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Sorry - no athletes on screen ;-)
Februay 2009: I started a new group Reinhardswald to show the whole area.
Seriously:
"Beberbeck" is part of an agricultural area utilized for farming. This area is located in Hessian in the middle of a forest which is called "Reinhardswald". Many people (but not crowded) use this area for local recreation like hiking.
Only a few people do live there, most of them in an old people`s home.
Now the goverment plans to build there a big hotel resort with round about 6.000 beds. Golf courses shall be created, lakes and stuff like this.
If realized it would be the biggest resort in Germany.
Conservationist fear that this plans will destroy the nature. They worry about that lot of water would be needed for hotels and golf courses. That could lower the groundwater level. Thousands of people around get their drinking water out of this area.
There are only small streets through the forest - not big enough for the upcoming trafic.
It's questionable if 6.000 beds can be filled. It's not a sunny area, no golf sport is possible during winter season.
The old people's home would be closed, they do not fit the modern world.
At the moment the goverment is looking for investors. More than 2.000.000 Euro are gone for questionable preliminary work.
Looks like we change intact nature into a dubious project followed by ruins of abandoned hotels.
Guess, what I would prefer?
Für die Deutschsprachigen gibt einen sehr schönen Link der weitergehende Infos zu dem geplanten Projekt liefert.
Möge sich jeder selbst ein Urteil bilden!
This picture has also been taken during my "winter walk". On this track goes my train that I take every day to go to work.
SB 25 on full on ground just left of runner. 285 on 1/2 outside of frame on camera right. Underexposed sky by 1 stop.
Gently set the camera down between the tracks; check the exposure; set focus on infinity; 2 second delay - push button. Oh, and don't forget to look around carefully to make sure there are no trains coming!!
Been quite busy lately but hopefully, everything is still on the right track.
Jul 15 @ Taipei,
Ricoh GRD2
The Trans-Australian Railway crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in West Australia. It includes the world's longest stretch of dead-straight railway track — a 297 mile length..
Here's a 3 mile stretch close to my home in NJ, USA
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