#Point Pelee

[16-bitenthusiast]

[muttball]

East Point Beach, Point Pelee on Lake Erie.

[foxwithbeard]

Went for a little ride through Point Pelee today!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"PELEE ISLAND GIRL BURNED TO DEATH," Windsor Record. February 17, 1913. Page 1. --- Daughter of Caretaker Placed Crude Oil in Furnace and Explosion Ignited Her Clothing. ---- Leamington, Feb. 17.-An explosion of crude oil in the furnace of a southside Pelee Island schoolhouse caused the death of a daughter of Hooper Thomas, who acted as caretaker of the school. She fixed the wood in the furnace ready for lighting the fire on the following day, placing a quantity of crude oil thereon. Fire which remained in the furnace ignited the oil and an explosion followed, setting the child's clothing ablaze. She ran out of the building and down the road for nearly half a mile, and when found by neighbors every stitch of clothing was burned from the body. She died a few minutes later. The school building was saved.

[juneafterdawn]

Nothing gold can stay or whatever

[theprotectedplaceperson]

Birds of Point Pelee National Park, Ontario, Canada

Barn Swallows in the Marsh Tower, Point Pelee NP, Ontario, Canada

Point Pelee is a national park in Ontario, Canada known for its unique collection of bird species. Over 390 bird species have been observed in Point Pelee, but why? Point Pelee is a peninsula jutting off into Lake Erie and so is one of the first pieces of land that migratory birds flying across Lake Erie will see flying north. Point Pelee serves as a rest point for these birds who are crossing the Great Lakes. Every May birdwatchers from all across Canada come to Point Pelee to see birds from 2 major migration flyways all descend onto Point Pelee.

[danielmcquillanphotography]

Laura + Dan

Pelee was explored (quite past sunset, park security even rolled up on me) and the arts were made - Such an incredibly fun night with these two! ...Thank you for trusting me both artistically and physically when I asked you lay down weirdly on the boardwalk and stood perilously above haha

Engagement Session at Point Pelee National Park in Point Pelee by Sarnia Wedding Photographer Daniel McQuillan Photography

[introvertedswimmer]

Prothonotary Warbler at Point Pelee National Park

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Dragonflies in Ontario are diverse and ecologically significant insects, found in various wetland habitats. They serve as both predators and prey within their ecosystems.

[meowmeowmessi]

also you can just tell by the way these stannies talk about messi that they only started watching football after 2018 (or worse: 2022)

[beaniegender]

Ok siempre voy a cheer for argentina cuando se enfrentan a brasil pero.... Pelé >>>> Maradona SORRY argentina

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Fail to Get Test Case,” Windsor Star. October 9, 1942. Page 17. ---- Sportsmen Invade Point Pelee Sanctuary; No One Arrests Them ----- Inviting arrest in order to get their case into court, Charles Irwin and R M. Crouch of the Essex County Sports men's Association, entered a so-called sanctuary in Point Pelee, denied huntsmen by a ruling of the Department of Mines and Resources. Al though the two illegal trespassers remained in full view of the park superintendent and were in the restricted area from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., no attempt was made to arrest them. 

Not content with their results, the two sportsmen called the superintendent's office and said in effect: "Here we are, come and get us; we want to be arrested." But nothing happened Frustrated, the sportsmen now are planning other means of getting their case into court. 

EXPLAIN STAND They explain their stand in the following statement, given The Star to-day by R. M. Crouch, the president: "We would like to inform The Windsor Daily Star that on the advice of our attorneys, McRuer, Mason, Cameron and Brewin, solicitors for the Essex County Sportsmen's Association Charles Irwin and I made a formal entry into the so-called sanctuary at Point Pelee on the opening day for this week. Although this took place in clear view of the road and Superintendent Grant knew we were there from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m., no attempt was made to make an arrest. About 11 a.m. we called at the Point office and asked to be summoned for same in order to make a test case in court. 

"We claim that the sportsmen have been illegally deprived of hunting in this area for some six years now. Failing to get satisfaction through the federal member for South Essex, Murray Clark, we have had to resort to law in order to get justice. 

"We claim that the Department of Mines and Resources has allowed the vermin and birds of prey to increase to such an extent that almost all upland game birds have been destroyed in the park. We intend to fight to have some 200 acres of park lands now fenced in, reopened to the public and have the park as a whole left open for the public to enjoy. We want the park kept in a clean condition and visitors made welcome again. We blame a few so-called naturalists in the department for the conditions that exist in the park today. 

HAVE LEGAL ADVICE 'We believe we have the best legal advice in Canada and should the government take the responsibility of passing orders-in-council to cover up what this department has already done, we will still carry on our fight for justice. However, when Dr, Lewis of the Department of Mines and Resources met us on August 12, he clearly stated that the minister could do as he saw fit in this matter and needed no order-in-council for same. We are perfectly willing to let the courts decide this. 

"Now that the hours for shooting at the Point have been changed to conform with the Migratory Bird Act, we wish to make it clear that we will request that anyone shooting before or after these hours be prosecuted."’

[AL: The arrogance of a certain type of hunter, and the obstinacy of a government unaccountable, colliding.

[uniteds]

stuff that happened in the 2022/2023 football season that should send us into a coma but we’re too desensitized:

1. the whole ass world cup in the middle of the season. what was that

2. manchester united sacking ronaldo and announcing a sale of the club in the middle of the world cup

3. ronaldo getting dropped at the world cup and his replacement scoring a hattrick immediately after

4. keeping up with the belgians (world cup edition)

5. keeping up with the belgians (courtois saying he doesn’t respect kdb after stealing his missus)

6. ronaldo stans beefing with a little moroccan girl

7. the kingdom of saudi arabia buying newcastle united and then telling the premier league that they didn’t and the premier league going “oh okay if you say so”

8. megan thee stallion being romelu lukaku’s date to lautaro martinez’s wedding

9. pique cheating on shakira and then shakira releasing a diss track about it

10. shakira figuring out pique cheated on her because someone ate her strawberry jam and pique doesn’t eat strawberry jam

11. apparently the girl pique cheated on shakira with (clara) cheating on pique with pep

12. wagatha christie libel case

13. real madrid dropping a video accusing barcelona of fascism and the government of cataluyna getting involved

14. the pope coming out as a manchester united fan

15. the one napoli fan that basically made zielinski strip on the pitch

16. mount vesuvius park shutting down because napoli fans wanted to fake an eruption as a celebration

17. frank lampard taking everton into a relegation battle, getting sacked, and then taking chelsea into a relegation battle

18. on that note: chelsea were in a relegation scrap and finished 12th

19. mourinho lost his first ever european final to sevilla europa league black magic

20. whatever the fuck borussia dortmund did on the last day of the bundesliga season

21. anthony martial’s ex wife chasing his first wife down a french motorway with a baby in the passenger seat

22. psg suspending messi because he took an unsanctioned trip to saudi arabia and then unsuspending him two days later because they didn’t want people talking about geopolitics

23. the absolutely bizarre messi apology video released by psg

24. spurs refunding their fans’ tickets after being embarrassing

25. pep’s heartbreak over the fact julia roberts is a manchester united fan

26. chelsea scored one goal in the month of april

27. chelsea and spurs had six managers between them and won one match combined between march and april

28. mourinho fighting anthony taylor after the europa league final

29. milan derby in the ucl for the first time since 2005

30. luis enrique saying he’s cool with the spanish players having sex during the world cup as long as they’re not having orgies

31. luis enrique saying he doesn’t have sex anymore unless his wife wants to

32. man city charged with 115 counts of financial doping and trying to get the barrister in charge disqualified because he’s an arsenal fan

33. mourinho wire-taping himself to catch referees being corrupt

34. ryan reynolds and mac from it’s always sunny in philadelphia buying a football club and that football club getting promoted

35. pele died rip

36. women football awards sponsored by shein and klarna having a category for “male football ally of the year” and it’s just random men that went to one (1) women’s game

37. barcelona negreia case (how do you say calciopoli in catalan?)

38. infantino saying he feels gay, african, like a migrant worker, disabled, arab, and qatari

39. infantino saying he was oppressed as a child because he was ginger and italy is not safe for gingers

40. david alaba’s father in law getting arrested for being one the leaders of a far right group plotting to overthrow the german government

41. richarlison being tumblr’s it girl for a month and then not scoring a goal for the next four

42. juventus being in the middle of another corruption scandal and being docked points because of it

43. two teams getting investigated by the british government for playing football the weekend the queen died

44. gavi getting a yellow card in the first minute of a football match

45. pogba’s brother was arrested by french authorities for being part of a group-organized extortion attempt against pogba

46. richarlison getting a tattoo of neymar’s face and neymar paying him 30k to get it removed

47. iker casillas coming out, puyol implying they had a thing, and both of them retracting it in the most misha collins way possible.

48. sane and mane fight

49. zlatan retired from football

50. barca withholding about 50 million in wages from their players and somehow frenkie still didn’t want to join manchester united

[fairuzfan]

lol @ that israeli academic talking about how “newer academics will prosper if this boycott continues?” like if you care so much, maybe don’t be a zionist academic? maybe be outspoken? why would anyone boycott an outspoken anti-zionist academic who is doing right by the marginalised by using their voices to speak up for the truth?

you don’t see people like nurit peled-elhanan, miko peled, yoav litvin, ilan pappe, avi schlaim, etc wail about a zionist academic boycott 🤷‍♀️ first world problems istg. people are dying, academic institutions have been destroyed, respected academic and poets have been specifically threatened, targeted, and killed. who tf cares about your career built on fallacies, racial supremacy, historical revisionism, and settler-colonial justification? even you shouldn’t care. the fact that you’re saying stuff like this shows you’re part of the problem.

Ilan pappe regularly talks about how he was run out of Israel for literally just publishing the truth about the Nakba and none of his fellow Israeli academics stood up for him. He says his picture was put on TV and they encouraged violence against him and his family.

Israeli academics are literally the most complicit in all of this. They obfuscate and they make up facts about Israeli history to the point where the truth is a threat to them. So i have a special disdain for Israeli academics and people who go to Israel to study unless with the explicit purpose of going into Israeli state archives to expose their government records of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. Otherwise, no, I don't trust you or any sort of resource that comes from Israeli academia (which is overwhelmingly liberal zionist).

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Sorry, one more reblog: here's the local news from Hilo Monday evening, which gives you a better sense of how the locals are taking the eruption in stride, and even enjoying it. If you see fearmongering reports from non-Hawaiian sources, eff 'em.

[Nov 28, 2022] With that mixture of OH SHIT and OH WOW that one so often feels about mother nature at her most powerful, I see that Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on Earth, has started erupting.

Screengrab from summit webcam just now, dawn in Hawai‘i:

(Not sure how wide this field of view is, but Mauna Loa is unimaginably vast, about 75 miles /120 km across and much taller than Everest if you remove the Pacific Ocean.)

Thermal cam from last night showing the lava pouring across the summit caldera floor:

Latest update from Hawaii Volcano Observatory says lava hasn't yet left summit caldera. Let's hope it doesn't. Hawaiians know better than I which emergency services to listen to for updates. Praying for y'all that Pele puts on a show without choosing to come makai.

See HVO's Mauna Loa Updates for latest observations as well as emergency maps, information, FAQs, links, and more.

[introvertedswimmer]

Magnolia Warbler at Point Pelee National Park