QuickTime Panoramic Downstream (14)

Viewed from the South the stream turns at Tipi Bend, continues past Old Man Willow, and then continues on its way to the Great Salt Lake. Your browser must have a plugin to view panoramic scenes. The QuickTime plugin can be obtained by clicking here: get plugin. (Be sure to install it after downloading). If your school district filters sites using a proxy and you can't get a complete download from apple then dowload the two QUICKTIM files at this other link.

Click on this thumbnail to walk Barton Creek West.
(Sorry about the line down the middle. I am experimenting with panoramics and ended up with a 360 degree view instead. If you zoom out and scroll left, it won't be quite so bothersome).

Some questions to consider:
1. Scroll left past the erosion bank and the heavier brush at Tipi Bend to the cattails. Did you notice the shadows on the south bank? Through photo manipulation, I removed the people creating the shadows. Can you still tell if the picture was taken in the morning or the afternoon? Remember you are looking North (Hint: the smallest part of the shadow is created by the retouched and now invisible person's head. The shadows are falling eastward).

2. Scroll left from the cattails at Tipi Bend until you see a rather large, brown stump on the South bank (foreground). Last year a duck nested on the North bank in this area. Do you think the duck nested opposite the stump or near the cattails? Why?

3. Scroll left from the brown stump past the cement that encroaches from the South bank and past the large mechanical crane which makes the stream appear to have a waterfall, until you come to the brick wall at J&L Bend. Erosion is a problem on the South bank. Near which bank do you think the water flows more rapidly - the South or North bank? You can't tell from the pictures but you can tell from the erosion which way the land slopes. Do you think the land slopes from North to South or from South to North?

You can discuss these questions and others about Pond Ecology at Pond Talk.