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Muriwai's gannet colony is a one hour drive from the centre of Auckland. Next to the car park, a short walking track leads to a viewing platform right above the main colony area. Out to sea, the colony continues on two vertical-sided islands. About 1,200 pairs of gannets nest here from August to March each year.
Like most of Galapagos, Sombrero Chino (Chinese Hat) is volcanic in origin. The exploration path starts with a gorgeous beach, bright red Sally Lightfoot crabs and marine iguanas. The path goes past a colony of endemic Galapagos sea lions before passing a lava field: look for the lava cactus growing in the cracks. On the beach, keep your eyes open for the American Oystercatcher, a wading bird with a distinctive orange beak. On the trail, you may see lava lizards.
Colony Glacier hanging over Inner Lake George.
On the left side next the mountain, near where the glacier falls into the lake, the wreckage of a C-124 military aircraft was re-discovered.
In November 1954, this aircraft took off from Washington state heading towards Elmendorf AFB in Alaska, but never made it due encountering poor weather as they needed to descend over the Chugach Mountains into Anchorage.
The wreckage was discovered again in 2012, having moved nearly 14 miles down the mountain since 1954, as the glacier has ebbed down from the original crash site.
Ocean Drive is a major thoroughfare in the South Beach neighborhood of Miami Beach, on the east or Atlantic coast of the State of Florida, in the United States. In July 2020, Miami Beach Commission passed a resolution that banned cars on Ocean Drive to create a pedestrian thoroughfare and increased sidewalk seating.
The water tower in the middle of the chapel bridge is part of the historic city fortification of Lucerne and is considered a landmark of the city.
The 35-metre-high octagonal and slightly leaning tower complements the city fortification towards the lake. Its construction time cannot be determined with certainty, but certainly after 1262, so even before the chapel bridge built. It has long served as a defensive and watchtower, as well as a cornerstone of the city's fortification. Over the years, he was a city archive, treasury, dungeon and torture chamber.
It is mentioned for the first time in 1367. The existing roof chair dates back to 1339. Since 1939 the tower has been rented to the Lucerne Artillery Association. The tower is rarely open to the public, usually only in summer.
On the lower floor of the tower is a dungeon. Its walls are three meters thick, there are neither windows nor doors. Access is only possible via an opening in the floor of the room above. The dungeon was probably used as a prison until 1759 and then abandoned. On the first floor is the so-called treasury. It served as a prison and as an interrogation and torture chamber until 1759. From 1759 to 1798 the state treasure was kept here, from 1798 to 1803 the room served again as a prison and from 1804 to keep the securities of the community. The second upper floor was until 1759 the place of storage of the Lucerne State Treasury and the State Archives.
When it was discovered in 1758 that money had been stolen for years, it was converted into a prison (until 1802). From 1804 to 1919 he again housed the municipal archive. The striking stork nest on the top of the tower has not been used for over 100 years. The 15-metre-high attic served as an interrogation and torture chamber. Since 1892 alpine sailors have been breeding here in a colony, which is supervised by the Ornithological Society of the City of Lucerne (OGL), since 1959 on behalf of the City Council of Lucerne. The Alpine sailing colony in the water tower is the largest Alpine swift "Tachymarptis melba" colony in central Switzerland.
A cormorant colony at Taiaroa Head, a headland at the end of the Otago Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand.
Camera: Canon PowerShot G3.
Edited with Adobe Photoshop.
Shags or cormorants nesting in yesterdays tree at Lake Rotorua. A pity they weren't there with the beams from above. I've given them an enhanced dawn light instead. :)
The Himalayan marmot lives in colonies and excavates deep burrows that colony members share during hibernation.The species hibernates from the late autumn to the early spring, on average for 71⁄2 months. Burrows are between 2 and 10 m (6.6–32.8 ft) deep, given that the upper soil layer is sufficiently light and deep such as fluvioglacial, deluvial and alluvial deposits. Where soil conditions are ideal on alluvial terraces, marmot colonies comprise up to 30 families, with up to 10 families living in an area of 1 km (0.6 mi). The marmot eats plants growing on pastures, in particular the soft and juicy parts of grassy plant species like Carex, Agrostis, Deschampsia, Koeleria and flowering species like Euphrasia, Gentiana, Halenia, Polygonum, Primula, Ranunculus, Saussurea, Taraxacum Iris potaninii.
Typically restricted to rocky shores, black guillemots utilize the cliffs, crevices and boulders for their nests, hunting the inshore waters for benthic prey. Compared to other auks they forage fairly close to the colony, in the breeding season mostly in inshore waters more than 50m in depth, farther afield in the winter months.
They dive for food from the surface, swimming underwater. They mainly eat fish and crustaceans, also some mollusks, insects and plant material.
Being 3km above the sea, on a volcano summit, above the clouds, it certainly felt a bit .. unearthly. This is Haleakala Observatory located on top of ... Haleakala (duuuh!) summit, Maui's tallest mountain. It was established in 1961 and it's operated by University of Hawaii. It has multiple telescopes and its location, above one third of Earth's stratosphere, offers excellent astronomical seeing conditions. The best thing a visitor can do up there is enjoy a breathtaking sunset or sunrise. Just be aware that to visit the top of the mountain during sunrise you need to make a reservation several days ahead (something I wished I knew before visiting Maui)
Fiso Da Costa (ft Lorena) - Landscape beyond the clouds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAc95xdJIiI
Βρισκόμενος 3χλμ πάνω απο τη θάλασσα, στην κορυφή ενος ηφαιστείου, πάνω απο τα σύννεφα, σιγουρα το σκηνικό μπορεί να μοιαζει ... εξωγηινο. Αυτο που βλέπετε εδώ ειναι το Παρατηρητήριο Haleakala το οποιο βρισκεται στην κορυφη του βουνου Haleakala (το ψηλότερο της νησου Maui της Hawaii). Χτίστηκε το 1961 και αποτελεί μέρος του Πανεπιστημιου της Hawaii. Έχει πολλαπλά τηλεσκόπια και η τοποθεσία του, βρισκόμενο πάνω απο το 1/3 της στρατόσφαιρας, προσφέρει ιδιαίτερα πλεονεκτικες συνθήκες για αστρονομική παρατήρηση. Το καλύτερο που μπορεί να κάνει ενας επισκέπτης εκει πάνω ειναι να επισκεφθει την κουρφη κατά τη διάρκεια της ανατολης η της δυσης. Σημαντική λεπτομέρεια: για επίσκεψη κατά την ανατολη απαιτειται κράτηση pakring (!) αρκετές μέρες νωρίτερα (κάτι που μακάρι να ηξερα οταν επισκεφτηκα το νησι)..
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Evening Sky - Looking towards Maruthamalai . Maruthamalai is obscured due to smoke and haze
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A shot of part of the large Gentoo Penguin Colony on Cuverville Island on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The birds seek out exposed rocky areas to make their nests to avoid laying eggs on snowy or icy spots. This often entails the Penguins making some significant climbs from the sea to reach such land.
Here at Cuverville Island the birds look out over the Bay with the stark mountain backdrops making a great photogenic scene.
ST. ANDREWS BAY is home to the island’s largest king penguin colony, first described in 1883 during a visit by the 1882-3 German International Polar Year (IPY) expedition. 1,100 birds were recorded there in 1925, when it was believed to be the largest colony on the island. The population has increased drastically over the years to more than 32,000 breeding pairs in the winter of 1985, and over 150,000 breeding pairs in 2002. Consequently, the colony is not only increasing but at a faster rate than any other colony on the island. The reasons for this increase are not entirely clear. In addition to king penguins, St Andrews Bay is also home to over 6,000 southern elephant seal cows during the pupping season, making it one of the largest elephant seal breeding beaches on the island.