/***********************************************************************************																																									** This file contains the slide objects to be presented in the photo gallery and   ** trip journal. The MakeCaptions1 function defined elsewhere will use the objects ** found in the "slides" (case sensitive) array. Each array element will contain a ** single Slide object which means it must have a reference ID, link, width, and   ** height. The reference ID string, the width and height are integers, the link    ** is a string. To define where the hyperlink text within the link goes surround   ** it the meta-tag <ref></ref> pair.																							  **																																									**																																									** Parameters for the Slide function call are (reference, link text, width, height ** and copyright string. The first two are required. 															***********************************************************************************/defaultSlideWidth=700;defaultSlideHeight=525;defaultSlideCopyright="2005";defaultThumbWidth=180;defaultMaxPerRow=2;defaultAlignment="below";lastUpdate="July 27, 2005";var slides = new Array();// May 30slides[0] = new Slide("01", "<ref>Yours truly</ref> in front of my ride to Isle Royale. This is the first time, but probably not the last, that I have used the seaplane now operated by Royale Air Service. 15:41.");slides[1] = new Slide("02", "<ref>Getting very close now.</ref> We are flying over the outer islands to the south. Tobin Harbor, where we will land, is clearly visible now. Rock Harbor, and Snug Harbor where the lodge is, are also visible. 16:22.");slides[2] = new Slide("03", "Almost there. <ref>The seaplane dock is in Tobin Harbor.</ref> The flight takes a little more than half an hour. 16:25.");slides[3] = new Slide("04", "<ref>First unknown flower.</ref> Gotta get what you can when you can - on the way to the store. 16:35.");slides[4] = new Slide("05", "There are several small islands, <ref>like this one,</ref> not too far from the shoreline that the Rock Harbor Trail follows. 18:07.");slides[5] = new Slide("06", "<ref>Suzys Cave.</ref> I missed this last time I was here. Sorry no photos of me sheltering in it (they look awful). 18:37.");// May 31slides[6] = new Slide("07", "<ref>Signs of progress.</ref> Daisy Farm Campground map. 10:49.");slides[7] = new Slide("08", "<ref>Forest changes as you climb.</ref> Sure I am only climbing a few hundred feet to the Greenstone Ridge, but it changes. 11:22.");slides[8] = new Slide("09", "When trails are not crossing rockfields they <ref>tend to look rather like this</ref>. Near the actual ridge of the Greenstone Ridge. 11:28.");slides[9] = new Slide("10", "I wish I knew <ref>what these pretty white flowers</ref> were (kind of look like Canadian Dogwood though I think they&rsquo;re too complex of a flowering shape). If you know tell me. 12:20.");slides[10] = new Slide("11", "<ref>On the Greenstone Ridge</ref> amongst the pines. 12:42.");slides[11] = new Slide("12", "I am assuming that the <ref>lake in the background</ref>, south of me, is probably Angleworm Lake. However, I am not positive of that. 13:21.");slides[12] = new Slide("13", "<ref>Signs (posts) of progress.</ref> This post is at the trail intersection for Easst and West Chickenbone campgrounds. I got water near here. 15:13", 525, 700);slides[13] = new Slide("14", "<ref>Signs of progress.</ref> The area map at McCargoe Cove. Yah, I took my sweet time getting here from that last sign, but then again I had been on the go for some time by now. 16:44.");slides[14] = new Slide("15", "The <ref>view from my shelter</ref> at McCargoe Cove. 17:20.");slides[15] = new Slide("16", "I am fairly sure that is a bird <ref>in the chilly waters here at McCArgoe Cove.</ref> But I have no clue what type it is. Of course, it could be an artful rock too. 20:20. <a href=\"javascript:OpenImageNamed(\'IMG_1032_bird.jpg\')\">Click to see a close-up.</a>");slides[16] = new Slide("17", "I think <ref>this is some sort of gull.</ref> If you know what it is for sure let me know. 20:24.");slides[17] = new Slide("18", "<ref>The same bird</ref> working on the same meal. Fresh, I assume, fish. 20:24.");// June 1slides[18] = new Slide("19", "I was <ref>walking down the trail one day</ref> in the merry merry month of.... Oops, June. Heading towards the Minong Mines on my first attempt to find them. I love paper birch like these. 08:58.", 525, 700);slides[19] = new Slide("20", "Some <ref>flowers are just eye catching</re> like this one here. 09:04.");slides[20] = new Slide("21", "During my second Mine Mong attempt I spent a good bit of time with Lou and Fred <ref>searching around these tailing piles.</ref> 12:38.");slides[21] = new Slide("22", "<ref>Success!</ref> The horizontal, or is it the vertical I forget now (pretty sure the former), shaft. It was rather buggy here so I did not stay long. 15:28.");// June 2slides[22] = new Slide("23", "A view of <ref>Lake Richie</ref> not long before I found a nice rock outcrop to relax on for a time. 10:46.");slides[23] = new Slide("24", "<ref>Sunset at Moskey Basin.</ref> The winds have picked up some and the clouds have come back in, but there is still color in the sky. 21:28.");// June 3slides[24] = new Slide("25", "The sun has officially risen <ref>at this time</ref> but the colors are still varied and pretty here at Moskey Basin. 06:19.");slides[25] = new Slide("26", "<ref>Another just-after sunrise shot.</ref> Shelters look so nice when lit just right. 06:20.");slides[26] = new Slide("27", "<ref>This bird kept me company</ref> as I ate my breakfast of oatmeal. Sure looks similar to the bird I photographed having a meal at McCargoe Cove a couple days before. 09:20.");slides[27] = new Slide("28", "<ref>This overlook is on the Rock Harbor Trail</ref> just before it intersects the Daisy Farm Trail that leads to Daisy Farm to the south and the Greenstone Ridge to the north. Flashy tree isn&rsquo;t it. 12:36.");slides[28] = new Slide("29", "These <ref>puffballs look a lot like something I saw last time I was on the island.</ref> At first I figured they were Dandelions, but they really look a lot more like the invasive species called Goat&rsquo; beard (though I can easil see it being a dandelion gone to see - as would be the other shot. I just am not sure). 13:18.");slides[29] = new Slide("30", "<ref>Walking towards Three Mile Campground.</ref> This is pretty typical Rock Harbor Trail near the Lake Superior shoreline (when not on rocks). 15:14.");slides[30] = new Slide("31", "<ref>Yours truly.</ref> Standing as far from the camera as I can get, just a scant few feet, on the edge of the shoreline mini-cliff. If I took a step backward I would fall into the Lake. Just a little south of my lunch spot which was just a bit south of Sikiwit Mine if I recall right. 15:53.");// June 5slides[31] = new Slide("32", "<ref>This is certainly one of the biggest beaver dams</ref> that I have ever seen. Not too far from Lane Cove. I believe it is still ana ctive dam. 09:55.");// June 6slides[32] = new Slide("33", "This has been something of a so-so day. <ref>This is about as much color as we got.</ref> Sitting at the seaplane dock at Tobin Harbor. In the small-world department I met one of the co-leaders of the Smithsonian Study Tours trip I did to Zion, Bryce, and Grand Canyon North Rim back in 1988. Bruce Thompson thought he recognized me and then once he asked it was confirmed.  He still leads SST trips. 20:57.");// June 7slides[33] = new Slide("34", "<ref>Out at Scoville Point.</ref> You need to be hardy to grew on these lichen covered rocks. The cabin is the home of the artist-in-residence. Artists rotate through that small home through the season creating whatever they can. 15:21.");slides[34] = new Slide("35", "<ref>Me.</ref>It is drizzling ever so lightly as this picture is being taken. Though you cannot really see it here the waters off the islets are a lovely shade of deep green. 16:29.", 525, 700);slides[35] = new Slide("36", "<ref>The lush greens</ref> of a forest that sees plenty of rain and moisture. Along the Tobin Harbor side of the Stoll Trail not that far from Rock Harbor. 16:58.");slides[36] = new Slide("37", "<ref>This moose</ref> had people wrapped around his little finger. He (or she) was great fun to watch for a time. 17:04.");// June 8slides[37] = new Slide("38", "I assume <ref>this piles of balls</ref> is scat of some type. But it doesn&rsquo;t look like moose scat which I thought came out typically as one large blob. Still, there is so much of it that I don&rsquo;t know what else it could be. 09:40.", 525, 700);slides[38] = new Slide("39", "<ref>The queen of mooses.</ref> At least a photo queen. This cow moose didn&rsquo;t care that we were within 30 feet of her (the width of the walk plus some) at times. She munched her way through vegetation, gave a kayak a close inspection, and hung about for a long time. 17:03.");slides[39] = new Slide("40", "As you can see <ref>our local photophilic moose</ref> is still here. 17:31.");slides[40] = new Slide("41", "<ref>&hellip;and she left us a parting present.</ref> 18:06.");slides[41] = new Slide("42", "One of the <ref>small copper mine pits</ref> on the Rock Harbor side of the Stoll Trail. The island has been mined for copper for thousands of years. 21:08.");// June 9slides[42] = new Slide("43", "I finally took a kayak out. The previous days the weather was cruddy (though on one I could have gone) and their was even a small craft warning so they would not rent boats. <ref>But now I am out and things look different from out here</ref> (to paraphrase David Bowie). Not far from the seaplane dock. 10:34.");slides[43] = new Slide("44", "It took until the last day, but I finally <ref>caught a loon on camera.</ref> This is near one of the islets on the Hidden Lake side of the harbor not that far from the Hidden Lake Dock. 10:53. <a href=\"javascript:OpenImageNamed(\'IMG_1178_just_loon.jpg\')\">Click to see a close-up</a>");slides[44] = new Slide("45", "<ref>Another view</ref> of this loon&rsquo;s local habitat. 10:53. <a href=\"javascript:OpenImageNamed(\'IMG_1179_just_loon.jpg\')\">Click to see a close-up</a>");slides[45] = new Slide("46", "Here comes <ref>my ride back to Houghton.</ref> The flight back was almost as smooth as the one going out. 12:50.");// Movies// May 30slides[46] = new Slide("MVI_0961", "<ref>Leaving Houghton.</ref> This would prove an easy flight. Sure beats the ferries for time. Though it is also a lot more susceptible to weather.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[47] = new Slide("MVI_0965", "<ref>Getting close to the seaplane dock.</ref> We are flying east down Tobin Harbor on our final approach.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[48] = new Slide("MVI_0975", "<ref>Strolling down the Rock Harbor Trail.</ref> I&rsquo;m not in a hurry as you can see.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[49] = new Slide("MVI_0995", "<ref>Listen to the ruckus</ref> these loons are creating a little before midnight.", 300, 48, "2005", "movie");// May 31slides[50] = new Slide("MVI_0997", "<ref>Good morning Isle Royale.</ref> Three Mile Campground. I wish the woodpecker I heard came out in the audio.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[51] = new Slide("MVI_1008", "<ref>Someday I need to get off the bridge</ref> and wiggle my fingers in this brisk creek at Daisy Farm Campground.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[52] = new Slide("MVI_1022", "Heading along the <ref>Greenstone Ridge Trail</ref> towards McCargoe Cove now. It&rsquo;s early afternoon. The couple and I will leapfrog a few times during the afternoon. We are all going to McCargoe Cove.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[53] = new Slide("MVI_1030", "<ref>McCargoe Cove</ref> on a nice sunny afternoon. I got here late mid-afternoon and found several other people here. But it was not that bad to find others around.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[54] = new Slide("MVI_1035", "<ref>A fresh meal for this bird.</ref> I think it is a gull of some type. It&rsquo; is now early evening at the cove around 8:20PM.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 1slides[55] = new Slide("MVI_1042", "My <ref>first attempt to find the Minong Mine.</ref> It would take 3 tries to find the shafts. This is an area dominated by large tailings piles so I must be close.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[56] = new Slide("MVI_1044", "I am not sure the moose <ref>shows up in this clip</ref> it is hard to find the moose in the original photos, but I know the moose is there. I definitely saw him (her?). It is around noon at McCargoe Cove.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 2slides[57] = new Slide("MVI_1069", "<ref>Moskey Basin.</ref> I say that their are whitecaps and their are some very small ones, but I think I saw more earlier in the afternoon.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 3slides[58] = new Slide("MVI_1084", "<ref>Moskey Basin just after sunrise.</ref> The colors look better to my eye and my memory than on this movie clip.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[59] = new Slide("MVI_1094", "This gull (I think) kept me company as I ate breakfast (around 9:30AM). It did not seem to want scraps it just was around. The bird you hear at the very start may be a Golden-Crown Sparrow at least it sounds a bit like &ldquo;Three Blind Mice.&rdquo;", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 4slides[60] = new Slide("MVI_1121", "It is <ref>mid-afternoon at Lane Cove.</ref> Around this time the fivesome would show up and settle into the campsite on the far right. Later, at most an hour before the rain started, a duo would arrive and get their best of a double-wall tent up just in time.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 5slides[61] = new Slide("MVI_1123", "The trail to Lane Cove north of the Greenstone <ref>passes through forest punctuated by open esat-west valley/drainages</ref> like this one. It's mid-morning.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 6slides[62] = new Slide("MVI_1127", "Not that long <ref>before sunset at Tobin Harbor.</ref> This is about as good as it would get for a colorful sky. In fact, the last several days on the island featured overcast skies around sunset.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 7slides[63] = new Slide("MVI_1137", "One of the many <ref>open and rocky areas that look out on Lake Superior.</ref> I said it was party sunny, but by the time I took this movie the clouds really had the sky all to themselves.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[64] = new Slide("MVI_1141", "<ref>Scoville Point.</ref> Yes, I know the green clinging to the rocks is a tough clinging linchen, but it would be neat if some were native copper. Like the previous clip this is shot in mid-afternoon.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");// June 8slides[65] = new Slide("MVI_1153", "<ref>This moose did not mind</ref> being watched. She must have known we were there - we were probably within 30 feet at times. We watched her for a half hour.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[66] = new Slide("MVI_1154", "<ref>Live moose walking.</ref> The same moose as in the last movie.", 320, 240, "2005", "movie");slides[67] = new Slide("MVI_1157", "And, the final glance (with the camera) <ref>in all her moose-ly glory.</ref>", 640, 480, "2005", "movie");// June 9slides[68] = new Slide("MVI_1177", "<ref>The view from my kayak</ref> as I paddle towards Hidden Lake. My final morning, June 9, on Isle Royale.", 640, 480, "2005", "movie");slides[69] = new Slide("MVI_1182", "<ref>Leaving on a seaplane; don&rsquo;t know when I&rsquo;ll be back again...</ref> The boat you see probably belongs to the fisheries researchers who are doing a population study.", 640, 480, "2005", "movie");
