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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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Cape Verde is not really for people who like to portray birds. It is for hiking. But in Ponta do Sol I did see some birds near the sea like the Turnstone, the Whimbrel and this bird the Western Reef Heron. A bird I hadn't seen before who was fishing near the rough ocean, running around to catch fish, not really bothered by my presence.
So i spent several hours and several days at this place which is situated near the harbor. That was another interesting place for observing. The fishing boats came in every morning, and a great part of the male population was buying fish here, and cleaning it on the lava beds in the ocean. The Turnstones (and the cats!) were present to eat the leftovers.
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.
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.
Reef like a aquarium
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Hiked along one of the washes to get to this rock formation out there in the landscape. This way I did not disrupt the desert landscape that struggles everyday there to survive and thrive.
Captured with the CPL filter in the filtered (by some thin clouds) sunlight on the scene.
Was lucky that this fellow flew in for a few minutes whilst at Long Reef. Not as sharp as one would like as it was just after sunrise.
Sunrise at Long Reef marine reserve this morning.
Low tide at Long Reef exposes a wide flat rock shelf with scattered rocks and residual rock pools
The rain season is ending, we start again and go diving
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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.
Carcharhinus melanopterus
Snorkelling on Moorea, French Polynesia
Photo taken from David's GoPro video (my underwater camera failed me!)
There's a point on the scenic drive of Capitol Reef National Park where if you turn back you can see an incredible landscape. Exactly this point!