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Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park is off the beaten path but worth the side trip. This state park is located between Mount Carmel Jct. and Kanab, Utah.
The pink sand is courtest of Navavjo Sandstone from the middle Jurassic geologic period. The same iron oxides and minerals that created the red rock country also contribute to this coral sand color.
If you hit the Coral Pink Sand Dunes at the right time of year, you can see where snow has accumulated and melted to create ponds of water upon the sand.
The Pendung Semurup waterfalls, approximately 15-20 meters in height, can be found on the eastern hills near the town of Semurup, and are reached after an easy, roughly one hour hike through relatively flat farmland and agroforest. Be prepared to get your feet wet wading through a few mountain streams on your way there! See more detailed descriptions here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.599289883456558.1073741...
Or check out www.wildsumatra.com
The festivities surrounding a Kenduri Sko festival in the village of Koto Renah, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Close to midnight, villagers in the community of Koto Renah, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci gather to perform a dance in honor of their ancestors. During the dance, commonly performed throughout Kerinci during Kenduri Sko events, possession by ancestral spirits is common (sometimes taking the form of an ancestral tiger). On this night, cycles of dancing, singing, possession, and exorcism by the local "dukun" or shaman continued until 4 am.
You can see some of the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6U5w8xAXFw
Morning hike to Mt. Bobotov Kuk (2,523m), the highest peak in Durmitor mountain range, located in Durmitor National Park, northern Montenegro.
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I don't like to include screenshots in my photostream, but the structure in the very center of this shot (brought to you by Bing Maps) is exceptionally important. View large for closer inspection!
Named Ampthill Plantation, this house originally stood in a small Chesterfield County port town called Warwick. It was built by Henry Cary in 1730. Henry Cary Jr. was the son of Henry Cary of Goochland County (d. 1720), builder of the Virginia State House and the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. Fine colonial building ran in the family. This house should not be confused with Ampthill plantation in Cumberland County, Virginia, which has an entirely different history.
Warwick Town was completely destroyed by the British during the Revolutionary War, but this house stood there until threatened much later by industrial development. It was moved and painstakingly rebuilt in this affluent area of Richmond in 1929, much like the house we call "Wilton," also relocated from the James River to the Windsor Farms district of Richmond.
Ampthill is still with us today, owned as an exceptionally private residence, which is probably why we don't know as much about it as we do about Wilton. The house has not been listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register because it has 1) been moved from its original location AND 2) has been altered from its original form. The five-bay section with two end chimneys is the original 1730 brick house.
In this aerial, we see the house from the REAR, fronting Cary Street Road.
It's interesting to note that the house stands at the intersection of Cary Street Road and Ampthill Road, both street-names referring to this important property and local landmark.
Griff, this one's for you! Go out there and get a good shot of it.
Pilis
Rezső kilátóhely
2013.01.05
Szent Mihály mountain
Pilis mountains
"Rezső" lookout point
Hungary
05.01.2013
The festivities surrounding a Kenduri Sko festival in the village of Koto Renah, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Close to midnight, villagers in the community of Koto Renah, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci gather to perform a dance in honor of their ancestors. During the dance, commonly performed throughout Kerinci during Kenduri Sko events, possession by ancestral spirits is common (sometimes taking the form of an ancestral tiger). On this night, cycles of dancing, singing, possession, and exorcism by the local "dukun" or shaman continued until 4 am.
You can see some of the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6U5w8xAXFw
The festivities surrounding a Kenduri Sko festival in the village of Koto Renah, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia. Close to midnight, villagers in the community of Koto Renah, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci gather to perform a dance in honor of their ancestors. During the dance, commonly performed throughout Kerinci during Kenduri Sko events, possession by ancestral spirits is common (sometimes taking the form of an ancestral tiger). On this night, cycles of dancing, singing, possession, and exorcism by the local "dukun" or shaman continued until 4 am.
You can see some of the event here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6U5w8xAXFw
From Wikipedia: Muaro Jambi (Indonesian: Candi Muaro Jambi) is a Buddhist temple complex, in Jambi province, Sumatra, Indonesia. The temple complex was built by the Melayu Kingdom. It is situated 26 kilometers east from the city of Jambi. Its surviving temples and other archaeological remains are estimated to date from the eleventh to thirteenth century CE. The archaeological site includes eight excavated temple sanctuaries and covers about 12 square kilometers, stretches 7.5 kilometers along the Batang Hari River, much of it as yet unexcavated.[1] It is one of the largest and best-preserved ancient temple complexes in South East Asia.
I kept stopping to take pictures because we couldn't believe how beautiful and surreal everything was. It looked like terribly difficult work to farm the rice paddies and live out there, but everyone we passed smiled and most children ran out to say "hello" to us.
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
My favorite place to get the delicious Kerinci food of Dendeng Batokok, from the village of Siulak Deras, Kerinci, Sumatra, Indonesia.
I took this photo from the footbridge across the San Joaquin River looking downstream. The reflection of the sky and clouds on the water make a captivating contrast against the rocky banks of the river. This is a gorge-ious scene.
Aerial view of Zhabeshi, a pretty highland village nested in Caucasus mountains, as seen during the trek from Mestia to Ushguli, in Svaneti region, northwestern Georgia.
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On a winter day in the early 1960s, the gravel operation's own miners Fred Willing and Alex ? came upon the remains of a mammoth embedded 30 m high in a freshly dragged bank. Unaware of the significance of these "unusual coloured masses" they sent them to the crusher. It wasn't until the end of their shift when they found a 30x30cm mammoth's tooth that they realized what had happened. You can now find the tooth on displayat the Victoria's Royal BC Museum.
Mammoth sculpture by Drifted Creations
ETA 2025: An arsonist burned this a year ago. A new sculpture has been created but it's now higher up by Metchosin Rd.
From a scanned 5x7 color photo. You can see he matte finish of the printing paper, especially in the sky. The colors had faded over the years, and I decided I preferred this even more.
Below that dark area in the field to the left is the beach and the ocean. Elephant seals in large numbers haul-out and rest in the warm sand. When I first saw them it was a small colony, and they were a lot further from the road, out of view. I was able to sit on a beach rock close to them without disturbing them, and watch them cavort in the tide pools.
They were pretty much undisturbed for quite awhile... but as the colony grew they got close to the road, easily spotted. Word got out and soon crowds came to see them. Some people weren't satisfied to view from a distance, walking right into them on the beach; I even witnessed a woman attempt to put her child on the back of a a female elephant seal. The smaller seal pulled away; had it bitten the child it could have caused a lot of damage. Much bigger (try 1,500 pounds!) was the territorial bull elephant seal, which could move faster that some would imagine. It could easily crush a human who couldn't get out of its way.
So the crowds became 'regular' parking lots and fences sprung-up, along with signs and docents to keep the visitors in check. I was very fortunate to have seen it in its natural state.
Various minerals and vegetation create a colorful, testured, abstract landscape in Northwestern Canada's wilderness.
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A large bull elephant stops on a bridge to drink some water.
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The Pendung Semurup waterfalls, approximately 15-20 meters in height, can be found on the eastern hills near the town of Semurup, and are reached after an easy, roughly one hour hike through relatively flat farmland and agroforest. Be prepared to get your feet wet wading through a few mountain streams on your way there! See more detailed descriptions here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.599289883456558.1073741...
Or check out www.wildsumatra.com
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com