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One of the parking areas for the Dyke Marsh Trail is at the Belle Haven Marina. While there I noticed this osprey nest. I got as close as I could and zoomed to the max on my 70-300 mm lens. The National Harbor complex is in the background; it looks a lot closer than the actual distance of about 1.5 miles across the Potomac.
Dyke - Pogum River Ems - Pogum im Rheiderland ist eine Ortschaft in der Gemeinde Jemgum im Landkreis Leer in Ostfriesland.
My previous uploads featured the view from the top deck of a bus at Devil’s Dyke in Sussex, some 711 feet (216m) above sea level. It seems only right to show the rest of the bus, so here it is: Seaford & District’s immaculate former Dublin Volvo Olympian / Alexander, P772 SWC. Having walked across the Downs from the top of Ditchling Beacon (even higher at 813 feet above sea level), a trip back down to Brighton seafront on an open-top Olympian was most welcome :-)
Devil's Dyke is a well known beauty spot on the South Downs near Brighton. At nearly a mile long, the Dyke valley is the longest, deepest and widest 'dry valley' in the UK. There are two explanations of how it was formed. The first says it was created over 10,000 years ago by melt waters at the end of the last Ice Age. Nah, boring! The truth, of course (or, at least, the one I prefer), is that it was dug by the Devil, who wanted to drown all the people living in the area, by digging a trench through to the sea, because they were the last in the country to convert to Christianity and he was miffed at the thought of losing his only stronghold. He had boasted he could complete the work in one day, but was tricked into thinking it was already dawn (by someone with a candle and a cockerel ... really?), whereupon he abandoned the job and fled, humiliated, never to return. Oh, and he threw some of the earth down in disgust as he fled ... forming the Isle of Wight. So now you know. :)))
The people on the footpath give an idea of scale.
Hessle Dyke from Livingston Road flowing into the River Humber the area in parts is full with litter and rubbish, yet few yards away is a skate park and beautiful walks of the River Humber Banks. Captured with an iPhone SE. In monochrome
I saw this fine example of part of a volcanic dyke in late-afternoon sunshine whilst driving up State Route 12 near the Cucharas River just south of La Veta in southern Colorado. It is one of dozens of dykes that radiate from West Spanish Peak towering up in the background.
Two peaks, East Spanish Peak at 3,867m (just off-shot to the left) and West Spanish Peak at 4,155m, are east of, and separate from, the Culebra Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Both are higher than any point in the United States farther east. They are 164 km due south of (and can be seen from) Colorado Springs and were an important landmark on the Santa Fe Trail, being the first sighting of the Rocky Mountains for travellers on the trail. The mountains can be seen from points up to 160 km east on the Great Plains.
The Spanish Peaks were formed by two separate shallow (or hypabyssal) igneous intrusions during the Late-Oligocene epoch of the Paleogene Period. West Spanish Peak is an older (roughly 24.5 million-year-old) quartz syenite. East Spanish Peak is about 23.4 million years old and is composed of a granodiorite porphyry surrounded by a more aerially-extensive exposure of granite porphyry. The granite porphyry represents the evolved upper portion of the magma chamber while the interior granodiorite porphyry is exposed by erosion at the summit.
The Spanish Peaks were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1976 as two of the best known examples of igneous dykes. These vertical granite formations were formed by molten rock several thousand feet underground, below and among many layers of sedimentary rock. Over time, the ground rose and the softer rock eroded away, exposing these igneous intrusions.
Spanish Peaks Country has three unique sets of dykes. One emanates radially from the West Spanish Peak, another set emanates radially from Silver Mountain, and a third set crosses the landscape roughly 80Ëš east of north. The dykes in this third set are roughly parallel to one another, are the longest and oldest, and were formed around the same time as the Sangre de Cristo Uplift - the event that pushed up the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 27 million years ago.
Spanish Peaks Country’s dykes are granite. In the western portions of Las Animas and Huerfano Counties, there are some uplifted stone walls of the Dakota Formation. They look like granite but are actually compressed, durable sandstone parts of a formation running from Canada to Mexico along the Front Range and eastwards.
Scanned from a negative.
A snowscape of a dead fallen tree on Devil's Dyke on the South Downs National Park Sussex, England, Uk
37402 passes Black Dyke whilst working the 17.31 Lancaster to Barrow-in-Furness. This working is due to finish with the timetable change at the end of the month.
I took this Panorama with my iPhone in between showers up at Devils Dyke nr Brighton in East Sussex, amazing how the weather can change.