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Morning on Downhill Beach looking towards Mussenden Temple with a rock pool in the foreground.
Just after sunrise the sky took on some nice but subtle colours which was nice to experience as it wasn't looking good up to that point.
This is a second shot of the route taken by the “Elevador da Bica” one of the so typical Lisbon funiculars.
For the previous one (the shot was taken looking upwards whereas this one is looking on the opposite direction – downwards) see my post here:
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The nineteenth century funicular ascends one of Lisbon’s steepest hills, between the riverside and Bairro Alto.
Bica is considered Lisbon’s most picturesque funicular, leading up to the Bica and Bairro Alto neighbourhoods, an area full of distinctive buildings, little shops and some nice restaurants. Bairro Alto, is nowadays one of the trendiest neighbourhoods in the city.
Built in 1892, the funicular was initially moved by the water counterbalancing system, whereby movement was achieved by loading the car at the top of the hill with water until it was heavy enough to descend the hill and pull up the other car at the bottom of the hill. In 1896 the Elevador da Bica became steam powered, and in 1924 it was electrified.
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Lisbon, Portugal
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Downhill House was a mansion built in the late 18th century for Frederick, 4th Earl of Bristol and Lord Bishop of Derry (popularly known as 'the Earl-Bishop'), at Downhill, County Londonderry. Much of the building was destroyed by fire in 1851 before being rebuilt in the 1870s. It fell into disrepair after the Second World War.
Downhill House is now part of The National Trust property of Downhill Demesne and Mussenden Temple.
Both Mussenden Temple and Downhill Beach were used in Game of Thrones as filming locations for Dragonstone. Remember the
burning of the ancient gods by Melisandre on the beach? Well, that was here. And also where Stannis Baratheon pulls the
flaming sword "Light-bringer" out of the flames.
Today I decided to spend the dying stages of my Winter vacation for a hiking tour up the Hohenstein, one of the rare areas in Northern Germany where you have high hills and rocks. It was breathtaking to climb up the hills in foggy conditions and to face sunshine when I walked down. Hessisch Oldendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany
July 1pm hour. When you get to the downhill side of the day, every new moment seems like a brand new day. We're on the downhill side of the year, too. There's so much to be excited about ahead! Just look beyond...
Thank you for your patience, my Flickr friends. I'm on the downhill side of my project and I'll still be off and on for awhile longer.
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Norfolk Southern’s 19K manifest train rolls down the hill on the west side of Philo. Not even one minute later and the sun had set below the horizon. Although these Class I railroads are boring power-wise, lighting like this is what makes the shot worth it.
The truly spectacular Quiraing is an icon of Scotland. Many people visit only the first short section of path. My intention was to walk around it, but heavy rain prevented me from doing so. A real shame, as the site is so spectacular.
This image will be the last in my current set of b&w images from Ireland as I will be moving on to post a set of autumn landscape and nature images from Ontario, Canada which I have been recently making.
The above image is of Downhill Country House (Bishop's Palace). Built in the 1770's for Frederick Augustus Hervey, Castlerock, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Destroyed by fire in 1851.
You can see a colour version of this image below for comparison.
Descending into the Crater Plateau of Mount Ruapehu.
Last bit of sidewall into the crater was icy and steep so we proceeded to dagger down slowly from round about where the lead/left climber is in this photo. Unfortunately my rookie daggering technique and hiking crampons with tiny spikes were a little inadequate which has led to my spectacular fail and slide into the crater, only minutes after this photo was taken :-)
I bet not many people had face-planted into the crater of the highest mountain on North Island before - I guess I may well be the the first. Maybe I shall return and place a plaque commemorating the event.
LOL!
Although the big-rigs and other vehicles are having no particular problem conquering the roller-coaster ride on parallel Highway 56, the hogger running Cimarron Valley (ex-CSX) C40-8 4053 and sister GECX (ex-CSX) C40-8 #7522 is taking it nice and easy on this, the last leg of his train's journey from Satanta to Dodge City, Kansas. The run of nearly 60 miles has taken the better part of 5 hours and it'll be dark before the train finally ties up at the BNSF yard in D.C., but for now, the sun gets one more opportunity to turn the Kansas landscape a golden hue.
Not bad for the end of Day 2.