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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.
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.
Visited a Gentoo Penguin Colony in Antarctica.
Neko Harbour lies on the eastern shore of Andvord Bay, approximately 11 km (7 mi) south of the Errera Channel. It was discovered by Gerlache during his Belgian Antarctic expedition (1897-9). It is named for the floating whale factory ship, Neko, which often used this bay. Neko operated between 1911-2 and 1923-4 in the South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula. This site is a mainland landing and home to approximately 500 breeding pairs of Gentoo penguins, some of which nest around the foundations of an Argentinean refuge hut. Weddell seals may also be seen hauled-out on the cobblestone beach.
Cape Cross is one of the largest colonies of Cape Fur Seals, and a historic place.
The Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reached Cape Cross in January 1486, being the first European to visit this area, and erected a monument called "padrão", which is a stone cross with Portuguese insignia and an inscription.
The name of Cape Cross is derived from this padrão.
Cape Cross Seal Reserve
Cape Cross - Namibia
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.
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. :)
A moody morning panorama of the Australasian Gannet colony at Muriwai on Auckland's West Coast. The next bay down the coast is Maori Bay, a popular surfing spot, and you can see two surfers waiting for waves just above the sea stack.
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.
No wonder it is the RSPB logo, what a bird. These (I am assuming male) birds were showing off to the females whilst periodically flying noisily round the lagoon in arobatic fashion.
Taken at RSPB Minsmere on the Suffolk Coast.
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)..
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.
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Evening Sky - Looking towards Maruthamalai . Maruthamalai is obscured due to smoke and haze
~Outfits~
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~Pose~
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~Location~
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(ACCESS main event April 12th)
We are back at the Low Head Lighthouse to start the week. This monochrome image is taken in front of the weather station and looking up to the elevated lighthouse (43 metres above sea level).
If you enlarge this photograph and look around you will make out some burrows in the thornbush that are home to a colony of Little Penguins (I'll tag one to make it easier for you): penguinfoundation.org.au/about-little-penguins/