Western Lake

Garner · 12-03-2004, 09:46 AM

Hello folks - Western Lake is flowing rapidly into the Gulf. The lake level has dropped a good foot since last night. I'm curious if it openned naturally or if the Corps of Engineers or a neighbor with a shovel dug it open. Anyone know?

GraytonBound · 12-03-2004, 09:52 AM

Don't know but I'd love to see a picture :)

kurt · 12-03-2004, 09:56 AM

The corps won't touch it.

Usually when it gets fat for awhile someone will get it started. But after a big rain and/or high surf nature does it's thing and all the critters are happy about it.

Garner · 12-03-2004, 10:03 AM

I'd heard that because the park is on Septic tanks that when the lake got real high the corps openned it up to keep the septic tanks from flooding out. I've only been a full time resident for 6 months, so am still learning the lay of the land (and water).

RiverOtter · 12-03-2004, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by GraytonBound

Don't know but I'd love to see a picture :)

Yes! Really need some pics please 8)

Oldtimer · 12-03-2004, 02:24 PM

PREVIOUS POST: "I'd heard that because the park is on Septic tanks that when the lake got real high the corps openned it up to keep the septic tanks from flooding out. "

That has got to an "urban legend". Western Lake has been opening and closing for all of my six decades of life, sometimes with a little help from man and often by Mother Nature. It does look much like the picture attached to one of 'noogas' posts.

12-03-2004, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Oldtimer

PREVIOUS POST: "I'd heard that because the park is on Septic tanks that when the lake got real high the corps openned it up to keep the septic tanks from flooding out. "

That has got to an "urban legend". Western Lake has been opening and closing for all of my six decades of life, sometimes with a little help from man and often by Mother Nature. It does look much like the picture attached to one of 'noogas' posts.

That was the best day we ever had at Grayton 8)

RiverOtter · 12-03-2004, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Oldtimer

PREVIOUS POST: "I'd heard that because the park is on Septic tanks that when the lake got real high the corps openned it up to keep the septic tanks from flooding out. "

That has got to an "urban legend". Western Lake has been opening and closing for all of my six decades of life, sometimes with a little help from man and often by Mother Nature. It does look much like the picture attached to one of 'noogas' posts.

Wife logged me out! That was one of the best days ever a Grayton for us here is another

Smiling JOe · 12-03-2004, 11:24 PM

(This huge font is for you peeps with mucked up monitors.) I have the photos, but do not know how to upload them. Give me some direction, folks.

RiverOtter · 12-04-2004, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Smiling JOe

(This huge font is for you peeps with mucked up monitors.) I have the photos, but do not know how to upload them. Give me some direction, folks.

LMAO! Ok, here is how to post a photo. Now I am a computer tard so lets hope I don't make this harder than is really is.

1. Your pics have to be posted / hosted somewhere on the web already. I've heard that Yahoo has a pic hosting section. Have you done this?

kurt · 12-04-2004, 04:04 PM

http://photobucket.com upload all you want.

12-04-2004, 06:42 PM

That should be easy. Just thought I could upload them directly from my pute.

I do rather enjoy the huge font.

Smiling JOe

RiverOtter · 12-04-2004, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymous

That should be easy. Just thought I could upload them directly from my pute.

I do rather enjoy the huge font.

Smiling JOe

Keep up the good font work Joe!

12-04-2004, 07:39 PM

LOL, Thought that would be easy. Not so. Okay, Kurt, et. al., I have some pics posted on yahoo. Now what?

Smiling JOe

RiverOtter · 12-04-2004, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymous

LOL, Thought that would be easy. Not so. Okay, Kurt, et. al., I have some pics posted on yahoo. Now what?

Smiling JOe

2. You need to have both windows open at the same time.

3. Right click on the pic.

4. Go down to Properties and Right click on Properties.

5. Go up to the URL address and highlight it (using you left clicker)

6. After it is highlighted then Right click and copy.

7. Left click on the Img button on the SoWal post window.

8. Left click after the Img tag, right click and paste.

9. Left click the Img* tag and hit submit.

Simple as pie

kurt · 12-04-2004, 09:29 PM

put URL of photo in "new message box"

http://www.jbhproperties.com/fun/17.jpg

highlight the address and click the Img button. It should look like

without the space.

and you get

Click on the BBCode link under Options to the left of the "new message box" for more info and features.

12-04-2004, 11:53 PM

I can follow directions, but it just is not working.
Smiling JOe :x

RiverOtter · 12-05-2004, 07:52 AM

[quote="kurt"]put URL of photo in "new message box"

http://www.jbhproperties.com/fun/17.jpg

highlight the address and click the Img button. It should look like

without the space.

and you get

Isn't that what I just said

RiverOtter · 12-05-2004, 07:58 AM

Here is a pic of Joe trying to post a pic

kurt · 12-05-2004, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Anonymous

I can follow directions, but it just is not working.
Smiling JOe :x

There is a problem with the URL. Yahoo may not allow hotlinking.

From our faq:

Quote:

Can I post Images?
Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. http://www.some-unknown-place.net/my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc.

RiverOtter · 12-05-2004, 12:29 PM

Garner ! That is an awesome pic!!

Rita · 12-05-2004, 02:18 PM

Great PIC, Garner!

River Otter - Love your emoticons! :P

12-05-2004, 02:28 PM

With a little help from my friends.

Smiling JOe
(The beach was busy yesterday, eh? Just kidding, this was July, maybe.)

Garner · 12-05-2004, 03:31 PM

Hi folks - I took this one yesterday afternoon - the outflow into the gulf is relatively calm now. The initial break between the lake and gulf created child height (about 4') cliffs. There are many groups of birds, and given the droppings, they must be finding food in the gulf-lake.

FYI - I loaded the picture to photobucket and copied the image URL to this site. Because the 1st one I posted was so huge, Kurt sent me a link to an image resize program from microsoft. Thanks Kurt, and I'll delete the other so that the board is back to the right size. The link below is to the resize program - http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

garner

RiverOtter · 12-05-2004, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Anonymous

With a little help from my friends.

Smiling JOe
(The beach was busy yesterday, eh? Just kidding, this was July, maybe.)

Another Great Pic "Guest"

Rita · 12-06-2004, 08:15 AM

RE: Western Lake and others

Any of you associated with the Beach to Bay Connection :?:
Are they very active?

http://www.beachtobay.org/html/dune_...threatened.htm

kurt · 12-06-2004, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Rita

RE: Western Lake and others

Any of you associated with the Beach to Bay Connection :?:
Are they very active?

http://www.beachtobay.org/html/dune_...threatened.htm

Yes - very good group. Join today.