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Last night's wonderful sunset at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park, in Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA. I had arrived later than I would have liked and had almost given up trying to find a spot that felt right. As I was walking back to the Vespa, I turned around and saw this view.
Lens: Tokina 11-16 mm f/2.8
Focal Length: 11 mm
Exposure: 20.0 sec at f/13
ISO: 320
Filters: 4x6 Reverse Grad ND4 over the sky; 4x6 Soft Grad ND4 angled over the sky and water.
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True to the name, Echo Cliffs really do make pretty good echoes. Which meant a lot of hooting and yelling by the kids.
The coast,the Indian Ocean meets the Great Southern Ocean,large cliffs and pounding seas.Scan from slide 1998.
Cliff Cottage in the Little Boar's Head Historic District, North Hampton, NH (c. 1880). It was owned by the Bell-White family and rented out to tenants, including Charles Bradley Isham, the son-in-law of Robert Todd Lincoln.
low cliffs at widemouth bay in north cornwall,the sedimentary layers were deposited 300 million years ago and have over time been folded into various inclines by movement of the earths tectonic plates.
Went out for a drive, ended up having fish n chips on Southend sea front.
After lots of walking in the very hot sun we couldn't climb the many stairs back up to the car so took the lift.
Also around Makawehi Bluff (a 10 mins hike from Shipwreck Beach), this was the rocky cliff formation that faced the ocean.
Cliff of lithified, well-sorted, cross-bedded, (see photo with Steve as scale) calcareous (shell fragments) sand with red unconformities.
=> indurated aeolianite (lithified coastal dune), induration by precipitation and ground water dissolving of shell clasts.
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Red unconformities: Terra Rossa palaeosoils that developed in times of dune stability (moister climate, vegetation cover - interstadials or interglacials?) burried by advances of aeolian sands. Red colour (mostly haematite) formed by in-situ weathering of the carbonates (see underlying root-like features in section)
Bryce Canyon is not the only place to see the Claron Formation (Pink Cliffs) exposed. These outcrops are visible from Alton Road, a dirt road southwest of the park, east of Glendale, Utah.
They are on the western edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, about 9.5 miles SW of Rainbow Point, the southernmost lookout at Bryce.
The Pink Cliffs are the top stair of the Grand Staircase. This is a stitch of two photos.
Cliffs in "The Narrows"
Information about "The Narrows" and "Lover's Leap":
The Cumberland Narrows is a compact notched valley, or water gap, that Wills Creek has carved into Wills and Haystack mountains in western Maryland in the United States. The National Highway (Route 40) and numerous railroad lines pass through this steep, narrow, and rocky river valley on the edge of Cumberland, Maryland.
On the northeast side of Wills Mountain, sits a rocky outcropping known as Lover's Leap. The name comes from a Native American Romeo and Juliet legend. The tale tells how a jilted lover met his end by jumping off this ledge. Today, the rocks high above the water provide one of the most breathtaking views in the Allegheny Mountains. Lover's leap has been frequently romanticized by postcard pictures of this valley. The most famous post cards were taken by George Steward in 1950 and published in the 1953 book, U.S. 40.
Lover's leap is 1,652 feet (504 m) above sea level and made up of oddly squared projectories of rock, from its top, all the way down to the National Highway (U.S. Rte. 40) below. The City of Cumberland and the surrounding states of Pennsylvania and West Virginia may be seen from this point. Further, it is known that the air currents whipping up and around are so strong, that a climber cannot be heard from the top once over the lip, nor can be easily seen due to the projected rock angles.
Information obtained at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Narrows
The Manitou Cliff Dwellings is a rare historical treasure. Preserved under a protective red sandstone overhang, authentic Anasazi cliff dwellings, built more than 700 years ago, await you here. There are no "Do Not Touch" signs. You are free to touch and even go inside these fascinating architectural remnants of an American Indian culture that roamed the Four Corners area of the Southwest from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300.
The Manitou Cliff Dwellings is located in Manitou Springs, Colorado, at the foot of Pikes Peak, the mountain that provided the inspiration for the writing of, America the Beautiful. The dwellings are open seven days a week, year round, except for Christmas Day and Thanksgiving. During the summer months, Native American Indians - descendants of the Ancient Ones - demonstrate their living culture through traditional dances handed down from generation to generation.
Next to the cliff dwellings is a three-story Pueblo-style building that houses the Anasazi museum and a Southwestern gift shop. This structure was faithfully designed and constructed in the architectural style of the Pueblo Indians, descendants of the Anasazi.
Our outdoor archaeological and natural history preserve includes reproductions of a stone mesa-top building and an Anasazi baking oven. A nature walk with well-labeled native flowers, herbs, trees and other plants connects the cliff dwellings and the Pueblo structure.
This is one section of the cliffs with the main view looking the opposite way. I found this view more appealing as the light in and out through the clouds and partially lit the face of the cliff. To gain some perspective on how large these cliffs are if you look really close you will see some objects at the far end above the cliffs. These are people that walked out there. These cliffs were an awe inspiring site.