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Scrunching on Probars, and nearly submerging jeeps, we found ourselves on the edge. Looking down the brilliantly blue colored water descends to what eventually will become our ocean, but here in the highlands, you could kneel down and drink straight from the river without a worry in the world of getting sick.
Some of the purest water I've come across on our planet, and so much of it they literally cannot build enough bridges to cover the river crossings. I've never driven through so many rivers in my life, we drove through this one perhaps just a mile upstream. Yeah... we drove through this... and it was crazy, scary as all get up, and also somehow fun. Nearly cracked my oil pan.
This is a single exposure which I may process as a pano eventually to include the brilliant blue sky above, but I kind of like it like this. I feel like this helps keeps the focus on how close to certain death I was standing. On the edge of a long plunge.
A narrow waterfall where the Crooked Edge Brook meets the River Douglas. Located in Tiger's Clough ravine*
Quite dark in the ravine with the occasional bit of light. Unsurprisingly, very green. Even with the recent heavy rain the brook was easy to navigate with waterproof boots(i still need to sort out new wellies!).
info taken from: www.ephotozine.com/photo/crooked-edge-waterfall-52159301
Bluff Lake, Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington
In my quest to avoid the huge summer crowds that have overrun many of the popular hiking destinations in Washington, I ventured out to a rarely visited area of the beautiful Goat Rocks Wilderness to check out the trail to Bluff Lake. So named because unlike many alpine lakes, it does not sit down in a basin or cirque, instead it perches on the edge of a cliff. (Not far beyond those trees at the far end of the lake is a 1500 foot drop off!)
Much of this trail is in the process of being restored after it was destroyed in a wildfire a few years ago. The section up to the lake was largely untouched by the fire, although you can see some burned trees in the photo as this was the edge of the burn zone. Beyond the lake however, the forest was completely devastated. Dead trees and burn snags created an eerie "ghost forest", with not a living tree in sight, and the trail surface felt like hiking through sand, but was actually a thick layer of ash.
Fortunately some patches of brightly blooming fireweed, and an abundance of alpine strawberry plants sprawling over what used to be the forest floor spoke to the renewal that nature already has underway - and added a somewhat incongruously cheerful note to the otherwise apocalyptic scene.
The main reward of this hike though, other than the lovely lake, was the quiet and solitude. After miles of driving on a maze of forest roads, the first thing I noticed at the trailhead was how absolutely quiet it was. And other than a small group of backpackers hiking out on my way in, and one other hiker leaving the lake as I was arriving, I encountered no other people on the trail.
one block west of my house is the far edge of town... and the far edge of the world, it often feels like
Ocean Beach near Strahan on Tasmania's west coast. Cape Sorell at the left with the lighthouse lost in the gloom. The marks of vehicles in the foreground sand with the Great Southern Ocean stretching out into the murk, all the way to Argentina.
An archive frame of a wild day at the edge of the world - 2014
Fuji X100S, Fujinon 19/2, 1/40th sec at Ff/2, ISO 200
"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
Virginia Woolf
Stanage Edge in the Peak District, a couple of miles away from Hathersage, with a backdrop of a dramatic sky
I could see two members of the flat earth society looking towards the end of their small world. I've heard that they have members around the globe ;-)
Humberheads Peatlands National Nature Reserve, near Wroot, North Lincolnshire. Whilst the peatlands and pools are a feature of the reserve there is a lot of Silver Birch woodland. I was on my way into the reserve when the edge caught my attention...the striking white bark against the darker background. It's a blue hour photo, I waited for the sun to rise over my shoulder in the hope of more colour but it rose into a cloud. That said I like the cooler colour and abstract nature of the photo.
27. Edge - 52 in 2017 Challenge
The Edge - ODC
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #42" "Leading Lines" "Geometry Sunday"
Taken this morning, 21th of April 2017!
Baslow Edge, Peak District, UK
© 2024 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission.
With clear skies forecast I thought I'd be guaranteed some direct light. However, it took around half an hour for the sun to clear cloud on the horizon. Just in time to catch a little colour in the sky.
Late afternoon, and the sun is low on the horizon. It is still visible on some very distinctive looking rocks, but hidden behind the rest. The warm light gives the rocks color and delivers an angled edge, adding interest.
On the horizon, the clouds are dark, the slice of light is yellowish, and an ocean lay between. Warm and cold, it is a typical seaside treat.