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The air was humid and hot - moisture getting in everything. Under our armor. Our equipment. Underneath our skin. It was unbreathable, a layer of heat, fog, and sweat. Jokes aside, the jungle was a rotten place, monkey's shrills stinging our ears, and the ground squelching with every step. Obviously, the squad was here for a reason - to put an end to this nonsense. Pirates, mercenaries, and bandits who were working alongside our men decided they had enough of Imperial regiment and order. Hell broke loose. They claimed that the Imperial way was inflexible and rigid, that it had little room for fun. In other words, those womprats couldn't do anything their way. We couldn't agree more, however, the greater interests of the Empire awaited. The mission was to eliminate the traitors and those who stood in the way. All costs necessary - which of course included trekking through swamps and beaten down paths towards our targets, each miserable step dragging us and our pride down.
7-23-2008
The corn is finally getting the hot humid weather it loves. It seems to be growing about six inches a day.
It was quite humid, hazy and pink this morning. We're supposed to get thunderstorms later. First it said we'd get 1/2" of rain now it's down to 0.01". This happens all the time. We haven't had much rain this summer.
A soft light sunrise over West Beach in South Australia - not even 7am but already 30C and humid.
#52 in 2018 Challenge
#11 Warm
On a warm and humid but decidedly grey summers afternoon DRS owned 37 402 skirts the Irish Sea at milepost 69 to the south of St.Bees on the Cumbrian Coast line. The loco is working Northern Rail local passenger service 2C49 the 11.40 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle. The train is viewed from the cliff tops in an area known as Deepgill Banks.
"Humid air"
Site naturel classé des Cascades du Hérisson dans le Jura (Franche Comté)
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Parsonsfield, Maine.
Was a very hot and humid day here in Maine today and the sunset reflected that as it was setting behind some clouds on the horizon.
Looking down across gentle South Yorkshire countryside towards the spire of All saints church, Wentworth.
Les zones humides sont des écosystèmes particulièrement riche. Souvent très fragiles, ces milieux naturels doivent être conservés pour préserver la flore et la faune qu’ils abritent. C’est pour cette raison qu’à été créée la Réserve de la Biosphère de Sian Ka’an.
Cette photo a été prise lors d'un survol de la Péninsule du Yucatán.
À découvrir dans l'exposition photo « La Forêt du Yucatán vue du ciel »
Humid and overcast most of the day. This is a first seeing it on our Holly.
In my garden Stafford UK 30th July 2022
just taking a quick break from reading to admire my hubby's handiwork in the garden and catch the light on my face.
wanna know what I'm looking at? See it here.
I have passed along the water's edge below the humid trees
The caption used is from a poem by W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems
A setting looking to the east-southeast while taking in views on the Townsend/Sunshine Covered Bridge with the Little River flowing by. My thought in composing this image had been to capture a more or less balanced view between both sides of the riverbank with the river flowing by. I angled my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward, so that I could raise the horizon and minimize what I felt was the negative space of the mostly overcast skies that afternoon. I later worked with DxO PhotoLab 7 and was able to use the ClearView Plus tool to bring out some blue skies present for the final image.
During humid & clouding conditions:
The six locos lash up of GM22 leading 4917-4911-S311-GM27 & RL302 working 4CM5 loaded SSR grain from Goolgowi (NSW) to Appleton Dock for unloading seen passing through Keilor East taken on Thursday 4/2/2021.
Lake Wales is a city in Polk County, Florida. The population was 14,225 at the 2010 census. As of 2019, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 16,759. It is part of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lake Wales is located in central Florida, west of Lake Kissimmee and east of Tampa.
The land around the present city was surveyed in 1879 by Sidney Irving Wailes, who changed the name of a lake, then known as Watts Lake, to Lake Wailes.
The city of Lake Wales was established near the lake in 1911–12, planned by the Lake Wales Land Company. The spelling Wales was used for the city, although the lake is still generally spelled Lake Wailes. Allen Carleton Nydegger, a Civil Engineer, was contracted by the Lake Wales Land Company to plot out the community of Lake Wales. He and his crew camped on the shores of Crystal Lake and spent months plotting out the new community. In 1925 the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad built a new line from Haines City joining lines to Everglades City. A depot was opened on this line at Lake Wales. The City of Lake Wales was officially incorporated in April 1917.
In 2004, Lake Wales endured the effects of three hurricanes which came through the area: Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne. The three hurricanes brought hurricane-force winds to the Lake Wales area within a space of 44 days. In 2017, Hurricane Irma brought more hurricane-force winds to Lake Wales.
The town lies near the geographical center of the Florida peninsula. Lake Wales is located on the Lake Wales Ridge,[8] a sandy upland area running roughly parallel to both coasts in the center of the peninsula. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.0 square miles (36 km2), of which 13.4 square miles (35 km2) is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (4.71%) is water.
Lake Wales is located in the humid subtropical zone of the (Köppen climate classification: Cfa). In 2004, the eyes of Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne all passed near the town. Virtually all physical damage has been restored.
Local attractions in the area include:
*Bok Tower Gardens
*Camp Mack's River Resort
*Spook Hill, an optical illusion which makes a car in neutral appear as if it is traveling uphill (gravity hill)
*The commercial historic district in the heart of the old town contains important examples of architecture from the period of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The district's tallest building, the Hotel Grand, has been boarded up for many years but has been purchased and is in the process of being restored.
*The Lake Wales Museum and Cultural Center is a history museum funded by a public-private partnership. It offers exhibits and artifacts from the pre-Columbian era to modern.
*Grove House, the visitor's center for the agricultural cooperative Florida's Natural (located across from the company's processing plant).
*Chalet Suzanne This attraction has closed.
The Shrine of Ste Anne des Lacs
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wales,_Florida
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
From around 11,000 - 3,000 BCE the Sahara was green, during the African Humid Period it was not desert, but lightly wooded savanna grassland, when this was the case Scimitar-horned Oryx would have been very common across northern Africa. Later depictions in Ancient Egyptian tomb art and in Roman mosaics suggest that they were still common in those days, but after the Roman period, the population of oryx started to gradually decline, as the climate changed and Africa became drier, however, they still survived in good numbers around the fringes of the Sahara up until the 20th century. Then their population went into steep decline, particularly following the introduction of better firearms and motor vehicles, hunters could kill more animals, more easily and gain access to areas of the Saharan region that would previously have been difficult to reach. The combination of habitat loss, competition with domestic livestock and overhunting, resulted in their extinction north of the Sahara, and a major reduction in numbers south of the Sahara, by the 1960s only one significant population remained in the Ouadi Rimé Ouadi Achim Game Reserve known as the OROA in central Chad. Unfortunately, civil war between the Chadian army and northern rebels backed by Colonel Gaddafi, made it too dangerous for rangers to operate in the reserve and these last wild oryx were poached, likely killed for meat by both sides during the conflict, sometime in the 1980s the Oryx likely became extinct, surveys conducted in the 90s found only skulls and horns, in the year 2000 the IUCN declared that the Scimitar-horned Oryx was extinct in the wild.
Luckily, in the 1960s when the oryx was still common in the OROA, fifty Oryx were captured to start a captive breeding programme, the animals were sent to zoos in the USA and from there to Europe and then around the world. During the 90s some captive oryx were returned to their natural habitat in fenced reserves in Tunisia and Morocco, but being fenced in they are not truly wild. Around a decade ago conservationists started to plan the reintroduction of oryx to the OROA, to re-establish a wild population in their last known home. Oryx were selected from zoos around the world including Marwell Zoo in the UK, to create a world herd of oryx at the Delaika Breeding Centre in Abu Dhabi, oryx from this herd would then be sent to Chad and ultimately released into the wild in the OROA. The first oryx in this project run by the Sahara Conservation Fund, were released in 2016, the plan is to release 500 oryx. Already the population in the OROA has grown to around 500, but a few more animals will be brought and released to bring the number of released animals up to 500.
December 2023 update, when I visited OROA in 2022 six years after the start of the oryx reintroduction project, despite there being a significant number of oryx back in the wild and plenty of wild born calves, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature still classified the SHO as Extinct in the Wild, however, they have just published their latest reassessment of the SHO and have changed their classification to Endangered. Thus, the Scimitar-horned Oryx’s return to the wild is now officially recognised and the wild population in OROA stands at over 600, this is a huge milestone for the project.
Lake Wales is a city in Polk County, Florida. The population was 14,225 at the 2010 census. As of 2019, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 16,759. It is part of the Lakeland–Winter Haven Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lake Wales is located in central Florida, west of Lake Kissimmee and east of Tampa.
The land around the present city was surveyed in 1879 by Sidney Irving Wailes, who changed the name of a lake, then known as Watts Lake, to Lake Wailes.
The city of Lake Wales was established near the lake in 1911–12, planned by the Lake Wales Land Company. The spelling Wales was used for the city, although the lake is still generally spelled Lake Wailes. Allen Carleton Nydegger, a Civil Engineer, was contracted by the Lake Wales Land Company to plot out the community of Lake Wales. He and his crew camped on the shores of Crystal Lake and spent months plotting out the new community. In 1925 the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad built a new line from Haines City joining lines to Everglades City. A depot was opened on this line at Lake Wales. The City of Lake Wales was officially incorporated in April 1917.
In 2004, Lake Wales endured the effects of three hurricanes which came through the area: Hurricane Charley, Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Jeanne. The three hurricanes brought hurricane-force winds to the Lake Wales area within a space of 44 days. In 2017, Hurricane Irma brought more hurricane-force winds to Lake Wales.
The town lies near the geographical center of the Florida peninsula. Lake Wales is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a sandy upland area running roughly parallel to both coasts in the center of the peninsula. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.0 square miles (36 km2), of which 13.4 square miles (35 km2) is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2) (4.71%) is water.
Lake Wales is located in the humid subtropical zone of the (Köppen climate classification: Cfa). In 2004, the eyes of Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jeanne all passed near the town. Virtually all physical damage has been restored.
Local attractions in the area include:
*Bok Tower Gardens
*Camp Mack's River Resort
*Spook Hill, an optical illusion which makes a car in neutral appear as if it is traveling uphill (gravity hill)
*The commercial historic district in the heart of the old town contains important examples of architecture from the period of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The district's tallest building, the Hotel Grand, has been boarded up for many years but has been purchased and is in the process of being restored.
*The Lake Wales Museum and Cultural Center is a history museum funded by a public-private partnership. It offers exhibits and artifacts from the pre-Columbian era to modern.
*Grove House, the visitor's center for the agricultural cooperative Florida's Natural (located across from the company's processing plant).
*Chalet Suzanne This attraction has closed.
The Shrine of Ste Anne des Lacs
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wales,_Florida
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Mountain_(Florida)
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Island Of Madagascar
Off The East Coast Of Africa
Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve
Photographed at the Peyrieras Madagascar Exotic Reserve. Male Perinet Chameleon.
The Perinet chameleon (Calumma gastrotaenia), also known as the Malagasy side-striped chameleon, is a small species of chameleon endemic to humid primary forests, particularly along rivers, in eastern and central Madagascar at elevations between 600 and 1,530 m. It is listed on CITES Appendix II, and as such, trade in the Perinet chameleon is regulated. Exporting the species from Madagascar has been banned since 1995.
Perinet chameleons are small and slender, reaching 15–20 cm, with elongated heads and bodies. They have smooth, uniformly green, brown or yellow skin with white undersides. A thin stripe runs from their tail bases along the sides of their bodies and across their eyes, and may include white spots. The three subspecies are C. g. andringitraensis with a dorsal crest, C. g. marojezensis. and C. g. guillaumeti. The male Perinet chameleon is larger than the female and has a bony head crest.