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Really nice! Interesting background! (And: I was slower than OskarB, but faster than Click!)
Good lighting and colours.
Thank you for your comments. It's a small lake on the east of an outdoor shopping center. Directly to the west are a couple pub type places with tables over looking the lake. I saw some Hooded Mergansers swimming around, too. It can be a nice place to check out the birds and get lunch or dinner. Unfortunately, I noticed some trash along the shore :mad:, but didn't see an obvious way to climb down there. I'll try to go earlier in the day next time and figure something out...
 
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Thank you for your comments. It's a small lake on the east of an outdoor shopping center. Directly to the west are a couple pub type places with tables over looking the lake. I saw some Hooded Mergansers swimming around, too. It can be a nice place to check out the birds and get lunch or dinner. Unfortunately, I noticed some trash along the shore :mad:, but didn't see an obvious way to climb down there. I'll try to go earlier in the day next time and figure something out...
Just be careful: once back in the time I tried to go down just few meters on rocks (for a mushroom!) and it didn't went good! After that I was like: "Never again!!!".
Much later there was a rumor for an Inca Tern on Oahu, preferring one particular spot. At the first opportunity I was there! And found it!!! But when I look down from the cliffs where I have to go I was like "Huh, are you sure?!!!" - it's much longer way (I think I spent ~30-45min to get there). But that was (and still is!) the only Inca Tern reported for Hawaii.
On other hand the adrenaline started working and I started my way down.
On some places you have no room for both feet on the track and you have to hold the rock with your hand (well, the other hand was busy with a tripod!).
When I finally got down I was cheered by group of fisherman (all could be by the age my children:)!)! Some of them where with ice cooler!!! The way back wasn't that difficult mostly because I was happy with the photos I took (but I had to stop many times to rest :))! This one went fortunate but I easily can imagine different outcome!

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Just be careful: once back in the time I tried to go down just few meters on rocks (for a mushroom!) and it didn't went good! After that I was like: "Never again!!!".
Much later there was a rumor for an Inca Tern on Oahu, preferring one particular spot. At the first opportunity I was there! And found it!!! But when I look down from the cliffs where I have to go I was like "Huh, are you sure?!!!" - it's much longer way (I think I spent ~30-45min to get there). But that was (and still is!) the only Inca Tern reported for Hawaii.
On other hand the adrenaline started working and I started my way down.
On some places you have no room for both feet on the track and you have to hold the rock with your hand (well, the other hand was busy with a tripod!).
When I finally got down I was cheered by group of fisherman (all could be by the age my children:)!)! Some of them where with ice cooler!!! The way back wasn't that difficult mostly because I was happy with the photos I took (but I had to stop many times to rest :))! This one went fortunate but I easily can imagine different outcome!

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Same experience.
Last year, I went to a special spot in Switzerland, looking for an orchid (Orchis Purpurea). After a few hours, I had not yet found a trace, and decided to turn back, via a narrow path. Fatal mistake (almost!). Once engaged, there was no way back, and that d...d path grew steeper and steeper, I could no longer stand on my feet. A mild "panick" set in...
I turned on my back, and NyaEvo backpack, to "glide " downwards, approximately 100 meters. Once arrived, I noticed a wide path next to mine, which, in my hurry to get back, I hadn't-stupidly- seen. And there were the orchids, full in bloom...
Never again shall I behave so stupidly, I promised myself (????).
 
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Same experience.
Last year, I went to a special spot in Switzerland, looking for an orchid (Orchis Purpurea). After a few hours, I had not yet found a trace, and decided to turn back, via a narrow path. Fatal mistake (almost!). Once engaged, there was no way back, and that d...d path grew steeper and steeper, I could no longer stand on my feet. A mild "panick" set in...
I turned on my back, and NyaEvo backpack, to "glide " downwards, approximately 100 meters. Once arrived, I noticed a wide path next to mine, which, in my hurry to get back, I hadn't-stupidly- seen. And there were the orchids, full in bloom...
Never again shall I behave so stupidly, I promised myself (????).
When I make such a promise regarding a failure with my intelligence, I will beak it sooner than I'd like to admit...
 
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Had they stopped flying by the time you had climbed down?
There was not "they": it was one single bird, no one can prove how it got to Hawaii (my own hypotheses is with ship). Stayed on Hawaii for almost 1 year. I think it was detected once on Big Island too. On Oahu it stayed most of the time around the spot where I took the photos - probably because the fisherman there were feeding it with some small catch. It was fishing by itself too. When I was there it took a flight few times - just very short circles and finally disappeared in the ocean.
 
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