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Plongez au cœur de la formation d'intégration 55, où les futurs sapeurs-pompiers professionnels des Bouches-du-Rhône se préparent à leur quotidien.
You would think that there would be plenty of room to fly around up there. Not with pelicans. They simply love to group up tight and "shoulder" their way through the air. Their view of tight formation involves frequent near collisons. Their air speed is considerably lower than the terns and gulls and the legions of "fast" varieties so I could manage to keep a group in the viewfinder as they cruised around.
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The Mascall formation lasts from 15 to 12 million years ago. The formation is composed of soils mixed with ash from nearby volcanoes. The formation has preserved the fossils of horses, camels, pronghorn antelope, bear-dogs, saber-tooth cats, and some of North America's first elephants.
Here come a bunch more vacation shots. Most of these will be of more interest to us and family than anyone else. I always take too many pictures on vacation, and friends and family like to see the ones with us in them, so for my Flickr friends, you'll see more of us than you probably have any interest in! :-)
Also these are "just" vacation "snapshots", that dreaded word that sends many people screaming for the hills. I'll get back to my altered images and other fun stuff after I get the family album uploaded. But that's going to take a while because I'm crazy and take WAY too many pictures. Anyway. Consider yourselves warned!
This batch is the rest of the pictures from the Stone Bridge nature area, which was really beautiful--all kinds of small caves and rock formations, including the famed stone bridge; many waterfalls of varying sizes, small rapids, all sorts of interesting geological features, and always the lovely sound of the water.