River Nile
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Our only male cat, Niles (aka Dr. Purrmeister) when he was a kitteh, with his mom Delores (aka Dill Pickle)
“The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.”
Charles Caleb Colton
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If I had a flower for every time you made me Smile and Laugh,
I'd have a garden to walk in Forever.
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Niles was established in the 1850s and was a junction point of the Southern Pacific Railroad lines from Oakland to San Jose and southern coastal points. Vallejo’s Mill was the first flourishing flour mill constructed and completed in this country. It was run by water conducted in a long flume from Alameda Creek. Niles at one time was noted for the location of the California Nursery, the largest nursery in California, with the largest rose plantation in the state.
“The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Kruger National Park.
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Just a tree in an open field. Niles District of Fremont, California.
Charlie, does it still look like this?
At Niles Station before heading back to Brightside to move the loco to the front and for photos.
On the way back to the maintenance yard near Sunol, they announced that there was room for 5 or 6 people in the cab if anybody wanted to. Guess who was the first one there.
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The longest river in Africa, it has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. The Nile is amongst the smallest of the major world rivers by measure of cubic metres flowing annually. About 6,650 km (4,130 mi)[a] long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt.[9] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The longest river in Africa, it has historically been considered the longest river in the world, though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer. The Nile is amongst the smallest of the major world rivers by measure of cubic metres flowing annually. About 6,650 km (4,130 mi)[a] long, its drainage basin covers eleven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, and Egypt.[9] In particular, the Nile is the primary water source of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. Additionally, the Nile is an important economic river, supporting agriculture and fishing.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile
Nijlgans - Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus).
Jewel of the Nile? Hardly
Check out those wacky feet. (-;
A huge "Nile Crocodile", Africa's largest freshwater predator, on the bank of Victoria Nile. They possess the strongest bite force in the animal kingdom. They rank as the second-largest living reptile on Earth, trailing only the saltwater crocodile. As the crocodiles do not have sweat glands, they open their mouths, called gaping, to control their body temperature or to cool down. They are ancient apex predators with lineages tracing back over 200 million years. Wikipedia, BBC Wildlife, Britannica Kids.
A ride with local fishermen in their boats sharing the traditional experience and skills of these men who live in harmony with the Nile. Shot from Besaw island some 100km north of Aswan.
Doug Harrop Photography • April 6, 1976
Back in 1912, the Western Pacific constructed Niles Tower, an interlocking plant where the WP crossed the Southern Pacific Railroad in Niles, California. The tower stood in relative obscurity until railfans and a historians realized the tower's time was about up, and standard technology of 1912 was ancient technology by 1980.
Niles Tower finally succumbed to SP's implementation of CTC and DTC in early 1986, and the building itself was sadly destroyed in two successive fires that same year. Although WP operators manned the tower (as part of the agreement allowing WP to cross SP tracks), most of their work involved SP trains: cutting orders and routing trains around SP's two wye tracks. WP work was largely confined to lighting signals, and routing their own trains over the SP diamond.
Doug Harrop lived in San Francisco and made numerous trips to Altamont to capture Western Pacific's "Fab Four" quartet of F7s in freight service on the San Jose Turn in the mid- to late 1970s. He captured this stunning view as WP 921 approaches the SP diamonds at Niles Tower on April 6, 1976.
Today's theme: riverfront, Chobe National Park, Botswana. I took an afternoon cruise on the Chobe River where it was possible to see animals on the river bank. Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park, and also the most biologically diverse. Located in the north of the country, it is Botswana's third largest park after Central Kalahari Game Reserve and Gemsbok National Park.
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is a large crocodilian native to freshwater habitats in Africa, where it is present in 26 countries. It is widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring mostly in the eastern, southern, and central regions of the continent.
The Niles Scream Park offers 44 acres of blood-curdling fear!
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A ship on the Nile (1888 - 1898). My colorization of Pascal Sébah´s photo in the Rijksmuseum archive. To me this looks more like a yacht than a cargo vessel.
Sighted and photographed from boat trip along shore of Nile River in Uganda. Although I captured the whole Nile crocodile, this close up was mesmerizing, providing awesome detail of skin, head, teetg and especially the eye. I would never want to get up close and personal on land with this apex predator.