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Bow Falls is a major wide river waterfall on the Bow River, Alberta just before the junction of it and the Spray River. They are located near the Banff Springs Hotel and golf course on the left-hand side of River Road.
The Amazon Milk Frog (Mission golden-eyed tree frog) is rather large for a tree frog. It is about 2.5 inches in length. Its body is light blue, blue-green or gray with black and brown banding covered with white and dark spots and bumps. As juveniles their patterning is more contrasting and then fades some with age.
The Amazon Milk Frog is nocturnal and lives in the rain-forest canopy. They often breed in tree cavities and seldom descend to the ground.
Borago officinalis, also known as a starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and has naturalized in many other locales.[2] It grows satisfactorily in gardens in the UK climate, remaining in the garden from year to year by self-seeding. The leaves are edible and the plant is grown in gardens for that purpose in some parts of Europe. The plant is also commercially cultivated for borage seed oil extracted from its seeds. The plant contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, some of which are hepatotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic (see below under Phytochemistry).
Ōnuma Quasi-National Park (大沼 国 定 公園, Ōnuma Kokutei Kōen) is a 90.83 km (35.07 sq mi) national park on the Oshima Peninsula in southwest Hokkaidō, Japan. The park covers the Hokkaidō Komagatake volcano (北海道 駒 ケ 岳, Hokkaidō Koma-ga-take) as well as the Ōnuma (大沼) and Konuma (小 沼) Ponds, which reach the western slopes of the mountain. The park, designated quasi-national in 1958, is the smallest park in Hokkaidō.
Ōnuma and Konuma were created during mudflows due to the Hokkaidō Koma-ga-take eruptions dammed up depressions at the base of the mountain. The ponds, which are filled with watershields, are surrounded by birch and maple forests.
Volubilis (Berber languages: Walili, Arabic: وليلي) is a partly excavated Berber city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes, and commonly considered as the ancient capital of the kingdom of Mauretania. The archaeological vestiges of this site bear witness to several civilizations. All the phases of its ten centuries of occupation, from prehistory to the Islamic period are represented. The site has produced a substantial amount of artistic material, including mosaics, marble and bronze statuary, and hundreds of inscriptions. This documentation and that which remains to be discovered, is representative of a creative spirit of the human beings who lived there over the ages. The limit of the site is represented by the Roman rampart constructed in 168-169 AD. The features of the site reveal two topographic forms: a relatively flat sloping area in the North-Eastern part, the monumental sector and a part of the sector of the triumphal arch, where the Romans employed an urban hypodamian system, and a rougher hilly area covering the South and Western parts where a terraced plan was adopted. The vestiges bear testimony to diverse periods, from Mauritanian times when it was part of an independent kingdom, to the Roman period when it was a metropolis of the Roman province of Mauritania Tingitana, a period called the « dark ages » with towards the end a Christian era, and finally an Islamic period characterised by the founding of the dynasty of the Idrissids.
The Rialto Bridge is the oldest of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It was recently completed the repair in 2017. Today, the Bridge is one of the top tourism attractions in Venice. I captured this image at night becuase of less people.
Shiretoko National Park (知床国立公園 Shiretoko Kokuritsu Kōen) covers most of the Shiretoko Peninsula at the northeastern tip of the island of Hokkaidō, Japan. The word "Shiretoko" is derived from an Ainu word "sir etok", meaning "the place where the earth protrudes". Along the way, besides the four marshes of varying sizes, we encountered scattered wet plants (hygrophytes) and alpine plants at late autumn with fall foilage,
A barrier between the ocean and inland water to form Tairua Harbour.
Looking farther, you'll see Slipper (left), but Penguin and Rabbit Islands were hiding behind the mountain at right. The image was captured from Mount Paku.
A closer look of Dubrovnik, Croatia is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea. Dubrovnik, Croatia, with its characteristic medieval city walls. Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea, in the region of Dalmatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, a seaport and the center of Dubrovnik-Neretva County.
The Mill Colonnade is supported by 124 columns.
The Mill Colonnade (Czech: Mlýnská kolonáda) is a large colonnade containing several hot springs in the spa town of Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The structure is one of the traditional symbols of the town.
Pancake Rock, Punakaiki to Hokitika - South Island, New Zealand. It takes a while to make a pancake on the West Coast of New Zealand - 30 million years actually!
The Pancake Rocks at Dolomite Point near Punakaiki are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts through several vertical blowholes.
Part of the Paparoa National Park, the Pancake Rocks are accessed by the easy Pancake Rocks and Blowholes Walk right in the centre of Punakaiki.
Milford Sound - the 8th Wonder of the World.
Milford Sound is tucked far away in the southwest of New Zealand, but oh so beautiful. If you’re visiting New Zealand you can’t leave without exploring the area. You’ll enter a world of dramatic scenery with its high mountains, waterfalls, sheer cliffs and wild sea.
The best ways to discover Milford are hiking the many walking tracks, taking a cruise on the water or flying above it all, to really understand the vastness of this area.