{"id":34408,"date":"2023-05-14T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34408"},"modified":"2023-05-13T23:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T03:59:02","slug":"tripod-holes-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/05\/tripod-holes-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripod holes 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GooseCreekMossy.jpg\" alt=\"tree festooned with Spanish moss Tillandsia usneoides on banks of Pamlico River, Goose Creek State Park, NC\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34409\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><strong>N 35\u00b027&#8217;39.05&#8243; W 76\u00b053&#8217;44.87&#8243;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/earth.google.com\/web\/@35.46085386,-76.89578242,0.55488413a,61.75692209d,35y,0h,0t,0r\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth Location<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we go all the way back to the day before yesterday, on the shores of Pamlico River within Goose Creek State Park &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell you what the tree is because I still haven&#8217;t looked that closely, but it&#8217;s decorated with Spanish moss (<em>Tillandsia usneoides<\/em>) anyway. My brother and I were checking out new areas and found a handful of subjects to exploit therein, this particular one prompting me to get out the Tamron 10-24 ultra-wide to make the most of the branches and moss.<\/p>\n<p>Much more interesting, however, is how much of a visible slope the Pamlico River maintains in that region as it drains east towards the Atlantic Ocean &#8211; the sun actually rises 20 minutes earlier at the farther end of the river than it does at the near end, solely because of this. You don&#8217;t even need a sail if you&#8217;re boating out, you can just coast, but returning is lot harder.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I can see you&#8217;re not buying that, but honestly, the camera was dead level when I took the pic &#8211; something must have happened in-camera&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N 35\u00b027&#8217;39.05&#8243; W 76\u00b053&#8217;44.87&#8243; Google Earth Location Today we go all the way back to the day before yesterday, on the shores of Pamlico River within Goose Creek State Park &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell you what the tree is because I still haven&#8217;t looked that closely, but it&#8217;s decorated with Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) anyway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7244,7245,6965,700,701],"class_list":["post-34408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-goose-creek-state-park","tag-its-wide-angle-distortion-yeah","tag-pamlico-river","tag-spanish-moss","tag-tillandsia-usneoides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}