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Gestern in der Vulkaneifel bei Niederdürenbach, im Hintergrund die Burgruine Olbrück.
Auf dem Wasserspiegel des renaturierten Rodder Maar (war bis vor gut 10 Jahren ausgetrocknet) blüht zur Zeit großflächig die Europäische Seekanne (Nymphoides peltata).
Yesterday in the volcanic Eifel near Niederdürenbach, in the background the castle ruin Olbrück.
On the water level of the renatured Rodder Maar (was until about 10 years dried) flowers at the time the yellow floating-heart or fringed water-lily (nymphoides peltata )
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I just had to stop and photograph this Rat Rod parked in a lot off of 2nd Avenue in Timmins in Tisdale Township in the City of Timmins in Northeastern Ontario Canada
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Cumbres and Toltec RR, Engine 489, K-36 Class, at the first crossing heading to Cumbres. I edited it in HDR, a little unusual for me but I liked the look. It is said that a "proper" steam train photograph is taken when the rods are in the down position. And so it is.... :)
04-May-2022: about turism: my perplexities towards a future with more and more bans and more and more over-taxes.
Lake Bohinj and the much more famous Lake Bled are close (less than 20 km) but the second has a mass tourism now rooted, while the first is expanding its tourist reception in recent years, coming out (unfortunately) from the shadow of Bled, that was a lightning rod for peaceful and symbiotic nature lovers.
I am totally against mass tourism because it transforms a relaxing resort into an area where it is difficult even to access it.
Around Lake Bled, even at a certain distance, there are only paid parking lots, which come to cost 6 euros per hour (about the most decentralized and in May...) that, certainly, leave perplexed about the "tourist selection" that "they" would like to implement (high-end tourism) and, in general, certainly drive away the tourist in search of nature and not restaurants, bars, concrete lake-front and crowd baths.
The naturalist tourist should not feel like a tourist in Nature, which is a single great asset of humanity and that only administratively is divided between various Countries, while in Bled, as in Rimini or Cortina d'Ampezzo, they make you feel not only tourist, but also guest, sometimes unwanted if you spend little.
As tourism increases, so do the bans, because unfortunately mass tourism includes many people who don't know anything about Nature and generally only go to very touristy places to make themselves of...people, sowing dirt and ignorance wherever they move.
The imposition of prohibitions/bans to limit the "damage from mass tourism" affects everyone indiscriminately, including locals and naturalists who have always had a symbiotic relationship with these places, thus making them become inhospitable, at least to those seeking pure contact with nature itself.
Of course this happens all over the world, but it should be condemned.
We already pay State taxes for the maintenance of the slice of Nature that falls within our administration, tourist surcharges, exploiting market laws that should be verified and contained, are for the most part unconstitutional, as well as several prohibitions that deprive access and use of public property.
With the money that the tourist municipalities pocket they could very well implement a targeted prevention (controls by foresters, cameras, ad hoc fences for areas subject to micro-pollution...) rather than closing everything and then de-empowering themself on the maintenance of roads and areas (more and more numerous), thus going to save further, starting from the basic taxes that we pay to also have access to given areas.
I can understand that you tax parking at high altitude to maintain the roads, but the amount of the payment should be directly proportional to the expenses that must be incurred to ensure accessibility, not by putting prices at random and with increases of 200% from one year to the next.
I have always appreciated the fact that Slovenia, thanks also that it is not densely inhabited and has a modest tourism (except precisely Bled, Postojna Caves and the Coast), guarantees a wide accessibility and use of its territories and I hope it can continue, limiting the prohibitions and parking lots everywhere.
Fisherman fishing off the wharf
Bedford Channel, Fraser River
Fort Langley, BC
Across the channel, a ribbon of campfire smoke escapes through the trees.
Fort Langley is a village community forming part of the Township of Langley in British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of 3,400. It is the home of Fort Langley National Historic Site, a former fur trade post of the Hudson's Bay Company. Lying on the Fraser River, Fort Langley is at the northern edge of the Township of Langley. ( Wikipedia )
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~Christie by the River
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Rodeado de nieve, este precioso Pinzón se posó un instante, lo justo para poder sacarle dos fotos.
Fringilla coelebs is surrounded by snow in Sierra Espuña, Murcia.
As every year in July, the European water lily (yellow floating-heart or fringed water-lily, Nymphoides peltata) blooms extensively on the surface of the renaturalized Rodder Maar (a lake of volcanic origin).
The landscape there invites you to hike and linger, and that is also on my agenda today.
Auf dem Wasserspiegel des renaturierten Rodder Maar blüht wie jedes Jahr im Juli großflächig die Europäische Seekanne oder Teichkanne (Nymphoides peltata).
Die Landschaft dort läd zum wandern und verweilen ein, auch heute steht das auf meinem Tagesprogramm.
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