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Perhaps we should have removed the chocolate from her mouth before I took so many photos XD
You may not use this photo anywhere!
A mesmerising stone like a light beam into the ocean. Photo taken for Group "Smile on Saturday" theme photo "blue for you - ME 2020"
It's here – the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.
Previewed by President Joe Biden on July 11, the image shows us galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of full-color images and data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared in Webb’s view for the first time. This slice of the vast universe covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground.
This deep field, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours – achieving depths at infrared wavelengths beyond the Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields, which took weeks.
The image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, magnifying much more distant galaxies behind it. Webb’s NIRCam has brought those distant galaxies into sharp focus – they have tiny, faint structures that have never been seen before, including star clusters and diffuse features. Researchers will soon begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions, as Webb seeks the earliest galaxies in the universe.
This image is among the telescope’s first-full color images. The full suite will be released Tuesday, July 12, beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT, during a live NASA TV broadcast. Learn more about how to watch.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
The James Webb Space Telescope is the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency).
NASA Headquarters oversees the mission for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages Webb for the agency and oversees work on the mission performed by the Space Telescope Science Institute, Northrop Grumman, and other mission partners. In addition to Goddard, several NASA centers contributed to the project, including the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama; Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley; and others.
NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.
Download full-resolution, uncompressed versions at webbtelescope.org/news/first-images.
Last Updated: Jul 11, 2022
🌟 happy birthday to my deepest friend and soulmate, our beautiful mother frances! 🌼 born 2/22/22, today she'd be 100! 🌟
here she is about age 11 in a eucalyptus grove.. "the butterfly"
photographed by her family's neighbor, sculptor victor stanley matson, who knew of mom's love of ballet and gifted her with this!
eucalyptus were her favorite trees! .. and butterflies have been symbols to mom and me for a lifetime .. every time we'd each see a butterfly, we knew it meant we were right there with one another, thinking of one another with Love
mom, the secret is.. i am always thinking of you! and always with transcendent Love!
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(From Wikipedia)
Inle Lake is a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Taunggyi District of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in Myanmar (Burma). It is the second largest lake in Myanmar with an estimated surface area of 44.9 square miles (116 km2), and one of the highest at an elevation of 2,900 feet (880 m). During the dry season, the average water depth is 7 feet (2.1 m), with the deepest point being 12 feet (3.7 m), but during the rainy season this can increase by 5 feet (1.5 m).
Most transportation on the lake is traditionally by small boats, or by somewhat larger boats fitted with single cylinder inboard diesel engines. Local fishermen are known for practicing a distinctive rowing style which involves standing at the stern on one leg and wrapping the other leg around the oar. This unique style evolved for the reason that the lake is covered by reeds and floating plants making it difficult to see above them while sitting. Standing provides the rower with a view beyond the reeds. However, the leg rowing style is only practiced by the men. Women row in the customary style, using the oar with their hands, sitting cross legged at the stern.
I took this about midway up the lake on a ratther cloudy and chilly October day .The Königssee is a lake located in the extreme southeast of the German State of Bavaria (Bayern), near the German-Austrian Border. Lying near the Bavarian town of Berchtesgaden in the municipality of Schönau am Königsee, just south of the Austrian city Salzburg in the German Alps, the Königssee is the third deepest lake in Germany. The lake was formed by glaciers during the last ice age. It is 7.7 kilometers long and about 1.7 kilometers across at its widest point. Except at its outlet, the Königsseer Ache at the village of Königssee, the lake is surrounded by steeply rising flanks of alpine mountains (2.000 m), including the fabled Watzmann.
Riding the boat is a fabulous experience and so easy for people of all ages. If you go early you can have time for a picnic and hiking in serveral spots during the winter fall season the boat alas with only go half way up but its still one glorious journey.
The literal translation appears to be King's Lake, but this is not correct. While König does indeed mean king, the name of the lake comes from the first name Kuno, which appears in several historical sources, and it was formerly called Kunigsee.[1]
The lake is noted for its clear water and is advertised as the cleanest lake in Germany. For this reason, only electric driven boats, rowboats and pedal boats have been permitted on the lake since 1909. The lake and surrounding parklands are very popular with tourists and hikers.
In addition, the lake's position surrounded by mountains creates an echo, which is known for its clarity. On boat tours, it has become traditional to stop and play the trumpet to display the echo. Its a moving experience that with possibly move you to tears.
PS Tell Spotify, Siri, Amazon and Alexa to play music by
JOHN WILLAM HAMMOND (use all 3 names) It's great , enjoy!
This area is the deepest end of Flathead Lake...wish I knew exactly how deep but I don't at this time. This is the north end of the lake...just a few miles from Kalispell, MT. Polson is where I grew up...it's about 40 miles from here....and most of that you follow Flathead Lake...its quite large! :) The lake is about 28 miles long and 19 miles wide. I think it's said to be about the size of Lake Tahoe. Large is beautiful!!! Hope you enjoy this one Greg! :) Have a wonderful weekend my Flickr Friends! I'll be home Sunday. :)
Deepest part
Nellie Vin ©Photography
12x12 in
I have roots stretched in the earth,
growing stronger since my birth.
You’ll never touch them, for you see
they are the deepest part of me.(Kirk Out )
Schweiz / Luzern - Vierwaldstättersee
seen from Weggis
gesehen von Weggis
Lake Lucerne (German: Vierwaldstättersee, literally "Lake of the four forested settlements" (in English usually translated as forest cantons), French: lac des Quatre-Cantons, Italian: lago dei Quattro Cantoni) is a lake in central Switzerland and the fourth largest in the country.
Geography
The lake has a complicated shape, with several sharp bends and four arms. It starts in the south–north bound Reuss Valley between steep cliffs above the Urnersee from Flüelen towards Brunnen to the north before it makes a sharp bend to the west where it continues into the Gersauer Becken. Here is also the deepest point of the lake with 214 m (702 ft). Even further west of it is the Buochser Bucht, but the lake sharply turns north again through the narrow opening between the Unter Nas (lower nose) of the Bürgenstock to the west and the Ober Nas (upper nose) of the Rigi to the east to reach the Vitznauer Bucht. In front of Vitznau below the Rigi the lake turns sharply west again to reach the center of a four-arm cross, called the Chrütztrichter (Cross Funnel). Here converge the Vitznauer Bucht with the Küssnachtersee from the north, the Luzernersee from the west, and the Horwer Bucht and the Stanser Trichter to the south, which is to be found right below the northeast side of the Pilatus and the west side of the Bürgenstock. At the very narrow pass between the east dropper of the Pilatus (called Lopper) and Stansstad the lake reaches its southwestern arm at Alpnachstad on the steep southern foothills of the Pilatus, the Alpnachersee. The lake drains its water into the Reuss in Lucerne from its arm called Luzernersee (which literally translates as Lake of Lucerne).
The entire lake has a total area of 114 km² (44 sq mi) at an elevation of 434 m (1,424 ft) a.s.l., and a maximum depth of 214 m (702 ft). Its volume is 11.8 km³. Much of the shoreline rises steeply into mountains up to 1,500 m above the lake, resulting in many picturesque views including those of the mountains Rigi and Pilatus.
The Reuss enters the lake at Flüelen, in the part called Urnersee (Lake of Uri, in the canton of Uri) and exits at Lucerne. The lake also receives the Muota at Brunnen, the Engelberger Aa at Buochs, and the Sarner Aa at Alpnachstad.
It is possible to circumnavigate the lake by train and road, though the railway route circumvents the lake even on the north side of the Rigi via Arth-Goldau. Since 1980, the A2 motorway leads through the Seelisberg Tunnel in order to reach the route to the Gotthard Pass in just half an hour in Altdorf, Uri right south of the beginning of the lake in Flüelen.
Steamers and other passenger boats ply between the different villages and towns on the lake. It is a popular tourist destination, both for native Swiss and foreigners, and there are many hotels and resorts along the shores. In addition, the meadow of the Rütli, traditional site of the founding of the Swiss Confederation, is on the Urnersee shore. A 35 km commemorative walkway, the Swiss Path, was built around the Lake of Uri to celebrate the country's 700th anniversary in 1991.
Archaeologists surveying the lake-bed (during the construction of a pipeline) from 2019 to 2021 found the remains of a Bronze Age village with artifacts dating to around 1000 BC. Later, the new findings indicated that the area was settled 2,000 years earlier than historians previously thought.
Lake Lucerne borders on the three original Swiss cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden (which today is divided into the cantons of Obwalden and Nidwalden), as well as the canton of Lucerne, thus the name Vierwaldstättersee (lit.: Lake of the Four Forested Settlements). Many of the oldest communities of Switzerland are along the shore, including Küssnacht, Weggis, Vitznau, Gersau, Brunnen, Altdorf, Buochs, and Treib.
Lake Lucerne is singularly irregular and appears to lie in four different valleys, all related to the conformation of the adjoining mountains. The central portion of the lake lies in two parallel valleys whose direction is from west to east, the one lying north, the other south of the ridge of the Bürgenstock. These are connected through a narrow strait, scarcely one kilometre wide, between the two rocky promontories called respectively Unter Nas and Ober Nas (Lower and Upper Nose). It is not unlikely that the southern of these two divisions of the lake—called Buochser Bucht—formerly extended to the west over the isthmus whereon stands the town of Stans, thus forming an island of the Bürgenstock. The west end of the main branch of the lake, whence a comparatively shallow bay extends to the town of Lucerne, is intersected obliquely by a deep trench whose south-west end is occupied by the branch called Alpnachersee, while the north-east branch forms the long arm of Küssnacht, Küssnachtersee. These both lie in the direct line of a valley that stretches with scarcely a break in between the Uri Alps and the Emmental Alps. At the eastern end of the Gersauer Becken, where the containing walls of the lake-valley are directed from east to west, it is joined at an acute angle by the arm of Uri, or the Urnersee, lying in the northern prolongation of the deep cleft that gives a passage to the Reuss, between the Uri Alps and the Glarus Alps.
The Urnersee occupies the northernmost and deep portion of the great cleft of the Reuss Valley, which has cut through the Alpine ranges from the St Gotthard Pass to the neighbourhood of Schwyz. From its eastern shore the mountains rise in almost bare walls of rock to a height of from 3,000 to 4,000 ft (910 to 1,220 m) above the water. The two highest summits are the Fronalpstock and the Rophaien (2078 m). Between them the steep glen or ravine of the Riemenstaldener Tal descends to Sisikon, the only village with Flüelen right on the shore on that side of the Urnersee. On the opposite or western shore, the mountains attain still greater dimensions. The Niederbauen Chulm is succeeded by the Oberbauenstock, and farther south, above the ridge of the Scharti, appear the snowy peaks of the Gitschen and the Uri Rotstock (2,928 m). In the centre opens the Reuss Valley, backed by the rugged summits of the Urner and Glarner Alps.
The breadth of these various sections of the lake is very variable, but is usually between one and two miles (3 km). The lake's surface, whose mean height above the sea is 434 metres, is the lowest point of the cantons of Uri, Obwalden and Nidwalden. Originally the lake was susceptible to variations in level and flooding along its shoreline. Between 1859 and 1860, the introduction of a needle dam in the Reuss in the city of Lucerne, just upstream from the Spreuerbrücke, allowed the lake level to be stabilised.
The culminating point of the lake's drainage basin, as well as Central Switzerland, is the Dammastock at 3,630 metres above sea level.
Name
The name of Vierwaldstättersee is first used in the 16th century. Before the 16th century, the entire lake was known as Luzerner See "Lake Lucerne", as remains the English (and partly Italian, as Lago di Lucerna) usage. The (three) "Waldstätte(n)" (lit.: "forested sites/settlements", in English usually translated as forest cantons[6]) since the 14th century were the confederate allies of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden. The notion of "Four Waldstätten" (Vier Waldstätten), with the addition of the canton of Lucerne, is first recorded in the 1450s, in an addition to the "Silver Book" of Egloff Etterlin of Lucerne.
The nine different parts of the lake have individual designations:
Urnersee ("Lake of Uri"): The first part of the lake, at the mouth of the Reuss between Flüelen and Brunnen.
Gersauer Becken ("Basin of Gersau") next to Gersau below the Rigi massif is the deepest part of the lake.
Buochser Bucht ("Bay of Buochs"): The bay of Bouchs, where the Engelberger Aa enters the lake.
Vitznauer Bucht ("Bay of Vitznau"): The part between the Bürgenstock and Rigi.
Alpnachersee ("Lake of Alpnach"): the almost separate, southern arm below the southern mountainside of Pilatus near Alpnach.
Stanser Trichter ("Funnel of Stans"): The part north of the Pilatus, west of Bürgenstock, and in front of Hergiswil and Stansstad.
Küssnachtersee ("Lake of Küssnacht"): The most northern arm, west of the Rigi with Küssnacht SZ at its northern end.
Chrütztrichter ("Cross Funnel"): The meeting point of Stanser Trichter, Luzernersee, Küssnachtersee, and Vitznauer Bucht.
Luzernersee ("Lake of Lucerne"): in German usage now limited to the bay at Lucerne as far as Meggenhorn, with its effluence of the Reuss.
Navigation
The lake is navigable, and has formed an important part of Switzerland's transport system for many centuries, and at least since the opening of the first track across the Gotthard Pass in 1230. This trade grew with the opening of a new mail coach road across the pass in 1830. This road had its northern terminus at Flüelen at the extreme eastern end of the lake, and the lake provided the only practical onward link to Lucerne, and hence the cities of northern Switzerland and beyond.
Whilst the development of Switzerland's road and rail networks has relieved the lake of much of its through traffic, it continues to be used by a considerable number of vessels, both private and public. Much of this usage is tourist or leisure oriented, but the lake continues to provide practical public and cargo transport links between the smaller lakeside communities.
Passenger boats of the Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees (SGV) provide services on the lake, including many run by historic paddle steamers. The SGV serves 32 places along the shore of the lake, with interchange to both main line and mountain railways at various points. Under separate management, the Autofähre Beckenried-Gersau provides a car ferry service between Beckenried, on the south bank of the lake, and Gersau on the north.
Cargo barges, to a local design known as Nauen, are still used on the lake. Some have been converted for use as party boats. Other barges are used by the gravel dredging industry that operates on the lake, using large dredgers to obtain sand and gravel for use in the construction industry.
Cultural references
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata derives its name from an 1832 description of the first movement by poet and music critic Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne.
Gioacchino Rossini uses this in his William Tell Overture Section A: Sunrise over the Alps.
Rowing
Lake Lucerne has twice been used as a venue for the European Rowing Championships: in 1908 and then in 1926. The nearby Rotsee has since 1933 been used for rowing regattas instead.
Tourism
On the way south, the English discovered the mountains of central Switzerland. Several spa and bathing resorts such as Weggis or Gersau were created. In 1871, the very first rack railway in Europe, the Vitznau-Rigi Railway, was opened. In 1889 the steepest cog railway in the world was built from Alpnachstad to Mount Pilatus. Mark Twain described an ascent to the Rigi, which led to the blossoming of Swiss tourism in the United States in the 19th century. One of the largest steamship fleets in Europe operates with five steamships on Lake Lucerne.
In the area surrounding the lake and on terraces at medium height (for example Morschach and Seelisberg) there are numerous places for tourists. The Rigi, Pilatus, the Bürgenstock, the Stanserhorn, the Buochserhorn, and the two legends, the Urirotstock and the Fronalpstock are attractive panoramic mountains near Lake Lucerne. Most of them can be reached by mountain railways, some of which have their valley station near boat stations on the lake.
There are numerous locations on the lake that are important in Swiss cultural and tourism history: Rütli, Tellsplatte, Tell Chapel, Carving Tower of Stansstad, Neu-Habsburg, Schillerstein, Treib, Astrid Chapel (Küssnacht) and Meggenhorn Castle.
Watersports
Different sports are possible in some separate areas due to the water and wind conditions. The lake is accessible from boat and yacht harbors, to lake resorts and pools (e.g. the Lido pool in Lucerne, built in 1929 by Arnold Berger). Therefore, the lake can be easily accessible from both shores. The See-Club Luzern was founded in 1881, which is now Switzerland's largest rowing club, as well as the Reuss Luzern rowing club (Ruderclub Reuss Luzern) in 1904. The Lucerne Yacht Club (Yachtclub Luzern) has existed since 1941 and has been running since 1966 a boathouse and buoy field on Churchill-Quai in Lucerne.
The Brunnen water sports club (Wassersportclub Brunnen), founded in 1958, held on Lake Lucerne in the first years of its existence international motorboat races and water ski championships. In 1965 the association chose a new name for the club: Lake Lucerne Water Sports Club (Wassersport-Club Vierwaldstättersee). The Central Switzerland Motorboat Club (Motorbootclub Zentralschweiz) was established in 1980 and the Hergiswil Water Sports Club (Wassersportclub Hergiswil) in 1986. SchweizMobil has created a canoe tour across Lake Lucerne between Brunnen and Gersau. Due to the wind in the Reuss Valley, the southern part of Lake Uri between the campground at Gruonbachstrand in Flüelen and Isleten is a center of windsurfing.
Diving
There are about ten places where you can dive without a boat in Lake Lucerne. The water is rather chilly all year round and therefore mostly very clear. In Lake Uri, at Sisikon, one can dive to a fragmented steep vertical wall, at the northern portal of the Schieferneggtunnel. The Lediwrack Bruno lies in front of Brunnen at a depth of 15 meters. Other well-known diving spots are in front of Vitznau, Weggis, Gersau and Hergiswil.
(Wikipedia)
Der Vierwaldstättersee (französisch Lac des Quatre-Cantons; italienisch Lago dei Quattro Cantoni, Lago di Lucerna; rätoromanisch Lai dals Quatter Chantuns) ist ein von Bergen der Voralpen umgebener Alpenrandsee in der Zentralschweiz. Er liegt auf dem Gebiet der Kantone Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden (d. h. Nid- und Obwalden) und Luzern. Die grössten Orte am Ufer sind Luzern, Küssnacht, Horw und Brunnen. Der See ist 114 km² gross, liegt auf einer Höhe von 433 m ü. M. und ist 214 m tief. Da es sich um einen charakteristischen Zungenbeckensee mit mehreren Zweigbecken handelt, ist die Uferlänge im Bezug zur Seefläche mit etwa 150 km relativ gross.
Name
Seinen Namen hat der Vierwaldstättersee von den vier an ihn angrenzenden Waldstätten (heutige Kantone). Bis ins 16. Jahrhundert wurde die Bezeichnung Luzerner See verwendet.
Entstehung
Der Vierwaldstättersee entstand in den Eiszeiten, u. a. der letzten Eiszeit, durch Erosion des Reussgletschers. Der See bildete sich als Gletscherrandsee am Ende der Eiszeit vor rund 12'000 Jahren. Im Gletschergarten Luzern zeigt eine Dokumentation die Geschichte der Alpen, der Eiszeiten und der Gletscher in den Zentralalpen.
Geographie
Zufluss
Die Hauptzuflüsse des Vierwaldstättersees sind die Reuss mit der Einmündung bei Flüelen und Seedorf, die Engelberger Aa bei Buochs, die Sarner Aa bei Alpnachstad und die Muota bei Brunnen. Die Reuss fliesst mit einem starken Gefälle aus dem Gotthardmassiv und führt grosse Mengen Geschiebe mit sich, so dass sich das Reussdelta im Laufe der Zeit um 10 km nach Norden in den Urnersee hinein erweitert hat.
Im Urnersee im Bereich des Reussdeltas zwischen Flüelen und Seedorf wurde von 2001 bis 2005 mit dem Ausbruchmaterial des Umfahrungstunnels Flüelen und des Gotthard-Basistunnels der Seegrund teilweise wieder aufgeschüttet. Es entstanden Flachwasserzonen, die durch den Kiesabbau verschwunden waren, und einige neue Inseln: die Neptuninseln und die Inselgruppe Lorelei. Einige der Inseln sind Vogelschutzgebiet. Im Naturschutzgebiet erlaubt der Reussdeltaturm die Beobachtung der Fauna.
Kleinere in den Vierwaldstättersee einmündende Gewässer sind der Gruonbach, der Isitaler Bach, der Riemenstaldnerbach, der Cholbach von Emmetten, der Lielibach bei Beckenried, der Teuffibach, der Melbach, die Kleine Schliere bei Alpnachstad, zehn Bäche am Ostabhang des Pilatus (darunter Mülibach, Steinibach bei Horw, Widenbach, Fridbach, Feldbach und Steinibach bei Hergiswil) und der Würzenbach in Luzern.
Gliederung
Der Vierwaldstättersee besteht aus mehreren Seebecken und Buchten:
Der Urnersee erstreckt sich von der Einmündung der Reuss bei Seedorf 11 km in nördlicher Richtung bis nach Brunnen
Der Gersauer See (auch Gersauer Becken oder Gersauerbecken) führt 14 km von Ost nach West von Brunnen nach Ennetbürgen, wo die Engelberger Aa in den See mündet. In der Mitte zwischen Beckenried und Gersau erreicht der See mit 214 m Tiefe seine tiefste Stelle.
Der Chrüztrichter (Kreuztrichter) bildet im Westen des Weggiser Beckens das eigentliche Zentrum des nördlichen Seeteils. Von ihm zweigen vier Hauptarme (Trichter) ab:
Das Weggiserbecken (östlicher Arm des Kreuztrichters) liegt südlich von Weggis und verläuft von Ost nach West. Es führt zwischen Hertenstein im Norden und dem Bürgenstock im Süden hin zur Seemitte. Es wird auch Vitznauerbecken genannt.
Der Stanser Trichter (südwestlicher Arm des Kreuztrichters). Im Südwesten davon liegen
die Horwerbucht und
der Alpnachersee, der zwischen Acheregg und Stansstad durch eine nur 100 Meter breite Engstelle, über die eine Brücke führt, vom restlichen See abgetrennt wird und am Südfuss des Pilatus liegt.
der Küssnachtersee (nordöstlicher Arm aus dem Kreuztrichter) zweigt zwischen Hertenstein und Meggenhorn in nordöstlicher Richtung nach Küssnacht, am Nordrand des Rigimassivs gelegen, ab.
der relativ kurze Luzernersee (auch Luzerner Bucht) ist zugleich nordwestlicher Arm des Kreuztrichters und Schlussteil des Sees. Er verläuft nach Nordwesten nach Luzern.
Abfluss
In Luzern verlässt die Reuss den See, kontrolliert mit einem Regulierwehr, und fliesst durch das Mittelland zur Aare.
Strömungen
Durch das verhältnismässig warme Wasser der Reuss und den Föhn, der das Wasser ständig umschichtet, ist der Urnersee am Grund wärmer und leichter als das Wasser im Gersauer Becken. Durch diesen Temperaturunterschied strömen jeden Frühling gewaltige Wassermassen vom Gersauer Becken in die Tiefen des Urnersees. Ähnliche Tiefenwasserströmungen bestehen auch vom Alpnachersee in das Gersauer Becken.
Wasserqualität und Temperaturen
Das Wasser bleibt durchschnittlich dreieinhalb Jahre im Seebecken und hat Trinkwasserqualität. Die Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Limnologie der Eawag überwacht die Wasserqualität. Im Sommer erreicht der See eine Temperatur von 22 °C. 1929 und 1963 froren der Alpnachersee und die Luzerner Bucht zu. Aus dem 17. und 19. Jahrhundert sind Vereisungen des ganzen Vierwaldstättersees dokumentiert. 1684 und 1685 konnte das Gersauer Becken auf dem Eis überquert werden.
Klima und Vegetation
Das Klima rund um den föhnbegünstigten und von Bergen geschützten Vierwaldstättersee ist im Vergleich zu anderen Regionen der deutschsprachigen Schweiz relativ mild; die Vegetation gleicht zum Teil derjenigen des Kantons Tessin. Die mittlere Tageshöchst-/-tiefsttemperatur beträgt in Luzern 2,6 °C (Januar) und 23,5 °C (Juli). In Altdorf südlich des Sees liegen die Werte bei 3,9 °C (Januar) und 23,0 °C im Juli (Klimamittel der Jahre 1961–1990). An den Seeufern wachsen Hanfpalmen, Feigen, Yuccas, Zypressen, Opuntien, Edelkastanien und andere südländische Pflanzenarten.
Die Edelkastanien wurden bis ins 19. Jahrhundert wirtschaftlich als Nahrungsmittel genutzt. Mit der Verbreitung der Kartoffel nahm die Bedeutung der Kastanie jedoch ab. Noch heute findet in Greppen regelmässig ein Kastanienmarkt, die sogenannte Chestene-Chilbi statt. An den Marktständen werden Kastanienprodukte und regionale Spezialitäten angeboten.
Naturgefahren
Hochwasser in Luzern August 2005
Nach dem Erdbeben vom 18. September 1601 entstanden Tsunamis im Vierwaldstättersee mit vermutlich bis zu 4 Meter hohen Flutwellen. Ein weiteres solches Ereignis soll im Jahr 1687 stattgefunden haben. Auch vom Genfersee ist ein Binnentsunami-Ereignis aus dem Jahr 563 bekannt, und vom Lauerzersee aus dem Jahr 1806.
Die Folgen der allgemeinen Erderwärmung in den Alpen werden auch für den Vierwaldstättersee und seine Umgebung diskutiert. Das Hochwasser 2005 mit diversen Muren und Erdrutschen könnte als Warnsymptom verstanden werden.
Seit 1861 wird der Wasserspiegel des Vierwaldstättersees durch die Reusswehranlage in Luzern etwa zwei bis drei Meter über dem natürlichen mittleren Wasserstand gehalten.
Verkehr
Schifffahrt
Auf dem See verkehren die Schiffe der Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees (SGV) zu den zahlreichen Schiffstationen. Bis zum Bau der Axenstrasse in den Jahren 1863 bis 1865 war der Wasserweg die einzige aus dem Norden mögliche Verbindung zum Kanton Uri, zum Gotthardpass und damit auch der einzige Weg von den Städten im Nordwesten Europas nach Mailand und zu den italienischen Häfen am Mittelmeer. Das gilt auch für die Pilgerwege des Mittelalters nach Rom. Noch heute verkehren auf dieser Strecke die grossen Raddampfer der SGV Stadt Luzern (das Flaggschiff der SGV) Uri, Unterwalden, Gallia und Schiller.
Autofähre Beckenried–Gersau
Zwischen Beckenried und Gersau verkehrt die Autofähre Beckenried–Gersau. Auf dem See fahren ausserdem Lastschiffe privater Transportunternehmen.
Beim Zusammenstoss des Nauens Schwalmis mit dem Motorschiff Schwalbe vor Horw starben am 12. Oktober 1944 zwanzig Gäste einer 33-köpfigen Hochzeitsgesellschaft aus der Region Entlebuch. Die Unfallursache konnte nicht restlos geklärt werden. Es war das bislang grösste Unglück der Schweiz mit einem motorisierten Schiff.
Strasse und Schiene
Seit dem Bau der Gotthardstrasse, der Gotthardbahn (Eröffnung 1882), der Gotthardautobahn (1982) und der Eisenbahnschnellfahrstrecken von AlpTransit (NEAT) zum Gotthard-Basistunnel (2016) tangieren grosse internationale Verkehrswege die Gegend um den Vierwaldstättersee. In Flüelen wechselten vor dem Bau der Eisenbahn die Reisenden von den Bergpässen vom Maultier oder der Postkutsche auf das Schiff. Am östlichen Ufer führt die Axenstrasse mit vielen Tunnels und Galerien von Flüelen über Sisikon nach Brunnen. Sie ist Bestandteil der A4. Die Bahnlinie führt mehrheitlich unterirdisch von Flüelen nach Brunnen. Auf dem Weg nach Küssnacht erinnern alte, restaurierte Hotelbauten an die Zeit des frühen Tourismus im 19. Jahrhundert.
Zwischen Hergiswil und Stansstad führen Strassenbrücken (Kantonsstrasse und Autobahn A2) und eine Eisenbahnbrücke der Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn bei der Lopper-Halbinsel über eine Landenge im See.
Der 1991 auf alten Verkehrswegen angelegte Wanderweg mit der Bezeichnung Weg der Schweiz führt rund um den südlichsten Teil des Sees, den Urnersee.
Luftverkehr
Zwischen Buochs und Ennetbürgen bei Stans liegt der Flugplatz Buochs, der früher fast nur von der Schweizer Armee und den Pilatus-Flugzeugwerken benutzt wurde. Heute steht der Flugplatz dem zivilen Flugverkehr offen. Der Militärflugplatz Alpnach wird von der Schweizer Armee als Helikopterbasis genutzt.
Hängegleiter und Gleitschirme nutzen bei geeignetem Wetter die Thermik der Felswände über den steilen Ufern des Sees. Die beliebtesten Fluggebiete für Gleitschirme um den Vierwaldstättersee sind der Pilatus, die Rigi, das Gebiet von Emmetten, das Stanserhorn und das ganze Engelbergertal. Beim Fliegen sind die Kontrollzonen der Flugplätze Alpnach, Buochs und Emmen zu beachten.
Geschichte
Zu den frühesten menschlichen Spuren am See gehörten die neolithischen Seeufersiedlungen aus dem 5. bis 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. bei Stansstad-Kehrsiten. Zahlreiche Ortsnamen weisen auf eine keltische, später gallorömische Besiedlung hin. In Alpnach fand sich eine römische Villa. Spätestens im 7. Jahrhundert liessen sich Alemannen nieder.
Am Ausfluss der Reuss entstand im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert die Stadt Luzern, rund um den See die Länderorte Uri, Schwyz und Unterwalden. Diese erlangten die Hoheit über das sie verbindende Gewässer bis hin zur Seemitte, sieht man von der Fläche in der Verlängerung des Bürgenbergs bis vor Hertenstein ab. Diese gelangte 1378 zusammen mit dessen Nordflanke an Luzern. Dennoch kam es bis 1967 – zwischen Nidwalden und Luzern – zu Auseinandersetzungen um Fischereirechte und Grenzstreitigkeiten. Da es extrem schwierig war, Strassen um den See zu bauen, war das Gewässer zugleich eine Hauptverkehrsader.
Kirchlich bildete der Raum vom Hochmittelalter bis 1821 das Dekanat Luzern bzw. das Vierwaldstätterkapitel im Bistum Konstanz. Danach wurde der Raum auf die Bistümer Chur und Basel aufgeteilt. Über den See oder an ihm entlang führten früher Pilgerwege nach Rom. Auch der westwärts nach Santiago de Compostela führende Jakobsweg führt von Einsiedeln nach Brunnen. Von hier führt er weiter westlich mit dem Schiff nach Luzern oder über den Alpnachersee nach Süden zum Brünigpass.
Im Gegensatz zum offenen See, auf dem frei gefischt werden durfte, gehörten die Uferstreifen zur Gemeinmarch der Siedlungsgenossen. Nur ihre Fischer durften dort ausfahren. Daneben bestanden herrschaftliche Rechte wie die Fischämter von St. Leodegar in Luzern. Aus derlei Organisationsformen gingen etwa 1465 die Luzerner Rohrgesellen oder 1607 die St.-Niklausen-Bruderschaft von Stansstad hervor. Auch hier konnten Fischereirechte zu heftigen Auseinandersetzungen führen, wie 1655 zwischen Luzern und Nidwalden. Statuten für den Fischmarkt finden sich in Luzern schon im ältesten Ratsbüchlein (um 1318).
Nach der Helvetik wurde die Fischerei in allen Orten zu einem Hoheitsrecht der Kantone. 1890 schlossen sich die Kantone zum Fischereikonkordat Vierwaldstättersee zusammen. Noch Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts beschäftigten 27 Betriebe rund 40 Vollzeitarbeitskräfte.
Der regionale Markt mit Luzern als Mittelpunkt und der Verkehr über den Gotthard führten zum Aufbau eines Transportwesens. In Flüelen wurde 1313 ein Reichszoll erwähnt, Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts sind in Luzern Lagerhäuser bezeugt, ähnlich wie in anderen Orten.
Im 17. Jahrhundert bestanden in Alpnach fünf Fahrrechte, in Brunnen arbeiteten 60 Schiffsleute. 1687 kam es zum Abschluss eines Schifffahrtsvertrags, der bis ins 19. Jahrhundert Bestand hatte. 1837 begann die Dampfschifffahrt, 1870 entstand die Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees. Sie verdrängte die lokalen Schifffahrtsgenossenschaften. Ab 1859 entstand im Einzugsgebiet des Sees ein Eisenbahn-, Bergbahn- und Strassennetz, was den Tourismus stark anwachsen liess und eine entsprechende Infrastruktur hervorbrachte. Ab Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde die Sand- und Kiesgewinnung zu einem expandierenden Industriezweig.
1859–1860 wurde mit dem Bau des Luzerner Nadelwehrs die Basis für eine Regulierung des Wasserpegels gelegt. Zugleich belasteten Kiesabbau, das Wachstum der Orte und der unkontrollierte Häuserbau, dazu Gewässerverschmutzung und Wassersport den See. Daher entstand 1916 das Hydrobiologische Laboratorium (1960 in die ETH Zürich integriert), das im Bereich des Gewässerschutzes tätig wurde und bis heute die Kantone berät. 1953 wurde der Gewässerschutz in der Bundesverfassung verankert, aber erst das revidierte Gewässerschutzgesetz von 1971 ermöglichte es schliesslich die Sanierung des Sees bis 1987 voranzutreiben. Bereits ab 1980 versorgten sich Luzern, Bürgenstock sowie Küssnacht, Horw und Weggis mit Trinkwasser aus dem See. 1973 setzten die Uferkantone einen Landschaftsschutzplan in Kraft, dessen Umsetzung der 1984 gegründete Landschaftsschutzverband Vierwaldstättersee vorantreibt.
Kulturelle und historische Eigenheiten des Seegebietes sind der Kommunalismus, die eigenständige Rezeption der italienischen Renaissance und des Barock oder der Einfluss der Gegenreformation, aber auch die Kleinräumigkeit des lokalen Brauchtums und der Mundarten.
Tourismus
Fremdenverkehr
Auf dem Weg in den Süden entdeckten Engländer die Bergwelt der Innerschweiz. Es entstanden mehrere Kur- und Badeorte wie Weggis oder Gersau. 1871 eröffnete man die allererste Zahnradbahn Europas, die Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn. 1889 baute man von Alpnachstad auf den Pilatus die heute immer noch steilste Zahnradbahn der Welt. Einen Aufstieg auf die Rigi beschrieb Mark Twain, was in den USA des 19. Jahrhunderts zum Aufblühen des Schweizer Tourismus führte. Auf dem Vierwaldstättersee verkehrt mit fünf Dampfschiffen eine der grössten Dampfschiffflotten Europas.
In der Umgebung des Sees und auf Terrassen in mittlerer Höhe (wie z. B. Morschach und Seelisberg) liegen zahlreiche Tourismusorte. Attraktive Aussichtsberge nahe am Vierwaldstättersee sind die Rigi, der Pilatus, der Bürgenstock, das Stanserhorn, das Buochserhorn, die beiden Mythen, der Uri Rotstock und der Fronalpstock. Die meisten davon sind mit Bergbahnen erreichbar, die teilweise ihre Talstation in der Nähe von Schiffstationen am See haben.
Am See befinden sich zahlreiche Örtlichkeiten mit Bedeutung in der Schweizer Kultur- und Tourismusgeschichte: Rütli, Tellsplatte, Tellskapelle, Schnitzturm von Stansstad, Neu-Habsburg, Schillerstein, Treib, Astrid-Kapelle (Küssnacht) und Schloss Meggenhorn.
Wassersport
In den einzelnen Seebereichen sind wegen den Wasser- und den Windverhältnissen verschiedene Sportarten möglich.Von Boots- und Yachthäfen, See- und Strandbädern (z. B. das 1929 von Arnold Berger gebaute Strandbad Lido in Luzern) und von andern Uferabschnitten aus ist der See zugänglich. 1881 wurde der See-Club Luzern gegründet, der heute der grösste Ruderclub der Schweiz ist, 1904 der Ruderclub Reuss Luzern. Seit 1941 besteht der Yachtclub Luzern, der am Churchill-Quai in Luzern seit 1966 ein Bootshaus und ein Bojenfeld betreibt. Der im Jahr 1958 gebildete Wassersportclub Brunnen führte in den ersten Jahren seines Bestehens auf dem Vierwaldstättersee internationale Motorbootrennen und Wasserskimeisterschaften durch. 1965 wählte der Verein den neuen Namen Wassersport-Club Vierwaldstättersee. 1980 entstand der Motorbootclub Zentralschweiz, 1986 der Wassersportclub Hergiswil. SchweizMobil hat eine Kanutour über den Vierwaldstättersee zwischen Brunnen und Gersau beschrieben. Der südliche Teil des Urnersees zwischen dem Campingplatz am Gruonbachstrand in Flüelen und Isleten ist wegen des Windes im Reusstal ein Zentrum des Windsurfens.
Tauchsport
Es gibt etwa zehn Plätze, an denen man ohne Boot im Vierwaldstättersee tauchen kann. Das Wasser ist ganzjährig eher kühl und deshalb meist sehr klar. Die zerklüftete Steilwand bei Sisikon, am nördlichen Portal des Schieferneggtunnels, kann man seit einem Erdrutsch und dem Verschütten eines Parkplatzes, der auch als Einstieg genutzt wurde, nicht mehr von Land aus betauchen. Vor Brunnen liegt das Lediwrack Bruno auf 15 Meter Tiefe. Weiter bekannte Tauchplätze liegen vor Vitznau, Weggis, Gersau und Hergiswil.
Wirtschaft
In mehreren Gemeinden am Vierwaldstättersee befinden sich an den leicht zugänglichen Bergflanken im Uferbereich seit Jahrhunderten Steinbrüche, die teilweise noch heute genutzt werden. Das Gestein gelangt auf dem Seeweg kostengünstig zu Verbrauchern oder Bahnhöfen. Die auffälligen Eingriffe in die Naturlandschaft stiessen schon früh auf Kritik seitens der Landschaftschutzorganisationen. 1930 wies ein Bericht auf die Zunahme der Grossanlagen hin: «Zwei Steinbrüche [liegen] im Urner See zwischen Seedorf und Isleten, vier zwischen Beckenried und Treib, einer in der Matt unter dem Bürgenstock, einer zwischen Kehrsiten und Stansstad, fünf im Alpnachersee, einer am Lopperberg zwischen Stansstad und Hergiswil, einer bei Greppen, einer zwischen Vitznau und Gersau, zwei zwischen Gersau und Brunnen». Bei Kehrsiten am Bürgenstock baut die Holcim in einem Schotterwerk harten Kieselkalk ab, der auch in den Brüchen Schwibogen und Rotzloch gewonnen wird, während vier andere Nidwaldner Steinbrüche im Uferbereich aufgelassen sind. Der Landschaftschutzverband Vierwaldstättersee begleitet die Entwicklung einzelner Steinbruchprojekte.
Seit 1891 baut das Unternehmen Arnold & Co. Sand- und Kieswerk AG bei Flüelen mit Schwimmbaggern Kies aus dem Schwemmfächer vor dem Delta der Reuss ab, wofür sie dem Kanton Uri Konzessionsgebühren entrichtet. Heute sind nur noch der vierte und fünfte Schwimmbagger aus den 1950er und 1960er Jahren in umgebautem Zustand im Einsatz. Die Flotte der Arnold + Co. AG umfasst etwa fünfzehn Nauen. Zwischen 2001 und 2005 legte das Unternehmen im Urnersee mit Schutt aus dem NEAT-Stollen Amsteg und der Umfahrung Flüelen sechs Inseln an.
Auch bei Beckenried und anderen Stellen wird vor den Flussmündungen Kies abgebaut.
Mitte April 1957 wurde ein Telefonkabel von Spissenegg nach Stansstad im See verlegt. Die Teilverkabelung des Vierwaldstättersees hatte zwei Gründe: Die damalige Bezirkskabelanlage war durch den Bau des neuen Autobahnabschnittes Horw-Stans erheblich gefährdet. Der Schutz der Kabel hätte aber zu kostspieligen Sicherungsmassnahmen geführt. Da die Seekabellegung in diesem Fall preiswerter und der Bedarf an zusätzlichen Leitungen gross war, bewilligte die Telefondirektion in Bern das Projekt.
100 Jahre zuvor, 1854, wurde exakt auf dieser Strecke das erste, in den Telegrafenwerkstätten in Bern eigens hergestellte Seetelefonkabel verlegt. Es diente zur Verbindung der anschliessenden oberirdischen Telegrafenlinien Luzern-Brünig-Interlaken.
Belastung mit Munition
Zwischen 1918 und 1967 entsorgten Schweizer Munitionsfabriken ihre Produktionsabfälle im Vierwaldstätter-, Brienzer- sowie Thunersee. Die Gesamtmenge, welche in bis zu 200 Metern Tiefe im Vierwaldstättersee versenkt wurde, wird auf 3'300 Tonnen geschätzt, 2'800 Tonnen im Urnersee sowie 500 Tonnen im Gersauer Becken.
Namensverwandtschaften
Der Jacobiweiher im Stadtwald von Frankfurt am Main wird im Volksmund seiner Form wegen Vierwaldstättersee genannt.
Auch ein künstlicher See im Zoo Berlin wird aus dem gleichen Grund Vierwaldstättersee genannt.
(Wikipedia)
The symbol of the Tree of Life
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balance and harmony in all worlds, connecting heaven, earth and the underworld.
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QUOTE
“I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.”
Andrea Koehle Jones, The Wish Trees: How Planting Trees Can Help Make the World a Better Place
~ Andrea Koehle Jones: Canadian climate journalist, children’s nature education advocate & writer/producer
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Digital painting & Kaleidoscope
The deepest lake in North America at 1,949ft, and is the ninth deepest in the world!
Everyone should have the chance to experience it! :-)
No use of my Crater Lake image in any form without my permission! Thank You!
deepest Gratitude to all dear beings who hold the high watch for one another!
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you were aimed at birth, you are not alone
the whole wide world pours down
~ william stafford
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Dean's Blue Hole is the world's deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below the sea level. It plunges 203 meters (666 ft) in a bay between Deadman’s Cay and Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas.
The cave is roughly circular at the surface, with a diameter ranging from 25 to 35 meters (82–115 ft). After descending 20 meters (66 ft), the hole widens considerably into a cavern with a diameter of 100 meters (330 ft).
Snorkeling Dean’s Blue Hole has been a unique experience: you enter the warm waters of the Caribbean and heading west the water just reaches to your hips. As a matter of fact, you can wade the shallow waters for quite a distance. However, heading north towards the blue hole, after a few steps the water is too deep to stand. The upper part of the cave looks like a giant funnel, made of perfectly white sand. At the “end” of the cone of the funnel the cave converts into a vertical yawning abyss which makes you want to explore even further. Common sense and the lack of air then make you finally turning around...
If you are lucky, you can watch freedivers training at a platform that is mounted in the middle of the blue hole. Attached to the platform vertical ropes support the descent and the reemerge. It is quite impressive to see the freedivers concentrate for minutes at the surface and then quietly disappear in the dark, to reappear after a minute or two…
Dean’s Blue Hole is so ideal for freediving, that the “Vertical Blue” take place at this location, one of the most prestigious freediving championships in the world. Depths way beyond 100 meters are reached at those competitions, without the support of gas tanks!
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This is the deepest I've ever gone on an object. Represents about 16 total hours with the Ha, Oiii, Sii filters.
CAPTURE INFO
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Date Captured: November 23-30, Home (Bortle 7)
EQUIPMENT
Optics: William Optics 61ii doublet refractor @ 368mm FL
William Optics adjustable field flattener
Camera: ZWO 294mm @ gain 108 - Bin 1x1
Mount: iOptron GEM 28
Guiding:
- ZWO 120mm mini (red filter)
- William Optics 32mm f/3.75 UniGuide Guidescope
Acquisition:
- ZWO ASI Air Pro (Plan Mode)
Just Like Heaven
The Cure
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and lonely
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
Decided late last night with a full belly, to get up early this morning and get out and try and walk some of the excesses of Easter off.
Drove down to Garie beach, didnt walk very far, but got this, so it made me feel a little bit better. Met a really good tog down there too. Always good to meet someone new, enjoying the same passion as yourself, out shooting the rising sun.
Anyhow, this was a 3 minute exposure, about 5 mins after the sun had broke the horizon just over to the left of where this image was taken.
Hope you like "Just Like Heaven"...cheers, Mike
”Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure!”
— Nelson Mandela
Praia da Calada is a beautiful beach located between steep cliffs on the Portuguese coast road, 10 km North from Ericeira, just north of Ribeira D'Ilhas another beautiful location and a favorite for surfers!
“the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words. . . . My dear brothers, we are already one. . . . And what we have to recover is our original unity.”
-Thomas Merton, Asian Journal, pg 308
He saw that in many monastic traditions, spiritual communion was rooted in self-emptiness and an openness to others in compassionate love. He remarked that “the state of insight which is final integration implies an openness, an ‘emptiness,’ a ‘poverty’ similar to those described in such detail not only . . . by St. John of the Cross . . . but also by the Sufis, the early Taoist masters and Zen Buddhists.”
-Thomas Merton’s encounter with Buddhism and beyond: his interreligious dialogue, inter-monastic exchanges, and their legacy / Jaechan Anselmo Park, OSB.
The sun just broke through for a minute when New Horizon Volvo Olympian N632 JNO came past running empty to work an afternoon service.
The Overland Track is one of Australia's most famous bush treks, situated in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania. More than 8000 walkers each year complete the track. Officially, the track runs for 65 km from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair. However, many choose to add the hike along Lake St Clair as a natural extension, bringing the length to 82 km. The track winds through terrain ranging from sheer mountains, temperate rainforest, wild rivers and alpine plains all in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Aside from the main track there are also several alternative side tracks, including to the summits of Cradle Mountain and Mount Ossa, the tallest mountain in Tasmania. Also within reach are a group of tarns called The Labyrinth and Lake St Clair (the deepest lake in Australia). Walkers complete the trail in 5–6 days. This is normally done from north to south, which is the mandatory direction between 1 October and 31 May.
The landscape was all carved by glaciers during the last ice age, and the prominent mountains are composed of dolerite columns. The climate is generally unstable, with temperatures ranging from hot (35+°C) in summer to below zero in winter. Snow can fall at anytime and is common during the winter, especially on the Cradle Mountain Plateau and around Mount Ossa. Rain is very common, sometimes torrential though often settling to days of drizzle.
The most common fauna are Tasmanian Pademelons (native), possums and small rodents most of which are native. Also decidedly present, but not necessarily seen, are quolls, echidnas, tasmanian devils and wombats. There are also the famous Tasmanian leeches. The trail traverses areas of many types of vegetation, including Myrtle Beech forest, Eucalypts forest, Button Grass plains (swamps), alpine herb fields and shrubs and mosses.
(Wikipedia)
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I walked the Overland Track - solo - in May, which means autumn period in Tasmania. And got it all: sunshine, rain, lots of snow, and sunshine again. It was a mysterious adventure on the opposite side of the Earth.
For those who are interested, the itinerary was as follows: Ronny Creek -> Waterfall Valley -> Old Pelion -> Du Cane Hut -> Pine Valley (two nights) -> Echo Point -> Lake St. Clair.
During the third (rainy and a bit snowy) day, I hiked from the Old Pelion hut across the Pelion Gap pass to another old cabin called Du Cane hut where I stayed overnight.
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.' - Marianne Williamson
A week ago we happened upon a lake. Its silent and almost too calm appearance made me wonder what lurked under the motionless surface. Shaking my thoughts I grabbed Sally's hand and in the warm setting sun light, amidst giggles we created a character who I hoped would be a part of my in bloom series.. a collection of images that celebrate spring, summer, birth and loss.
Anyone who's followed my work for a while will know how much I love shooting with water! I could forever explore the colours that hide in the shadows of ripples and here I searched for a balance between forest green and the silent blues. I wish every computer could see the colours that I see on mine. I will however be starting to sell prints soon. Watch this space!
Hope you're all having a lovely week!
The word Cosmos in Greek means orderly, beautiful, and ornamental. The flower's fragrance and vibrant colors give it the attributes of peacefulness, wholeness, and modesty. The typical meaning of this flower is 'love flower'.
This flower is often used to illustrate one's deepest feelings of love. When sent to one's love on Valentine's Day it can be said to mean 'walk with me hand in hand' and 'see, life is indeed beautiful'.
Read more at Buzzle: www.buzzle.com/articles/cosmos-flower-meaning.html
Have a happy weekend everyone :))
Today I'm very happy to introduce you all to one of the deepest, most eclectic SL artist and good friend of mine.
In her photos she can face a wide range of themes, from newness to goth, to sensuality, from sci-fi to fun situations always showing a perfect style and intense meanings.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's a big pleasure to have here the marvelous skilled, the beautiful talented: Ms. Daikota Wind !
Cla: Hi Daikota, how are you? I'm very excited to have you here. Thank you for accepting my invitation!
Daikota: It is rather me who thanks you for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to make myself better known to the Flickr community. I followed each of your interviews and from the start I found that you had an excellent idea. It's truly an honor to participate in your show, so thank you very much for thinking of me. And I'm fine.
C.: So what brought you on Second Life. How and when everything began?
D.: We have to go back in time when I worked in the early evening and early night in a bar in Brussels. Wanting to reverse my life schedules, I looked for how to spend my nights on the Internet until the early morning. At that time I was going to sleep around 6 in the morning to wake up around 1 pm and I was leaving for work around 5 pm. It was a bit by chance that I came across Second Life, I signed up, I learned to walk, to dress, to sympathize, to have fun and I quickly found this virtual world incredibly varied and interesting. I very quickly met lots of people and had a lot of adventures. At the same time I discovered that it was possible to take screenshots with a simple click and save these snapshots on my computer. I then started to take photos in order to remember the unforgettable moments I lived and the people I met. I put away all these photos without looking at them, telling myself that I would see them again in forty years when I shall be retired. One day, I still went to review the photos I had already taken and surprised … I found that some shots were really very successful. As some later pointed out to me, I had a good eye. So I started staging myself to take better pictures and that's how it all started. In November 2011, I created my Flickr page and tried to post one image every day. Rhythm that I have kept to this day.
C.: How did you improve your photographer skills over the years?
D.: At the very beginning, my photos were raw, without editing, published as they had been taken in Second Life. Subsequently I treated myself to Photoshop Element 2010 which is a lighter version of the real Photoshop, far too expensive for me. I learned to improve the contrast, to add shadows, to camouflage the defects emanating from our cubic and pointed avatars, to give more depth to my photos. At that time, I was not preparing anything. I let my AO turn and, like a hunter on the lookout, I waited for the right moment to pull the trigger and thus capture my moving avatar while fixing her gaze. A little later, I was offered Animare by its creator Tantrica. This allowed me to use the poses and animations integrated into the objects and to correct the flaws such as a hand that penetrates the thigh. Finally, it was only last year that a member of the Flickr community (Gaelen Blackwood) offered me the PRO Flickr subscription, which gave me access to two months of free Photoshop. And wow, what a change. I immediately adopted this application. Even though I only know how to use 2% of these abilities, I was really able to take the next step. So I collected all my coins to give it to myself. Very recently also, a good friend (Naru Darkwatch) offered me AnyPose which allowed me to make and improve my own poses. This step has also boosted my work generating more and more joy in sharing my images with the small world of Flickr/Second Life.
C.: As I was mentioning in the introduction, you are a super talented artist with a great creativity and intuition. You seem like able to take every type of photo and face every kind of theme. We can enjoy you art on Flickr and in world at your Daikota Gallery maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mama%20Allpa/122/207/3505 and store maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Palazzo%20del%20Piacere/77... . If you had to define your art with one single word, what would it be?
D.: This is the most difficult question. I would like to say Unique, but each artist is unique in his field. Let's say that I like to vary my themes, my appearance, my poses, the lighting and I adapt in order to try to tell a story through my photos.
C.: What type of photo you find harder to take - if ever there is any?
D.: These are of course composite photos where I mix several images into one to have a scene richer in detail. It's not that it's harder to do, but it takes a bit more work. Sometimes I leave with a specific idea in mind, but it has never happened that I take a photo that is perfectly in line with this initial idea. Second Life has its limits and I have to deal with that. In general, the most difficult thing for me is to take a photo with a friend without having a clear idea at the start. I find it easier to duplicate myself on a shot than to have a partner pose. In fact, most of the photos bringing together several characters are often montages created from several images of myself.
C.: Let's talk about your blogger experience. How do you like it?
D.: This is very recent. It all started when a friend whose work I admire (Cathy Vathiany) suggested that I create my own blog, finding that my photos looked good and that some brands would no doubt be happy to work with me. Much later, I took the plunge by asking Black Cats Creations, whose creations I love, to kindly take me into their team of bloggers. My application was accepted and it all started from there. Several months later I asked another brand to entrust me with its products in order to showcase them, it was ::Antaya:: and more recently I asked Moz Design to do the same because this store is creating a clothing line for Prima which is a new mesh body succeeding Tonic which I have always found to be the best. Three brands is enough, I don't want to kill myself on the job and as Ethan pointed out very well in a previous interview, I might as well avoid burnout because of the extra work in which I would have locked myself up. Unofficially, I also promote the products of friends that I want to help as best I can, I am not officially their blogger but I also like to please and give a little of myself to help. The advantage here is that I have no pressure and am in no way cornered by time. I greet Ambrosia from Miura, Kev’Inette from Mon Coeur en Poses, Alma from L’Atelier d’Alma, Jazaar from Jazabelle Boutique and Denna from Denden Store.
C.: What can inspire your creativity the most?
D.: My appearance. Right from the start of Second Life, I got my hands on tons of free shapes and skins. This allowed me to change my appearance as desired. With the arrival and generalization of mesh heads, it became more complicated, but I had the chance to win a contest organized by 7 Deadly Skins which gave me the opportunity to benefit from their creations for a whole year. I currently have hundreds of ways to change my appearance on a daily basis and I don't hesitate. So I start my days by creating a new avatar from head to toe. And it is this appearance that will influence what I will do with my day. Each appearance comes with a personality and depending on where I am, I will be able to let myself be guided by my intuition and in the end I hope that certain photos will be worth publishing.
C.: Which is your favorite photo among all the ones you took?
D.: Another difficult question :) Depending on whether I want to highlight the time I spent on it; the idea that I had for the result obtained, the sudden inspiration, the chance of taking a beautiful photo without doing it on purpose, I would point to a different photo each time.
For the time it took me: www.flickr.com/photos/daikota_wind/52244300060/in/datepos...
For the initial idea and the final result: www.flickr.com/photos/daikota_wind/52380164894/in/datepos...
For sudden inspiration: www.flickr.com/photos/daikota_wind/51871460495/
To thank chance for getting it right: www.flickr.com/photos/daikota_wind/52414225906/in/datepos...
C.: As for the last question, I'd invite you to ask yourself a question and give yourself an answer.
D.: Haha! … Uh! … Little silence … You have been managing to post a new photo every day on your Flickr for more than ten years, do you think that all this will stop at some point?
I am and remain a homebody, I have developed a hobby that I like and I would like it to last a long time. Second Life is very diverse, we can live all kinds of delirium there, it goes from the age of the caves to the establishment of colonies on Mars, the real artists are the ones who create all these fabulous landscapes, these detailed objects, these parts of avatars that highlight us… As long as I can put all this together in a photo, I would like to continue my work. However, I see two limitations to this. I recently moved from Europe and I now live in Asia where I would like to change my life. Soon my husband and I will have our future house built, it could be that I will no longer be available for Second Life and therefore for Flickr. But I think it will last while we settle in. If the Internet connection is good on our island at the end of the world, I would probably come back to haunt the place again. The second uncertainty is the PRO Flickr subscription. It was offered to me for one year, but I doubt that I could renew it, which would inevitably have consequences on the information that I provide concerning the brands that I blog and would oblige me for certain photos to practice the self-censorship. This is also why I am now limiting the number of photos accumulating on Flickr by eliminating one photo for each addition. In addition, I had a lot of setbacks with Flickr this year: robot restricting the visibility of my photos for a piece of shoulder that protrudes, repeated interruptions of service for more or less long periods (reason for which my subscription has been extended by 4 months), not to mention the censorship that takes place with other artists who all end up leaving this platform. But anyway, I will take the time to warn the Flickr community of the changes that will occur in my real life and which are likely to impact my virtual existence.
Wishing you all the best for your new real life changes and hoping to still have you around also in the future, I thank you so much, Daikota, for opening to us through this interview and for letting us know more about the wonderful person and artist you are.
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Heavenly Lake (Tian Chi), Urumqi, China.
Tianchi Lake in Tianshan Tianchi National Park is a scenic highlight about 1.5 to 2 hours out of Urumqi. It is a small lake in high mountains.accommodations in a high-mountain national park, the Tianchi Lake is a great place to camp.
The lake itself is about 3 kilometers long and averages about 600 or 700 meters wide (2 miles by less than half a mile). It is surrounded by many rugged and forested valleys that lead down to the lake from closely surrounding peaks that reach about 2,400 meters (7,800 feet). The surface of the lake itself is at an altitude of about 2,000 meters or about 6,600 feet, and it is about 100 meters at the deepest point. There is a hiking trail that goes around it.
For video, please visit youtu.be/yZYlJGhmAIg
Dean's Blue Hole is the world's deepest known salt water blue hole with an entrance below sea level. It is 202 metres, or 663 feet deep, and is located in the out island of the Bahamas, Long Island. We've visited twice now and it never ceases to amaze me. It's rather intimidating however, as people have drowned there because at certain times the tide is so strong it can pull you out to see below the land mass -the ocean and the hole are connected -that stretch of land you see to the left is all water below. There used to be a small floating dock in the center of the hole for divers, but they've removed it. You can see my daughter and me (those tiny specs to the right!) walking out in the shallows for a sense of the scale. It's a very interesting place and a must see if you visit Long Island.
Here's a link to a video of free diving in Dean's Blue Hole. I swam out over the hole, but it's pretty intimidating! This guy is brave!
Definitely one of my favourite ducks! This male and two females swam fairly close to shore and I was able to snap this pic in one of the most beautiful places in British Columbia.
Long-tailed Ducks are the deepest diving ducks in the world. As I watched them dive I noticed they would quack to each other before each dive.
There were many Sea Lions, Harlequins, Surf Scoters, Goldeneyes and Horned and Red-necked Grebes and 2 Nelson's Gulls around as well in this beautiful spot.
My deepest condolensceneces to them. Some of the most severe shocks happened to middle schools and very poor areas in China. Some of the families have lived there for generations. Their homes and land were the only things that they know and have.
My prayers are with them.
It is great that the company I am working for has an employee grant program to match 100% of the employee's ligitimate charitable donations. I made donations to China Earthquake Relief through the Canadian Red Cross Society, and they matched the donation on the second day after I sent them the receipt.
I hope the rebuild of the areas are prompt and successful.
Sarah McLachlan - i will remember you
:) I'm back...
Borneo taught me more than I ever thought possible.
New perspective, new dreams, new ideas.
This is a new start.
<3
Hair: Kustom9 3rd Anniversary Gift (Mithral)
Eyes: Enfer Sombre - Cry Baby Set *TSS Gift*
Skin: (Snow White) Skin/Snow White group gift
Flowers: *N*Rafflesia Pink Box
Dress with jewels: [MUSE] October Group Gift
-Meitreya Mesh Body-
Deepest single drop surface waterfall in England at 30m/100ft.
Visited by Wm Wordsworth and J M W Turner (no relation - sadly).
The two figures bottom right show the scale ...
We remember with great sadness and the deepest respect the 298 victims of flight MH17.
Kami ingat dengan kesedihan yang besar dan menghormati paling dalam 298 mangsa penerbangan MH17.
Never go without saying goodbye
Never go without a kiss
whose fate will meet
can not do it tomorrow.
Never leave without talking
that sometimes a heart so bad
what you leave in the morning
can not be there in the evening.
Ga nooit heen zonder te groeten
ga nooit heen zonder een zoen
wie het noodlot zal ontmoeten
kan het morgen niet meer doen.
Ga nooit weg zonder te praten
dat doet soms een hart zo’n pijn
wat je ‘s morgens hebt verlaten
kan er ‘s avonds niet meer zijn.
July 17, 2015 0ne year later We remember flight MH17.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 is a day of national mourning in Netherlands.
Friday, August 22, 2014 is a day of national mouring in Malaysia.
The flags are at half mast and church bells be rung.
Also at 16:00 Dutch time held a minute of silence at the return in the Netherlands from the remains of victims of the plane crash in Ukraine.
www.flickr.com/photos/hereistom/14737650905/
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Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Crater Lake lies in a caldera formed by the collapse of Mount Mazama about 7700 years ago. With a depth of 1,949 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and, in the world, ranks tenth in (maximum) depth and third in (average) depth. The lake has no inlets or outlets, so the water, replenished by rain and snow, is very pure and clear which gives the lake its deep blue color. (Wikipedia) The trail to the top of Mount Scott is 5 miles round trip and ascends about 1500 feet. Mount Scott is the tenth highest peak in the Oregon Cascades. Scanned from two Kodachrome slides.
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
- Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSqT_PeiV0U
Fire and Rain by James Taylor
IF I'D KNOWN BACK THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW
If I'd known back then what I know now,
I would never have let you go
It had been far too long since the time before,
that day when you came back once more
and I was happy and so were you ;
no need to question anything
you stayed a while and we caught up,
on family and mundane things
the trappings of the lives we had;
swapped memories of school day pains
and then the time came 'round again
for you to leave and say goodbye
and only now I question why and ask myself if you had known
as I listen for the postman's knock
or the ringing of the telephone
We stood at our ancestral door
with the peeling paint and penknife scores
we loved to pick when we were kids
and mark our heights in felt pen wars
red for you and green for me, an endless childhood reverie
and it's still scarred from all the scrapes of boots and satchels,
ice-skates, penknives; childhood battles
and I clung on tight and wished you well
and you said don't worry all is well;
you'd never leave so long again
as you ran out in the pouring rain.
If I'd known back then what I know now,
I would never have let you go.
I would have clung on tight and begged you stay,
where you'd be sheltered from harm's way
I watched you until you were just a speck
and the light was dim and playing tricks,
like it sometimes still does in certain light
and I think I see you in the distant night,
coming round the country lane,
where we used to play hide and seek
and I wish those days were here again;
I wish for a moment to hear you speak
If' I'd known back then what I know now,
I would never have let you go
This is the longest game we ever played,
this endless waiting in the shade
and I still can't find you, you hid so well
and the fiery path that blazed a trail
has long gone cold and the clues I had, are misty in my mind
like memories of childhood days
and long, hot Summers and the squeals we made
when unexpected showers fell
from darkened skies down in the dell
and we ran like gazelles to that old barn
and waited for the sun to shine
The barn burned down on a stormy night
and the heavy rain just let it happen
until there was nothing left from our childhood days
except scattered memories charred and blackened.
If I'd known back then what I know now,
I would never have let you go
and I'm still waiting for the day to come,
when another you comes marching home.
Will I recognise the grown up you;
you were just half boy, half man back then
and I'm still waiting for the rain to pass
and I'm still waiting for the sun to shine
and I'm still clinging to that old house
even though it lays so empty now,
except for echoes of our last goodbye
still speak to me when I stop by …
- AP – Copyright remains with the author
For my youngest brother who went missing and never returned home … It's his birthday on the 23rd May. I always keep hope in my heart ...
This is an original digital artwork by me.
'copyright image please do not reproduce without permission'