Stearns Wharf to Celebrate 150th Anniversary

I find myself wishing for a full eclipse of the SUN! Nannies.....

Unfortunately the wharf is strictly a tourist attraction, of limited use to locals. Woe to those who attempt to tie up their vessel. The orange vested wharf rats used to tell me not to tie my kayak, but I tied, climbed the ladder and had a beer upstairs on many occasions to spite them.
I'll never forget the first time I drove out on the closed wharf. We were going to look at the Char West carpentry job and as we started out, an ultra-light aircraft nose-dived into the sand East of the wharf. The shock wave visible in the glider rig spoke of the impact, which unfortunately was fatal.
I still like the wharf and the cannon!

curious...."· Before the wharf was built, lumber was thrown overboard and the buyers had to pick up their share off of the beach."
Not so....the Chapala Pier received the lumber.
" For a brief while, Stearns tried using Eucalyptus instead of Douglas Fir for pile replacement. The trial failed miserably."
I learned about this in school at SMHS back in the 80s. The trees first brought over from Australia had a disease which made their wood harder and useable. Normal Eucalyptus is soft and spindly and pretty much worthless for construction. So they used them as ranch property boundaries.
Love the wharf except for the massive amounts of no fishing signs in the best fishing spots. They keep squeezing us out. No overhead casting, and can only fish on the last 500 ft of the wharf...lame. Halibut and sand bass hang out below the sea center under the parking area where the flag poles are and also behind char west ;)

Ed, please delete that spam.

Wow!

Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province
An employee with Vitalité Health Network, one of the province’s two health authorities, said that suspected cases are growing in number and that young adults with no prior health triggers are developing a catalog of troubling symptoms, including rapid weight loss, insomnia, hallucinations, difficulty thinking and limited mobility.
In one study, high concentrations of BMAA were found in lobster, an industry that drives the economies of many of New Brunswick’s coastal communities. The province’s apparent resistance to testing for suspected environmental factors has led to speculation among families that the efforts to rule out the existence of a cluster could be motivated by political decision making.
Documents obtained through freedom of information requests and seen by the Guardian showed scientists at the country’s public health agency were considering BMAA as a possible cause, but needed the province to order the testing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/whistleblower-warns-baffling-neurological-illness-110015762.html

BMAA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-Methylamino-L-alanine

Neurotoxins in the environment are damaging human brain health, and fires and floods may make the problem worse
https://phys.org/news/2021-11-neurotoxins-environment-human-brain-health.html
As I reviewed the environmental concerns in Finland, the widespread presence of blue-green algae in waterways stood out to me. Though it's commonly called algae, blue-green algae is actually a type of bacteria called cyanobacteria. These toxic microorganisms thrive and proliferate in warm waterways when excessive nutrients, particularly phosphorus from fertilizer runoff, pour into fresh and brackish water. It produces cyanotoxins.

One of these cyanotoxins, β-methylamino-L-alanine, or BMAA, is linked to neurodegenerative disorders including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.In particular I was struck by scientists' finding high levels of BMAA in mollusks and fish found in the Baltic Sea, which could potentially play a role in Finland's high incidence of dementia, as fish is heavily consumed there.

Blue-green algae is found in rivers, lakes and seas. Its presence is a widespread problem for humans, dogs and wildlife in the U.S. and Canada, as well as around the globe. In 2020, more than 300 elephants in Botswana died after drinking from water sources contaminated by the cyanobacteria that cause these algal blooms. Blue-green algae is so widely present in Finland that scientists there have developed a quick test to determine whether it is present or not.

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