#eel river

[thomaswaynewolf]

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Green By The River

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Scary ride up the Northwestern Pacific Railroad along the Eel River year...

[kgolyz]

The Eel River in California

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Eel River Wildlife Area, California

It continued to be a moody day as I explored Mosley Island, part of the Cannibal Island Unit of the Eel River Wildlife Area.

[jacquelynstuber]

Self Portrait on the Eel River

Humboldt Redwoods State Park, 2016

The first image is a scan of the print that came with developing the negatives from Swanlunds in Eureka. The second image is a scan of the negative I made at home. I am so grateful I have a friend who develops and scans my negatives for me now, they are sharper and free from the red streaks haunting my scanner, but I do miss getting prints along with development, the quality of light and color of the prints that Swanlunds machine produced were sometimes so much better than the scans I made, and even when I try to manipulate the colors to match I can never get it quite right.

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At the Whiskey Row Taphouse in Mount Shasta, CA, an Eel River House Party IPA and some Dad Bod Snackz (also a good pesto chicken sandwich! (not pictured)).

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BHC Pic of the Week Nr. 262

Also Mystery Bridge Nr. 204 Basketball season is just around the corner and what perfect time it is but to play a game of basketball, regardless if it is one on one, three on three, etc. Or one can play a game of HORSE. This bridge in Liberty Mills, Indiana provides a perfect spot for that purpose. Imagine a beautiful Fall afternoon and you are looking for something to do- something for your…

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Eel River, Smithe Redwood Forest, California

[samlyne]

Eel River, Smithe Redwood Forest, California

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Eel river

Shoreline

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“Famous more as a cultural feature than as a natural one, the pace at which the River Mersey is recovering to a fishy wonderland has ecologists stunned.

Splitting The Beatles’ home city of Liverpool in two, a recent survey found 37 different species of fish, more than two-and-a-half-times as many as were found in the previous survey 20 years ago.

Five different species of sharks were also found, along with huge eels and sea scorpions. ‘Holiday species’ as one local fishermen called them, like turbot, smelt, and cod, have also been caught.

Scientists at the Mersey Rivers Trust, a public/private charity-driven partnership for nature in the area believe that these species are breeding in the 3 mile-wide estuary.

The Liverpool Docks—the largest enclosed dock system in the world, were described by Herman Melville as comparable to the Pyramids in size and construction. As a result, industrialization heavily polluted the river. In 2009 however it was announced that the river was “cleaner than at any time since the industrial revolution” and is “now considered one of the cleanest [rivers] in the UK.”

“Over the last 30 years, there’s been this tremendous regeneration, this renewal of the River Mersey that started slowly but is now picking up pace. I still think we’re right at the beginning of something special,” said Mike Duddy at the Mersey Rivers Trust, who spoke to the Wirral Globe about the restoration...

Humpback whales were recently seen in Liverpool Bay for the first time since 1938, while the Mersey itself has also welcomed back otters, salmon, octopus, porpoises, and seals.

The Trust is currently compiling a species list, and is holding a competition with local fishermen to see how many can be recorded. Duddy expects to raise the count of 37 fish species to 50 next year.”

-via Good News Network, 1/23/23

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Fish of the Day

Today's fish of the day is the gulper eel!

The gulper eel, also known as the pelican eel, and scientific name Eurypharynx pelecanoides is a species of deep sea eel renowned for their unusual swallowing ability. With a range stretching worldwide in both temperate and tropical zones, with a depth range of 500-3,000 meters. Solidly placing themselves within the Mesopelagic-Bathypelagic zones, or the twilight-midnight zones. Despite being found primarily in tropical zones, recent findings have led to the discovery of a gulper eel in the arctic, providing the possibility that the current understood range may need to be reevaluated.

The most notable feature of these eels is the large mouth, which can be expanded outward and used to swallow prey several times larger than the eel itself. Similar to how a baleen whale uses ventral grooves, the mouth is only loosely hinged to the body, and around a quarter of the eel's body length. This jaw can unfold both vertically and horizontally, stretching open a sac of skin larger than the entire rest of the body, although the stomach is made of a similar material and can distend outward with a meal. Unlike many other animals in deeper waters, the gulper eel is an active hunter for its food: hypothesized to exhibit lunge-feeding. Their diet consists primarily of crustaceans, and small fish, because despite their large mouth, they have small teeth and can not handle larger prey. Rather, they feed often by swimming into swarms of shrimp, catching huge swathes of them in one go. In their natural habitat, they are predated on by lancetfish, and other large animals, and there are semi rare cases of them being caught as bi-catch in deep sea fishing nets.

The life cycle of the gulper eel is similar to many other eels. They start life in a larval form, where they are thin and transparent, surviving off of marine snow. Then, once they enter the juvenile stage, they have small organs and no red blood cells. In adulthood, they have bioluminescence along the long tail, which can glow pink, or flash red, which is used to attract prey, along with developing a remarkable olfactory sense. This is then used during mating, as they release pheromones to attract partners. Over their lifetimes they can get as large as a meter in length, and it is curren. tly unknown just how long they can live.

Have a good day, everyone!

[qlqniel]

Seal v. Eel

Galway, May 2020

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Eel River Wildlife Area, California

More (gloomy day) explorations of the Eel River Wildlife Area (CDFW), this time the Cock Robin Island Unit where they actually have a trail.

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