Anyone seen the message from Devon Cruson on Watertribe Facebook? Looks like Google earth captured many Watertribers in their pass over the FL bay area. There looks to be a yellow Triak (Cleanslate) and red AI in CP3 as well as a green kayak and one boat being carried to the salt water side. 2 more kayaks are in the canal and our Nomad and a Sea pearl are at the finish! So cool!
Looks like several watertribers are on Google earth at CP3
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BeastOarman
MemberIf you look further SouthEast of Yakmandu's group, there is a sailboat - I'm guessing Teak (I don't know sailboats), although Stuntman and Penguinman are also supposedly in the same vicinity at that time. If you figure out where you were at 1:10 PM on 3/7 (not sure why imagery date says 3/6), you MAY be able to spot yourself. Wow, makes you appreciate the need for a PLB. Chief, a few minutes slower and you would have been put on the map!
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BeastOarman
MemberIn the freshwater, the time seems to be different - probably multi-pass, so a bit of a crapshoot. I think I found Scareman (and ?) in his 2+ PM location between Joe River and Coot Bay, and that might be SandyBottom in Buttonwood Canal at her 2 PM position. And Seiche & KiwiBird further along in the canal, at their 1:45 PM position?
Gotta stop. But this could be a fun "Navigation Derby", points for finding people. Still have not found the cats.
Posted 7 years ago # -
ZeroTheHero
MemberBeastOarman wrote:
If you look further SouthEast of Yakmandu's group, there is a sailboat - I'm guessing Teak (I don't know sailboats), although Stuntman and Penguinman are also supposedly in the same vicinity at that time. If you figure out where you were at 1:10 PM on 3/7 (not sure why imagery date says 3/6), you MAY be able to spot yourself. Wow, makes you appreciate the need for a PLB. Chief, a few minutes slower and you would have been put on the map!
I think Teak is a good guess. Looks like a red tri
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ZeroTheHero
Memberalso if you go look around Ft Desoto there is a pic (you have to hunt and peck) of the boats setting up. It has been there at least a year and a half. It's labeled "Start, East Beach, Mullet Key, Everglades Challenge 2010". It is just off the beach. This might be old news
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CleanSlate
MemberFor the vessels tied up at the docks, I know for certain the following because we had all camped out the night before at MiddleCape and arrived at CP3 at about the same time. WindBlown lingered about 3 hours and then pushed off to continue on to Key Largo. DancesWithWaves and myself decided to spend the day at Flamingo and then get an early departure the next day to experience Florida Bay all during daylight hours. This picture must have been taken at around 2:30 PM or so (since WindBlown was still there).
Posted 7 years ago # -
BeastOarman
MemberM&M, good eyes. I'm not sure those are WaterTribe however. Here is my sleuthing process for the 2 at the South Joe chickees (2nd set of lat/long):
They are kayaks/canoes either in class 1 or 2. In the Tracking map, select class 1, all challengers, tracks & current waypoints - indeed 3 WTs stopped at the chickee.
Now look at the CP3 times in the Results. These 2 kayaks are behind Scareman et al, and we know Feral and Dead cat went further inside through Whitewater Bay. So that leaves Paddlemaker/Savannah Dan or Dolphin Gal (not a SUP so not StandUpGuy, and I was too far behind).
In the Tracking map, selecting each of those challengers individually and show all tracks & waypoints, they went through Whitewater Bay. So therefore these boats are not class 1 WT challengers.
Repeating for class 2, only OneEyedJake is a possibility based on CP3 times. We know from his post above he was with Scareman, but also if you look at his track, he goes through Joe River but not near the chickee. In fact, showing all tracks for all class 2 challengers, none of them stopped at these chickees.
Therefore those 2 kayaks are not WaterTribe. Fun, and teaches you a lot about the routes everyone took!
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BeastOarman
MemberThe cats must be witches.
We know from their tracks that Feral & Dead Cat(s) were in Whitewater Bay at the time of the imagery. But no one can find them on the satellite photograph. Hmmm.
So I painstakingly mapped their route across the bay in Google Earth, as close as I could estimate from their SPOT tracks, from 11:45 AM to after 3 PM. Then I zoomed in on that route, and scanned for their boats. Nothing. Clearly their image cannot be picked up by a camera. We know they are not ghosts, because ghosts cannot kayak. Well, ok, GhostYakker can, but that is all. And they don't look like Sasquatch or whatever the Florida term of endearment is. So that leaves only witches, and that makes sense given their almost too agressive defense of these animals, and the long history of the relationship between cats and witches.
Or maybe because of their background in the service, their images had to be deleted. Maybe they are spies.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Scareman
MemberAs Andy said, MM's coordinates most likely map the canoeists that we encountered on the WW. Also, there were so many people in the WW with Chickee permits that we had difficulty finding a Chickee to land on. We were lucky to find Oyster Bay Chickee open and sheltered from the wind that was blowing with already frigid air temps.
Here are some photos. You can see all of these in my link on photobucket -EC 2013. http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/library/EC2013?sort=2&page=1
Here is the Plate Creek Chickee with Savannah Dan and PaddleCarver. We were battling strong starboard bow quartering winds this day, but I still went upwind to get Chickee photos. It felt like I was using a 30 degree ferry angle on this day. This was before the Google photos
http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0067PlateCreekChickeewithPaddleMakerandSavannahDan_zps6c085ded.jpg.html?sort=2&o=133DeadCat and FeralCat leaving Broad River ground site before heading into the Nightmare. http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0120FeralCatandDeadCatleavingBroadRiverGroundSite_zpsa9858901.jpg.html?sort=2&o=179
Harney River Chickee was full of cats, waves, birds, and a dirty butt (DeadCat, FeralCat, KneadingWater, Seiche, KiwiBird, SandyBottom, maybe HammerStorke, probably a few more too) http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0306HarneyRiverChickeeLoadedwithWaterTribersJPG_zpsf1ccf882.jpg.html?sort=2&o=357
Shark River Chickee was full of canoes as we passed in the wee hours of the night hunting for a place to stop http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0310SharkRiverChickee_zps47863c5a.jpg.html?sort=2&o=361
He are the canoeists atJoe River Chickee
http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0340SouthJoeChickee_zpsd4566d19.jpg.html?sort=2&o=390Here are pictures of both OneEyedJake right about position and distance as reflected in the Google satellite image above.
Blue boat is OneEyedJake. http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0356JoeRivertoButtonwoodCanal_zps70c79895.jpg.html?sort=2&o=402
Green boat here is BarksAtWaves http://s929.photobucket.com/user/scareman/media/EC2013/DSCF0357JoeRivertoButtonwoodCanal_zpsc6e4214e.jpg.html?sort=2&o=403The green kayak at the Flamingo boat ramp may be HammerStroke. Probably is Will.
This is very cool!
Posted 7 years ago # -
ZeroTheHero
MemberMM go to the Watertribe home page. Open the "features" tab, select "tracking map". Then select a year that is available, a class, a tribe member, and then click the item that says all way points or something like that. Then click "regenerate view". The track will show a position about every 10 or so minutes. There are glitches in some tracks. You can use this to see where people went, when, and how fast. Also you can determine where people camped by seeing where the points stack up. There is a way to get older tracks to show up. I posted a thread about it, I'll see if I can dig it up.
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