luck with the next phase and thanks for sharing.
T.W.
I noticed that you are getting the green haze in the woods like we are out here, lots of buds and leaves popping, woods GPS will be dead soon.
I was wondering if those pictures were recent because that's what it looked like around here about a month and a half ago. Everything is completely greened out now.
You mentioned Dawn with one photo. Is Dawn your almost identical twin?
You must understand regional differences in pronunciation. Don and Dawn are pronounced identically in my neighborhood. Neither is a two-syllable word.
The pictures were from Saturday, April 25th, 2015, just the other day.
Dawn is SWMBO, but I'm with you on the pronunciation of the names. People always ask if we get confused but we're pretty well in touch with who is who 🙂 I tell folks they can call me Donald if it makes them feel better. Some do some don't.
But when I say the names they sound identical.
Winter isn't quite over up in the NE yet. They are still skying up at Sugarloaf.
OK, I'll bite. What is a herring counter? Since you said they were running, I assume it's the fish. How does it count them?
This may be what us Bubbas down south call a Snipe Hunt. You find some gullible soul and tell him to stand there in the middle of the ditch with an open bag and the rest of us will go upstream and chase the snipes down the ditch towards him. When the Snipe flock comes running towards him, all he has to do is scoop up the Snipes in the bag. Simple. See, the snipe is a peculiar bird. It will only run along the center of a ditch when being chased. So once you get him situated in the middle of the ditch with his bag, then the rest of us go off somewhere and have a cold one or two for a few hours. Then we come back and ask if he got any Snipes. It's fun unless you are the one left holding the bag.
Dale Yawn,
Savannah, Ga.
Saturday Work>snipe hunting
Ha! My mother, born in Americus GA, and raised in Albany GA warned me about snipe hunting before I left for college at the Univ of Alabama! LOL
You are right, herring, as in the fish. Mid April is when the herring run, and there are thousands of them at the various herring runs. I don't know anything about counting them except at the other location we happened to be there at the same time as the students setting up the counters. We were in a hurry and didn't stop to chat.
For about the next two weeks the herring runs will be chock full of fish, seagulls, and tourists looking at the fish 🙂
Dtp
Saturday Work> I forgot the Outdoor Art Exhibit!
to include this picture from Sunday when we re-visited Provincetown and explored the outdoor art exhibit at Dunes Edge Campground. It's a open air exhibit made up of recycled or natural material that the artist has found.
I happened upon this Province Land Monument that is older than some states! This was not part of the exhibit however!
This picture is of my favorite exhibit, I work in briars every day , it seems, and yet this person wove them into Nessie!
You can better see the amount of effort involved in the panorama