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More Kibrahacha pix
Here are some more views from Washington Park. I'm going to leave these thumbnails fairly small in size. You can click on one of them and page through the images at their normal size. This year is the first time I've seen most of these inside the park Kibrahacha trees. I was surprised at how many of them there are. Most but not all Kibrahacha trees are found on the westward -
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Foto Frenzy
Sandra and I zoomed around Bonaire yesterday looking for Kibrahacha trees in bloom. I know where most of them are, but we saw a few that I hadn't noticed before. Here is one of our old favorites. It used to be on a dirt road, but now it is a paved road. Some houses on the hills of Sabadeco have Kibrahacha trees right in the yard. I shot 348 pictures of Kibrahacha trees yesterday. -
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Kibrahachas are blooming
A few Kibrahacha trees flowered the other week, but they are ALL going off right now. We had a really heavy rain on Sunday, almost two inches in one hour here in Hato. Sandra and I went on a Kibrahacha tree observing trip this morning. -
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Washington Park Roads back to Normal
We had some rain last week and the roads in Washington Park are bumpy again. They are still much better than they were back in March after the rainy season, but they are not billiard table smooth any more. The places that usually have mud puddles and ruts have them again, and there are bumps and lumps on the uphill sections from pickup truck rear tires slipping and gripping. But the packed -
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Astro Time Lapse Looking North
Here is a short time lapse video of the night sky, looking to the north from the 1000 Steps area on Bonaire. The constellation Auriga is on the left side of the frame and the Big Dipper is upside down at the right side of the frame. The stars all seem to revolve around the north star, which can be see to the upper right of the tip of the small tower a little to the right of the middle of the -
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Star Trails
Here are a couple star trail photos. The first one is using some of the images that made up the time lapse video I posted recently. The second photo uses some of the images that make up the time lapse video I'll post in a few minutes. I could only use a small fraction of the images I shot because most of them had clouds in them, which really messed up the resulting picture. In the image -
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Time Lapse Asto Video
I've assembled 477 pictures like the one I posted recently into a video clip. The Southern Cross is at the lower left and moves to the right. Orion begins on the right edge of the screen and moves off-screen. You can see a number of airplanes fly by and there are a few ships that cruise along the horizon. I'm not sure how much you'll be able to see in this embedded video. But you can always -
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Some Kibrahacha Trees Are Blooming
Although it has been very cloudy here, it has also been dry. But we had a nice downpour the other morning and today I noticed that some of the Kibrhacha trees in the hills to the east of Mentor and North Salina are starting to blossom. I think they will be looking nice by tomorrow and should still look great on Saturday. If I do a before-work bike ride tomorrow, I'll check out the trees to the -
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New Old Sunset
We saw a mind bogglingly beautiful sunset the other evening, here on Bonaire. I snapped a few pictures. I haven't looked at them yet on the computer, but I doubt that they will be able to capture the glory of the event. I've been experimenting with the free beta release of Photoshop 13. You can go to Adobe and download it too, if you'd like to try out Photoshop (for a limited time) without -
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Starscape
We had a few pretty clear nights lately. I'm still waiting for an epic clear night, but we only get a few of those a year, and this has been a cloudy year. Here is a shot from the dirt road between Sabadeco and Rincon. You are looking towards the southwest, over the Radio Nederlands transmitting site. BelNem and the TWR towers can be seen at the lower left side. Bopec is just out of the frame -
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Stranger than Fiction
Would you believe that many of the dirt roads in Washington Park are smoother than the roads in town? It could be true. They just graded all the park roads, but the roads in town are all really torn up from the new sewer system project. I can't remember the last time I've ridden my road race bicycle here on Bonaire, but my trusty mtn. bike gets daily use. Here is a shot of the -
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Happy Easter from Bonaire. The IBC held its annual sunrise serviced up on Seru Largu at 6 am today. We started with a time of contemplation as music played on the PA and the sky brightened. The lights of town were twinkling nicely. Made up for the lack of stars, heh-heh. The almost full moon was shining in the West. Besides singing some Easter songs, and short message from -
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Dark Sky Astrophoto
Remember the picture,from December, of the constellation Orion rising over the TWR offices? Here it is again. ha-ha Well, a couple weeks later I went out to the east coast of Bonaire, not far from the land sailing track, and shot another image of almost exactly the same section of sky. The super dark skies allowed me to do a much longer exposure. You can see the Milky Way, as well as a -
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Lost and Found
We were recently visited by a team of auditors from the USA. I'm happy to report that the audit went well, but their car, the venerable wine colored Toyota Starlet, was stolen from in front of their hotel the last night they were here. The police found it, about a week later, out in the back boondocks of Bonaire. It was stripped clean, kind of like the cars we used to see at the side of the -
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All Fired Up
TWR missionary, Brandon Neal's, father is a professional fire fighter. So while Brandon's mom and dad were here seeing their grandson, oops, I mean visiting their son and daughter in law, Barry presented a training session to the TWR staff about the various types of fires, as well as how to use the new fire extinguishers we have strategically placed around the TWR facilities. TWR just -
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Happy Birthday
Cees and Clary Bijl love to visit Bonaire. Cees worked in banking in Curacao for many years and more recently in Canada. They always volunteer their help here at the TWR office and they are much appreciated. Cees celebrated his 70th birthday while they were here last month. He also did the 35km walk from the slave huts to Rincon, in support of the Bonaire special Olympics program. Come -
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Visitors from Nashville
We were recently blessed by a ministry team that came to Bonaire from the Community Bible Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Rick Smith, below, spoke at the Sunday morning service and at two special meetings for the men. The ladies in the team held special meetings for women on three evenings. The women's meetings were well attended, and from what I hear, a great success. -
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New Astrophoto Camera from Canon
If you browse through my blog, you'll see that one can take great astro photos with a modern DSLR. Back in the day, Canon had a model especially for this purpose, the 20Da. A friend of mine still uses that older camera to get great astro images. I have a T1i that has been modified for astro photo use. That mod instantly voided the warranty, of course. So I'm really happy to see that Canon -
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New Mystery Object
I wonder what it is and what it does. Udo and Caleb both quickly identified the last mystery object that we uncovered in the shop. Here is another one. It is a well machined metal part with a nice look and feel to it. We have a few of them here.
