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Bass Point is a headland in Australia on the New South Wales south coast. The point was named by Matthew Flinders in around 1800, after his friend and fellow explorer George Bass. Wikipedia

Highland cow, Portlethen - and one of two very sharp, pointed horns!

Finally my vacation is about over had to stop and see Crisp Point lighthouse and Lake Superior, love the scenery.

Gibbous moon composite with Point Pinos Beach in Pacific Grove, California near Monterey. Long exposure processed with Lightroom, Photoshop, layers and Topaz Simplify filters.

* A second shot from Spurn Point this time looking inland. Spurn is well known as somewhere to see fantastic sunsets . However this evening it was not that spectacular but still rather enjoyable to see . This was taken looking across the Humber estuary towards the East Yorkshire “ mainland “ . There is not a lot of water in the shot just some very wet mudbanks .

If you are interested in the area there is a description of Spurn Point in the text of my previous post

 

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Castle Point Lighthouse is a truly majestic lighthouse standing on a rocky cliff which was formed 2 million years ago. It’s the tallest lighthouse in North Island. It’s a charming place, which every photographer will love. It takes less than 15 minutes to walk to the top viewpoint. You can still see some fossil shells in the rock if you walk to the end of the boardwalk.

 

Blue hour at Marshall Point Light in Port Clyde, Maine, with color removed.

 

The current lighthouse was built in 1858, and following a lightning strike to the original, the current keeper's house was built in 1895.

Penmon Point lighthouse and puffin island at Angelsey.

Novigrad na Dobri castle (14th ct.), Croatia

 

(trying to achieve a moody film look by manipulating curves, levels and colors from the RAW file)

Neist Point, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Cloudy beachscape

Photographed and toured the Long Point Lighthouse in Crow Head on North Twillingate Island off the Northeast Coast of Newfounland

 

Long Point Lighthouse is an active Canadian lighthouse located outside Crow Head on North Twillingate Island off the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The lighthouse, completed in 1876 and is historic to the town of Twillingate.

 

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The lighthouse at Penmon point on Anglesey, North Wales, UK

 

Sunrise over the Panamint Range west of the erosion landscape at Zabriskie Point / Death Valley.

 

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Bass Point is a headland in Australia on the New South Wales south coast. The point was named by Matthew Flinders in around 1800, after his friend and fellow explorer George Bass. Wikipedia

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اختلاف الرأي لا يفسد من الود قضيه ..

divarication is not a big deal ..

DEW POINT

The dew point is the temperature at which dew would form assuming all other conditions remained the same. The dew point is a function of the air temperature and humidy. The dew point temperature can never be higher than the air temperature. If the dew point temp and air temp are the same, than the humidity must be 100%.

The last light of day on the Point Bonita Lighthouse in the Marin Headlands, California, as seen from Lands End, San Francisco.

Point Lookout Lighthouse ~ Original lighthouse built in 1830. In 1927, the lighthouse was expanded toward the Potomac River and divided into a duplex so that two families could live in the lighthouse. The lighthouse was deactivated in 1966.

A sundown at the Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park. It was a very cold December day after the sun set. It was also a very warm looking sunset. This was shot a couple of months after the record setting flood that swept Death Valley. Some of the roads were still closed. National Park Services from CA, NV, and AZ contributed to restoring most of the main roads.

 

The low area in Zabriskie Pont is now covered with light colored sandstone sediment from the heavy rains. Earlier that year, the low area was dark colored.

 

Later after blue hour, I took a hike down into the low grounds for some panoramas. It was cold, and the ground was hard. The winds had picked up and the temperature had dropped about 20 degrees once the sun went down. Nevertheless, a peaceful hike.

 

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* Given that Spurn Point is relatively close to Hull I guess it's surprising I do not go there often. It is the oddest and wildest part of East Yorkshire with huge skies. However I find it too desolate to really enjoy, though some of my friends who are serious birders love it . This shot was taken on the narrowest parts of the spit. On the left hand side is the North Sea and on the right the waters of the Humber estuary . The little wooden cabin is a shelter in case a high tide cuts you off from the mainland which is not uncommon. You can see the lighthouse which is about four miles further along the spit.

Its a hard place to describe so I will borrow some text from the Yorkshire wildlife trust .

  

From the Yorkshire wildlife trust website

 

Spurn Point (or Spurn Head as it is also known) is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 3 miles long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards wide in places. The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and disused lighthouse. It forms part of the civil parish of Easington.

Spurn Head covers 280 acres above high water and 450 acres of foreshore. It has been owned since 1960 by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and is a designated National Nature Reserve, Heritage Coast and is part of the Humber Flats, Marshes and Coast Special Protection Area.

The peninsula is made up from sand and shingle as well as Boulder Clay eroded from the Holderness coastline washed down the coastline from Flamborough Head. Material is washed down the coast by longshore drift and accumulates to form the long, narrow embankment in the sheltered waters inside the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is maintained by plants, especially Marram grass . Waves carry material along the peninsula to the tip, continually extending it; as this action stretches the peninsula it also narrows it to the extent that the sea can cut across it in severe weather. When the sea cuts across it permanently, everything beyond the breach is swept away, only to eventually reform as a new spit pointing further south. This cycle of destruction and reconstruction occurs approximately every 250 years. The now crumbling defences will not be replaced and the spit will continue to move westwards at a rate of 2 metres per year, keeping pace with the coastal erosion further north.

  

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I think they're fences.... maybe not, but they are not walls.

McGulpin Point Lighthouse (1869) is located on a bluff overlooking the Straits of Mackinac. It was deactivated in 1906 and until recently the lighthouse was a private residence.

 

Emmet County purchase the lighthouse for $720,000 in the summer of 2008. In the Spring of 2009 Emmet County replaced the long missing light & lantern room and began returning the residence portion of the lighthouse into a museum dedicated to the history of McGulpin's Point Light and the surrounding McGulpin family land. Since May 30th, the McGulpin Point Light shines across the Straits for the first time since 1906.

 

The grounds are open anytime. McGulpin Point Lighthouse is now a museum, but I think the best reason for entering the building is to climb the winding red stairway to the top of the tower. Even better it's FREE!

 

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Lowell Point recreational trailhead located in Seward, Alaska. The beginning of a awesome hike to south beach and the old military fort I have yet to take.

Madère, falaise du nord de l'île.

A slightly different perspective on one of the Elegug stacks. From here it looks like an needle, or the "aim point" at the end of a rifle!

 

The light was very strange here on this evening and the colours were fabulous. An enchanting place to be, all alone with a camera! In the spring this stack is full of nesting seabirds, particularly Guillemots and Elegug is the Welsh word for that species.

Green Heron in the canal, Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

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Jutting out into the Pacific Ocean from the spectacular Big Sur Coast, the Point Sur Lighthouse stands as a silent sentinel to a by-gone era.

Point Sur, a National Historic Landmark, is the only complete turn-of-the-century light station open to the public in California.

From 1899 until 1974, families lived and worked in the buildings atop Point Sur. Today the place is a ghost town.

The unique stone lighthouse still guides ships with its light, though it is now totally automated.

  

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Pointe aux épinettes

 

Parc national du Bic

Le Bic (Rimouski), Québec

 

Le parc national du Bic est situé dans l'estuaire maritime du Saint-Laurent. Ses caps, baies, anses, îles et montagnes en font depuis toujours sa fierté.

 

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Pointe aux épinettes

 

Bic National Park

Le Bic (Rimouski), Quebec

 

Located in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Parc national du Bic proudly showcases its capes, bays, coves, islands, and mountains.

 

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Shortly after shooting the lighthouse posted before this, and after the sun had set, I was shooting some long exposures on the water and looked up and saw this amazing sky. It only lasted a few minutes but it was one of the best I've ever seen.

A combination of strong wind and bad technique left this shot quite mushy, but the brief sunset light with lots of dust in the air made for a good scene nonetheless. Grimes Point is an archaeological site near Fallon NV with some of the oldest petroglyphs around. The NV Rock Art Foundation notes that this site dates back 8,000 years, when the shoreline of ancient lake Lahontan filled the desert floor below.

The first peoples in Cape Naturaliste were the Wardandi Aboriginals, who called it "Kwirreejeenungup", meaning "the place with the beautiful view". In 1801, the French navigator Nicolas Baudin stopped here on 30 May during his exploration of Australia. The French were mapping the coast of New Holland (Australia). Baudin named the bay they found Geographe Bay, after his flagship, Géographe. Later, the cape was named after the expedition's second ship, Naturaliste.

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