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SÜDAFRIKA( South-Africa) - (Swasiland ) heute "Königreich "Eswatini, rund um das Mkhaya/Mlilwane - Game-Reserve -(Privatgeführter Nationalpark),
Das Mkhaya Game Reserve (Mkhaya ist der lokale Name der Baumart Senegalia nigrescens) ist seit 1985 einer von sechs Nationalparks in Eswatini. Er wird in öffentlich-privater Partnerschaft durch Big Game Parks betrieben, das auf Ted Reilly zurückgeht. Es wurde ursprünglich zum Schutz der Nguni-Rinder eingerichtet.
.Obwohl es auch hier erst vor kurzem gebrannt hat - die Natur lässt sich nicht unterkriegen.
Aerial view of snow covered mountain ranges as we flew from Xian to Donghuang. From the travel archive of the Old Silk's Road Trip in Xinjiang, China.
View enlarged for the distant mountain ranges.
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Another view of this scene , slightly different angle from previous ones.. This is Langdale in the Lake District.
This time I took the -3 exposure and lifted the shadows (normally I would merge 0 and -3 exposures in HDR program because LX7 has limited dynamic range). Very pleased with the detail in the foreground, which is almost black in the original. But even though it is -3 EV, some highlights are still blown.
This early morning view is in the Flinders Ranges National Park of South Australia looking over the Bunyeroo Valley towards a small section of the majestic Heysen Range which dominates the background.
The hiking trail that climbs up the hill on the left is a minor part of the 1,200 km Heysen Trail which winds its way from Cape Jervis on the Fleurien Peninsula to Parachilna Gorge which is about 67 km off to the right of this scene.
Hans Heysen 1877 -1968 was a German-born Australian artist famous for his watercolours of the Australian bush and for his depictions of the arid landscapes in the Flinders Ranges.
From left to right: Mt. Adams, Jefferson, Clay, Washington (Center), Monroe, Franklin, Eisenhower
The Omnimount Washington Resort is on the left (looks like a castle).
I drove all the way from northeastern Washington state to the Snowy Range in southeastern Wyoming before I finally got out of the forest fire smoke. It was good to see clean air again....
The Mitchell Range lies west of Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park and the Mitchell River. Its eastern boundary is the Kootenay River. Its northern boundary is the Simpson and Vermillion Rivers.
I was probably more surprised than this Pileated Woodpecker when it was suddenly right in front of me as I walked through a wooded area. It did stay there while I took a couple of close range photos and kept walking. A high ISO shot from the darkness of the tree canopy.
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This tree stands near the intersection of Woody Granite Road and CA State Highway 155 in the little community of Woody, California. The hamlet is situated in the foothills. of the Greenhorn Mountains which lie at the southern end of The Sierra Nevada Range.
The stunning view from the top of Reinebringen mountain - the best view in the Lofoten Islands, I’m told, and I can believe it.
One of several scenic ranges that make up the West Elk Mountains, the Ruby Range is the backdrop for some beautiful views of fall color. The aspen on the southern flanks of the range make up the most extensive stands in Colorado, only a portion of which are seen here from Beckwith Pass. The two prominent peaks are Ruby Peak and Mount Owen. The conifer forests here have escaped the outbreaks of spruce beetle that have killed numerous trees in surrounding mountain ranges.
While I was risking life and limb slipping and sliding down a dirt bank to get a shot at Oxbow Bend, the Mrs. pointed her camera out the car window and captured this shot at Grand Tetons National Park. ..... Life is Good ;-)
Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (480 sq. mi; 130,000 ha; 1,300 km2), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. It is only 10 miles (16 km) south of Yellowstone National Park, to which it is connected by the National Park Service-managed John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. Along with surrounding National Forests, these three protected areas constitute the almost 18,000,000-acre (7,300,000 ha) Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the largest intact mid-latitude temperate ecosystems in the world.
Human history of the Grand Teton region dates back at least 11,000 years, when the first nomadic hunter-gatherer Paleo-Indians began migrating into the region during warmer months pursuing food and supplies. In the early 19th century, the first White explorers encountered the eastern Shoshone natives. Between 1810 and 1840, the region attracted fur trading companies that vied for control of the lucrative beaver pelt trade. U.S. Government expeditions to the region commenced in the mid-19th century as an offshoot of exploration in Yellowstone, with the first permanent white settlers in Jackson Hole arriving in the 1880s.
Efforts to preserve the region as a national park commenced in the late 19th century, and in 1929 Grand Teton National Park was established, protecting the major peaks of the Teton Range. The valley of Jackson Hole remained in private ownership until the 1930s, when conservationists led by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. began purchasing land in Jackson Hole to be added to the existing national park. Against public opinion and with repeated Congressional efforts to repeal the measures, much of Jackson Hole was set aside for protection as Jackson Hole National Monument in 1943. The monument was abolished in 1950 and most of the monument land was added to Grand Teton National Park.
Grand Teton National Park is named for Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range. The naming of the mountains is attributed to early 19th-century French-speaking trappers—les trois tétons (the three teats) was later anglicized and shortened to Tetons. At 13,775 feet (4,199 m), Grand Teton abruptly rises more than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) above Jackson Hole, almost 850 feet (260 m) higher than Mount Owen, the second-highest summit in the range. The park has numerous lakes, including 15-mile-long (24 km) Jackson Lake as well as streams of varying length and the upper main stem of the Snake River. Though in a state of recession, a dozen small glaciers persist at the higher elevations near the highest peaks in the range. Some of the rocks in the park are the oldest found in any U.S. National Park and have been dated at nearly 2.7 billion years.
One source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains range is about 1,000 km (620 mi) in length. Its highest point is 7,090 m (23,260 ft) located 100 km (62 mi) to the northwest of Lhasa. The range is parallel to the Himalayas in the Transhimalayas, and north of the Brahmaputra River. [3] Another source says the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains extend 460 miles (740 km) from Nyêmo County in the west to Ranwu County (the southwestern part of Baxoi County) in the east.
Its highest peak is Mount Nyenchen Tanglha (Nyainqêntanglha Feng) at 7,162 metres (23,497 ft).[4]
The southern side of the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains is precipitous, and falls by around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), while the northern side is fairly level and descends about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). Most of the mountains are below 6,500 metres (21,300 ft).[5] They contain 7080 glaciers covering an area of 10,700 square kilometres (4,100 sq mi).[4]
The Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains have an average latitude of 30°30'N and a longitude between 90°E and 97°E. Together with the Gangdise Shan located further west, it forms the Transhimalaya [a] which runs parallel to the Himalayas north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River.
The Drukla Chu river rises in the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains, where it is called the Song Chu river, and joins the Gyamda Chu river. The combined rivers run about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast to the Yarlung Tsangpo river.
A view of the Ruahine Ranges from our picnic spot last weekend - a little section that I thought demonstrated the rugged beauty of these, even a tiny bit of snow still hanging on in there!
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Parked at Castle Creek Rd. My GPS - 6.4 miles R/T & 2,300 feet of elevation gain. Well worth the trek up. This small lake is 52' deep!
This enormous fly will be my species No. 497 on iNaturalist.
I was kneeling in front of my flower bed, trying to get a clear capture of a mini Bee on one of the newly opened Alstroemeria blooms, when this weird insect landed on the Parsley flower head behind it.
Scientific name: Tachina grossa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common name: Giant Tachinid Fly aka Yellow-faced Fly
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Wingspan : 15 to 19 mm.
Biotope: Open and damp woodlands, damp meadows, heathlands.
Geographic area: Western Europe.
Observation period : Late June to early September.
The Giant Tachinid Fly is the largest member of the Tachinidae family in France and maybe in western Europe.
You can easily tell it apart with its body size, its black thorax and abdomen and its yellow head contrasting with the two large rounded eyes.
The abdominal hairs are strong and raised at right angle.
The hairs on the thorax are not raised. There are yellow hairs at the back of the head.
It parasites butterflies' caterpillars, especially those of the Lasiocampidae family.
You can often observe the Giant Tachinid Fly on flowers in summer. /
There is one brood per year (maybe two in the southern part of its range). /
J'étais en train d'essayer de prendre une photo nette d'une mini Abeille sur une fleur d'Alstroemère tout juste éclose, lorsque cette énorme mouche s'est posée sur une tête de fleurs de Persil juste derrière !
Tachina grossa, l'Echinomyie grosse ou Tachinaire corpulente est une espèce d'insectes diptères brachycères de la famille des Tachinidae. C'est la plus grosse mouche d'Europe. Sa larve parasite des chenilles de papillons. Wikipédia
A female Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis canadensis) looks up while I take her photo near the mouth of North Fork Canyon west of Cody, Wyoming. The sheep winter along the lower elevations of the Absaroka Mountains.
From our campsite in Karamea I spied the setting sun hitting the ranges, so it was a race inside to grab the long lens and see what I could get.
The Kentish Plover has a very large range with localised populations found along the coasts and in some inland areas of western Europe, northern Africa, parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the caucus region, the Middle East, central, southern and eastern Asia, and the Americas.
Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)_w_0600
The Arrowsmith Range in the South Island of New Zealand runs parallel to the main ranges of the Southern Alps. The highest point is Mount Arrowsmith (far left, 2,781 metres (9,124 ft)). The view to the range goes across Lake Heron and Mt Arrowsmith Station. In the Canterbury high country large farms are called stations to distinguish them from smaller, more intensive lowland farms. Historically, settlers had to find unoccupied open land and run sheep to establish the right to lease it. The high country farms in eastern the foothills of the Southern Alps still work on longterm, perpetually renewable leases.
On the way to the Flinder's Ranges - Carrieton Post Office - My other grandfather - on my fathers side and my grandmother were married in this village - almost deserted now. Not so far from Burra where my Grandfather on my mothers side came from small world.
A beautiful morning at Portland Bill
Portland Bill Lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1906 to guide vessels heading for Portland and Weymouth as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel
Built1906Height of Tower41 m Height of light above Mean High Water43 mAutomated1996Lamp
LED
CharacterFl (4) 20sIntensity
65,000 candela
Range of light
18 NM
RegionSouth
The Shambles sandbank is marked by a red sector light. Portland Bill and Chesil Beach are the graveyards of many vessels that failed to reach Weymouth or Portland Roads. The Portland Race is caused by the meeting of the tides between the Bill and the Shambles sandbank about 3 miles SE. Strong currents break the sea so fiercely that from the shore a continuous disturbance can be seen.
As early as 1669 Sir John Clayton was granted a patent to erect a lighthouse, but his scheme fell through and it was not until early in the eighteenth century that Captain William Holman, supported by the shipowners and Corporation of Weymouth, put a petition to Trinity House for the building of a lighthouse at Portland Bill. Trinity House opposed it suggesting that lights at this point were needless and shipowners could not bear the burden of their upkeep. The people of Weymouth continued their petition and on 26 May 1716 Trinity House obtained a patent from George I. They in turn issued a lease for 61 years to a private consortium who built two lighthouses with enclosed lanterns and coal fires. The lights were badly kept, sometimes not lit at all, and in 1752 an inspection was made by two members of the Board of Trinity House who approached by sea to find "it was nigh two hours after sunset before any light appeared in either of the lighthouses". With the termination of the lease the lights reverted to Trinity House. In 1789 William Johns, a builder of Weymouth under contract to Trinity House, took down one of the towers and erected a new one.It was sited so that it served as a mark by day or night to direct ships moving up and down Channel or into Portland Roads clear of the Race and Shambles.
In August 1788 Argand lamps were installed, Portland being the first lighthouse in England to be fitted with them. In the upper or old house there were two rows, seven in each row, lighted with oil and furnished with highly-polished reflectors. Low light tests were made by Thomas Rogers with his new lens light, and six Argand lamps were installed, their lights increased by lenses.
A seven metre tall white stone obelisk was built in 1844 at the Southern tip of Portland Bill as a warning of a low shelf of rock extending 30 metres south into the sea, which still stands near the current lighthouse.
New high and low lighthouses were built in 1869, but in 1906 Trinity House replaced them with a single tower: the present lighthouse. The old towers can still be seen from the outside - the low light, which is now a bird observatory and field centre, has retained its original appearance but the high light lantern has been removed.
Portland Bill Lighthouse was automated on 18 March 1996.
More recently, the lighthouse was modernised in 2021. The light range was reduced from 25NM to 18NM and hazardous mercury was removed from station.
The lighthouse is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House’s Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.