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Amalia Glacier, also known as Skua Glacier, is a tidewater glacier located in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park on the edge of the Sarmiento Channel. The glacier originates in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field
This fantastic rock shelf is located to the north of the tidal pool at Kiama, and on a morning with a decent swell, lots of splashing and cascading water can be captured.
From a sunrise shoot at Chalky Beach, Swansea Heads, NSW, Australia.
The weather conspired to deliver a sky bare of clouds but the natural beauty of this location is always worth capturing regardless.
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One from a trip to Mull a while back. I took the boat over to Staffa and spent most of the day over there as the boat crew were fine leaving me there until the last boat, whereas most people were only spending about 30min on the island. I popped on my newly purchased big stopper and after a few attempts to catch a wave spilling over the rocks in the foreground, I was happy.
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Pathway through the great channels formation. At the top of Clinch Mountain near Abingdon VA in the Channels Forest Natural Area Preserve, are the Great Channels. The Channels are a maze of sandstone boulders that geologists believe were formed over 400-million years ago during the ice age. Permafrost and ice wedged and shattered the sandstone cap-rock to form the Channels. The pathways between the boulders in the Great Channels wind and turn and some of the stone forms caves of a sort in some places.
To hike to the Great Channels, take exit 24 west off of I81 in Virginia. Follow route 80 for about 14 miles where you will find a small parking lot on the left and the trail head. (If you start to descend the mountain, turn around you've gone too far.) The trail is about 3 miles each way, begins on an old fire road and is marked with miles-markers about every 1/2 mile. You start at marker 13.5 and count down. Shortly past mile-marker 11 to get to the Channels follow the Great Channels spur trail on the left side (there is a marker sign). Pass the abandoned fire watch tower and follow the arrows to get to the "entrance" to the Great Channels.
Took a beautiful walk along this very old irrigation channel (bisse in French, or Suone in German). They were built in the 1400's and are still used today to irrigate the vineyards and fields in sunny, dry Valais. Just an hour away by train through the mountains, and we're in a completely different climate.
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Pools of golden light dance amongst the brash ice and bergy bits in clear evening light. From my last book, 'Deception Island and the Antarctic Peninsula'.
Burnt Champagne Victoire Roux (channeling Joan Collins in Dynasty) in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
While we ate, Captain Etienne Garcia maneuvered the ship through the very scenic Neumeyer Channel, and we frequently popped up out of our seats to snap photos between courses and cocktails.
From a sunrise shoot at South Newcastle Beach yesterday morning. It was low tide so many more details of the rocks were visible.
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Beautiful Summer day by the Channel at Swansea which connects Lake Macquarie to the Pacific Ocean in the Hunter Region, NSW, Australia.
Excerpt from lighthousefriends.com:
In 1857, it was noted that Channel Head, the eastern tip of an island just off Port aux Basques, “would be a good place for a Light-house, it would prevent many shipwrecks and Port au Basque, now the Telegraph is so near, is likely to be more visited by vessels.”
In 1873, a Mr. Winter presented a petition to the Newfoundland House of Assembly from M.H. Genge of Channel and Rev. T.A. Goode of Port aux Basques, with the backing of others from each place, praying for a lighthouse on Channel Head. The following year, work on a lighthouse was carried out and Austin Oke arrived on November 5 to fit up the lantern. The season, however, was too far advanced, and the light was not put into operation until the spring of 1875. The nine-metre-tall lighthouse was unique, consisting of a square wooden tower that rose from a slightly larger wooden base. A fixed red light was shown from the tower’s lantern room at a focal plane of 27.5 metres.
Inspector Nevill noted in 1890 that the framework of the lighthouse was in bad condition and that it “never was a satisfactory building, having been as it were extemporized locally.” Nevill recommended that a small iron tower be erected on one side of the present tower, and then the old lighthouse could be demolished. This proposal also took a few years to happen, but in 1895, a circular iron tower, with a height of seventeen metres, was erected adjacent to the wooden tower and equipped with a fourth-order lens.
The Newfoundland Railway, which linked St. John’s and Port aux Basques, was completed in 1898, and at that time ferry service was initiated between Port aux Baques and North Sydney, Nova Scotia. To aid this service, a fog signal building was erected twenty metres south of the lighthouse. During thick or foggy weather, a four-ounce cartridge of gun cotton was exploded every eight minutes. A red brick magazine was erected nine metres northeast of the tower to house the explosives, and the dwelling, tower, and fog signal were all linked by covered passageways for the convenience of the keeper.
In addition to the new fog signal at Channel Head, range lights were established at Port aux Basques in 1898 to help guide the ferry into port. The front light was shown from a square pyramidal wooden tower on the southwest point of Road Island, and the rear light was shone from a similar structure, located 448 metres away on the mainland.
In 1906, a diaphone fog alarm, operated by compressed air, was established at Channel Head to replace the explosives, and a concrete breastwork was built seaward of the newly constructed engine house to protect it from being damaged by the sea. The diaphone trumpet, which projected from the south end of the engine house, would sound one 3 ½ – second blast followed by 114 seconds of silence when needed.
Commercial electricity reached the station in 1963, and the light was converted from kerosene to electric in 1966. A two-storey duplex was built at Channel Head in 1965 along with various utility buildings, and later that decade a radio beacon was installed in the fog alarm building.
The tower was classified a Recognized Federal Heritage Building in 1988.