tallship

@tallship@pixelfed.social

On the Beaches of Super Sunny Southern California

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tallship, to Halloween

October 28th, 2019 - Highway 36, Humboldt, California.

With the season coming to a close, them trimmigrants can't be choosey about where they're gonna hibernate for the winter ❄️

Seen along the way to the Bar - a town, if you will, with 3 buildings in it; a bar, a post office the size of a closet, and a butcher shop. There's also the "Mad River Burger Bar", a locally famous trailer on jack stands that sells takeout burgers 🍔 & fries 🍟

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tallship, to art

Roast Fish Cornbread installation in Torrance (Los Angeles). An international event by Kyle William Harper.

This old lockout music studio received a facelift of free paint by street scene artists from around the world. This one by Soup and others by him especially impressed me.

5 bands performed at the event (not that there was any shortage). More of Kyle's work is available at his website.

#tallship #Roast_Fish_Cornbread #Kyle_William_Harper #art #street_scene

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tallship, to Introvert

August 11th, 2020 - My final month on the mountain before the fires of the August Complex came and dashed everything away.

As you can see, my bountiful garden was thriving, with more than I could consume myself - it was wonderful.

#tallship #Humboldt #Homesteading #Off_Grid #Jeremiah_Johnson #wilderness #solitude

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tallship, to random

26 March 2018 - Approaching sunset while overlooking valleys and mountain ranges in Humboldt California.

That's six years ago.

#tallship #Humboldt #sunset #view

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tallship, to random

July 18th, 2023

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tallship, to random

July 30th, 2021 - The very best Mexican restaurant in Eureka, California... And it's on wheels.

Speaking of wheels, that's my truck in the background there.

Nevertheless, it's good to be back home in where there's certainly a lot more culinary choices to choose from, but up north, this was a personal go-to of mine.

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the very best tacos and burritos in Eureka, California were made by Louisa, who owned this trailer and worked it hard everyday with her family. That bench is very familiar to those who weren't in a hurry and wanted to sit and relax while enjoying they meals, with an ever present bottle of Tapatio on the table. My truck is on the background. 🌮 ⛵ .

tallship, to random

18 December 2017, Homeboldt, California.

The joys of cooking with wood fired stoves.

This was my and oven. I even managed to make a couple of cakes in there - now that's a challenge, but once you develop an intimate understanding of working the firebox and valves to maintain the temps you want in the oven, all things are possible.

But it still took about 45 minutes to get a fire going and the stove top hot enough to cook a skillet of 🥓 bacon & 🐣🥚 eggs

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tallship, to random

12 August 2020, off-grid on the living room of my cabin in the wilderness of Humboldt, California.

My rooster waits for me to come outside so he can flog me... Cuz he's one mean assed motherfucker and never learns that Imma just punt him instead.

That is, if my favorite hen, who also waits for me everyday to follow me around and body block him. Yeah, she literally would kick his ass when he tried to attack me.

She would eat yummy veggies from my garden right out of my hand.

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tallship, to california

Looking through the poppies in my garden towards my old in the mountains of , .

These were wonderful times... Before the fires of the .

This is one of my fav photos of my old home in the serene isolation of .

I had a few wonderful years here, before having to to a world consumed by fear and uncertainty amidst the calamity of the global pandemic.

18 June 2018

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tallship, to random

04 February, 2018, in the Humboldt wilderness.

Someone actually, somehow, went to the trouble of packing in a fricken' piano from the outside world. A feat that still, I scratch my head over.

The piano didn't make any sounds, save for dull thuds, but most of the keys weren't even raised. Somewhere I've a few shots of it, and I'm sure it has served as the nest of many a critter, lolz.

I find this oddly fashioned cabin intriguing, but precarious on the side of a hidden canyon

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tallship, to random

Valentine's Day - 6 years ago today in 2018, living off-grid in in the mountain of , California.

Just me, myself, and I, on a sunny afternoon with my wood fired Stanley cooker.

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tallship, to Halloween

Halloween, 2017 (October 31st) - Humboldt, California.

Matching his and her costumes.

You can easily tell which one is which, lolz.

Literally, I was off bucking up logs earlier in the day with a chainsaw and peeled these natural bark costumes from some of them. You can't make this stuff up, but a sick imagination does help you see the potential to use them as Halloween costumes while they're still wrapped around the logs.

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tallship, to random

More from Matt Dillon's 2017 trip to Brazil.

As you can see, the road is littered with fat, happy sunbathing Black Caiman, ranging from what looks to be about 3 to 8 or 9 feet each. They can reach 13' and weigh up to a thousand pounds.

Fat and happy means highly successful as predators, and considering they're typically a nocturnal species...

I used to raise these things from babies for a while trading in the rare reptile business in the 80's - they're never happy - always mean as fuck.

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tallship, to random

From Matthew Dillon's 2017 trip to Brazil.

I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but it's quite regal... Some kind of raptor - a falcon or eagle?

tallship, to ukteachers

About twenty five years ago, we laid out the keels for a new adventure - The Twin Brigantine project, in the parking lot of the , next to the , in the old ferry building that was, along with a pontoon bridge, obviated by completion of the connecting the mainland to .

Up until that time, operated and sailed the 70' gaff-rigged topsail schooner, Swift of Ipswitch (previously James Cagney's personal yacht) for it's youth sailing program. It took a few years to complete the Irving and Exy Johnson, sister Brigantine vessels built and outfitted by dozens of volunteers over the duration of the program. At some point, another gaff-rigged schooner was borrowed and enlisted, the136' Bill of Rights filling the need for accommodations of a youth sailing program that had greatly expanded over time, with many ups and downs, achievements and disappointments, but building two square rigger tall ships for and by a non-profit organization dedicated to youth educational programs for the community, a truly novel pursuit, eventually came to a close as a great success.

This photo shows the 113' brigantine Irving Johnson, on 23 March 2005, and which, after less than three years of service, she had run hard aground on a sandbar following several storms that affected local charts, leaving them partially obsolete - in short, on her way into the Channel Islands harbor, well... sadly, the pic speaks for itself.

Another year and two million dollars later to repair structural damages and flooding, the once again joined her sister ship, , in the pursuit of education as , something that Irving and his wife Exy (Electa), following no less than 7 circumnavigations together, pioneered and championed in the 20th century aboard their three successive sailing ships - a , a , and a - each named the .

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tallship,

For more info on Irving and Exy, their circumnavigations of the globe, and love of life together living aboard and blue water cruising, There's this National Geographic, as well as a several books that together and separately have published about their lives at sea.

Ambivalena, to photography
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    tallship,

    Phenomenal photograph my friend, and I'm so, so glad, that you found your phone - remember, it's best to leave the ringer on in case you happen to do the same again, even though you'll need another collaborator to help you find it by continually calling the number :)

    tallship, to random

    Okay there's no plaque or anything commemorating this (no longer functioning) fountain, nor an explanation as to why this hundred year old relic laid on the rocks below was busted into about six pieces, until concerned citizens raised it from below, reassembled and plastered it.

    This was the resort's fountain where the Japanese Olympic team stayed and trained during the 1932 Olympic games.

    Some of us still endeavor to keep the memories of the inhabitants of cove alive.

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    Head South on Western avenue anywhere along the southern corridor of and at the very very end you'll arrive here at the cliffs of .

    It's also referred to as , in honor of the first generation immigrants who first settled here, and farmed the reefs for scallops, abalone, and urchins.

    It was a resort with a huge salt water pool and housed the in 1932.

    They were interred in WWII.

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    tallship, to random

    6 years ago - 01 December 2017, , California.

    Collecting as many bucked logs as possible - two or three loads per day of sufficiently seasoned wood while there's still no snow.

    First, you fell the trees, then you buck it all up as logs. Several months or a year later, you go back and collect those.

    All of the logs are then 🪓 split, and then stacked on the porch and elsewhere.

    Nice, dry, Doug Fir, Oak, and Madron for cooking and heating.

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    tallship, to random

    November 25th, 2017.

    Love Seat at the Precipice of it All.

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    tallship, to southbayla

    Looking south along Beach and Rat Beach towards in - 14 June 2023.

    Not a particularly warm summer day, but with plenty of typical .

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    tallship, to random

    of me, 20 November 2020 - three years ago, California...

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    A couple of years back in Eureka with a lady friend who was showing me around on a cultural stroll.

    This back alley mural is an homage to Eleanora Fagan, one of my great musical influences, and one of the most celebrated jazz singers of all time.

    At the bottom of the frame you'll notice the two rails, the wooden cross ties long since buried beneath the asphalt of the alley. I stood wondering for a very long time why there was literally no clearance for passing trains.

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    tallship, to random

    April 20th, 2023 in the mountains of Humboldt again.

    This is there beautiful Naya, during in repose with her legs crossed in front of her like a proper lady.

    This is shortly before she started really slowing down and becoming arthritic and lethargic. And then she just stopped eating and began to wither away.

    She would still take food from me to be polite, but just drop it into the ground.

    As wolves do, one day she decided to wander off alone into the woods to die on her own without fanfare.

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    I didn't realize there's a radio station located at on .

    Great Sat photo too :)

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