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Don't recall any state lines marked.* Of course, I was not looking for them to be.* Crossing state lines is something to be wary of because each state has different tax requirements.
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haha- Don, I installed a cloaking mode system on my trawler- it can sit invisibly for months at a time such that the tax man cannot see it. *Once I begin to market it I believe I will be fairly wealthy. *
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Some mark them and some don't. Chuck
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haha- Don, I installed a cloaking mode system on my trawler- it can sit invisibly for months at a time such that the tax man cannot see it. *Once I begin to market it I believe I will be fairly wealthy. *
Ha ha, Tony.* If you are still regitered out of state, the TWRA will lift your cloak and attach a little welcome to Tennessee note on your bow rail.
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Woodsong,I can tell you firsthand that traveling from Louisiana to Texas on the ICW there is no
Welcome to Texas! sign along the way. Of course when we come back we get the same treatment!
Welcome to Texas! sign along the way. Of course when we come back we get the same treatment!
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Or running from the authorities?
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Didn't NASCAR get started that way.
Are you running rum?
You could start a NASTRAWLER.
Soup her up with Hillybilly go faster pipes.
and chrome Muffler bearings. Even a Powder coated Johnson rod.
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Are you running rum?
You could start a NASTRAWLER.
Soup her up with Hillybilly go faster pipes.
and chrome Muffler bearings. Even a Powder coated Johnson rod.
SD
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Point being- you'd think they'd put a state sign welcoming you to the new state! I used to do a lot of long distance wilderness backpacking and have crossed many state lines in that process miles and miles and miles from any road infrastructure- it was always fun to see a state line out in the middle of nowhere, regardless of how simple it may be. I am surprised states don't do this for their waterways.
Nastrawler.....SD- wasn't that a bad character in Lord of the Rings??? lol- clever name though!!
Nastrawler.....SD- wasn't that a bad character in Lord of the Rings??? lol- clever name though!!
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Border marker at White Pass:
-- Edited by markpierce on Thursday 17th of February 2011 02:34:51 PM
-- Edited by markpierce on Thursday 17th of February 2011 02:34:51 PM
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Mark, I take it that picture was made at low tide
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The pass is 873 meters above sea level and is accessible by train part of the year.
They recently tried this on the border between the US and Canada between the San Juan and Gulf Islands in what I guess we're now supposed to call the Salish Sea.* It worked great for a bit until the wind and current conspired to first*move the big yellow line and the welcome signs and*then*disperse all*the dye.
Then they tried a long line of buoys, sort of like a traffic cone line, but the border runs right down through the primary shipping lane from the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Vancouver harbor, so the container ships and bulk carriers kept winding up the buoy lines in their props.* So that didn't work.*
Asking the Navy to train a bunch of their anti-terrorist porpoises to cruise up and down the border wearing bright yellow "Welcome" vests didn't work either because the Navy porpoises would get distracted by the sexy resident porpoises that were slinking about catching salmon and they'd wander off.
So the US-BC border is back to being unmarked.* There is a joint committee working on the problem, though.* They meet every Thursday at 1400 in the BC parliament building in Victoria if you want to drop by with an idea.* I think they're at the point where they'll try anything.
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-- Edited by Marin on Thursday 17th of February 2011 06:51:02 PM
Every time we travel from Tsawassen to the Gulf islands on the ferry, we cross into the US waters and then back into Canadian waters. All those ceremonial welcomes, first to the States, with all of its flag waving and patriotic songs, then the return ceremonies into Canada, with songs about hosers and beer, are getting tiresome.
Too bad I was busy at 1400 hrs this afternoon, Could have been interesting to see what Marin's committee has in store for us.
Too bad I was busy at 1400 hrs this afternoon, Could have been interesting to see what Marin's committee has in store for us.
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I can understand the reasoning behind wanting to come up with some way of designating the entire inland body of water between Budd Inlet at the south end of Puget Sound* and Desolation Sound at the north end of the Strait of Georgia in BC since there are a lot of issues that encompass the whole area affecting things like fish, whale, crab, etc. populations, shipping, fishing, water quality, pollutant runoff, etc.* So being able to say one name for the whole deal instead of having to rattle off all the different names of the individual bodies of water every time has some merit in some situations I think.
As to whether Salish is the most appropriate name, that one I'll leave to the lobbiests who argued in favor of whatever their favorite names were.
But I see the term Salish Sea popping up more and more in articles, newspaper stories, and I even heard it used recently in a local TV newscast.* So I suspect that, like anything new, it will gradually creep into the language until one day people won't even remember what it was called before.* Actually, I don't think it was called anything before.* Salish Sea is not meant to replace names like Puget Sound, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Strait of Georgia, etc.* It's just a name for the whole area.* Same as "Pacific Northwest" encompasses Washington and Oregon (and BC, too, I guess, if one doesn't view it as a US term).
-- Edited by Marin on Friday 18th of February 2011 03:03:03 PM
