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Here are the the rocky cliffs at this lookout point on Stage-2 of the Painters Path (Etape-2 Malerweg) we didn't follow the walk and just drove to the main lookout point.
Dassievoêl
(Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris)
The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.
The mocking cliff chat is a large chat with distinctive colouration. The male has a glossy black with a chestnut belly, vent, and rump and white shoulder patches. The shoulder patches vary in size geographically. The female is dark grey with a chestnut lower breast, belly, and vent. The mocking cliff chat has a length of 19–21 cm and weigh 41–51g.
A loud fluty melodious warbling song which often contains many rapid fire phrases mimicking other species, with some harsher phrases interspersed.
The mocking cliff chat occurs in a neat band from central Ethiopia in the north through east Africa into Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa as far as the far east of Western Cape province. Mostly resident but in the south of its range tends to move to lower altitudes in the winter months.
The mocking cliff chat inhabits rocky and boulder strewn areas, well-wooded rocky ravines, cliffs, gullies, boulder-strewn hillsides and watercourses in valley bottoms with scattered rocks.
There are six currently recognised subspecies
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris kordofanensis Wettstein, 1916: Nuba Mountains, in central Sudan.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris albiscapulata (Rüppell, 1837): northern Eritrea and northern, central and eastern Ethiopia.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris. subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887: eastern South Sudan and south-western Ethiopia south through the Rift Valley and Tanzania to eastern Zambia and Malawi.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris odica Clancey, 1962: Eastern Zimbabwe.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836): Eastern Botswana, eastern South Africa, western Swaziland and Lesotho.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris autochthones Clancey, 1952; Southern Mozambique south to north-eastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland.
The white-crowned cliff chat (Thamnolaea coronata) of West Africa is sometimes included in this species.
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In July 1944 during the Battle of Tinian many Japanese soldiers and civilians jumped from the cliff rather than face capture by US forces.
Dutch postcard, no. 139. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
American singer and voice actor Clifton A. 'Cliff' Edwards (1895-1971) was known as 'Ukelele Ike'. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early '30s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with 'Singin' In The Rain' in 1929 and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940).
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Took this at very last light, near Pretoriuskop, Krugerpark
It is a cliif being used by baboons to hide during night time - There are holes in the face of the cliff, which the baboons can get to from the top only !! With their nimble footwork they take the decent right over one of the holes , and dash into it when they reach it !
Come morning , they take the plunge to the bottom , for even they cannot climb the steep face to the top !!
A predator like a leopard would never be able to reach them there !!!
Who said they are not clever animals ...???
Whilst on my Virtual Road trip, I’m staying on the east coast for a bit. Doesn’t matter what the weather, nothing will stop me (well, perhaps the small matter of a pandemic!!..) from a trip to Bempton Cliffs for a spot of bird watching.
Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancestral Puebloans is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. The cliff dwelling and park are in the southwestern corner of Colorado, in the Southwestern United States.
Étretat is best known for its cliffs, including a famous natural arch. These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet, and were featured prominently in the 1909 Arsène Lupin novel The Hollow Needle by Maurice Leblanc.
Two of the three famous arches can be seen from the town; this one the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the third which cannot be seen from the town.
August 12, 2019
From a quick morning walk on the beach.
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Nauset Light Beach
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The view on the excursion through the Lesser Three Gorges near Wushan. A small temple/chapel is accessible by a foot path at the bottom of a foggy/misty cliff.
View of Three Cliffs Bay on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula taken from Pennard Cliffs near the village of Southgate.
(~4.9 centimeters across at its widest)
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Igneous rocks form by the cooling & crystallization of hot, molten rock (magma & lava). If this happens at or near the land surface, or on the seafloor, they are extrusive igneous rocks. If this happens deep underground, they are intrusive igneous rocks. Most igneous rocks have a crystalline texture, but some are clastic, vesicular, frothy, or glassy.
Obsidian is readily identifiable. It is a glassy-textured, extrusive igneous rock. Obsidian is natural glass - it lacks crystals, and therefore lacks minerals. Obsidian is typically black in color, but most obsidians have a felsic to intermediate chemistry. Felsic igneous rocks are generally light-colored, so a felsic obsidian seems a paradox. Mafic obsidians are scarce, but they are also black and glassy.
Obsidian is an uncommon rock, but can be examined at several famous localities in America, such as Obsidian Cliff at the Yellowstone Hotspot (northwestern Wyoming, USA) and Big Obsidian Flow at the Newberry Volcano (central Oregon, USA).
Obsidian is moderately hard and has a conchoidal fracture (smooth and curved fracture surface), with sharp broken edges. Freshly-broken obsidian has the sharpest edges of any material known, natural or man-made (as seen under a scanning electron microscope).
Obsidian forms two ways: 1) very rapid cooling of lava, which prevents the formation of crystals; 2) cooling of high-viscosity lava, which prevents easy movement of atoms to form crystals. An example of obsidian that formed the first way is along the margins of basaltic lava flows at Kilaeua Volcano (Hawaii Hotspot, central Pacific Ocean). The obsidian sample seen here formed the second way.