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Lots of these lovely flowers along the cliff edges at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden in Fort Bragg, California. They're native plants, I think - certainly not ice plant - but I don't know what they are.
Cape of Good Hope Cape Point Cape Peninsula National Park Atlantic Ocean and False Bay South Africa 5 January 1999
Geologically, Crich lies on a small inlier of Carboniferous limestone (an outcrop on the edge of the Peak District surrounded by younger Upper Carboniferous rocks).
Quarrying for limestone probably began at Crich in Roman times. In 1791 Benjamin Outram and Samuel Beresford bought land for a quarry to supply limestone to their new ironworks at Butterley. This became known as Hilt's Quarry, and the stone was transported down a steep wagonway, the Butterley Company Gangroad, to the Cromford Canal at Bullbridge. Near there they also built lime kilns for supplying farmers and for the increasing amount of building work. Apart from a period when it was leased to Albert Banks, the quarry and kilns were operated by the Butterley Company until 1933. The gangroad, which descending some 300 feet in about a mile, was at first worked by gravity with a brakeman ‘spragging’ (i.e. slowing) the wheels of the wagons by means of a pole or bar hinged to the rear axle. The wagons were then returned to the summit by horses. However, in 1812 the incline was the scene of a remarkable experiment when William Brunton, an engineer for the company, produced his Steam Horse locomotive. In 1840 George Stephenson, in building the North Midland Railway, discovered deposits of coal at Clay Cross and formed what later became the Clay Cross Company. He realised that burning lime would provide a use for the coal slack that would otherwise go to waste. He leased Cliff Quarry (the name by which the site at Crich was known at the time) and built limekilns at Bullbridge. They were connected by another wagonway including a section known as ‘The Steep’, a 550 yards (500 m) self-acting incline at a slope of 1 in 5.
Cliff Quarry closed in 1957/8 and the eastern end was bought in 1959 by the Tramway Museum. Another part of the quarry reopened in the 1960s operated by RMC and Tarmac for the building of motorways across the country. In 2000 ownership of the active quarry site (Crich Quarry) had been transferred to Bardon Aggregates. However, due to a downturn in sales and after finding the limestone was seemingly contaminated with a substance that turned it a strange colour they closed the quarry in 2010 and it never reopened.
In 1964 (and for 38 years) Rolls-Royce used a separate part of the quarry for dumping low-level radioactive waste such as enriched uranium, cobalt-60 and carbon-14. Following a campaign and blockades by villagers in the Crich and District Environment Action Group, dumping eventually ceased in 2002. In 2004 the Government backed an Environment Agency document that banned further dumping and required Rolls-Royce to ultimately restore and landscape the site.
In 2011 plans were proposed to redevelop the 44-acre site at Crich Quarry into the Amber Rock Resort (a massive water park complex and hotel). At the present time (2020) the site remains derelict. Whilst the machinery has been heavily vandalised the buildings and structures themselves are still there, although much of the old quarry site (opposite the Tramway Museum) is inaccessible due to flooding.
There is a road that takes you around to the edge of the rocks so you can look off. There are two sets of cliffs like this, the north rocks and the south rocks. We call this side the south rocks.
Taken 10/17/10
The Cliff Rescue Team, crewed by ambulance staff from the Guernsey Ambulance & Rescue Service demonstrate rescuing a patient stuck on a cliff (in this case, a climbing wall)
Many years ago Cliff worked on the Apache Software Foundation. On a business trip while contemplating the impact of Martin Luther King Cliff decided to change direction and focus in his life.
Cliff formed a non-profit (www.literacybridge.org/) and decided to tackle poverty in Northern Ghana were millions live well below the poverty line on less than a $1 a day. Cliff created a Talking Book (when your poor you are often illiterate) that allowed him to reach villagers with messages designed to improve lives with farming techniques and save lives with basic health procedures.
Years later he has partnered with UNICEF and is impacting 1000s of lives. Farmers increase yields and win national Ghana farmer recognition awards and families spend 6 hours a week listening to messages on the Talking Book.
You should consider donating to his great cause.
These magnificently exposed layers of rock reveal the world’s most complete fossil record of life in the “Coal Age” when lush forests covered Joggins and much of the world's tropics, 300 million years ago.
The swamp forests produced massive quantities of organic matter that, over millions of years, created the coal deposits for which this period of history is named.
Embedded in 15 kilometres of accessible coastal cliffs, rare fossils reveal details of life in the “Coal Age”.
Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonata).
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.
Grayson County, Texas. 30 April 2017.
Nikon D7200. AF-S Nikkor ED 500mm f4 D.
f4 @ 1/6400 sec. ISO 640.
Pulau Langkawi is filled with interesting limestone caves housing many bat populations. I asked a local skipper to spend a morning showing me around the bat caves on the small islets and inner coves of a complex mangrove swamp. This particular cave at the end of a secluded beach had a tiny spider bat population--funny thing is, they really did look like giant spiders! Not surprisingly, the photo that I shot of the bats inside the cave didn't come out well.
Langkawi, Malaysia, 2004
The Track that runs along the top of the cliffs on Alderney. The seat is a memorial to a past resident (there are a lot of them here).
Taken at Sunset yesterday - bit noisy, sorry.
a drop & run today, sorry. I will catch up with your streams when I can. The internet has been playing up for me!
View my stream LARGE on DARKR it is worth it.