sea sun
A cinema by night
Every Friday night, between two of these palm trees comes up a screen. Folding chairs are laid on the beach and on the shore line. In some cases beach mats are laid for extra romantic couples. Champagne and cocktails are served. Pop corn follows. 3, 2, 1... its show time!
Finding Nemo and Shark Tales makes sense in this cinema. What "disturbs" me though is the serene sound of waves lapping on the sandy beach and at a certain time of the month a bright full moon right above the screen. Oh and in rare occasions a shooting star would turn my head away from the screen. The countless stars flickering above my head doesn't really bother me.
sandy beach - ore is it?
In 1915 there were 960 stamps crushing 5,000 tons of ore daily, a world record. In the stamp mills the rotating cams lifted and dropped the 859- to 1,020-pound stamps on partially crushed gold-bearing rocks, pulverizing the rocks and the ore. Water washed the crushed material out through screens and over mercury-coated copper plates where the free gold was caught in the mercury. The sand and gold-bearing sulfides flowed to the vanners, a device used to concentrate the gold, where the sulfides were saved and the sand became "Sandy Beach."
The pounding of the stamps made so much noise the people in the downtown Douglas had to shout to be heard. When the mills shut down for Christmas and the Fourth of July, people could not sleep because it was so quiet.
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On the evening of April 21, 1917, three of the four Treadwell mines flooded . An estimated 3 million tons of seawater filled this space in 3 1/2 hours. The three mines closed down after the cave-in of 1917. The foundry and one power plant continued to operate until the Alaska-Juneau gold mine in Juneau closed in 1944.
from: www.juneaualaska.com/visit/stories/treadwell.shtml
paradise found
lifes a beach! taken on Grace Bay Beach September 2007. End of the season (early September) means you have the beaches to yourself. Peace and tranquility rule. Bliss.
serenity now!
a quiet day in paradise at Coral Gardens Turks and Caicos, summer 2007. This beach is very popular for snorkeling due to the large area of coral reef close to the shoreline. We had the beach to ourselves, and that day, but there wasn't one fish to be seen!
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