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The restorations lasted five years, from 1993 to 1996. The restoration project, was possible thanks to funds provided by the Japanese government and the help of a private company from the same country (Tadano), that sent a large crane to the island which helped stand each moai upright. During the excavations another 17 moais were discovered to be completely destroyed and were used as a base for the current platform, as was the usual thing to do when an ahu was raised in a place where another had once stood.
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
به خاطر داشته باش كه مهم نيست كه كجا ميري،
برو"
— Confucius
Winter conditions slowly take hold of the Cariboo Mountains as they remain enshrouded behind a stormy veil over Bowron Lake. In the in 1860’s the first Europeans came to the Cariboo Mountains to find their fortunes, as part of what became known as the first Cariboo Gold Rush. Originally referred to simply as “Bear Lake” it was eventually renamed Bowron Lake after John Bowron, the first Gold Commissioner of the nearby gold mining town Barkerville, who organised numerous exploration parties into the remote mountains to look for gold-bearing ground. British Columbia, Canada
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On a clear summer morning, two Taurus pull a tank train across the Danube Valley Railway to Ingolstadt. The station of Rohrenfeld is still operated with semaphore signals. Despite the remote location, all passenger trains stop there.
Taken by a high tripod.
Everytime I look at this photo I would like to take a seat to watch and feel the elements. Lanzarote 2022.
Kinuseo Falls is in remote Monkman Park, in northeastern British Columbia. The park is named for Alex Monkman, who spearheaded a project to build a highway in the lowest elevation mountain pass through the Canadian Rockies.
The initial rough cut of a road through the pass was nearly completed by the late 1930's but was postponed when WWII broke out. The trail was complete except for one challenging 28 km section and in fact, one symbolic shipment of grain was transported from Alberta through British Columbia using this route.
After the war, the British Columbia government actually prohibited any further work on the route and gave citizens of Fort St John and Dawson Creek the right to vote on whether the Monkman Pass or the Pine Pass would be the route through the Rockies. The Pine Pass route would result in a highway through their towns, so of course that pass was favored. The Monkman Pass became a footnote of historical interest.
Today, you can get to Monkman Park and Kinuseo Falls via a (poorly) maintained Murray River forestry road. Upstream of Kinuseo Falls, you can hike the Monkman Pass Memorial Trail, a hiking route for advanced back country enthusiasts.
This view of Kinuseo Falls is reached by a short and easy trail through the forest with the trailhead near the top of the falls. The trail has not been maintained for a couple of years though and is lightly travelled, so you will be dealing with a lot of new growth and deadfall.
By the way, Kinuseo Falls was a location featured in the recent movie Seventh Son.
This male eastern bluebird would perch on the same spot outside a nest while the female did her work going in and out with nest building materials.
To get this image, I setup the wifi connection on the camera to link it to my phone. That allowed me to stand back at a distance and wait for the blue bird to return to the spot. It works, but there is a considerable lag, so I wouldn't rely on it if you had to get a shot.
The image was taken in the morning with light reflecting off green brush in the distance. The bird was in the shade, so a flash was used to add some fill light.
Remote cabins / vacation homes are nestled in the trees, along the banks of the scenic Pitt River.
Most are accessible only by boat.
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Canada
Image was captured from boat on the river.
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Riva Valdobbia, Valsesia. Italy.
The remote mountain peak named Punta Carestia, 2.979m (9,774ft), on the watershed between the two regions of Piemonte and Valle D’Aosta; the long ridges of the mountain and the pastures of the Settlement called Alpe Maccagno are ccovered by the first snow of the year.
La Punta Carestia e I pascoli dell’Alpe Maccagno coperti dalla prima neve dell’anno.
The bumpy and dusty end of Forest Road (FR) 163 in southern Wyoming leads you to a concrete slab where you can launch your boat into the Flaming Gorge Reservoir (further left past the photo). In the distance you can see the mountains in northern Utah below the dreamy, early morning clouds. The tributary to the right leads you to Briggs Reservoir back near the highway. There wasn't a soul in sight as we enjoyed the remote beauty here.
Two RAW photos developed with Darktable 4.8.0 and then combined with the Hugin Panorama editor (freeware).
In a very remote area in Northern Patagonia near the Argentine border there is a deep canyon of the Rio Nireguao O Coichel where the Andean condors like to soar in the up currents formed when the sun hits the cliffs. In this image the sun is starting to burn off the fog. At larger sizes you can see the rapids in the river.
01/12/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
Hard drive find from one of the most remote places in the American Southwest in new processing:
In the late afternoon, after 61 miles (98 km) of gravel road, we reached Toroweap Point on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.
In the picture above the view is over the Colorado River gorge to the Southrim.
Festplattenfund von einem der abgelegensten Orte des amerikanischen Südwestens in neuer Bearbeitung:
am späten Nachmittag erreichten wir nach 98 km Schotterpiste den Toroweap Point am Nordrand des Grand Canyon.
Im Bild oben geht der Blick über die Schlucht des Colorado Flusses zum Southrim.
So remote that I can't remember exactly where this is! I think that it is probably in Lunedale on the B6276 between Brough and Middleton-in-Teesdale, but I could easily be wrong!
It was certainly wild countryside even on a relatively nice day of sunshine and showers. It must be so bleak in the depths of winter.
Once a workmen's hut for Dubs Quarry at the top of the Honister Pass, the Dubs Hut was renovated in 2016-17 by the Mountain Bothies Association (MBA). www.mountainbothies.org.uk/
The purpose of the MBA is "To maintain simple shelters in remote country for the use of all who love wild and lonely places." And this is most definitely one such place.
The deep cleft beyond the hut is the path down to Gatesgarth and the southern end of Buttermere Lake.