Where's Bill Ryan?

[Sunny-side-up]

Watching worlds Collide me thinks!
Golden Energies to you Bill...

[conk]

What's that you say Bill, we're all welcome to come down and visit? Maybe stay a month or two, or 30? maybe establish a new little town, Avalon, Equador. Everyone on the bus! Hey you, are you really going to bring that cello?

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by sirdipswitch (here)
Were those bugs on the hallucinogenic lillies, Ecuadorian Mosquitos? Did anyone else happen to see them?

Nope -- no mosquitoes at all (anywhere except at the coast).

[Strat]

Wow, those are some pretty bizarre plants! You won't find any native FL plants like that.

I may move to Ecuador one of these days, but first I have to move to Europe. Whenever I settle down, I want it to be in a fairly rural area though. So that's probably when Ecuador comes into play. I love Florida, but good god the mosquitoes are monsters. I bet they'd go toe to toe with African mosquitoes. They'll bite through your clothes.

@RAF - Do you ever watch Vice Guide documentaries? Here's a documentary they made on that drug, very interesting:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04

It's mainly about how the drug is used to manipulate people.

[Chester]

Posted by Christine (here)

Posted by DevilPigeon (here)
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I fail to see the point of this thread...

That's okay....

Great response, Christine..... hahahaah cracked me up (still ROFL)

[Sunny-side-up]

Posted by Strat (here)
Wow, those are some pretty bizarre plants! You won't find any native FL plants like that.

I may move to Ecuador one of these days, but first I have to move to Europe. Whenever I settle down, I want it to be in a fairly rural area though. So that's probably when Ecuador comes into play. I love Florida, but good god the mosquitoes are monsters. I bet they'd go toe to toe with African mosquitoes. They'll bite through your clothes.

@RAF - Do you ever watch Vice Guide documentaries? Here's a documentary they made on that drug, very interesting:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04

It's mainly about how the drug is used to manipulate people.

Very HEAVY SH#T Strat That drug in is truly scary stuff, Strat Thx for in lightening me with that vid posting!!

[Bill Ryan]

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Hi, All: here are three very nice pictures from Ecuador that I would like to share. The middle photo shows a Brocken Specter (a rare atmospheric phenomenon caused by a long shadow projected onto mist below).

[HaveBlue]

Thanks Bill, I have now got 2 Brocken Specter pics you ahve posted. funny, i was just showing my dad your one from a year or 2 back just this afternoon!

[Bill Ryan]

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This 30-second video might raise a few smiles. ('Pandora' is the name of the ever-faithful, go-anywhere 4x4.)

Enjoy.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-LdZN5XRFug

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Hello Bill...just happened to pop in here since Paula posted in the Village about the personality test! And i'm a...have to check...same as Sandra Bullock...back soon...ENFP...Mercury is going retrogade: information/communication out of place....

[Limor Wolf]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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This 30-second video might raise a few smiles. ('Pandora' is the name of the ever-faithful, go-anywhere 4x4.)

Enjoy.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-LdZN5XRFug

Watched the video and went to check the dictionary for the English idiom - to 'Test the water'

Found this quick quiz:

Someone who tests the water.. is being:

a. careful
b. careless
c. carefree
d. mounteneer who wants to change vocation



Laughing aside, a very good mutual cooperation between a man who try to drown his jeep at all cost and a 4 wheel lady who is not having it

Now, with all seriousness, A beautiful river you have there, Bill, apparently what kept you up was the many who tried this before and paved your way to the surface...

Just hope everything worked out okay with the lawsuit filed by the salmons for a very surprising invasion and by the toads for an attempt to imitate an amphibian life style by a metal creature their request for exclusivity now has been granted


Thanks for the smiles : )

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Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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This 30-second video might raise a few smiles. ('Pandora' is the name of the ever-faithful, go-anywhere 4x4.)

Enjoy.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-LdZN5XRFug

Mercury retrograde: Everything that has to do with communication, delays, breakdowns, misunderstandings...this car seems to have some problems reaching it's destination, might have caused some delay even if only some seconds....

[johnf]

Two questions Bill, is the awesome bird in the picture a few links up a woodpecker?
I am trying to find it online.
And can you explain the guy with the rope?
Is it to recover your body if the car doesn't make it?

jf

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by johnf (here)

Two questions Bill, is the awesome bird in the picture a few links up a woodpecker?
I am trying to find it online.
And can you explain the guy with the rope?
Is it to recover your body if the car doesn't make it?

jf

Yes, a woodpecker. I think he's this guy (not my photo!):



He's a Crimson-Mantled Woodpecker, on this page:

http://www.pbase.com/ahlman/woodpeckers

Of course, he doesn't know he's a Crimson-Mantled Woodpecker. That's just our label for him. (I wonder what he calls us?)

The backrope on Pandora was so that if she got swept downstream (or got stuck on a large submerged rock!) we'd have a way to winch her out.

[johnf]

Nice looking fellow, spent some time looking at pictures of other birds
you got down there, there are a lot of fancy looking ones!

jf

[Bill Ryan]

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Exploring a river canyon yesterday. In a rare accident, I slipped and bruised a rib, but it doesn't seem broken. The river goes quite a long way up the valley until it emerges on a high plateau. We turned round when it started to rain and thunder, aware of the possibility of a flash flood. More exploration to come.

[Limor Wolf]

Bill, please take care, The place looks very peacful and soothing, a very beautiful nature. If you please be so kind as to not cause yourself any harm, the 'keepers' will be ever so greatful, they say you gave them a full time job so far ( luckiely the wage is not that bad : )

A sincere well wishes for you,

And best of energies ~

limor

[Roisin]

In my neck of the woods, we call what you're doing in that photo Bill, "RIVER WALKING". Some of us do that in our fly fishing boots and others just don an old pair of sport shoes with enough traction on their soles to prevent slippage. That section that you're walking through in the photo though would call for 2 walking sticks to navigate it... that's for sure!

[araucaria]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Of course, he doesn't know he's a Crimson-Mantled Woodpecker. That's just our label for him. (I wonder what he calls us?)

Well we mightn't all belong to the same species, and it might depend on what we're doing; on that pic, Bill, you might be a brown-crested orange-mantled whitefaced kingfisher or something

Glad to hear no bones broken.

[RMorgan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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Exploring a river canyon yesterday. In a rare accident, I slipped and bruised a rib, but it doesn't seem broken. The river goes quite a long way up the valley until it emerges on a high plateau. We turned round when it started to rain and thunder, aware of the possibility of a flash flood. More exploration to come.

Hey Bill,

Just an advice: Stay out of canyons during rainy seasons, even if the sky is clear.

I've personally seen flash floods happening without any sign of rain or thunder. Sometimes it's raining a hundred kilometers or more up river, so you only notice the flood when it's dangerously close already...If you're at the bottom of a canyon, the water level can raise several meters in a matter of seconds.

I've seen flash floods happening under a completely blue sky more than a couple of times during summer...It's terrifying.

I know you are a very experienced mountaineer, but sometimes, when you hear the thunder and feel the wind it's already too late. Many people loose their lives here in Brazil every year in flash floods. Sometimes it gives no warning.

Raf.