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Trübsee is located halfway on the mountain, between Engelberg and Mount Titlis in Switzerland
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On tour In the Swiss Alps. In the background you can see the Eiger north wall. Thank you very much for this beautiful tour...
Alpenstille
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Unterwegs In den Schweizer Alpen. Im Hintergrund ist die Eiger Nordwand zu sehen. Herzlichen Dank für diese schöne Tour...
View of the Victorian Alps from Mt Skene. The foreground stands of dead Eucalyptus pauciflora (snow gums) trees were destroyed by previous fires. An ever present feature of our “wide brown land”.
This is an ancient landscape. Granite can be found over the mountain plateau, but by far the most predominant rock formation is dolerite from the Jurassic era (180 million years ago).
Tasmania has the largest exposure of dolerite in the world and it forms the characteristic features seen on many of its mountains ("The Organ Pipes" on Mount Wellington in Hobart for instance, and yesterday I showed you "Old Bill's Monument" here on Ben Lomond). These rocks are in fact the magma from huge volcanic activity that spread across the "island". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Tasmania
Ben Lomond/turapina was also the only mountain in Tasmania to be crusted with a glacier, but more of that in coming days. But all of these extreme events led to the development of highly adaptable alpine plants, which are showing beautiful shades of green. orange, red and yellow. The colours actually remind me of some Persian carpets. In spring, when the wildflowers bloom, this is truly a magical place.
"Ben Lomond National Park protects a representative cross-section of Tasmania's north-east alpine plant communities. Although much of the plateau is stony with areas of low and often stunted forms of vegetation, the remainder of the mountain contains a wide variety of habitats ranging from alpine moorland to dense forest. A total of 222 plant species have been recorded on the Ben Lomond plateau, represented by 152 dicotyledons, 62 monocotyledons, 1 gymnosperm and 7 fern and fern ally families. The five most common families (Asteraceae, Poaceae, Epacridaceae, Cyperaceae and Proteaceae) account for about half the total number of species recorded. Most families, however, are only represented by one or two species. Some introduced plants have naturalised on the plateau from introduced grasses, clovers and straw used to stabilise soil and revegetate areas affected by slope grooming, road works and other site disturbances. The most common native species recorded on the plateau are the herbs Poa gunnii (tussock grass) and Gentianella diemensis, the shrubs, Richea scoparia, Orites acicularis and Pentachondra pumila, Baeckea gunniana and Epacris serpyllifolia. Cushion plants are abundant throughout the plateau. One species, the rock cushion plant Chionohebe ciliolata, is known only from a small localised area within the Park. Other rare and threatened species include the rare endemic Oreomyrrhis sessiliflora, and the endangered Colobanthus curtisiae." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Lomond_(Tasmania)
No private cars are allowed to drive in this area. Only restricted quota of bus seats are allowed everyday to protect the wildlife and surrounding area at Lake O'Hara in British Columbia's Yoho National Park. I do not need a bus to enjoy nature, I just hiked. It is 11 km one way but every kilometre was worth it!
Beautiful alpine winter landscape near Oberstdorf in the Allgäu Alps. | Schöne alpine Winterlandschaft bei Oberstdorf in den Allgäuer Alpen.
Alpine ibex enjoying the sun, unfortunately no big bucks this time but a group of youngsters at least after many hours of searching, NP Hohe Tauern, Austria
> Early, fog, low tide, no wind and almost still water. Alpine Groves Park on the St Johns River in Switzerland, Florida.
(Prunella collaris)
Chopta
Uttarakhand
Índia
This one visit us in the winter, and we could manage to take much better photos than this one (notice the ISO 12800 with a non particular good camera), but for the sake of completeness... I didn't want to leave it out!
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Índia (2023) (213)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Prunellidae (Prunelídeos) (40)
- All the photos for this species Prunella collaris (7)
- All the photos taken this day 2023/03/06 (13)
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