#2890 "Foggy Sunrise at the Dumoine Pincushion Island"

#2890 "Foggy Sunrise at the Dumoine Pincushion Island"
Oils on canvas panel 6 X 4 (inches).
Started 7:00 am Saturday, August 3rd, 2024
from very near N46.464658 W77.769022.

A Google Earth View of Pincushion Island and the painting location 2890 as well
as the cyclonic gyre that was guiding my canoe toward the next painting location 2891. 
The green deformation zone will be explained in another post... 

As far as I know, there is no official name for the small isle that I refer to as Pincushion Island in this flatwater section of the Dumoine. Pincushion was the only land that I could see when the canoe drifted a bit downstream - caught within the cyclonic gyre of the current. I grabbed another small panel and kept right on painting in the fog. My view was looking southwest toward John's Cabin but in reality, I could only see a matter of yards. Even the island would become masked at times by the thick peas-soup fog. 

Fog always reminds me of the wonderful time when we lived in Nova Scotia. The Maritimes is the very best place to be posted if you really wish to learn about the weather. Fog comes in various meteorological flavours and they are all challenging to forecast. Anyone who has never had a bust forecast with fog is either misguided or has no memory whatsoever.

A moment when the fog was more of a mist...

I recall once briefing the flight crews for some nighttime flying exercises at Shearwater, YAW. With a straight face, I had suggested in all honesty they had about four hours to complete their missions before the advection fog rolled in. 

The Corporal and I were leaving the Command Post after our portion of the briefing when we discovered that was not the best advice. Wisps of fog barely illuminated by the Shearwater lights, were racing inland on an onshore wind. We spun around and presented the amended forecast that "C0X0F" conditions (ceiling zero obscured with zero miles visibility in fog) were imminent. Ammended forecasts for fog were a way of life even though we tried and kept learning. But the fog was always right. Halifax has over 100 days of mist or fog each year. 

"Done like dinner" in the canoe. 

This is number twenty-seven of thirty-five paintings I completed en plein air at CPAWS DRAW 2024. It was a wonderful experience with a terrific group of people. https://cpaws-ov-vo.org/draw-retreat-artists/ A portion of sales from this endeavour will go to support CPAW and keep the 'wild' in the wilderness. 

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Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,

Phil Chadwick