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A very unusual sighting of an African Jacana in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. It may have been blown off course by the wind of the day before we sighted it for the first time at Thirteenth Borehole. Favouring surfaces covered by water lilies, they are are common sightings at fresh water and the margins of slow-flowing rivers, but not in the dry western regions of our area, or the semi-desert of the kalahari.
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Offshoot outing to the Camargue
In the Camargue the star of the show is the bull, He has his 10 minutes in the ring, where the young men try and take the ribbons from his horns or the rosette from his back. There is a balletic quality of man against beast where only the man risks injury. The bull then returns to his pasture uninjured and lives to show his 10 minutes of majesty and prowess again and again.
Is what these fancy homes to my left in La Crosse have when there's not a BNSF train blocking it. This is new double track installed by BNSF during the oil boom to alleviate congestion but our target train was still being held out because a track rider was doing heat patrol on Main 1 while the dispatcher got rid of a few eastbounds.
This is a great spot to hang out and shoot trains, at the end of a quiet dead end street with plenty of shade and nobody to bother you. The residents of the house were out working in the yard and totally ignored our presence.
The Lake Placid Tower in Lake Placid, Florida, formerly named Placid Tower, Tower of Peace or Happiness Tower, is a closed observation tower 240 feet (73.2 m) tall according to early sources (before 1982) or 270 feet (82.3 m) tall according to late sources (after 1986). However, no physical modification of the tower occurred in the interim that would explain a 30-foot increase in height. It rests on ground 142 feet (43 m) above sea level (NAVD 88). As a warning to aircraft, the top of the tower, including antennae, is stated to be 392 feet (119.5 m) above sea level by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Thus, the height of the tower above ground, including antennae, is 250 feet (76.2 m) (392–142=250), which excludes a 270-foot architectural height, allowing only a 240-foot architectural height. Counting the tower's 8-inch (20.3 cm) courses yields a height above ground of 235–236 feet (71.6–71.9 m), so the lowest few feet of the 240-foot height, those resting on the foundation, are underground, providing space for an elevator pit.
According to early sources the tower has three observation levels, at 192 feet (58.5 m) behind windows, at 200 feet (61.0 m) on an open air balcony, and at 225 feet (68.6 m) in the open air crow's nest, Eagle's Nest, or Birds eye vantage point on top of the elevator shaft but below roof tracery. The apex of the tower is a flashing red aircraft warning light. The tower is 360 feet (110 m) above sea level according to two late sources, the latter stating that that elevation applies to the eagle's nest, which is consistent with the crow's nest elevation of early sources (142+225=367≈360). The tower offered a 40-mile (65 km) panoramic view.
Earnest Oakley Hunt dreamed of building an observation tower when he moved to Orlando in 1938, then moved to Sebring in 1947 and found the perfect location in nearby Lake Placid. He and Robert Gray formed Air View Corporation to build the tower. The tower was designed by architect A. Wynn Howell of Lakeland, built by Ridge Builders of Sebring in 1960 for $350,000 (equivalent to $2,300,000 in 2018), and opened January 1, 1961. Most sources state that it was the tallest concrete block structure in the world when it opened, with 90,000 concrete blocks, but the magazine Florida Architect states that it was built of reinforced concrete. One source states that the tower included 100,000 limestone blocks from Ocala while another states that it was faced with ceramic tile, implying that the tower has a facade of limestone tile.
The tower below the balcony is 25 feet 4 inches (7.72 m) square, with its four vertical corners replaced by grooves (each 8 inches (20 cm) per side). The section above the balcony is 21 feet (6.40 m) square, also with corner grooves. Each wall is divided into vertical thirds. The outer thirds are composed of reinforced concrete blocks with a facade of limestone tile.
The middle thirds are composed of decorative breeze or fence concrete blocks. The tower has a foundation made from 520 cubic yards (400 m3) of concrete reinforced with 80,000 pounds (36,000 kg) of steel. The tracery atop the tower is made of gold anodized aluminum.
Because of low ticket sales, the tower closed in 1982 when the owner would not pay their Internal Revenue Service taxes, but it was re-opened in 1986. The small group of owners still faced sluggish sales, and the tower and its restaurant continued to struggle, despite features such as a petting zoo in its plaza, and a pay phone at the top billed as the "highest pay phone in Florida."The last owner who operated the tower as a tourist attraction was Lake Placid Tower Group owned by Mark Cambell since 1992. He sold it to CHL Tower Group on November 6, 2003 which has operated it as a cell phone tower ever since. Even though the tower closed about 2003, it still has two red "OPEN" signs at its top, facing north and south
Originally, the tower above the balcony had the same basic design scheme as that below it. But after the tower closed, the portion of the tower from the balcony up was redesigned with a white and cyan (blue-green) color scheme. The limestone tile of the outer thirds of the walls was covered with white stucco, and the middle thirds were covered with thin cyan-colored panels which blocked the bird's eye view. These panels covered the two opposing triangular openings in the middle third of each wall and the breeze or fence blocks between them. The roof tracery above and the balcony below them were also painted cyan.
The Tower View restaurant at the base of the tower closed in 2015. The tower is among 35 designated Lake Placid historic structures. It is one of three towers in Central Florida, including the Citrus Tower, built in 1956, 100 miles (160 km) to the north in Clermont, and Bok Tower, built in 1929, 50 miles (80 km) to the north in Lake Wales.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Placid_Tower
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The surf and wind conditions were favourable for a more experienced kiteboarder on this day.
Sydney Australia. We have such a beach going culture.
Surfing, swimming, picnics by the beach, boating etc.
Its been a long hot summer!
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I'm not a golfer - but I just might take it up to golf here. This is about a mile from where I grew up. I loved being able to see the Whitetank Mountains every day.
A black-necked swan and a toy paper boat in a pond on a converging course. Little brave cruiser. Paper David against the swan Goliath.
OMG, a motorboat is in collision course with San Rocco di Camogli church!
What? It's only the telescopic compression?
Ehm, I think you're quite right, the church is 221 meters a.s.l.!
Taken from Portofino mountain (640 meters a.s.l.) with my zoom lens.
Digitally developed with Raw Therapee and edited with GIMP.
Dear friends, enjoy your HBM, I'm back from Florence, I'll try to catch up slowly...
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SUNSET - Broward County Florida - Autumn / Fall '24
Pompano Beach Airpark / Pompano Beach Golf Course
Pompano Beach, Florida U.S.A. - October 19th, 2024
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - airport (south) - golf (north)]
Pompano Beach Airpark is also the Home of the Goodyear Blimp!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear_Blimp
*[The city's name is derived from the Florida pompano
(Trachinotus carolinus), a fish found off the Atlantic coast]
There had been scattered settlers in the area since at least the
mid-1880s, but the first documented permanent residents of the Pompano area were George Butler and Frank Sheen and their families, who arrived in 1896 as railway employees. The first train arrived in the small Pompano settlement on February 22, 1896. It is said that Sheen gave the community its name after jotting down on his survey of the area the name of the fish he had for dinner. The coming of the railroad led to development farther west from the coast. In 1906, Pompano became the southernmost settlement in newly created Palm Beach County. That year, the tall Hillsboro Lighthouse was completed on the beach, and the rest is history!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompano_Beach,_Florida
The historic Chapel Hill Golf Course clubhouse near Princeton, IL. The golf course started out as Chapel Hill Country Club around 1905 with the clubhouse being completed in 1914. It was a stop along the Inter-Urban rail line between Princeton and Bureau Junction.