Written by Ron Barbish, owner of watermanatwork.com, reflecting his personal views based on years of observation and direct experience on the Columbia River. The decline of fishing in a natural wonderland like the Columbia River Gorge is a sad story to tell. It’s not the kind of story I want to be writing about a … Read more
We travel to a lot of remote places here at watermanatwork.com and we see a lot of wildlife. One animal we are not that stoked to come in contact with are mice, field mice. They usually come out at night looking for food and will eat through just about anything to get to it. If … Read more
This technical article written by Ron Barbish who manufactured Photographic Support Systems camera housings for more than 25 years and also worked as an electronics technician for DOD contractors. There is no affiliate advertising on watermanatwork.com. All reviewed items have been purchased at retail price. It’s been a long time since we posted a technical … Read more
As you can probably see by now, there have been some changes here on the watermanatwork.com Blog as well as the watermanatwork.com website. The entire website, including the Blog, has been updated to HTTPS, a more secure internet protocol. There are redirects in place, but if you’d like to change bookmarks, the correct URL is … Read more
This blog entry contains the personal opinions of watermanatwork.com owner Ron Barbish. Watermanatwork.com content is normally restricted outdoor activities, politics purposely left off of website. If you don’t want to hear what Ron Barbish has to say, go to any other blog entry and check out the fishing, cycling and other outdoor adventures. Some of … Read more
We here at watermanatwork.com travel to some pretty remote places looking for fishing spots and places to ride bikes and we encounter a lot of wildlife. Deer, elk, coyotes, cougars, bears and many smaller mammals, birds and reptiles. We take precautions with food and trash to not attract any of these wild creatures but it … Read more
Despite an all day rain event a couple days earlier, about 2:45AM, a wildfire broke out in the lower Colorado River watershed north of Yuma, AZ. We happened to be camping less than a mile away from where the fire broke out. By sunrise, the fire was burning strong. It had been windy overnight but … Read more
We are doing a bit of remodeling here at the watermanatwork.com World Headquarters. We’ve started off by adding a new category to the watermanatwork.com blog called WatermanAtWork Journal. It will be a running journal of some of our experiences as we travel around the United States and beyond in search of adventure. Not quite sure … Read more