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Cheltenham Wetlands Park was once part of the U.S. Naval Radio Station, Cheltenham, Maryland. It was commissioned in 1939.
“The original antenna fields, comprising creosoted wood telephone poles and metal antenna towers, were located in the acreage surrounding the buildings. All metal antenna poles have been removed from the installation. Some abandoned creosoted wood poles remain in the wooded and swampy sections of the installation.
Established as a radio receiving station before World War II, the installation's mission evolved to administration during the Cold War era.”
From Left to right - Vasco da Gama (discoverer of the sea route to India)
Afonso Baldaia (navigator)
Pedro Álvares Cabral (discoverer of Brazil)
Fernão de Magalhães /Ferdinand Magellan (first to circumnavigate the globe)
Nicolau Coelho (navigator)
Gaspar Côrte-Real (navigator)
Martim Afonso de Sousa (navigator)
João de Barros (writer)
Cheltenham Wetlands Park was once part of the U.S. Naval Radio Station, Cheltenham, Maryland. It was commissioned in 1939.
“The original antenna fields, comprising creosoted wood telephone poles and metal antenna towers, were located in the acreage surrounding the buildings. All metal antenna poles have been removed from the installation. Some abandoned creosoted wood poles remain in the wooded and swampy sections of the installation.
Established as a radio receiving station before World War II, the installation's mission evolved to administration during the Cold War era.”
Ingólfshöfði is a nature reserve that's home to thousands of nesting sea-birds, like puffins and great skuas. This birdwatching tour was taken with the group Local Guide, which hauls people across a massive black sand beach in a hay cart to reach the cliffs where the birds live.
This is my guide overlooking a typical escarpment in Simien National Park. You are looking north and on days like this you feel like you can see all the way to the Sudan or Eritrea. I am told the village below is 3 to 4 days by foot to the nearest road.
With its high elevation (3600-4500 meters) it is referred to as the "roof of Africa" - and thank god - after coming from the heat of the low lands this place is a godsend. It's so cold at night in the lodge (at 3300m) that they give you a hot water bottle to sleep with - and you need it.
One of the most interesting (but disturbing) things I saw there was agriculture up to 4000m and grazing above that. It's hard to tell if the farming and grazing is within the park boundaries or outside of it. It's none of my business, but land at that altitude can't take a lot of heavy farming and grazing before you start destroying the soil and it shows. In fact, the park is now considered an "endangered" world heritage site.
We had so much fun hiking on glaciers our first time in Iceland that we had to make sure we could do it again on our second trip. We went out with Aron from Öræfaferðir / Local Guide Travel Service again, this time for a glacier hike on the Fjallsjökull Outlet of the Vatnajökull Glacier. We would highly recommend their services! Please feel free to check out the link below for more information.