From: Clay Harmon (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 11/05/02-08:09:09 PM Z
Eagles! That's amazing. Tallulah Gorge was my favorite rock climbing
location when I lived in that area. Never saw an eagle, but saw many
red-tailed hawks while hanging from the walls of the gorge. It's
exhilarating. Can't imagine seeing a really big bird there!
Clay
BTW, I liked the place so much that I have a labrador named 'Tallulah'
now. Also, did you know that they filmed part of the movie
"Deliverance" there?
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:56 PM, Sandy King wrote:
> One of the greatest joys experienced from my involvement with
> photography, greater even than image making, has been the experiences
> derived from seeing things that most never see.
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> Yesterday, at Tallulah gorge near Clayton, Georgia offered such an
> experience. The gorge itself is awesome, some several hundred feet
> high with a fairly large stream at the bottom that cascades down the
> side of a mountain. And the fall colors this year are spectacular.
> However, as Sam Wang and I stood at the top of an overlook over the
> gorge something quite unique to both of our experiences took place. A
> large number of eagles, perhaps as many ad 12-15, suddenly began
> soaring beneath us, quite nearby at perhaps less than 25-50 feet. And
> from time to time one of the eagles would fly straight up toward us,
> coming to with 10-15 feet, and then at the last moment veer off the
> one side. I have seen eagles fly above me on many occasions, but the
> sight of them soaring beneath us, and the bottom of the gorge hundreds
> of feet below them, was simply awe inspiring. We could even see the
> way they used the top tips of their wings to adjust to the thermals,
> as they circled around just beneath our vantage point.
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> Happily I did not have on hand a suitable camera to photograph the
> experience. Better I think, because that might have distracted me from
> seeing.
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