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Meet my new favorite rock on the Maine coast. With a view of Whaleback Light and waves crashing over it, it's a pretty nice rock.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
The fascinating Hug Point Beach stretches 2 miles down from the Hug Point headland to Arch Cape sitting between Arcadia Beach and Cove Beach.
The Hug Point name comes with a very interesting story. Before Oregon Coast Highway 101 was built in the 1920s, the beach was used as a coastal road for both car and coach traffic. In order to get around Hug Point, traffic had to move at the low tide along the rocky headland close to it - literally "hugging" the rocks. During the low tide at the rocks north of the trail access, you can still see signs of where the roadbed was carved out.
Hug Point is popular for its colorful landscape, a beautiful stretch of sand, basalt and sandstone cliffs, marine life in the intertidal zone, caves, and a seasonal waterfall. The beach is ideal for picnicking, beachcombing, tidepool exploring, and surf fishing.
Hug Point State Recreation Site provides easy access to the northern edge of the beach. Walk a short paved trail and then a stairway down to the beach. You will see a basalt and sandstone headland on the right. This is Adair Point. During low tides, you can walk around Adair Point and have access to the north end of the beach including a small secluded pocket beach just south of Hug Point. This site features a big cave, the beautiful Fall Creek waterfall that cascades down from the sandstone bluff, and the old stage-coach road. At low tides, you can walk around Hug Point to Arcadia Beach.
Reference: oregondiscovery.com/hug-point-beach
If you want to explore more of the beach, walk south to Arch Cape.
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This falls was located in the Panamint Mountain Range in Death Valley. It was a nice hike and well worth it at the end. I was getting a lot of negative feed back about how muddy the trail was and their were lots of rocks to climb.... So, up for a challenge, we climbed the rocks, followed the trail and I even got my boots really wet... Really amazed at the existence of these in such a desert environment! China Lake is just over the mountains from here.
There are sit outs and rest areas at regular intervals along the steps leading up. I spotted these beautiful cosmos flowers very close to the balustrade on one of the rest areas. We are nearly there! Note the nearly identical conical hills in the distance. This is in the other direction from the one in the previous picture. (Bohol- Tagbilaran, Philippines, May 2013)
This photo was taken in one of the amazing caves in Merapoh, Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia.
Merapoh has many wonderful caves that have wonderful natural formations.
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While back in Prescott for an extended visit and catch up with my folks, I took some time to photograph around the nearby area including an overnight trip to the Grand Canyon and down to Phoenix. Photos are from that period.
As so many petroglyphs, the meaning of this script is forever lost.
Not far from Cajamarca is the Cumbe Mayo, meaning “Narrow River” in Quechua, where a canal system believed to have been started by a culture that existed around 1500 BC and expanded upon by the Inca. At Cumbe Mayo is a stone forest of vertical arranged volcanic rocks many of which bear the marks of past civilizations.
Trent River is located about three kilometers south of Courtenay, BC on Vancouver Island. It is a great walk in August when the river is down and you can walk the river bed without getting your feet wet. The bank is made of marine shale. It is a magical place that is 80 million years old. It is has numerous crystal clear swimming holes and if you are a fossil hunter it is a great place to spend an afternoon banging rocks and looking for a treasure of years past.
About Yeh Liu
Yehliu is a cape on the north coast of Taiwan in the town of Wanli between Taipei and Keelung.
The cape, known by geologists as the Yehliu Promontory, forms part of the Taliao Miocene Formation. It stretches approximately 1,700 meters into the ocean and was formed as geological forces pushed Datun Mountain out of the sea.
A distinctive feature of the cape is the hoodoo stones that dot its surface. These shapes can be viewed at the Yeliu Geopark operated by the North Coast and Guanyinshan National Scenic Area Administration. A number of rock formations have been given imaginative names based on their shapes. The most well-known is the "The Queen's Head", an iconic image in Taiwan and an unofficial emblem for the town of Wanli. Other formations include "The Fairy Shoe", "The Bee Hive", "The Ginger Rocks" and "The Sea Candles."
Up until this point the typical Stalagmites/Stalactites were not visible and this is the first scene of them
The only way to see anything and to maneuver through the tunnel was to use my camera's flash, then take a few steps. Water pooled on the floor and small stalactites were forming everywhere. It was freezing cold.
This is part of the raised metal platform.
With Naaman Fletcher.
Hierve Al Agua
Hierve el Agua (Spanish for "the water boils") is set of natural rock formations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca that resemble cascades of water. The site is located about 70 km east of Oaxaca city, past Mitla, in the municipality of San Lorenzo Albarradas, with a narrow, winding unpaved road leading to the site. The site consists of two rock shelves or cliffs which rise between fifty and ninety metres from the valley below, from which extend nearly white rock formations which look like waterfalls. These formations are created by fresh water springs, whose water is over-saturated with calcium carbonate and other minerals. As the water scurries over the cliffs, the excess minerals are deposited, much in the same manner that stalactites are formed in caves. One of the cliffs, called the "cascada chica" (small waterfall) or the Amphitheatre, contains two large artificial pools for swimming as well as a number of small natural pools. One of the artificial pools is very near the edge of the cliff.
Hierve Al Agua
Hierve el Agua (Spanish for "the water boils") is set of natural rock formations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca that resemble cascades of water. The site is located about 70 km east of Oaxaca city, past Mitla, in the municipality of San Lorenzo Albarradas, with a narrow, winding unpaved road leading to the site. The site consists of two rock shelves or cliffs which rise between fifty and ninety metres from the valley below, from which extend nearly white rock formations which look like waterfalls. These formations are created by fresh water springs, whose water is over-saturated with calcium carbonate and other minerals. As the water scurries over the cliffs, the excess minerals are deposited, much in the same manner that stalactites are formed in caves. One of the cliffs, called the "cascada chica" (small waterfall) or the Amphitheatre, contains two large artificial pools for swimming as well as a number of small natural pools. One of the artificial pools is very near the edge of the cliff.
The Pizzi Bianchi (White Peaks) which overlook the south coast of Ischia. The peaks are made of white tufa, eroded and sculpted over centuries by the weather.
While back in Prescott for an extended visit and catch up with my folks, I took some time to photograph around the nearby area including an overnight trip to the Grand Canyon and down to Phoenix. Photos are from that period.
Hierve Al Agua
Hierve el Agua (Spanish for "the water boils") is set of natural rock formations in the Mexican state of Oaxaca that resemble cascades of water. The site is located about 70 km east of Oaxaca city, past Mitla, in the municipality of San Lorenzo Albarradas, with a narrow, winding unpaved road leading to the site. The site consists of two rock shelves or cliffs which rise between fifty and ninety metres from the valley below, from which extend nearly white rock formations which look like waterfalls. These formations are created by fresh water springs, whose water is over-saturated with calcium carbonate and other minerals. As the water scurries over the cliffs, the excess minerals are deposited, much in the same manner that stalactites are formed in caves. One of the cliffs, called the "cascada chica" (small waterfall) or the Amphitheatre, contains two large artificial pools for swimming as well as a number of small natural pools. One of the artificial pools is very near the edge of the cliff.