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When I worked at Mt Cook National Park in New Zealand, we called them thar. The zoo calls them tahr. It thre me a bit, at first, but it seems that either name is correct.
The majority of flat land on the horizon -- and the island midframe -- is North Korea. This is taken from the Hushan section of the Great Wall of China.
Hushan, in Liaoning province, 15 km northeast of Dandong, is the easternmost section of the Great Wall of China. (That is to say, the easternmost known to date...) About 600 meters of the wall were excavated here in 1989 and, in 1992, a section was renovated and open to the public. The section runs about 1,200 meters over the top of Hushan Mountain.
The wall was built during the Ming Dynasty. The wall, like the nearby city of Dandong, were established to guard against Korean invaders from the south.
As far as sections of the wall go, this is probably about as common as the other renovated sections I've been to (Badaling, Mutianyu, Juyongguan). What makes this distinctive -- along with being the easternmost section -- is its proximity to the North Korean border. Hushan Mountain, at many points, is within 15-20 meters of sovereign North Korean soil. It's quite fascinating to be that close to that country without having the massive DMZ that you find on the southern end of the DPRK. It makes it feel like a more "naked look" into that nation.
We were in a pretty small boat* circumnavigating Resurrection Bay, which teems with marine life, including some rather large, and potentially deadly citizens. One thing that's interesting about orcas, aka killer whales, which live in family "pods," is that regionally, some are fish eaters and others seek mammals such as seals.
We never got a full-on look at an orca's face, but sure got good looks at their watery exhalations. In this photo the blow hole itself is just visible.
I learned that toothed whales like orcas have a single "nostril" whereas plankton-eating whales like humpbacks have to nostrils. There are humpbacks in Resurrection Bay, and one fellow excursionist saw one briefly, but the rest of us unfortunately did see it.
*Seward Ocean Excursions, a captain and 6 passengers
IHTSW?!: 2013-23 - Transportation; The clouds finally broke after three straight solid cloudy evening. One of my favorite modes of transportation was returning after enjoying a well deserved gorgeous day!
Thar is a special purpose off-road vehicle that has got the rich heritage & cult appeal. Equipped with standard 4x4 and a powerful 2.5L CRDe engine, Thar can go where most would dread to tread. Thar is now available with off-road specific accessories known as 'Expedition- Kit'.
This Auto - Expo 2014, Mahindra customization is showcasing Thar 'Midnight' Edition in hard top guise. Going forward, this hard top would be available & fitted through our dealer channel and would enable customers to make their Thar more user-friendly.
This is what my average whale photo looks like. Actually, it's a little better than average. Usually I capture the tip of a dorsal fin or, sometimes, roiling, empty sea where the whale was a fraction of a second before.
A photo of a whale's blow is still dramatic - how often do we see this event in person, after all - but it pales in comparison to the preceding photo of the same whale lobtailing.
Persistence pays. After I took this photo, I kept my lens trained on the same general location. Thirty-three seconds later, I was rewarded with the marvelous cetacean acrobatics in the preceding photo.
There were NO pictures of this on the internets, so I took my own. You're welcome, internets.
Thar's antiseptic ointment! Whoo!
This year's summer art project is "Don't Miss the Boat - Discover Downtown". There are two styles of boats decorated by artists scattered around the downtown area during business hours. There are sailboats and speedboats.
I thought this one with the musical penguins was really cute!
Whales, Baxtergate, Whitby, 2 Jul 2016
A reminder that Whitby was a whaling port between 1753 and 1837.
Great Indian Desert with an area of more than 200,000 sq.km.
Und als wir dort auf den Dünen inmitten der endlos erscheinenden Wüste saßen - geschafft nach einem anstrengenden Tag des Kamelreitens - folgte das Wunder, auf genau das wir gewartet hatten: Uns wurde Bier gesandt! Ob es sich letztlich doch um eine Fata Morgana handelte vermag ich nicht zu sagen... aber ich glaube es war echt.