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This image is included in 9 galleries :- 1) "MIX_02" curated by Willie Sturges, 2) "natura, solo natura!" by fabiofoni, 3) "賞心悅目的博覽館" by ggx2ggx2@kimo.com, 4) "Yellowstone National Park" by Black Diamond Images, 5) "Neue Galerie 2020 0202" by BAKAWI, 6) "Landschaft" by Michael Gschwind, 7) "Landscapes" by Süskind Dostoevsky Poe, 8) "(((O)))" by Waldgeist and 9) "placeres visuales-volumen 2" by byktor -f.d.
It is a hot spring located in the Upper Geyser Basin. Its average temperature is around 69.8 °C (157.6 °F) and is 23 feet (7 m) deep. The pool was named by Mrs E. N. McGowan, wife of Assistant Park Superintendent, Charles McGowan in 1883. She called it "Convolutus", the Latin name for the morning glory flower, which the spring resembles.
The distinct colour of the pool is due to bacteria which inhabit the water. On a few rare occasions the Morning Glory Pool has erupted as a geyser, usually following an earthquake or other nearby seismic activity. Several entryways have been clogged due to objects being thrown in by tourists, reducing the hot water supply, and in turn altering the overall appearance of the pool.
(not explored)
This image is included in 3 galleries :- 1) "Ces magnifiques macros ... " curated by Impatience_1, 2) "Bugs, Insects on Flowers" by Schmidtrose and 3) "Le peuple de l'herbe (The grass people)" by Thierry Chevrier.
Upper Antelope Canyon, about 200 metres in length, is a slot canyon in the American Southwest. It is on Navajo land east of Page, Arizona. Antelope Canyon includes two separate, scenic slot canyon sections, referred to individually as "Upper Antelope Canyon" or "The Crack" Antelope Canyon "or" The Corkscrew ". The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tsé bighánílíní, which means 'the place where water runs through rocks'. Lower Antelope Canyon is Hazdistazí (called "Hasdestwazi" by the Navajo Parks and Recreation Department), or 'spiral rock arches'. Both are in the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation.
Antelope Canyon's winding walls were carved by fast flowing flash flood waters. The floods carried abrasive sand, rocks logs and other debris picked up by the sudden torrents. Over millenia, these floods sculpted natural corridors through the soft sandstone. (sourced from internet)
This is a hand-held HDR, uncropped and only with noise reduction. This area was in a very dark spot, so the colour was not as vivid as the other images.
This image is included in a gallery "jays favs 6" curated by Jason Prince.
Dragonflies spend a lot of time hovering over swampy areas, looking for suitable mating partners. They may take a short break when tired.
This image is included in 2 galleries:- 1) "Insetti" curated by Grisu and 2) "Dragonflies" by Radoslav Besenyi.
Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone Park in Wyoming, USA. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature.
More than 1,000,000 eruptions have been recorded. Harry Woodward first described a mathematical relationship between the duration and intervals of the eruptions in 1938. Old Faithful is not the tallest or largest geyser in the park; those titles belong to the less predictable Steamboat Geyser. The reliability of Old Faithful can be attributed to the fact that it is not connected to any other thermal features of the Upper Geyser Basin. Eruptions can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 US gallons (14,000 to 32,000 L) of boiling water to a height of 106 to 185 feet (32 to 56 m) lasting from 1.5 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet (44 m). Intervals between eruptions can range from 35 to 120 minutes, averaging 66.5 minutes in 1939, slowly increasing to an average of 90 minutes apart today, which may be the result of earthquakes affecting subterranean water levels. The disruptions have made earlier mathematical relationships inaccurate, but have actually made Old Faithful more predictable in terms of its next eruption. The time between eruptions has a bimodal distribution, with the mean interval being either 65 or 91 minutes, and is dependent on the length of the prior eruption. Within a margin of error of ±10 minutes, Old Faithful will erupt either 65 minutes after an eruption lasting less than 2.5 minutes, or 91 minutes after an eruption lasting more than 2.5 minutes.
Between 1983 and 1994, four probes containing temperature and pressure measurement devices and video equipment were lowered into Old Faithful. The probes were lowered as deep as 72 feet (22 m). Temperature measurements of the water at this depth was 244 °F (118 °C), the same as was measured in 1942. The video probes were lowered to a maximum depth of 42 feet (13 m) to observe the conduit formation and the processes that took place in the conduit. Some of the processes observed include fog formation from the interaction of cool air from above mixing with heated air from below, the recharge processes of water entering into the conduit and expanding from below, and entry of superheated steam measuring as high as 265 °F (129 °C) into the conduit.
The Organ Pipes National Park, abbreviated as OPNP, is a national park located in the Central region of Victoria (Keilor North), Australia. It is about 20 km northwest from Melbourne CBD. The 121-hectare (300-acre) protected area was established with the focus on conservation of the native flora and fauna, and preservation of the geological features in the Jacksons Creek, a part of the Maribyrnong valley, north-west of Melbourne. It is situated in a deep gorge in the grassy, basalt Keilor plains.
The Park is famous for interesting rock formations such as the Organ Pipes. This lesser known spot is located near the Rosette Rock and Tessellated Pavement, just above Jacksons Creek.
This image is included in 2 galleries:1) "LANDSCAPE VOL 18" curated by Jean-paul Vancoppenolle and 2) "Landscapes and Seascapes" by Jacqueline Tolcott.
This is part of the Scenic "Seven Stars with the Moon". These paddy fields are tended by the Ping'an Zuang tribe and are high up the mountains of Langji.
This image is included in a gallery "EL MARAVILLOSO MUNDO DE LOS ANIMALES LCXXXIII.THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANIMALS LCXXXV." curated by Lagarto (miguelitoiglesias21).
The orange threadtail or ochre threadtail (Nososticta solida) is an Australian damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. They are medium-sized with a length of around 35mm. Orange threadtails can be found near semi-shaded running water, and usually rest on plants at the water's edge. Orange threadtails may be seen all year round. In Victoria they occur at lower altitudes during summer, though further north they can be seen in spring and autumn. When at rest, Nososticta damselflies hold their wings closely folded up vertically over their thorax. The male threadtails have an orange-yellow thorax with black patterns. Their abdomen is narrow, black in colour with yellow strips. There is a brown yellow colour at the base of their wings. Females are the same size as the males. They are pale brown in colour and have the same black patterns as the males.
Here a male is carrying a gift of some sort to be presented to the female at rest.
This image is included in a gallery "Bryce & Zion" curated by 2lynnehume.
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in south western Utah. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheatres along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures called hoodoos, formed by frost weathering and stream erosion of the river and lake bed sedimentary rocks. The red, orange, and white colours of the rocks provide spectacular views for park visitors. Bryce sits at a much higher elevation than nearby Zion National Park. The rim at Bryce varies from 8,000 to 9,000 feet (2,400 to 2,700 m). The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874. The area around Bryce Canyon became a National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a National Park in 1928. The park covers 35,835 acres (55.992 sq mi; 14,502 ha; 145.02 km2) and receives substantially fewer visitors than Zion National Park (nearly 4.3 million in 2016) or Grand Canyon National Park (nearly 6 million in 2016), largely due to Bryce's more remote location. (Sourced from Internet)
This was taken at Sunset Point (8000 ft above sea level).
This was observed at the car park outside of Delta Hotel, Fredericton, Canada. Two stars were visible in on the lower side as the moon was just about to move out of the eclipse. Only brightness and curves were adjusted : this was the original colour observed.
This image is included in a gallery "Les insectes...ceux qu'on aime... ceux qu'on aime moins...#3" curated by impatience_1.
White Dragontail is a medium sized butterfly , wing span ranges from 40 to 45 mm. Wings are mainly black, the triangular forewing with hyaline cells, short and narrow radial cells in the hindwing, and has a pair of slender tails which looks like swallow's tail. Its adult is the smallest in the Papilionidae family in the world.
Ref: Fung Yuen Biodiversity Series. White Dragontail by Pun Sui Fai.
When feeding, they stay on one flower very briefly, usually for a second or two, then swiftly jump to another with no predictable route Capturing them in motion is a great challenge.
This image is included in a gallery "Mère Nature" curated by Jacques.Bonicel.
Phacellophora camtschatica, commonly known as the fried egg jellyfish or egg-yolk jellyfish, is a very large jellyfish in the family Ulmaridae. It has a bell up to 60 cm (2 ft) in diameter and 16 clusters of up to a few dozen tentacles, each up to 6 m (20 ft) long.
This cool-water species can be found in many parts of the world's oceans. It feeds mostly on smaller jellyfish and other gelatinous zooplankton, which become ensnared in the tentacles. Because the sting of this jellyfish is so weak, many small crustaceans, including larval crabs (Cancer gracilis) and Amphipoda, regularly ride on its bell and even steal food from its oral arms and tentacles. (Wikipedia)
This was taken at Sea Jelly Spectacular (水母萬花筒), 香港海洋公園 Ocean Park Hong Kong. The overhead lighting accentuates the mysterious, somewhat alien impression.
This landscape belongs to the UNESCO landform area in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China. Legend has it that on the top left slope is the profile of a fairy maid offering flowers to a king. In the foreground are beautifully sidelit quartz stone pillars in hazy Autumn morning light.
仙女獻花坐落於御筆峰斜對面。石峰俏立雲端，態極妖嬈，岩頂灌木滴翠，山腳山腰野花如錦，每到春暮，天風吹，流雲飄，恍如仙女將鮮花撒向人間。
“仙女獻花”有一個遠去的悲壯傳說。那年，土家族起義領袖向王天子被官軍打敗，只好率殘兵退守天子山，十萬官兵緊追不捨，八百士兵血戰七天七夜，終於彈盡糧絕。不甘被俘受辱的向王天子與眾將士臨死不屈，跳入神堂灣。許久以後，一位曾深愛著向王天子的土家阿妹翻山越嶺爬上天子山，尋找向王天子和將士們的屍骨，但只聽到山風哀哀，溪水切切。阿妹嚥下淚水，提著竹籃，漫山遍野採集山花，然後一邊呼喚著向王天子的名字，一邊遍撒鮮花，她要把自己的愛，自己的心獻給心愛的向王，就這樣撒啊，撒啊，久而久之，阿妹被歲月凝固成像了，她還是手執花籃，含情脈脈……
This image is included in a gallery "Birds, birds, birds" curated by Totos Revenge (Mark).
The adults of this bird of prey are blackish-brown to nearly black, while juveniles are a pale brown with creamy buff highlights. Seen from below, the tail is long and distinctively wedge-shaped. Adults have a wing span of up to 2 m. They are also called Eaglehawk and wedgie. They are huge in size, with powerful wings and hooked bill. They are moderately common and found in all parts of Australia.
(explored: Feb 6, 2016 #247)
This image is included in a gallery "I love lighthouse! Here are some of my favorites...in and outside of Second Life!" curated by Lanay Resident.
Prince Shoal Light (Haut-fond Prince Light), also known as "Lighthouse of the Spinning Top" is one of the most dangerous shoals in the St. Lawrence River is found near Tadoussac, Quebec, off mouth of Saguenay River. The lighthouse can be seen from some of the whale-watching tour boats operating out of Tadoussac and Baie-Sainte-Catherine on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, and Rivière-du-Loup on the south shore.
This image was taken on board a whale watching boat "Croisieres AML". The choppy water made photography using a telephoto lens very difficult.
The cylindrical tower with red and white horizontal stripes, on top of circular dwelling on caisson, resembles a child's top. Built in 1964, the light replaces the Prince Shoal Lightship station, that had been established in 1902. The lighthouse warns passing vessels of the undersea hazard in the area. The tapered base helps it resist the 20-foot tides in the area.
The tower is 83-feet high and produces a focal plane of 81 feet. The light produces a white flash every 2.5 seconds, with a range 18 nautical miles.
The light received a C$1,4000,000 for rebuild in 2002. The project included repairs to most of the architectural and structural components of the upper portion of the pillar. As well, the concrete slab used as a landing area for helicopters transporting departmental personnel on navigational aids maintenance missions was rebuilt. Consolidation and repair of the outside walls of the cylindrical part of the pillar were also scheduled, along with the repair of the guard rail and installation of anchorings.
Coordinates
LAT: 48° 06' N
LON: 069° 37' W
(Sourced from internet)
The colourful phenomenon was created by early gold-mining activities: sluicing work in the 1880s revealed the 'pink' hills near the historic town of Heathcote.
The Pink Cliffs Reserve is about 140km from Melbourne CBD. It was originally man made but is now considered one of Victoria's natural wonders. The multi-coloured soft granite exposed as a moonscape surface in the central portion of the reserve is the best known feature hence its name, Pink Cliffs.
These big, interesting looking boulders are located at the entrance to the Reserve. Some are dark like chocolate and some are lighter in colour. Lichen growth on them adds further interesting texture.
This image is included in a gallery "TOP FLICKR * INTERPHOTO-TOP PHOTOSHARING" by Gianfranco Marzetti.
La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb of La Perouse is located about 14 kilometres southeast of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick. The La Perouse peninsula is the northern headland of Botany Bay. It is notable for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Kamay Botany Bay National Park. Congwong Bay Beach, Little Congwong Beach, and the beach at Frenchmans Bay provide protected swimming areas in Botany Bay. La Perouse is one of few Sydney suburbs with a French name, others being Sans Souci and Vaucluse.
This image was taken at Bare Island at low tide. The weathered sandstone was marvellous, being carved out by wind and rain. The afternoon lighting made it an interesting study of the rock erosion.
This image is included in a gallery "Animals" curated by Arthur's Dream.
They are also known as Great Eastern Grey Kangaroo. The white dots are active insects buzzing around above the grass.
Indigenous Australian names include : iyirrbir, Uw Oykangand, Uw Olkola, Kucha and Pakanh.
The superb fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) is a passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae, and is common and familiar across south-eastern Australia. It is a sedentary and territorial species, also exhibiting a high degree of sexual dimorphism; the male in breeding plumage has a striking bright blue forehead, ear coverts, mantle, and tail, with a black mask and black or dark blue throat. Non-breeding males, females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour; this gave the early impression that males were polygamous, as all dull-coloured birds were taken for females. Six subspecies groups are recognized: three larger and darker forms from Tasmania, Flinders and King Island respectively, and three smaller and paler forms from mainland Australia and Kangaroo Island.
Like other fairywrens, the superb fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; the birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings. Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display.
These birds live in arid to semi-arid areas, in mostly dense shrublands or woodlands of acacia, and mallee eucalypt with dense shrubs.
This swallow is feeding over a pond with a lot of reed around the edges, sipping at the surface for a drinking from time to time. The water surface reflects the golden hour of a spring morning.
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States; more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York.
Accordding to information from the Niagara Parks :-
• More than 168,000 cubic metres (6 million cubic ft.) of water go over the crestline of the Falls every minute during peak daytime tourist hours.
• The average fall from Lake Erie to the beginning of the upper Niagara Rapids is only 2.7 metres (9 ft.)
• The Canadian Horseshoe Falls drops an average of 57 metres (188 ft.) into the Lower Niagara River.
• The crest line of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls is approximately 670 metres (2,200 ft.) wide. The plunge pool beneath the Falls is 35 metres (100 ft.) deep.
This is seen on board a cruise boat "Hornblower" originated from the Canadian side. Below the rainbow arc in the left is part of the American Falls, while the left arm of the Horseshoe Falls is briefly highlighted by sunlight peeping through cracks of thick misty clouds.
This image is included in a gallery "I love lighthouse! Here are some of my favorites...in and outside of Second Life!" curated by Lanay Resident.
Established in 1876, Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Georges Island Lighthouse is a 15.8 metres tall, white octagonal reinforced-concrete tower , with a fluorescent red vertical to seaward. The light is fixed white.
This was taken on board Murphy's Ferry Cruise while sightseeing in the very busy Halifax seaways. The 3 red-white chimneys in the background are gateways to demonstrate acrobatic skills of pilots in the Nova Scotia Air Show (NSIASA). NSIASA is formed as a Nova Scotian not-for-profit society in 1996 to promote aviation and aerospace awareness.
This was taken at the Grand Aquarium, Ocean Park Hong Kong. Ocean Park Hong Kong, commonly known as Ocean Park, is a marine mammal park, oceanarium, animal theme park and amusement park situated in Wong Chuk Hang and Nam Long Shan in the Southern District of Hong Kong. It is the second largest theme park in Hong Kong, following Hong Kong Disneyland.
There were a few cylindrical tanks exhibiting these lovely creatures. I also saw a few with 5 or 6 gonads. They glowed in suitable lighting and dark background.
Aurelia aurita (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a widely studied species of the genus Aurelia. There are usually four horseshoe shaped gonads that are found at the top of the bell for the Moon Jellyfish. Their body is white in color and round which gives it the moon shape. That is where their name derives from. They are very transparent too so when the sun or the moon is shining on them they look just like the moon does all lit up. They have very short tentacles in terms of what other species of Jellyfish offer. When fully grown a Moon Jellyfish is typically from 25 to 40 cm wide. Due to the round look of them they are often referred to as the Saucer Jelly. They may have stripes or spots when they are younger around the middle of the bell area. Aurelia aurita and other Aurelia species feed on plankton that includes organisms such as mollusks, crustaceans, tunicate larvae, rotifers, young polychaetes, protozoans, diatoms, eggs, fish eggs, and other small organisms. Occasionally, they are also seen feeding on gelatinous zooplankton such as hydromedusae and ctenophores. (Sourced from internet)
This image is included in a gallery "La Planète des oiseaux (77)" curated by Laval Roy.
(explored: Aug 24, 2010 #498)
Cape Bridgewater Wind Farm:-
Cape Bridgewater wind farm is the second stage of Pacific Hydro’s four-stage Portland Wind Energy Project (PWEP) in southwest Victoria.
Completed in 2008, the 58MW Cape Bridgewater wind farm comprises 29 wind generators producing enough energy to meet the annual needs of 35,000 households, with an average electricity generation of 194GWh per year.
Operations at Cape Bridgewater abate an estimated 195,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
Petrified Forest:-
About 400 metres from the Cape Bridgewater Blowhole, the Petrified Forest is a stretch of interesting columnar and branching calcrete structures, some of them are over 1 metre high. In 1836 Charles Darwin visited this amazing phenomenon and wrote : "The beds have been formed by the wind having heaped up fine sand, composed of minute rounded particles of shells and corals, during which process branches and roots of trees, together with many land-shells, became enclosed. The whole then became consolidated by the percolation of calcareous matter; and the cylindrical cavities left by the decaying of the wood, were thus also filled up with hard pseudo-stalactitical stone." Some say these are ‘rhizo-concretions’ and are not actually fossils. The most accepted modern theory is that a forest of moonah trees was encased in limestone.
While a Splendid Ochre is basking in warm morning sun, a small wasp wanders close by ...
This image is included in 2 galleries :- 1) "Insectes" curated by sev83 and 2) "Butterflies 157(2372)" by DAN VARTANIAN.
This image is included in a gallery "God's Beautiful Earth" curated by Pat Goltz.
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(explored: Oct 21, 2011 #332)
Pink Lake is a small, salty Lake west of Melbourne CBD, in Fisherman's Bend, near Westgate Bridge. Every year between summer and autumn, the salinity and warm weather encourage the proliferation of a pink algae.
Yesterday afternoon, heard kookaburras laughing in the back yard, grapped my gear, while focusing on them, one was already taking off, the other followed a few moments later.
This image is included in 2 galleries : - 1) "Awesome Birds!" curated by Quakerville, and 2) "Birds 5" by Grisu.
This image is included in 2 galleries:- 1) ""2020 05 17 Sonnstag" curated by BAKAWI and 2) "MARAVILLAS ESPEJADAS-volumen 6" by BYKTOR-f.d.
About 310 km from Scarborough, Algonquin Provincial Park is located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in Central Ontario, mostly within the Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established in 1893, it is the oldest provincial park in Canada. The park is considered part of the "border" between Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The park is in an area of transition between coniferous forest and deciduous forest. This unique mixture of forest types, and the wide variety of environments in the park, allows the park to support an uncommon diversity of plant and animal species.
This was taken on an overcast day, at a spot where the flow of river became very slow.
This image is included in 4 galleries : 1) "Coup de coeur" curated by Peter-10, 2) "Wasser - Water - Eau - Agua - Acqua" by Reinhard Link, 3) "LANDSCAPE VOL 18" by Jean-paul Vancoppenolle and 4) "Desert" by Peter-10.
Lake Powell is an artificial reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona, United States. It is the second largest artificial reservoir by maximum water capacity in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre-feet (3.0001×1010 m3) of water when full. However, due to high water withdrawals for human and agricultural consumption, and because of subsequent droughts in the area, Lake Mead has fallen below Lake Powell in size several times during the 21st century in terms of volume of water, depth and surface area.
Lake Powell is named for Civil War veteran Major John Wesley Powell, who explored the Green and Colorado rivers in 1869 down through Grand Canyon. In August, 1869, Powell and his eight companions passed through the site of present day Glen Canyon Dam. Extending nearly one-third of a mile across from canyon rim to rim, the dam created the reservoir known as Lake Powell.
This was taken at Wahweap Viewpoint near Page, Arizona, after viewing the Horseshoe Bend of the Grand Canyon before moving on to Zion National Park in Utah.
Located in Black Rock, about 19 km from Melbourne, Red Bluff is a high (over 25 m), active cliff cut in poorly consolidated clayey sands, with harder sandstone beds forming a series of irregular ledges and benches at the base. The greater part of the cliff is an exposure of the Red Bluff Sand, this site being the type locality for that geological formation. At the cliff base, the Red Bluff Sand rests disconformably on the hard, dark brown to red ferruginous sediments of the Black Rock Sandstone, about 3 m of Black Rock Sandstone being exposed here above low water mark. These two formations comprise the Brighton Group, the most widespread outcropping Tertiary sedimentary sequence in the Melbourne area. The lowest bed of the Red Bluff Sand is a dark carbonaceous band overlain by a thin, hard, gritty iron cemented bed. Above this, the lower beds of the Red Bluff Sand are yellow clayey sands passing into cross-bedded gravelly horizons which become sandy and brown to red in the upper sections of the cliff. Although not abundant, the fossil pollen and leaf content of clay in the Red Bluff Sand indicates the formation is of non-marine origin and of Middle to Late Pliocene age.
The headland at Red Bluff coincides with a rise in the level of the Black Rock Sandstone, (either a minor anticline or a depositional undulation in the formation). This rise brings the more resistant ferruginous rock up to sea level and forms the promontory underpinning the cliff. To the south, the cliff declines to be a scrubby bluff behind Half Moon Bay where the Black Rock Sandstone declines below sea level. The face of Red Bluff is incised by narrow, tubular gullies, with remnant pinnacles and buttresses forming a miniature but spectacular ‘badlands terrain’. (Sourced from Victorian Resources Online)
Some pointed formations on the left resemble those Fairy Chimneys in Cappadocia of central Turkey, albeit at a smaller scale.
Hanging Rock (also known as Mount Diogenes, Dryden's Rock, and to some of its traditional owners as Ngannelong) is a distinctive geological formation in central Victoria, Australia. A former volcano, it lies 718m above sea level (105m above plain level) on the plain between the two small townships of Newham and Hesket, approximately 70 km north-west of Melbourne and a few kilometres north of Mount Macedon.
Hanging Rock is a mamelon, created 6.25 million years ago by stiff magma pouring from a vent and congealing in place. Often thought to be a volcanic plug, it is not. Two other mamelons exist nearby, created in the same period: Camels Hump, to the south on Mount Macedon and, to the east, Crozier's Rocks. All three mamelons are composed of soda trachyte. As Hanging Rock's magma cooled and contracted it split into rough columns. These weathered over time into the many pinnacles that can be seen today.
Victoria is still under Stage 4 Isolation Lock down. The good news is the number of COVID-19 positive cases is dropping : just 94 in the last 24 hours, which is the lowest for 2 months.
Every year in late winter, yellow wattle and flowering plum in our vicinity bloom profusely. Combined with great weather today, it seems hope is just around the corner.
The Tidal River is a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, located in the Wilsons Promontory region of the Australian state of Victoria.
The colour of the Tidal River ranges from a deep-yellow (in shallower areas) to a dark-purple and almost black (in its deeper depths). This discolouration is due to the large number of tea trees present in the area. The trees dye the river, making it appear like black tea (hence the name 'tea tree'). Even though the water is very clean and clear, it is impossible to see to the bottom in the deep areas.
This was taken near the footbridge along the Loo-Errn Track.
The Corrigan's Suspension Bridge stretches through a rainforest canopy with spectacular views of the fern gully on the forest floor below.
The Tarra-Bulga National Park is located in the south Gippsland region of eastern Victoria, Australia. The park is 33 kilometres south of Traralgon on the Traralgon-Balook Road. The 1,522-hectare (3,760-acre) national park is situated approximately 240 kilometres east of Melbourne and 24 kilometres north of Yarram in the eastern part of the Strzelecki Ranges.
Huangshan 黄山 (Yellow Mountain) is a jagged range of more than 70 knifelike peaks in eastern China’s Anhui province. The region's low-hanging clouds, distinctively shaped granite rocks and twisted pine trees have been subjects of numerous classical paintings and poems. Cable cars provide access to several peaks, and steep paved trails with thousands of stone steps snake past many of the range's famous viewpoints. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of China's major tourist destinations.
This was Viewed from the Yuping Cableway Station before the ascend.
黃山位於中國安徽省南部黃山市境內。黃山古稱黟山，南北長約40千米，東西寬約30千米。黃山素以「奇松、怪石、雲海、溫泉」四絕聞名天下。那72峰、24溪、2湖、3瀑，峰峰奇特，溪溪曲折、極盡天下山水之美，更聚名山大川之勝。黃山最高峰是蓮花峰，海拔1860米 ，位 於黃山中部、站在玉屏樓向前望去, 猶如一朵含苞初放的蓮花, 峻峭高聳, 仰天怒放。晴天從蓮花峰頂可遙見江西的廬山和似帶的長江。黃山三大主峰之一的天都峰，與蓮花峰爭雄對峙。它位於黃山東南部，人稱無上之都會, 海拔1829米、從玉屏樓至天都峰約15千米，其間有黃山最險峻的峰嶺，峰上的石樓，坡度都在70度以上；尤以中途的鯽魚背最險。
It took me 5 visits to find the right sunlight angle to showcase the face of the rosette.
The Rosette Rock is a radial array of basalt columns. It can be seen about 500 metres (1,600 ft) upstream (Jacksons Creek) of the Organ Pipes and is an overhanging rock on the northern bank of the stream. It is also an outcrop of basalt but with a radial array of columns akin to the spokes of a giant wheel. Its formation is attributed to the cooling of "a pocket of lava, probably in a spherical cave formed from an earlier lava flow".
This was taken on a Summer's morning. The radial array was sidelit and many shadows were cast upon it from the foliage of a tall gum tree close to it. A few attempts to photograph this formation had not been successful during previous autumn and winter visits.
The Organ Pipes National Park, abbreviated as OPNP, is a national park located in the Central region of Victoria, Australia. The 121-hectare (300-acre) protected area was established with the focus on conservation of the native flora and fauna, and preservation of the geological features in the Jacksons Creek, a part of the Maribyrnong valley, north-west of Melbourne. It is situated in a deep gorge in the grassy, basalt Keilor plains.