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Dernière étape de ce périple sur la rive nord du Saint-Laurent, la Mauricie, Grandes-Piles et la rivière Saint-Maurice. Les couleurs d'automne sont en déclin et le mauvais temps prend sa place, l'hiver approche!
Bonne Année à tous!
Last step into this journey along the North shore of the St. Lawrence river, la Mauricie, Grandes-Piles and the St. Maurice river. Fall colors are passed their peak, and the bad weather conditions are a precursor to the coming winter.
Happy New Year to all!
A slide restoration, which was almost bleached, but converting it to monochrome has brought the image out.
Der Leuchtturm Westerheversand ist ein See-, Quermarken- und Leitfeuer. Die Feuerhöhe beträgt 41 Meter, die Bauwerkshöhe 40 Meter. Die Tragweite des Lichts ist rund 21 Seemeilen (etwa 39 Kilometer). Die indirekte Sichtbarkeit des Lichtscheins beträgt bis über 55 Kilometer. Bei klarer Sicht ist er noch auf Helgoland auszumachen.
Der Turm wurde 1906 auf Westerheversand rund 1000 Meter vor dem Seedeich auf einer vier Meter hoch aufgeschütteten Warft mit Pfahlgründung (127 dicke, lange Eichenpfähle) und Betonsockel errichtet.Das Leuchtfeuer wurde am 26. Mai 1908 in Betrieb genommen.Nachdem jahrzehntelang Leuchtfeuerwärter ihren Dienst auf dem Leuchtturm verrichtet hatten, wird er heute automatisch von Tönning aus überwacht. Die beiden ehemaligen Wärterhäuser beherbergen nun eine Naturschutzstation des Nationalparks Wattenmeer, die von der Naturschutzgesellschaft Schutzstation Wattenmeer betreut wird.
The Westerheversand lighthouse is a sea, cross-mark and guide light. The height of the fire is 41 meters, the height of the structure 40 meters. The range of the light is around 21 nautical miles (about 39 kilometers). The indirect visibility of the light is up to 55 kilometers. When the visibility is clear, it can still be seen on Heligoland.
The tower was erected in 1906 on Westerheversand around 1000 meters from the sea dike on a four-meter high mound with a pile foundation (127 thick, long oak piles) and a concrete base. The beacon was put into operation on May 26, 1908. After that, beacon keepers on duty for decades the lighthouse, it is now automatically monitored from Tönning. The two former caretakers' houses now house a nature protection station of the Wadden Sea National Park, which is looked after by the Nature Conservation Society Schutzstation Wattenmeer.
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One site entrance that is blocked. I believe this former car park is to be built on, and I assume the heavy gates & piles of stone etc, are to prevent the site being occupied.
Bentbasa (bent – embankment or dam; in the pronunciation often Bembasa) is part of Sarajevo located in the Old Town, along the flow of Miljacka River.
At the time of foundation of the city, there were placed Isa Bey’s mills and taverns. Toponym Bentbasa originates from 1462, and the settlement was established on the foundations of the medieval village Brodac where Isa Bey chose to construct his endowments, and gave houses in the village Hrancici, today’s Hrasnica, to local residents in return.
Long time ago, here was the bridge made of goat bellows (skin) which was named Kozija Cuprija (Goat’s Bridge), made by Omer Pasha Latas. Later, in 1793, wooden bridge was built, which served for transport of wooden piles to the city.
Imperial mills on Miljacka River were grinding the grain until 1875, for 4 full centuries. The famous miller Joseph Lihtenger, Austrian on temporary work in Sarajevo, is still remembered in Sarajevo.
Tomrukcije (wood traders) used to take the wooden piles out of the water at Bentbasa and later sold them at the market. With the arrival of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in this part was built bathing area Da Rive back in 1884.
With the construction of Kozija Cuprija, the tunnel was dug and today’s Narodna banja was constructed, which was opened on the 20th of July 1902.
Women from Sarajevo used to wash their clothes and carpets here and kerep (scaffolding made of several connected boats) was operating.
In Hadji Saban’s tavern, the first Sarajevo’s tavern, with dancing Armenian girls and dibek (type of grinded coffee), people used to stay until dawn.
On the upper part of Miljacka were many mills, and citizens of Sarajevo were forced to build dams in order to have a permanent water pressure. These dams were used as bath places. However, Miljacka was full of whirlpools, and the Austro-Hungarian authorities in 1902 decided to regulate the riverbed and make one public bath place, safer for citizens. Thus was created the first pool at Bentbasa, which worked on the system of water flow.
These striking yellow sulphur piles on the North Shore (just to the east of the Lion’s Gate Bridge) are a by-product from natural gas processing.
Sulphur is always in demand. It is used for fertilizer, matches, batteries, bleach, laxatives, wine-making, shampoo and loads of other ubiquitous products. [...]. Experts at The Sulphur Institute point out that around half of sulphur production goes into fertilizer. Google search
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No lockdown for the Little Pied Cormorants sitting quietly on old piles near the jetty at St. Helena Island in SE Queensland.
European tree frogs are small; males range from 32–43 mm (1.3–1.7 in) in length, and females range from 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) in length. They are slender, with long legs. Their dorsal skin is smooth, while their ventral skin is granular. Their dorsal skin can be green, gray, or tan depending on the temperature, humidity, or their mood. Their ventral skin is a whitish color, and the dorsal and ventral skin is separated by a dark brown lateral stripe from the eyes to the groin. Females have white throats, while males have golden brown throats with large (folded) vocal sacs. The head of H. arborea is rounded, the lip drops strongly, the pupil has the shape of a horizontal ellipse, and the tympanum is clearly recognizable. The discs on the frog's toes, which it uses to climb trees and hedges, is a characteristic feature of H. arborea . Like other frogs, their hind legs are much larger and stronger than the fore legs, enabling the frogs to jump rapidly.
Historically, tree frogs were used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking.
Depending on subspecies, temperature, humidity, and the frog's 'mood', skin colour ranges from bright to olive green, grey, brown and yellow.
European tree frogs eat a variety of small arthropods, such as spiders, flies, beetles, butterflies, and smooth caterpillars. Their ability to take long leaps allow them to catch fast-flying insects, which make up most of their diets.
They hibernate in walls, cellars, under rocks, under clumps of vegetation, or buried in leaf piles or manure piles.
According to the IUCN, the population trend of H. arborea is decreasing. Some of the main threats to European tree frogs include habitat fragmentation and destruction, pollution of wetlands, predation from fish, capture for the pet trade, and climate change.[citation needed] Besides these main threats, other possible reasons for the decline in their populations include increased UVB radiation and local and far-ranging pesticides, fertilizers, and pollutants.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_tree_frog