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We were lucky enough to make a bonus stop on Alisa Craig - - it is a 99 hectare island in the outer Firth of Clyde. (16 Km west of mainland Scotland )
It has a quarry where all microgranite has been quarried for the manufacturing of curling stones.
It also had a healthy cliff of nesting Northern Gannets which are seen here flying overhead as we pass through.
Northern Gannets - Alisa Craig - Scotland
I am still working on a selection of my central Asia trip, and that will take a while, but there is still so much more to share.
This is one I musn't forget, another one from my Munken hike, this time to the east and looking on the mainland of Norway.
enjoy!
Two-alarm fire in Richmond visible across Lower Mainland
The fire broke out at a recycling plant in north Richmond [...].
Nearly 30 firefighters are on scene at a massive fire at a recycling plant in north Richmond Saturday.
Smoke from the fire is visible from as far away as the North Shore. Kirsten Clarke / Richmond News
PS The Waxing Gibbous Moon on August 29 has an illumination of 86%
Captured from our home in North Vancouver
this is where it ends, my impression of a week on the magical isle of Terschelling... after almost seven weeks of sorting out and editing my photos, I can continue with the here and hopefully soon with the now...
Beautiful cozy and Fun house, because we are romantics not saints ^^ (mainland ❤ linden)
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My Anthem:
Blood for freedom
You're pushing me into the corner
Don't fight with me
Don't fight with me
Don't fight with me
I'm crowning no man for his armour or Rhapsody
For what I see and what I feel
Wake up
I'm defying you, seeing right through you once I believed in you
Wake up
Feel what's coming deep within we all know
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within
Raise your banner, won't you come
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
I'm feeling the eyes of the fallen, they're watching me
They make me see, they make me see
I'm feeling the pain how you break them and make them bleed
You make them bleed, you make them bleed
Wake up
I'm defying you, seeing right through you once I believed in you
Wake up
Feel what's coming deep within we all know
The way that you torment me
The way that you challenge me
The way that you make me bleed
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within
Raise your banner, won't you come
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
Blood for freedom
So raise your banner, fight your war
Break the silence, no remorse
Won't die within
Raise your banner, won't you come
Fight the venom, the good die young
Won't die within
When Gods are failing
They put all heaven in a rage
We're on our own
Our tears keep falling
They're setting fire to the flame
Blood for freedom
Cádiz
The bridge of the Constitution of 18125 (originally called the Pepa bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge that crosses the bay of Cádiz, giving access to Cádiz from the mainland, being the third access to the city, after the link by the Isthmus of San Fernando and the Carranza bridge. The bridge is the continuation of the Southern highway, forming an integral part of the Access highway to Cádiz, being responsible for it by the Ministry of Development of the state government. The board is divided between the dual carriageway (two lanes in each direction) and another carriageway reserved for public transport.
The bridge began construction in 2008 and was opened on September 24, 2015.6 Once opened, it became the brightest bridge in Spain at 540 meters. Considering the cable-stayed bridges, it would be the third brightest bridge in Europe, after the Normandy bridge (856 m) and the Rio-Antirio bridge (three 560 m spans). The total work consists of the bridge over the bay, with a total length of 3,092m, 1,440 of which over the water, plus the 796m Río San Pedro Viaduct. With the accesses to the bridges, the work extends over 5 km.
The project was written by the engineer Javier Manterola and has been carried out by the Spanish company Dragados. The total cost of the project was 511 million euros.7
SÜDAFRIKA, Pinguinkolonie Stony Point
SÜDAFRIKA, Pinguinkolonie Stony Point,
Stony Point Nature Reserve conservation
This unique mainland seabird breeding colony is the home to three endangered seabird species and one rarity, all of whom are visible from the reserve’s elevated viewing boardwalk.
The iconic black and white African penguin is the focus of conservation efforts. Our hardy endemic arrived from declining off-shore island colonies to this rocky mainland location in 1982 and has thrived ever since to currently support the largest penguin colony in the Western Cape with over 2 000 seasoned breeding pairs (data correct as of 2014).
The uniformed black Bank cormorant pairs, with courting white rumps, predominate at the rocky outcrops of Beacon Bay in Stony Point. The clumsy Cape cormorant roosting numbers are increasing at this location due to their symbiotic foraging relationship they share with the deep diving penguin and other neighborly marine predators. Finally, our rarity at this unique location is the Crowned cormorant whose pairing numbers are also increasing. They too brood alongside the Bank cormorant and also predominate the rocky out crops of Beacon Bay. Their tea-pot form, crest of plumage and ruby colored eye amongst the black and turquoise of the larger Bank cormorant
Seen at Tawharanui Peninsula, New Zealand.
Saddlebacks were widespread in New Zealand, but their numbers rapidly declined following the introduction of predatory mammals, especially ship rats and stoats, by early settlers. By the early 1900s, North Island saddlebacks were confined to a single Island off the northeast coast of the North Island. A series of successful bird translocations started in the 1960s. There are now 15 island populations and five at predator-fenced mainland sites.
The population here on the Tawharanui Peninsula were introduced in 2012, and they are now thriving in the relatively safe predator-fenced environment.
Gyokusendo Limestone Cave locates in the south part of mainland Okinawa, Nanjo city, and is situated in Okinawa World. Gyokusendo is currently the largest limestone cave as ever discovered in Japan. Its size consists of more than 5,000 meter long. Their stalactites are numbered more than 100 million and still keep growing.
Bring a cotton towel if you photograph inside of Gyokusendo Limestone Cave. As the humidity is high, your lens will be easily misted. And please keep not changing your camera lens! The sensor of your camera will be damaged. :D www.edenwalkers.com/?p=3131
A great title and song by Al Green, and it's impossible not to be in love with Hebridean beaches. There are often these spits of sand between the various islands and the mainland on North Uist. This was a day wandering the beaches, looking for sand patterns . I loved these beautiful wave rippled effects, as the tide rushed in. Just a magical experience.
Harbour in the town of Stromness (on the island of Mainland, Orkney, above the north coast of Scotland), on a partly sunny day at the end of March 2001.
Fishing boats and the car ferry St Ola are docked there. Although there is a small airport on Mainland, outside the town of Kirkwall, ferries have been the primary means of reaching the islands of Orkney. The ferry company operating services to Stromness at the time when this photo was taken was P&O Scottish Ferries.
(From the "archive" -- 2001. Please forgive the technical limitations of this digital image, which was scanned from a slide / diapositive.)
[Stromness harbour with ferry fishing boats 2001 mar 30; digitised slide; 42-007]
It is the main island of Orkney, located in the north of Scotland. Mainland is both the largest island by size, but also by its population, 75% of the inhabitants of the archipelago live on this island, mainly in the towns of Kirkwall and Stromness.
C'est l'île principale des Orcades, situées au nord de l'Écosse. Mainland est à la fois la plus grande île par sa taille, mais aussi par sa population, 75 % des habitants de l'archipel habitent sur cette île, principalement dans les villes de Kirkwall et Stromness.
ORKNEY ISLAND
SCOTLAND
The Parish Church of Saint Denys
The small estate village of Aswarby sits just off the A15 a few miles south of Sleaford, the main road skirts around the park and a lane leads up to the church, the lodge and a some neat stone estate cottages. Aswarby Hall was rebuilt for Sir Thomas Whichcote by H E Kendall in 1836, the Hall was requisitioned by the armed forces in WW2 and fell into neglect after the war, the building was eventually demolished in 1951.
Aswarby Hall was the setting for M R James's short ghost story 'Lost Hearts'.
The parish church is dedicated to St Denys, it is a large county church with a 12th century font, 15th century west tower and crocketed spire.
George Bass was a naval surgeon and explorer of Australia and Tanzania and was born in the village in 1771. The Bass Straits, a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland are named after him.
Mainland
Parcel 2048
Prims 1406
Used 804/ Clients 74
Free 528
Description:
A pretty garden, with a fantasy but light feel. A base for a small store to build in time, but a home to escape to.
(See last photo for parcel before)
Mainland
Parcel 2048
Prims 1406
Used 804/ Clients 74
Free 528
Description:
A pretty garden, with a fantasy but light feel. A base for a small store to build in time, but a home to escape to.
(See last photo for parcel before)
This pic was part of the exhibition Discovering Mainland-Down Route 8.
Was taken somewhere along the way.
The High Peak of Land just visible in the top centre of the picture is Suliven Mountain which is in the middle of the North West Highlands (Lairg) of Scotland - only visible because of the Refraction (magnification/trick of the light) This was taken at sea level looking down towards Hoxa Sound entrance to Scapa Flow looking across towards Mainland Scotland a distance of about 160 miles
Maeshowe is a neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave on mainland Orkney. Part of the world heritage sight. What an evening it was when we visited with a tremendous sky.
There is very very little processing on this image aside from raw conversion and some alteration to the shadow detail. Orkney is great for reducing time spent on photos :)
SUNSET IN NORTHERN EVIA.
The island of Evia lies along the Eastern coast of Central Greece, and is accessible to the mainland via two bridges, an old wooden bridge and a contemporary suspension bridge. There are also frequent ferries to several parts of the island. It is 175 km long and is the second largest island in Greece, and the third largest in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Taken during a 4 day photographic vacation with my beloved English wife Theresa Jane Brown.
Thanassis Fournarakos - Θανασης Φουρναρακος
Professional Photographer, retired.
Athens, Greece
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Wat Phnom ("Mountain Pagoda") is a Buddhist temple (wat) located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It was built in 1372, and stands 27 metres (88.5 ft) above the ground. It is the tallest religious structure in the city. The pagoda was given the name of Wat Preah Chedey Borapaut. Wat Phnom is the central point of Phnom Penh.
Legend relates that a wealthy widow called Penh (commonly referred to as Daun Penh – Grandmother Penh – in Khmer) found a large koki tree in the river. Inside the tree she found four bronze statues of the Buddha. Penh constructed a small shrine on an artificial hill made by the people living in the village to protect the sacred statues. Eventually this became a sacred site and sanctuary where people would make blessings and pray.
Then it came to the year of the snake 1437 suggests King Ponhea Yat ordered His Excellency Decho Srei to raise the mount even higher when he finished building the new Royal Palace in the new city he then named Krong Chaktomok Mongkol or simply known as Phnom Penh. The prominent stupa immediately west of the sanctuary contains the ashes of the king and his royal family.
Wat Phnom is the center of celebration during Khmer New Year, and Pchum Ben.
Wat Phnom appeared on the Travel Channel documentary, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. It also served as the Pit Stop for the 4th Leg of The Amazing Race 15.
Mainland
Parcel 2048
Prims 1406
Used 804/ Clients 74
Free 528
Description:
A pretty garden, with a fantasy but light feel. A base for a small store to build in time, but a home to escape to.
(See last photo for parcel before)
Mit dem Katamaran von Cuxhaven zur Insel.
Nicht nur, dass sie mit einer Entfernung von mehr als siebzig Kilometern, die am weitesten vom Festland entfernteste Insel Deutschlands ist. Zudem ist das bemerkenswerte Helgoland auch unsere einzige deutsche Hochseeinsel.
The port of our only offshore island, Helgoland (North Sea)
Take the catamaran from Cuxhaven to the island. Not only is it the furthest island from the mainland in Germany, at a distance of more than seventy kilometers. The remarkable Helgoland is also our only German offshore island.
IMO: 9431056
MMSI: 249446000
Call Sign: 9HSF9
Flag: Malta [MT]
AIS Vessel Type: Tanker
Gross Tonnage: 5823
Deadweight: 7750 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 122.66m × 17.2m
Year Built: 2008
Status: Active
► Location: The Flats on Cycnia
I tasked myself with backpacking across the grid and exploring all the Linden Routes. I started on the Atoll continent, and I loaded up on the Second Life Railroad and found this lovely little property owned by a group called Lucky 13. This little parcel allows rezzing for pictures, and don't forget to click on Madam Zita for your fortune while you're there!
► If you're looking for a place to live on the amazing and diverse mainland, please hit up Dove Darkfold! We specialize in mainland parcels and have some beautiful places. Visit Elite Land Rentals on their SL Marketplace!
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Germany, Heligoland, “The Red Rock”, a small German sedimentary rock archipelago in the North Sea.
Formerly in Danish & British possessions, Britain gave up the islands to Germany in 1890 in the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty. The islands, approximately population 1,650, are located in the Helgoland Bight, part of the German Bight, in the south-eastern corner of the North Sea. Heligoland is the only German offshore island 70 km away from the mainland, approximately two hours' sailing time from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe, three hours from Hamburg with a high-speed catamaran ferry.
Helgoland consists of two islands, the populated triangular one square km big main island to the west & the “Düne”, the dune to the east. Until 1720 the two islands were connected, when the natural connection was destroyed by storm tidal waves.
The main island is commonly divided into the “Unterland", the lower land at sea level & the “Oberland " the upper land consisting of the plateau 40-60 m high over sea level & the “Mittelland” middle land between them on one side of the island.
Northwest of the island Heligoland's famous landmark is found, the “Lange Anna”, "Tall Anna", which is a free standing rock column, 47 mtr high & weighing about 25.000 tons.
The concrete wall on the north-western side serves to protect the island from thundery sea & destruction.
The abandoned Heligoland islands were used from 1945 to 1952 as a bombing range. April 1947, the Royal Navy detonated 6,700 tonnes of explosives, "British Bang", one of the biggest single non-nuclear detonations in world history. While targeting at the fortifications outside & the inside of the rock, which is perforated with tunnels etc. like a Swiss cheese & still today can be visited.
While using the island as a bombing range, the British Government & the Royal Navy accepted the total destruction of the island. The blow shook the main island several miles down to its base, changing its shape resulting in creating the “Mittelland”.
December 1950, two students & a professor from Heidelberg, occupied the island & raised various German, European & local flags on the island. The British military arrested the “intruders” & brought them back to the mainland. Because of this event, a movement started to restore the islands to Germany with support by the German parliament. In March 1952, Heligoland returned to Germany & the former inhabitants where allowed the homecoming & rebuild their houses & infrastructure.
Besides ambulance, police, firefighters & a few golf car like vehicles are no vehicles, bikes etc. on Heligoland permitted.
There is a special section § in the German traffic regulations prohibiting the use of automobiles & even bicycles on the island.
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