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Capitol Reef National Park is one of the lessor visited parks in Utah but in my opinion still very scenic.
When we stopped at the visitor center, I saw this cool picture of this old barn up on one of the walls. I thought it made a great composition so I had to capture it.
Luckily it's only a mile or 2 down from the visitor center at the Gifford Homestead.
Per the National Park service website... The original home was built in 1908 by polygamist Calvin Pendleton. He and his family occupied it for eight years. The original house had a combined front room/kitchen and two small bedrooms. An outside ladder accessed two upstairs bedrooms. Pendleton also constructed the barn and smokehouse, as well as the rock walls near the house and on the mesa slopes above it.
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For the last 800 years, lime has been mined here.
But 63 million years ago, it was a giant coral reef at the bottom of an ocean.
If you bring a hammer and chisel, you can find shells, shark teeth, sea crocodile teeth and more.
It was "only" 3 million years after the great meteor strike that killed the dinosaurs, but life on earth flourished again. There is a geomuseum on site that tells about nature at that time.
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Amazing layers there ... with upheavals at all angles, so hard to get a feel for what is level there ;)
I was very careful stepping on some rocks to get to this pristine section of the desert. The soil there is alive, and takes many years to get to this state ... so not stepping on it is quite important. I really liked this pristine view of the earth there leading into the wall of the Reef there in Utah.
This view was via one of the back dirt roads there in the park.
Another visit to this location with some ok conditions providding a hint of colour and some flow over the rock shelf.
On way out after spending the day at Capital Reef National Park I pulled over the side of the road and scrambled on top of a boulder to take one of my last shots for the day.
This point near Bell Buoy Beach in northern Tasmania marks the beginning of a rocky reef. As the name suggests it extends out to sea and along the coast for two miles. It is one of the reasons the Low Head Lighthouse was built to warn shipping.
Basaltic pebbles makeup most of the sediment on the beach at Malarrif, which means "pebble reef" in Icelandic. For centuries the farm at Malarrif was one of the most isolated farms in Iceland. It was the westernmost farm on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula and the nearest settlement to it was the fishing village at Hellnar. The lighthouse here had an important role for Icelandic fishermen for decades as they fished in the rich fishing grounds by the shore. Icelanders fish these same grounds for centuries. The lighthouse was built in 1917 and rebuilt in 1947. The height of the lighthouse is 20 meters, and the light had a range of eighteen miles. The farm and lighthouse is now an important tourist center in Snæfellsjökull National Park.
Reef like a aquarium
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The San Rafael Reef rises spectacularly, with uplifted monoliths of bare sandstone reaching hundreds of feet above the desert. This formation, which continues for many miles, is accented by a repeated pattern of soil and brightly colored rock forming "teeth" at the bases of the uplifted slabs. This shot shows the repeated pattern and the layers of the "teeth."
The pattern formed by many teeth is seen in the first comment.
Capitol Reef Sunrise: The color of the rocks at Utah's Capitol Reef National Park give a fantastic analogous color match with the rising sun, with the spots of green complimenting the magenta hues. I found this excellent sunrise view at Sunset Point, which is a perfect location for getting a grand view of this beautiful park.
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A boat standing on the beach during the low tide, protected by a coral reef. Subauma, Bahia, Brazil.
Deep sea missile silo? The remote undersea prison of Aquatraz? An exotic moon base? I wasn't quite sure which of those ideas to pursue as I was building this but once I settled on the colourful base and coral, an altruistic research station seemed the most appropriate backstory for the thriving seascape.
Inspired by that massive VIDIYO canopy (65128), built for the New Elementary 5x5 parts fest. Read more about my investigation into the canopy here and find out more about the 5x5 fest here.
While walking the Chimney Rock Trail with a view looking to the east-northeast while on a morning hike in Capitol Reef National Park.
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Snorkelling on Moorea, French Polynesia
Photo taken from David's GoPro video (my underwater camera failed me!)