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Hi from Hatchet City, Alberta Canada

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Well, truthfully, we're just outside a place called Tomahawk.
I've recently returned to rural life after 30 years living and serving in two large cities. One Canadian and a Korean city, Calgary and Seoul.
Traffic is much less of a concern to me now!

I'm looking forward to being a member on this forum as i have many diverse interests that all have one common thread, humor. If I can't laugh with or at it then screw it and move on.
 
That's got to be a pretty nice place to live. Far enough away from Edmonton and reasonably close to the mountains.

Welcome to the forums from a fellow (ex-pat) Canuck!
 
Welcome to the board.

Now that I've lived in the country for over 15 years now, you'll never get me back to the big city to live, so I understand how you feel. Strange, until I went rural, I'd never lived in a city of less than 250,000 people, most of them much larger. I just spent a few days in Dallas and it was fun but I was so glad to get home.

Welcome again and we need someone with a sense of humor around here. :biggrin::biggrin:
 
EastTexFrank said:
you'll never get me back to the big city to live, so I understand how you feel. :biggrin::biggrin:
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Thanks for the welcome EastTexTrank.

Ya, I thought Calgary was big at over 1 million, then Seoul blew me away at over 12 million during the night, and probably over 20 million during business hours.

Feels good to be back on the 160 acres I grew up on. Kinda prodigal son(ish) without the fattened calf stuff.
 
PBinWA said:
Originally from the Vancouver area but I defected south almost 15 years ago.
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I was in the diving business years ago and we had a ship in Grandville harbor, we parked in front of Bridges pub. I know the city well. Damn traffic...
 
Hey, I know you! Glad you joined us.

I figured you were in the diving business but still have no idea what cpsseals stands for.

Edit to add: If you're using the "New Posts" option and see a bunch of weird looking thread titles, it's mostly related to snow cats. We have a huge contingent of recreational and professional snow machine guys on here. Love to have one myself but for now, I just watch their threads, pictures and videos. Watch out for BigAl. He has a few of them but I think he just sits in the seat going broooommm, broooommm as I'm pretty sure none of them ever made it out in the snow.
 
Hey I know you too. Welcome aboard. :tiphat:
 
Welcome to the funny farm. Keep that RTV ready to roll or fire up that skid steer when the BS around this place gets too deep.:yum::yum::yum:
 
Thanks all. Just finished scooping a giant load out of the shed muleman so I'm loaded and ready.

The diving business was a great side venture I had. I enjoyed it very much. It's great when a passion/hobby can pay for itself plus some.

Now I just dive for the pleasure of it. We just returned from the Philippines and has a blast of a time. Took a bazillion pictures of the crazy underwater life.
 
PBinWA said:
Originally from the Vancouver area but I defected south almost 15 years ago.[/QUOTE]

And the damn country has been going down hill ever since ,PB!!!:yum:


Seriously , Welcome . You live in a beautiful country.
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cpsseals said:
Thanks all. Just finished scooping a giant load out of the shed muleman so I'm loaded and ready.

The diving business was a great side venture I had. I enjoyed it very much. It's great when a passion/hobby can pay for itself plus some.

Now I just dive for the pleasure of it. We just returned from the Philippines and has a blast of a time. Took a bazillion pictures of the crazy underwater life.
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I used to swim around under water too. I Trained some divers on Prism rebreathers. I joined the Fourm last month to up my learning curve on my Tucker Sno-cat. soooo... welcome from another new guy.
 
i too spent 3 years in soul is itaewon still the same i lived on the hill above yongsan gate 3 below namsan tower
 
We have a few divers on here. The rest of us sure do like the pictures so if you can... show us some cool underwater stuff.
 
I don't have many good underwater shots on this device, but here is an old one I took down in Mexico.
 

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Cool pics but you can keep both of those varmints...

Funny... I remember the water being more blue when I was there. :)
 
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Funny... I remember the water being more blue when I was there. :)
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The shots were taken with an old camera around 80 feet deep. The light washes out a bit down there and I wasn't using a strobe.
 
Just messing with ya. A lot of pictures on this forum (or is it the picture taker?) come out green.
 
Good pics!!!!! :thumb:
Are you (or your buddy) actually holding that fish in the 1st pic (porcupine one)? What kind is that? Sure looks like it could hurt ya.

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What is that toothy guy in the 2nd pic? Looks a little like an EEL but different. :confused:
 
Doc said:
Good pics!!!!! :thumb:
Are you (or your buddy) actually holding that fish in the 1st pic (porcupine one)? What kind is that? Sure looks like it could hurt ya.

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What is that toothy guy in the 2nd pic? Looks a little like an EEL but different. :confused:
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The smilies spike ball is a spiny puffer fish and is being held by my wife. If you can swim fast they are easy to catch then they puff up. I do it bare handed then hand them to my wife who wears gloves cause she gets cold fast. Although really p#$% off they look like they are smiling.
The second is a green Moray eel. The look P#$% off but are rather tame and gentle with things they can't swallow whole.
 
This is from the Canadian west coast. Much better colors and things are enormous! This is a Nudibranch, kind of a homeless snail.
 

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i too spent 3 years in soul is itaewon still the same i lived on the hill above yongsan gate 3 below namsan tower
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I know the area well. I spent a lot of time at the US base there. Nam-sang is a beautiful area.
My daughters always wanted me to bring them to Namdaemun, the other gate where the whole sale shopping district is. It's what happens when a high speed Target Train collides head on with a Bullet Walmart train in a slum.
 
Beautiful snail pic. :clap: :clap:

Do you know what the two little pinchers belong to? (bottom right corner)
 
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