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The remnants of thick fog from earlier in the morning were blowing onto the shore, making this a very pretty spot to relax for a while before the 5 hour drive back to Boston.
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Fort Clonque just out into the dangerous channel called "The Swinge" on Alderney
Clonque is a Victorian era fort, that was modified by the Nazis onto a part of their "Atlantic Wall", like most of Alderney. You can rent this place from the landmark trust goo.gl/AdLiK
While everyone was enjoying the beautiful view and temples of Luluwato, I saw this man enjoying one of the greatest moments of his life. fishing from the top of a cliff is definitely great.
November 21, 2010
Luluwato, Bali, Indonesia
I went for a ride to Fámara today, it is just a few km away from my village, but I haven't been there for many years. I was very surprised to find these gorgeous cliffs there, they go vertically down to the sea, 218 meters above sea level. It was breathtaking to go near the edge, so beautiful. There is a farm in Fámara, just a bit further down in the valley, south of this place. Two people live there only, they moved to Fámara last year in 2010, before that the place was not inhabited for two decades or so. It takes around 10 minutes to drive from here to Vágur, the nearest village. Fámara is on the west coast of Suðuroy. Most of the west coast are vertical cliffs, we are spoiled with cliffs, the highest sea cliff in Suðuroy is Beinisvørð, which is 470 meter high.
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Birling Gap, near Eastbourne in East Sussex, are part of the world famous Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, one of the longest stretches of undeveloped coastline on the south coast. From right to left, this view shows a panorama from the east towards Beachy Head , the chalk cliffs at Birling Gap, and towards the west towards the seven sisters.
This photograph was taken during our drive around the West Fjords in the northwest portion of Iceland. Here we visit the Latrabjarg Cliffs to observe and photograph the puffins as well as other cliff loving birds.
This is an eternal memory from my childhood. I probably spent a thousand hours on these beaches and cliffs and the park while growing up.
The cliffs rise 120 metres (390 ft) above the Atlantic Ocean at Hag's Head, and reach their maximum height of 214 metres (702 ft) just north of O'Brien's Tower, eight kilometres to the north.
They take their name from an old fort called Moher that once stood on Hag's Head, the southernmost point of the cliffs. The writer Thomas Johnson Westropp referred to it in 1905 as Moher Uí Ruis or Moher Uí Ruidhin. The fort still stood in 1780 and is mentioned in an account from John Lloyd's a Short Tour Of Clare (1780). It was demolished in 1808 to provide material for a new telegraph tower. The present tower near the site of the old Moher Uí Ruidhin was built as a lookout tower during the Napoleonic wars.
The cliffs consist mainly of beds of Namurian shale and sandstone, with the oldest rocks being found at the bottom of the cliffs. It is possible to see 300 million year-old river channels cutting through, forming unconformities at the base of the cliffs.
There are an estimated 30,000 birds living on the cliffs, representing more than 20 species. These include Atlantic Puffins, which live in large colonies at isolated parts of the cliffs and on the small Goat Island. Also present are hawks, gulls, guillemots, shags, ravens and choughs.
The Cliffs of Moher have appeared in numerous media. In cinema, the cliffs have appeared in several films, including: The Princess Bride (1987) (as the filming location for "The Cliffs of Insanity"), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), and Leap Year (2010). The cliffs are mentioned in the Martin Scorsese film Bringing Out the Dead (1999), and are noted in the 2008 documentary Waveriders as the location of a large surfing wave known as "Aileens".
In music, the cliffs have appeared in music videos, including Maroon 5's "Runaway" video, Westlife's "My Love", and Rich Mullins' "The Color Green". Most of singer Dusty Springfield's ashes were scattered at the cliffs by her brother, Tom.
In television, the cliffs appear in the episodes of Father Ted called "Tentacles of Doom" and "Cigarettes and Alcohol and Rollerblading" (1996).