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Bartolomé Island is named after Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, an English naval lieutenant who participated in Darwin's voyage on the Beagle. The island is located to the east of Santiago Island. The eastern part of the island consists of volcanic cones, while the western part is a peninsula with several rock formations, including Pinnacle Rock, a steep volcanic rock.
Never noticed this cave on my prior visits. Looks like a mining exploration that yielded nothing. Makes for good foreground though!
The pinnacles are limestone pillars that protrude out of the sand. The desert covers an area of 190 hectares and there are thousands of limestone pinnacles. This area attracts around 250,000 visitors each year. The Pinnacles are located in Western Australia.
An isolated sandstone pinnacle called Charlie's Garden, lies off the coast at Colleywell Bay.
The garden was at one point much larger and was cultivated by Mr Charles Dockwray, who grew potatoes and veg there.
Sadly erosion has now left the garden, a mere sandstone pinnacle, surrounded by the sea
One of the most popular amateur climbing mountains in the Phoenix area lies northeast of the metro area.Pinnacle Peak offers a "moderate" difficulty climb,though this climber only made it halfway...hiking shoes are definitely needed! LOL
A slight detour to The Pinnacles just above Capel Curig on a morning walk up Crimpiau. A splendid view opens up as you get above the tree line below and make the short scramble on to this early taster of the views from higher up.
Looking out over Pinnacle Cove walking through the Allan Memorial Grove at Point Lobos State Reserve, California.
Falling past the Trona Pinnacles, a trio of grungy tunnel motors put the brakes to a cut of loaded coal buckets from Searles on the way down the Martian grade to Trona.
Looking out over the Valleys and Mountains of California from the High Peaks Trail in Pinnacles National Park
The Pinnacles are limestone formations within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier era that was rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime-rich sands that were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.
The Trona Pinnacles were formed in a former lake bed in the Searles Basin. The pinnacles are tufa spires that vary in size and shape, some rising 140 feet.
The Trona Pinnacles were formed long ago in a massive lake that once covered this area. The Pinnacles are tufa created by the reaction of spring water released into briny water of the former lake.
Zephaniah 3:6 “I cut off the nations: their pinnacles were desolate: I laid waste their streets from none passing by; their cities were destroyed from not a man, from not an inhabitant.”
Out for a hike on a dreary day at the Putangirua Pinnacles, Cape Pailliser.
The Pinnacles are a tightly packed cluster of ancient gravel spires in a forest park. The 'badlands erosion' of Putangirua Pinnacles is a spectacular landscape feature attracting many visitors to the southern Wairarapa.
When the Aorangi Range was an island, 7 to 9 million years ago, screes poured gravels onto the coast, much as they do today around Cape Palliser. The Putangirua Stream has exposed this ancient layer of gravels to the erosive forces of rain and floods. Where cemented silts or rocks within the gravel beds prove more resistant than the underlying sediments, spectacular individual pinnacles or “hoodoos” are formed.
The eerie scenes in The Return of the King as Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ride along the Dimholt Road to meet the Army of the Dead were filmed against the surreal backdrop of the Pinnacles.
One more shot from Pinnacles National Park in the snow. This shows that the snow had already melted off the rocky cliffs in the distance.
At Pinnacles National Park, California, USA
It is not a difficult trail to get to this place. The trail itself is also quite interesting, as you have to go through several dark caves/tunnels! Better to bring a light with you.
Does anyone else start planning their next holiday the day they get back from the previous one? Me too.
The Pinnacles are limestone formations within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. The area contains thousands of weathered limestone pillars. Some of the tallest pinnacles reach heights of up to 3.5 m above the yellow sand base.. Amazing to think the raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier era that was rich in marine life. The local Aboriginal community believes that the Pinnacles are fossilized ghosts, how cool is that! I want to visit again at nighttime, that would be magical. Being part of a dark sky reserve and so remote, it has some of the darkest skies in Australia. The nighttime vista must look incredibly alien & amazing.
Hope to catchup on everyone's feeds soon :)
PS - does this rock look like a rhino's head ?
It's only an exceptionally average photograph but I thought this pano gives a good sense of the Trona Pinnacles area. With some friends heading out to the Death Valley area in the next few months I figured I'd get this one posted for their reference...
Hiking in Pinnacles National Park, California. Serene view from Bear Gulch Reservoir. Follow me on Instagram www.instagram.com/normfoxphotography/
Here's to you Harmon👍👍...in honor of my photography buddy who hiked Chimneytop Gap in the Jocassee Gorges with me for over 10 miles across the ridgelines last Saturday morning...Today, as a birthday present to myself, I flagged the old trail to the foot of Pinnacle Falls, a ridgeline hike that launches up and across an old logging road for 1/3 of a mile then drops 621 feet down a switchback trail, (adorned with fallen hemlock trees and washouts) to the foot of this massive waterfall!...How she roars!...and in such a sublime setting! This waterfall has two viewing areas from the original trail and two separate viewing platforms reached from two different trails at different elevations from the other side of the creek... More photos to come!
Without a doubt, these are the most photographed pinnacles in the area — and for good reason. I shot this a few weeks back after heading out early to chase Comet Lemmon, which had just started showing itself in the Southern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, the western horizon was completely clouded out.
So I waited for the moon to set, then grabbed a few images. This is one of them.
In the sky you can spot the Carina constellation, the Gum Nebula, parts of Vela, and both Magellanic Clouds, all glowing through a dose of airglow.
And hey — great to see the drive track open again… makes life a whole lot easier when you’re hauling gear, snacks, and everything in between.
The canyon walls near Lookout Point have eroded into a series of castle-like pinnacles along the North Rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The canyon walls are made up of rhyolite (Volcanic rock) that has been altered by hudrothermal activity (Hot sptings). Alteration of the rock gives the canyon its beautiful colors.
Trona Railway SD40T-2 2005 continues the southward climb out of the Searles Valley as it passes through the Trona Pinnacles.
The Trona Pinnacles dominate the landscape as southbound Trona loads creep through the desert. This move has engines on each end, not the usual occurrence for this operation. Although they were primarily in place for a switching move along the line, they also provided helper power on the hill coming into Searles - what a great sound!
Dead of night. Not a soul in sight. Just me… and a few cheeky huntsmans. ️
A rare gap in the clouds over the Pinnacles had me chucking the gear in the car and hitting the bitumen. Rolled in around 10PM, only to find the drive track closed from all the recent rain—so it was boots on, pack light, and hoof it a couple of clicks through the inky dark.
The desert was mine alone—well, me, a few roos, a fox, and the silent company of the spiders. No car beams slicing the night, no hikers’ torches bobbing in the distance. Just the whisper of wind over the limestone spires and the crunch of my boots in the sand.
For 5+ hours, my 50mm lens was my best mate—slow, deliberate, chasing every scrap of detail before first light stole the stars. Only the second time in 18 years I’ve seen the Pinnacles this empty—the last was during the 2020 covid lockdowns. Absolute magic, worth every step.
Nikon D5500 - 50mm f/1.8
Star Adventurer 2i
HoyaUV/IR Cut