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2024-05-03 Kickapoo Caverns

Jack Daynes — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:27:19 +0000

In 2024, I travelled to Texas to experience the Total Solar Eclipse on April 4. Cloud-cover limited the drama for the eclipse. But all was not lost, because after the eclipse, I drove down to the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and enjoyed some time with my friends and the birds that haunt the valley. A ... Read more

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2024-04-14 Sunday at Laguna Atascosa

Jack Daynes — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:10:26 +0000

2024-04-12 Friday I wanted to stay at Andy Bowie County Park while on South Padre Island. Before leaving Midland, Texas, I worked on getting a space reserved for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. I would need to move into another space after that. I wanted to spend a week on the island if I could work ... Read more

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2024-04-08 Texas Solar Eclipse

Jack Daynes — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:10:55 +0000

2024-04-06 Saturday The trip to Texas to see the eclipse began with a blown right rear tire. The spare was not in the best of condition, and after a long wait for AAA, it got us to Tucson, where I bought a new tire. When we got close to Deming, New Mexico, the other rear ... Read more

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2024-04-28 “Big Sit” at the National Butterfly Center

Jack Daynes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:27:14 +0000

Organized by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the “Big Sit” is a bird-watching event that takes place each year during the Great Texas Birding Classic, or GTBC. There are fourteen categories of competition to the GTBC. Organizers claim the events are the “biggest, longest, wildest birdwatching tournament” in North America. For a full description ... Read more

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Musical Acts I Remember

Jack Daynes — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 03:33:37 +0000

It was a fertile time for music during the 1960s and early 1970s when I grew up. Perhaps because I was involved with school bands, and my brain could plug in to the new movements rising from the culture of that time, I was fascinated with the popular music of the day. Even at an ... Read more

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2020-May at Bitter Lake NWR, New Mexico

Jack Daynes — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 21:19:43 +0000

After several memorable months in Texas, even enduring the craziness and uncertainty of the earliest days of the pandemic, I began my first Texas Exodus in 2020-May. I was in no hurry to reach home in San Diego, and I found as many locations as I could along my route to explore. I planned a ... Read more

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Memories of Boulder Creek Road

Jack Daynes — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:43:52 +0000

When I was 16 years old, and starting to drive independently, exploring San Diego County’s remote back-country roads was one of my greatest joys. Boulder Creek Road was one of my favorites. It crosses some of the most primitive chaparral country in the county, from Pine Hills to Descanso. To its east rise the Cuyamaca ... Read more

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Memories of the Santa Ysabel Reserve

Jack Daynes — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:44:43 +0000

The San Dieguito River system drains from the mountains east of Santa Ysabel through the San Pasqual Valley and out to sea at Del Mar. Forward thinking citizens fought for decades to establish a wildlife corridor along its basin. To make it a reality required much negotiating and legal wrangling, but today the concept of ... Read more

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Memories of the San Dieguito River

Jack Daynes — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:40:55 +0000

The Del Mar Fairgrounds have been a customer of my company for decades. We (Western DC Systems) service the emergency systems on campus four times a year. I’m retired now, but when I was operating the business, I tried to arrive early and spend some time with the birds that haunted the San Dieguito Slough. ... Read more

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Memories of Poway Pond

Jack Daynes — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:19:55 +0000

Very near my home is Poway Pond. Actually, there are two ponds. One is publicly owned, while the other is privately owned. The privately owned pond is now named “Taylor Pond”. But when I moved to Poway in 1961, we called both ponds “Gegax’s Ponds”, so named for the man who constructed them next to ... Read more

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