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End of August view of the silt laden Matanuska River as colors transition. Thank you all for stopping by!

 

The wool weavers harbor was dug in 1609. This was decided to help solve the problem of the silting up of the New harbor due to flooding. The excavated sand was used to construct quays on both sides, one of which would later be given the same name as the harbor. In the early years, the port was still referred to as The New harbor, which is located south of the wool weavers harbor. The quay was initially named new storage

, named after the place where goods are unloaded and stored.. Eventually the harbor was named after the cloth makers or wool weavers who had settled on the quay. During a meeting in 1645 it was decided to also build houses on the quay. Initially there were fourteen. The image of the wool weavers harbor was determined by the a defensive wall. at the entrance of the harbour, where the Damiate Bridge was laid in 1639. This bridge connects two quays the wool weavers harbor and the Coopers harbor. In the 17th, but especially in the 18th century, the wool weavers harbor increasingly became a place where the elite settled. The area changed from a place of storage and industry into a stately residential area, so that living in a large house on the harbor gradually gave more and more status. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was still a place where the wealthy lived. More than one sixth of the inhabitants of Dordrecht belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie or elite. The Wolwevershaven was one of the most affluent streets in the city.

 

One of my favorite lakes, for several reasons: the glacial silt giving it this pretty blue/teal color, the spectacular setting and the shape of a dog/coyote head on the right.

 

The lake is fed by Peyto Creek, which drains water from Caldron Lake and Peyto Glacier (part of the Wapta Icefield), which then flows into the Mistaya River.

 

So much striking beauty along the Icefields Parkway.

 

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Thanks everyone for sending good wishes on my birthday yesterday. I had a good birthday a pleasant long lunch in a favourite restaurant , generous gifts of wine, books and chocolate.

 

I took this a couple of weeks ago when we had a stroll on the South bank of the Humber. I did not take a camera as I thought I had enough images of the Humber Bridge . However this colourful scene in Barton Haven was quite appealing thankfully I had the phone. As you can see the Humber Bridge does make an appearance in the background . As for the Haven its pretty silted up it would need a pretty high tide to get a boat in or out of here and onto the Humber

 

Taken on my phone

 

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"Chikanlou is built by the Dutch in 1653. It was originally called Provintia. In Dutch it means eternity. The Chinese called the building "Chikanlou", "Fanzailou" or "Honmaolou". Although Chikanlou has gone through Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the Japanese Colonization Period, it basically still maintains its original look.

 

Chikanlou has been an administration center from the Dutch's occupation period. In 1661 when the Chinese general, Cheng Chengkung, repelled the Dutch. is among the most important historic sites in Tainan City as well as all of Taiwan. It is also one of the prettiest. Two ornate stone and wood towers sit amongst the grounds of lovely gardens that include a koi fish pond and several statues. This includes nine stone turtles carrying large steles on their backs. The site is lovely anytime of day, but it is particularly impressive at dusk when the lights of the towers and garden are just coming into effect. On some evenings, small musical concerts grace the front lawn. turtle statues Nine turtle statues line the back of a fish pond. The Chinese style towers are built on top of an old Dutch fort called Provintia. You can still see some of the original brick foundations of this fort in certain areas of the site. It would seem hard to believe now, but at the time of the Dutch, Fort Provintia was oceanfront property. The land to the northwest of Chikan Lou has been transformed due to natural silting and man-made landfill. When the hero of Taiwan, Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga), landed his army to take Taiwan from the Dutch, he used his ships to cut off the waters between Fort Provintia and Fort Zeelandia in Anping – a thought that seems impossible given the structure of modern Tainan, Taiwan."

 

Note: I miss my hometown so badly. This was where I grew up with, my parents house was only a block away and my elementary school was right next to it...I had so much fond memories of this historical place 😪

Two totally different artistic impressions of the SEA IMP tugboats.

Two different tugs on two separate dates,

The previous tugboat appears to be owned or operated by the same fleet owner, hence the name similarities.

  

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 kilometres, into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver. It is the 11th longest river in Canada

  

British Columbia

Canada

 

Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships. Wishing you all health during this difficult time.

 

Stay Healthy

 

~Christie

  

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Two Morecambe Bay Shrimpers sat in the evening light.

 

Wellingtons were a must as I tramped carefully amongst the shallow puddles and muddy silt. I must confess I also used my old Aluminium tripod, rather than subject the carbon fibre to the briny mud at this location,

 

The light was quite harsh, but made a great job of highlighting these weathered vessels.

View from the hillock Orrustuhóll in SE-Iceland over the landscape to the south, which looks tranquil but contains a remarkable geological history. Prior to 1783 AD this would have been a view of a glacial river and vast barren sands. That year a lava stream flowed down the course of the river and spread out over the glacial sands. This was the Laki eruption; the biggest lava eruption on Earth in historical times, which brought immense hardship upon Icelanders and cooled the Earth's climate for some years. Seen here is the smaller eastern branch of the lava flow, Brunahraun, but altogether the lava from the Laki eruption covers an area some 10x the size of Manhattan. Most of the lava is now grown over with grey fluffy moss. Here a creek has partly silted the lava and created a green oasis of grass on top of the lava flow.

The wool weavers harbor was dug in 1609. This was decided to help solve the problem of the silting up of the New harbor due to flooding. The excavated sand was used to construct quays on both sides, one of which would later be given the same name as the harbor. In the early years, the port was still referred to as The New harbor, which is located south of the wool weavers harbor. The quay was initially named new storage

, named after the place where goods are unloaded and stored.. Eventually the harbor was named after the cloth makers or wool weavers who had settled on the quay. During a meeting in 1645 it was decided to also build houses on the quay. Initially there were fourteen. The image of the wool weavers harbor was determined by the a defensive wall. at the entrance of the harbour, where the Damiate Bridge was laid in 1639. This bridge connects two quays the wool weavers harbor and the Coopers harbor. In the 17th, but especially in the 18th century, the wool weavers harbor increasingly became a place where the elite settled. The area changed from a place of storage and industry into a stately residential area, so that living in a large house on the harbor gradually gave more and more status. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was still a place where the wealthy lived. More than one sixth of the inhabitants of Dordrecht belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie or elite. The Wolwevershaven was one of the most affluent streets in the city.

I was there early this morning because the weather forecasters had predicted a red sky. But unfortunately, no red sky.

 

Let's just say they're huge. This one was sunning on this silt fence near Little River, North Georgia

 

Have a good Saturday night everyone - hope you can get out soon!

In the Valley of the Ten Peaks, the gorgeous turquoise waters of Moraine Lake display their incredible blue hues from the refraction of light on rock flour; silt that has eroded from the nearby glaciers.

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The hike along the shores of Bow Lake is a classic hike in the Canadian Rockies. Fed by meltwater from the Bow Glacier, Bow Lake is best known for its incredible turquoise hue, a result of glacial silt mixing with the cold waters.

 

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Glacial Bow lake, Crowfoot Glacier and Crowfoot Mountain. Rocky Mountains, Canada

 

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Close-up of the Crowfoot glacier and mountains see here:

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51169778086

 

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See my new photos in the "My Travels" album:

 

Little house on a big island

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/53215156374

 

Magical palette of the Alpine Glacier

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52952706808

 

Unforgettable Canadian Rockies from a Bird's-eye view

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52936613157

 

Sunny day at Briksdal Glacier

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52900282048

 

Charm of the mountain valley

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52747193910

 

Scenic autumn in the Austrian Alps

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52732254615

 

Golden hour in Amsterdam

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52700387655

 

The charm of January Amsterdam

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52646610975

 

The harsh beauty of the glacier

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52558064587

 

Glacier in the palm of your hand

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52543691827

 

Summit of the foothills

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52467503895

 

Landscape of Norwegian dream

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52451030623

 

Triumph of the Alpine Glaciers

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52417942323

 

Sunset over Nordfjord

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52387819331

 

One of the main Norwegian Glaciers gems

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52368945908

 

Summer colors of the Norwegian Glacier

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52318957031

 

Cloudy weather in the Scandinavian mountains

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52287284589

 

One of the Austrian mountain gems

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52109842159

 

The magical secret of the Gruner Park

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52077298201

 

The Floating city — Flooding subsides

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/52064050045

 

The magical beauty of a mountain lake

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51952332289

 

Surrounded by mountains, forests and glaciers

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51894803796

 

In the heart of the Bavarian Alps

www.flickr.com/photos/paradox_m/51881522799

  

 

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Поход к озеру с видом на горы

 

Поход вдоль берегов озера Боу - классический маршрут в Канадских Скалистых горах. Озеро Боу, питаемое талой водой с ледника Боу, известно своим потрясающим бирюзовым оттенком - результат смешения ледникового ила с холодными водами озера.

 

Ледниковое озеро Боу, ледник Кроуфут и горы Кроуфут. Скалистые горы, Канада

 

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The sun sets on the wrecks on the banks of the River Wyre.

 

I always think it is worth the effort to done some wellies and be prepared to trudge through the silt and mud at sunset to catch a moody image of these old wooden boats. The remains of the hulls embedded in the marsh look like primeval ribs of some prehistoric beast. The light was magical before the sun finally disappeared behind clouds and set over the Irish Sea.

Up to 1 meter of silt is deposited each year at the Rivière-du-Loup marina and without dredging the marina and its entrance boats cannot leave the marina at low tide, the municipality would like to set up a permanent hydraulic dredging system but environmental concerns about the murkiness caused by the system are forcing the marina to keep it old school with a dredging barge.

 

This sunset scene was captured at the end of the marina and the dredging barge became part of the shot instead of something I had to shoot around.

 

I have traveled many times past Rivière-du-Loup on my way traveling the 1100km journey to visit New Brunswick but had never stopped or taken in a sunset there, travel in the time of Covid forces one to stop and take advantage of whatever safe activities are possible.

 

I took this on Sept 20th, 2020 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 98mm 1/100 sec f/8 ISO100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO

 

Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress

 

……With many ancient ports being silted up in North Norfolk the need to ‘use’ the tides is even important now for small boats like this! Back in the day this was a thriving port loading ships with coal and grain but trade declined in the nineteenth century leaving just fishermen to navigate ports like this at Brancaster Staithe. These days leisure craft out number fishing many fold!!.…..

 

For the interested I’m growing my Shutterstock catalogue regularly here, now sold 74 images :- www.shutterstock.com/g/Alan+Foster?rid=223484589&utm_...

©Alan Foster.

©Alan Foster. All rights reserved. Do not use without permission.……

The glacier in the background is Skaftafellsjökull, a glacier coming off Vatnajökull ice cap in Southeast Iceland.

Hulls Myton Bridge and the badly Silted-up River Hull.

On a des vues magnifiques sur les environs lorsqu'on est en haut du Mont-Saint-Michel.

 

Ici, on découvre la campagne environnante , Normandie à gauche, Bretagne à droite. Le Couesnon, au centre, marque la limite historique entre la Normandie et la Bretagne.

 

On distingue clairement un pont sur le Couesnon. Il s'agit du nouveau barrage qui a été construit récemment afin d'éviter l'ensablement du Mont Saint-Michel et lui rendre son insularité lors des jours de Grandes marées.

 

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The mouth of the Couesnon river

 

We can see gorgeous views of the surroundings when you are at the top of Mont Saint-Michel.

 

Here we discover the surrounding countryside, on the left Normandy and on the right Brittany. The Couesnon river in the center marks the historical limit between Normandy and Brittany.

 

We clearly discern a bridge over the Couesnon river. This is the new dam which has been recently built to prevent silting of Mont Saint-Michel and restore its insularity at Large tides days

 

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Mont Saint-Michel - Normandie/Normandy

 

Silt covered glacier in the Southern Alps,South Island of New Zealand

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A lone angler tries his luck in Alaska's Kenai river. The Kenai is arguably Alaska's most famous fishing river and best known for its runs of giant King Salmon (Chinook).

 

I didn't take time to fish. I fish for image opportunities nowadays.

 

The Kenai and Kasilof rivers have the richest teal waters from glacial silt I've seen. As I preferably seek out glaciers and high mountains I've seen many gorgeous teal blue rivers. I could only imagine how beautiful it would have been if enhanced by a bright sunny day, as it was always cloudy during my time here. I do plan on returning some year. Alaska is addictive!

 

Thanks for your visit. Always appreciated!

  

Lydney Harbour

As the highest point where sea-going ships could travel up the River Severn. A unique feature of the Severn is its extreme tidal range, of up to 15m (the second highest in the world). Here as the tidal river goes out you are left with these amazing sandbanks and abstract silt banks with small water channels fighting for space to flow! The pier offers fine views of the River Severn across to Sharpness Docks, 2km away, (Far right 2 tall buildings).

Who said B&W can’t be beautiful too!

Looking forward to your comments both negative, positive and/or suggestions. Many thanks in advance and hope you all have a great weekend, keep snapping and have fun!

 

Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Kop van Zuid, Rijnhaven, Dredging, Silt, Water (uncut)

 

The redevelopment of Rijnhaven has begun. The preparations of the filling in for the realization of 'Skyline Posthumalaan' is shown here. The plan: an office/apartment building strip with up to 200m high edifices, with an adjacent park and city beach.

 

Some background about this old harbour basin. It was created in 1895 to offer shelter for Rhine vessels (rijnaken), when during the winter these vessels could not operate due to the freezing of the rivers.

After the creation of the Rijnhaven (Rhine harbour), the transit freight traffic to Rotterdam continued to increase and the new Rijnhaven was made suitable for large sea-going vessels by deepening it. As planned, the Rijnhaven became an important port for the transhipment of bulk goods 'on stream' - the sea-going vessels were moored on buoys, separate from the quay and their cargo was moved directly to rhine ships. In the 70/80s of the last century, the Rijnhaven lost its transhipment function and was brought back to its old function. In 2015, the rhine ship berths were moved to, among others, the Maashaven. Enabling the redevelopment of the old harbour.

30% will be filled-in up. The rest of the harbour will be turned into a floating park here.

 

In the BG is Bayhouse under construction.

 

This is number 261 of Urban frontiers.

and 4 of the new Rijnhaven, the redevelopment album.

Moeraki Boulders

 

The boulders consist of mud, fine silt and clay, cemented by calcite.

These boulders are septarian concretions formed some 65 million years ago, which have been exposed through shoreline erosion from black mudstone coastal cliffs that back the beach.

The rock comprising the bulk of a boulder is riddled with large cracks called "septaria" that radiate outward from a hollow core lined with scalenohedral calcite crystals.

They were created by a process similar to the formation of oyster pearls, where layers of material cover a central nucleus or core. For the oyster, this core is an irritating grain of sand. For the boulders, it was a fossil shell, bone fragment, or piece of wood.

The larger, 2-metre (6-feet) in diameter, Moeraki Boulders are estimated to have taken 4 to 5.5 million years to grow.

   

 

Silts are areas outside the dykes without vegetation that are flooded with every high tide. When a silt is completely surrounded by water like an island, we call it a plate.

   

Many types of worms and shells live in the bottom of the plates and silts. They serve as food for the many bird species. The plates are also very important for the seals. They rest there and they suckle their young. To protect nature, you’re not allowed to walk on silts and plates when they dry up.

   

Only when silts become high enough, we see the first plants: Common Cord-grass and Glasswort. This can gradually lead to the formation of a salt marsh. A salt marsh is an area outside the dykes covered with plants, through which winding creeks run. During high tide these creeks are filled with water; they are dry at low tide. Only in case of extremely high water levels does the salt marsh flood. This means that plants growing on the salt marshes must be able to withstand salt water, such as glasswort and sea lavender.

Silt Island, Philadelphia.

Blakeney was a commercial seaport until the early 20th century. Now the harbour is silted up, and only small boats can make their way out past Blakeney Point to the sea. The harbour and surrounding marshes are owned by the National Trust and is a nature reserve where seals can be seen basking on the sand. Just inland from the harbour is Mariners Hill. This vantage point is believed to be man-made, probably as a lookout point for the harbour. Adjacent to the hill, at the foot of the village's High Street, is the old Guildhall with a 14th-century undercroft. Higher up the village, the Church of St Nicholas has two towers: the main tower is more than 100 ft (30 m) high and a well-known landmark for miles around; the smaller tower was built as a beacon to guide boats into Blakeney Harbour.

I used my own sky and Skylum Aurora HDR filters

 

Entered in Sin City Group's "Waterfront" contest here:

www.flickr.com/groups/sin_city/discuss/72157718844587579/...

  

The Historic Hull Trawler "Arctic Corsair" seen on her permanent berth on The River Hull,

Its so badly silted up with grass growing on it ,together with dumped items like supermarket trolleys.traffic cones etc etc,

Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the way to the Valley of the Gods park. The scenery is something out of this world. Clay-colored cliffs, where nothing grows, stand in contrast to the snow-capped mountains. The silt from the cliffs runs off into the valley below.

The River Thames is a muddy river with a silt bed, which gives it a brown appearance. The murky brown colour of the water has led many to believe that the Thames is dirty and polluted, but it’s actually a lot cleaner than it looks.

 

The River Thames has made a remarkable recovery since the industrial revolution, and is today clean enough to support over one hundred species of fish.

 

This post is about why the River Thames looks brown, as well as how polluted it really is.

Why is the River Thames Brown?

 

Text is not mine, but taken from here:

 

wandlenews.com/why-is-the-river-thames-brown/#:~:text=The....

 

The River Thames appears brown because there is silt on the riverbed. This silt is made up of fine particles which disperse in the water and make it look muddy.

 

There are six different types of sediment that can be found on a riverbed:

 

Silt (mud/clay)

 

Sand

 

Cobbles

 

Boulders

 

Gravel

 

Bedrock

 

The material found at the bottom of the river will affect the appearance of the river, as well as the kind of wildlife it will attract. For example, trout require silt free gravel for laying their eggs. Chalk streams like the River Wandle, tend to have gravel or flint beds, which are ideal for trout.

 

Carp on the other hand like silt riverbeds as the silt contains natural food sources for them such as bloodworm. Since the River Thames has a silt bed it is therefore a magnet for carp.

Another unused shot from the archives, but this time from April 2017, when we drove across for the day to visit some favourite places on the north Norfolk coast.

 

Many years ago Thornham was a thriving port but it has silted up over the years to form salt marshes and a series of narrow and shallow tidal inlets which can only be used by small boats at high tide. This old boat seems to have found its final resting place on the salt marshes.

 

The building on the left is an old coal store dating from when ships would sail down England's east coast bringing coal from Newcastle.

 

High angle view from Bow Summit lookout on Peyto Lake, colored by glacial silt in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada, North America. It was named for Bill Peyto, an early trail guide and trapper in the Banff area. The lake is 21 km (13 mi) long and 142 m (466 ft) deep, making it the longest lake in the mountain parks of the Canadian Rockies.

( Fresh snow on the ground and mountains ). Banff National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Enjoying the sand and silt looking for more grubs to consume. This little sandpiper came to within 10 meters of me that morning.

 

Calidris pusilla

 

Photographed in September in Toronto Ontario

Longhorn Cavern State Park is located in Burnet County, Texas. Between 280 and 300 million years ago, mountain-building forces shifted in an event called the Llano Uplift, which formed faults and fractures in the limestone. Water flowed through the cracks, dissolving limestone and forming Longhorn Cavern. From 1934 to 1942, the depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps explored the cavern and made it accessible by removing tons of silt, debris, and guano and by building stairs and walkways both into and inside the cavern. It was dedicated as a state park in 1932 and in 1938 was opened to the public. In 1971, the cavern was dedicated as a National Natural Landmark. Before the cave became a tourist attraction, it was used over the years by Native Americans, Confederate soldiers (who made gun powder from the guano deposits) and outlaws. Cavern temperatures range up to 68F (20C) year-round. The 90-minute tour covers 1.1 miles underground at depths of 40 to 140 feet (12 to 43m).

Silt Island, Philadelphia.

#ABFAV_FAVOURITE_PLACES_THEME

  

A few miles from Brugge, you have the small town of Damme.

In the Middle-Ages, this used to be the harbour of Brugge, one of the wealthiest cities in the North.

Due to silt the North Sea is now about 25 miles out, but Damme retained it's reputation for good food and beer, wonderful old buildings full of the history of revolutionary Flanders.

Centuries later Napoleon saw the importance of the area and ordered a system of canals to be built.

Today, whichever road you come from, if you want to get to Damme, you'll drive along those beautiful treelined canals.

I walked across one of the bridges, a major junction, in Oostkerke, of those magnificent, unique tree lined canals.

Behind me were syphons and sluices.

A UNIQUE landscape that just goes on and on and on... A photographer’s paradise!

 

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Silt Island, Philadelphia.

silt in a ditch during spring runoff

 

Silt Island, Philadelphia.

This is the River Hull in Hulls Old Town .. So much mud that it as vegetation growing on it. A real eyesore for the City and for Guests at the Premier Hotel seen in the picture ..

Rustic float & silt homes on the scenic Alouette River

Kissed by the late afternoon, setting sun - About as peaceful as it gets !

 

South Arm of the Alouette River

Pitt Meadows

British Columbia, Canada

 

A special thanks to all my Flickr friends and visitors, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.

 

I would also, like to extend my thanks, to all those who place my images in their beautiful galleries, or use my images for their covers.

 

Additionally, I am truly humbled to receive so many thoughtful and generous testimonies. I cannot express how deeply touched and honoured I am, to find such caring and beautifully written words left on my behalf.

 

Thank-you, thank-you for all the love.

 

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Pittsburg & Shawmut’s Brookville local passes a silt pond near the loader at Markle, Pennsylvania. The green water in the pond still provides a reasonable reflection.

Under part of this pier the rusty metalwork showing corrosion from years of contact with sea water and exposure to the elements The effect provides a rather dull kaleidoscope of colours particularly on the upper part of the beams. The silt is probably

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Banff National Park is in the Alberta Rockies region of Alberta, Canada. Together with six other national parks it makes up the UNESCO World Heritage site"Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks".

Peyto Lake is a glacier-fed lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The lake itself is easily accessible from the Icefields Parkway. It was named for Bill Peyto, an early trail guide and trapper in the Banff area.

The lake is formed in a valley of the Waputik Range at an elevation of 1,860 m (6,100 ft).

During the summer, significant amounts of glacial rock flour flow into the lake from a nearby glacier, and these suspended rock particles are what give the lake a unique bright, turquoise colour.

 

Why is the lake so blue (turquoise)?

The junction of the stream, the lake and the delta is the clue.

Water leaving the glacier is muddy with rocks, gravel and silt. As the stream slows down most of the rubble is left behind to become delta. Silt flows into the icy water where most of it sinks to the bottom. Fine particle of rock ground to the texture of baking flour do remain suspended in the water. This “rock flour” scatters the blue-green rays of the sun-light, giving the lake its special blue-turquoise color.

 

The lake is fed by Peyto Creek, which drains water from Caldron Lake and Peyto Glacier (part of the Wapta Icefield) and Peyto Lake is the origin of the Mistaya River, which heads northwest from the lake's outflow.

 

Ref Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyto_Lake

 

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Schlickrutscher und Entenrennen

the new spot on the Belgian coast at Middelkerke beach

Dusk on the slipway at Knott End looking across the River Wyre Estuary to Fleetwood.

 

The footprints in the muddy silt were not left by me, they were there when I arrived pre-sunset. The low light reflecting on the slipway highlighted them well and help take your eye along the slipway to the sea and the fading light in the distance!

 

This slipway serves the Fleetwood - Knott End Ferry which plies across this estuary. Strangely the two floodlights didn't work when I was there, whereas the lights higher up the jetty all came on!

 

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Yes, a big favourite place for us in Flanders.

 

A MUST ON OUR VISIT.

 

Such a lovely silence except for the rustle of the majestic Elm- and tall Poplar leaves.

 

Those cathedral like trees (the flat landscape needed these ‘wind-stoppers’), dappled light, and again, the silence only broken by a bumblebee, a bird, a distant moo, the shutter of the camera.

 

A few miles from Brugge and the coast, you have the small town of Damme.

 

In the Middle-Ages, this used to be the harbour of Brugge, one of the wealthiest cities in the North.

 

Due to silt the North Sea is now about 25 miles out, but Damme retained its reputation for good food and beer, wonderful old buildings full of the history of revolutionary Flanders.

 

Centuries later Napoleon saw the importance of the area and ordered a system of canals to be built.

 

Today, whichever road you come from, if you want to get to Damme, you'll drive along those beautiful treelined canals.

 

Here, all the rows of trees, bordering both a cycle/walking path and a bridle path, what an impressive sight.

 

Have a lovely day, M, (*_*)

 

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