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Red sand cliffs at the Redonda beach.
Canon AE-1 Program + FD 50mm f/1.8 SC + KODAK EKTAR ISO 100
Scan from film
After giving us the Palatki ruins/rock art tour, our friends Larry and Shermane showed us some Sedona sites that most tourists never know about. The first was a short hike to a relatively small, but exceptional rock art panel. The next was a hike up a beautiful canyon to some hidden ruins high in a cliff wall and then to a massive rock art panel that ran about the length of a football field.
For our annual spring fling, we chose Sedona, Arizona. We spent 7 days hiking trails around Sedona and a day hiking the Grand Canyon's South Rim. The highlight of our trip was spending 4 days on the trails with Larry and Shermane who we met last year at The Citadel Ruin on Cedar Mesa. They graciously opened their home to us and showed us Sedona area sites that the average tourist would never know about.
Blands cliff, a steep cobbled street built in the 1760's by the Quaker merchant John Bland leads from the main town of Scarborough down to the sea. Professional artists began the project of painting murals on the walls in 2002 and will be continuing over the next few years, adding more paintings and sculptural work, helping to regenerate the old town of Scarborough.
Downtown view of the historic mining town of Creede in southwestern Colorado. It is nestled at the northwestern edge of the giant Creede Caldera that helped to create mineral deposits attractive to miners in the late 1800's.
"Creede was the last silver boom town in Colorado in the 19th century. The town leapt from a population of 600 in 1889 to more than 10,000 people in December 1891. The Creede mines operated continuously from 1890 until 1985, and were served by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad."
As one of Europe’s leading family destinations, this Resort exceeds expectations.
Located atop the dramatic red Algarvian cliffs that overlook the Atlantic Ocean, it affords a privileged position, with views spanning the soft sand beaches, elegant pine forests and abundant indigenous flora.
Where man and nature merge.
We are available to answer any question. Please call or e mail to schedule a viewing.
Climbing the cliffs of the Rodillas, Iztaccíhuatl, with a definite sense of height and airiness below.
I went down to the beach on Friday, expecting there to be a good display of icicles but spring tides and an onshore wind had kept the cliff well salted. The tides are smaller now and the wind dropped but these have had, at most, two days to form.
the cliffs outside our hotel. they said you could swim there [they've got ladders for you to go down]. but with waves crashing into the cliffs like that, who wants to? i mean, unless you really want to know what death by smashing into the side of a cliff is like.
Mocking Cliff Chat - Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris albiscapulata - Рыжебрюхий камнелаз
Bekele Mola Hotel, Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia, 01/08/2015
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.