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A tour around the island of Antigua ... starting and ending at Jolly Beach.
Devil's Bridge is a natural rock arch in eastern Antigua. It is located on the Atlantic coast at 17°6′1.7″N 61°40′42.2″W, near Indian Town Point to the east of Willikies. The area around the arch features several natural blowholes which shoot up water and spray powered by waves from the Atlantic Ocean. This particular location is exposed to waves that are pushed by the Trade Winds with no land between here and Europe. Nearby popular local swimming spots such as Long Cove are sheltered by an offshore reef acts as a natural breakwater.
Mountain climbing is one of the most popular attractions of Devils Tower. It was first climbed on July 4, 1893 by ranchers William Rogers and Willard Ripley. They ascended by driving wooden pegs into cracks in the rock, which is still visible today. Fritz Wiessner free climbed his way up in 1937. In 1941 as part of a publicity stunt, George Hopkins parachuted his way atop Devils Tower. Unable to ascend, he was then trapped for six days before being rescued. Around 4000 people climb Devils Tower every year, one of the most popular spots in the United States.
The Devils Tower is sacred to the Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa, and many have strongly objected to what they see as desecration by climbers. Climbers have retorted that as Devils Tower is public land, they have every right to climb. A compromise has been reached, where there is a voluntary climbing ban enacted in June, when the tribes hold their ceremonies at Devils Tower. 85% of climbers honor the ban.
Devils Tower National Monument, Hulett, Wyoming
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The devil's fork, Radio and TV antenna on the Mont-Royal. There is an interesting dichotomy between this structure and the other one on the mountain, the giant cross.
Mont-Royal, Montréal, QC, Canada
The story goes that long ago an old woman's cow wandered acros the river, and she wondered how she would ever get the beast back. The devil heard of her predicament and promised that he would build a bridge across the river if the old woman promised that he would get to keep the first living thing to cross the bridge. She agreed, and the devil built a bridge overnight. Well, the old woman was clever; she tossed a loaf of bread across the bridge and her faithful dog dashed across to fetch it. The devil was furious; he had no need of the dog, it was the old woman's soul he was after! He disappeared in a rage. There are now three bridges, stacked one above the other, but the lowest and oldest bridge is said to have been the one built by the devil himself!
In reality the first bridge was built 1075 - 1200 (some reports state in was built by Monks, dated as early as the 800s), and was followed by a second bridge, built on top of the first, about 1753. Finally, an iron bridge was built atop both earlier bridges in 1901.
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88-0413/AV The 510th Avanio based F-16C taxis out for it mission carrying the AQM-37C Jayhawk supersonic drone
Pink Jeep Tour...boy! They take you everywhere...thankfully, I did not take this one! We hiked to this spot!
The reflective surfaces are not textures!
Mumixer had pointed me in the direction of Devil's Moon a few weeks ago but with one thing and another I only made it out there today - and fell flat on my face so to speak: I was always under the impression that reflections and reflectivity is beyond the scope of present day real time render. So, how on earth did they achieve this? And why does it create no lag whatsoever? I took a lot of screenshots, some from the exact same location at slight angle variations since I want my computer scientist colleague, Selim to take a look at these and tell me what the hell is going on here...
Beautiful SIM too btw, but quite frankly the technology had me so gobsmacked that I couldn't really take much else in. Will go back for sure.
6 hours later:
ahum... Mossy put me wise: It is an extremely clever design trick: They did the entire architecture twice, one being the perpendicular mirror image of the other and then interleaved it with those transparent textures.
jeez... am i embarrassed or what?
The way thorny devils drink water is ingenious. Their body is covered in a system of tiny grooves or channels that run between their scales. All the channels lead to the corners of their mouth. These channels absorb water via capillary action. Not only can the thorny lizard capture rain this way, it can also absorb dew drops, for example from the vegetation it moves through, via the capillaries. Once the water is in the grooves the lizard can suck it towards its mouth by gulping.
Silhouette of Devil's Tower in Northeastern Wyoming. Looks kind of eerie like it's waiting for the mothership of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to arrive.
Sketched while waiting for a ranger-led hike to begin. After I started sketching the rocks, an Iron Brigade reenactor walked into the foreground and a visitor approached him to talk. This sesquiscentennial was a sketcher's paradise!
The hike took us through Rose Woods to the Wheatfield, from which we could see the Peach Orchard. Those names sound very pleasant and pastoral, but the scene was anything but pleasant on July 2, 1863. The bloody wheatfield changed hands some five or six times that day.
July 2, 2013
Devil's Den, Gettysburg, PA, USA
Photographed over at Vysehrad Castle.
The image is from the Devil card in our Victorian Romantic Tarot.
Thrift Shops, Museums, The Egyptian Theatre Oh My! Lighthouse Ghost, Devils, and Hobbit Trails Oh My! Pre's pre Nikes, Myrtle Wood Money, and sliding down the Sand Dunes Oh My!
Debbie W and I took a roadtrip to Florence/Coos Bay. We stayed at the Lighthouse Inn in Florence. We visite Haceta Head Lighthouse/Devils Elbow, Old Town Florence, HWY 101 to Coos Bay ith county museums, and print shop museum (with a Printer's Devil). Who knew the Coos BayArt Museum had Prefontaine's running shoes in a special room... and the Egyptian! A 1920s theatre with a fabulous Neon sign -- and luckily The Swiss Family Robinson movie was playing! The Thrift shops were either really good or really bad, and sometimes really good AND bad! We skipped the Sea Lion Caves - but let the Devil's Churn freak us out. Fabulous visit!
From the former ramparts of the Iron Age hillfort, across the dry valley, looking towards Newtimber Hill