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1890's
Known as the Hole Of Horcum, this Sandstone quarry in Whitby's East cliff seems to have finished operating by the 1920's, the quarry face is out of shot on the left side of the workshop.
The land the workshop was sited on has now eroded but the quarry face is still visible in the cliff as of 2012.
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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A 35-shot multi-shot multi-level panorama trying to capture the sheer magnitude of the cliffs at Reynisfjara beach.
In July 1944 during the Battle of Tinian many Japanese soldiers and civilians jumped from the cliff rather than face capture by US forces.
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.
One of the most popular attractions in Ireland: Cliffs of Moher. It is really a scenic place, where you can feel the power of the nature.
Morsum Cliff is breathtakingly beautiful and one-of-a kind in Europe in terms of its geological structure. Multiple layers of soil that are up to 10 million years old lie next to one another and can be seen clearly. The cliff was designated a conservation area back in 1923 and is thus the oldest conservation area in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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.
from the whale watching platform at the head of the bight, south australia, you can see the eastern end of the legendary bunda cliffs, a 60m high wall formed where the nullarbor plain terminates abruptly at the great australian bight
these dramatic cliffs form the coastline unbroken for nearly 200km before swinging inland near the western australian border to become the wylie scarp (for 100s of kms more)
great australian bight marine park, south australia
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.