#chinook

[iamthecrime]

[nocternalrandomness]

Boeing CH-47 Chinook from the Royal Netherlands Air Force setting down in the GLV 5 training area

[cypr24-eu]

Brytyjskie bazy wojskowe potwierdziły pełną gotowość śmigłowców Chinook do wsparcia akcji gaśniczych na Cyprze. Jeden z nich będzie gotowy do startu przez cały sezon. #Cypr24 #Cypr #Chinook #Pożary #RAF

Chinooki gotowe do walki z pożarami

[phantomskunk]

A Nevada National Guard CH-47 Chinook helicopter and crew assisted the California National Guard by lifting a incapacitated UH-60 Black Hawk that developed transmission problems while fighting fires in Northern California and landed in the front yard of a local residents home in Lakeport, Calif. Sept. 13, 2012. (Air National Guard photo/Master Sgt. Dave Loeffler)

[wildcaprisun]

[ismaeljorda]

CH-47F - Chinook (2025) by Ismael Jordá Via Flickr: Aire 25 - www.ismaeljorda.com - Nikon D850 + 600VR @ 1/160 f13 Iso64

[gingerjargogle]

MerMay Day 15: Endangered 🐟

For this prompt, I really wanted to choose an endangered species of fish that I could represent in a Mermaid’s tail. One of the fish that I came across in the NOAA Fisheries Endangered & Threatened list was the Chinook Salmon; these fish do live near to me, in the Puget Sound, where their status is Threatened, but protected. 

Even though I had selfishly hoped for a fish with a pretty pattern that would make for a visually interesting mermaid, I was inspired by the Chinook Salmon knowing that they were local to the Pacific Northwest. And, in learning more about the species, the Chinook Nation (@everydaychinook) that lives here. 

For this mermaid, I researched traditional Chinook attire to style the human half. Chinookian people typically wore woven hats “woven tightly of spruce root, were waterproof, which was important to have in the rainy climate of the Lower Columbia River” [sourced here]. 

Paired with an actual Chinookian top, and though it was typical for them to wear their hair loose, it was quoted that “some women adopted other fashions like braids from neighboring tribes” [sourced here], I think that those braids fit this mermaid very well – especially to help her keep her hat on!

[theswordofdamntheseknees]

Yin & Yang