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Directional signpost outside a store in Todd, NC, near the former Todd General Store, famous for attracting bluegrass fans and players (including Doc Watson) for drop-in jams on Friday nights.
A signpost in Saas-Almagell (1673m) showing the various hiking trails starting in the village. Some of these are not for the fainthearted!
Canon EOS 100D | Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM
Mount Isa in Central west Queensland is very remote - this sign on the City Lookout says it all.
Mining is Mount Isa's main source of income. Ores containing copper and lead are smelted on site, with copper anodes and zinc concentrate being transported 900 km to the city and port of Townsville on the east coast. The lead ingots are transported to a refinery in Britain where the silver is extracted. The mine is the most significant landmark in the area, with the stack from the lead smelter (built 1978), standing 270 m tall, visible from all parts of the city and up to 40 km away.
The mines are owned by Anglo–Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company Glencore, headquartered in Switzerland, with its registered office in Jersey. The current company was created through a merger of Glencore with Xstrata on 2 May 2013.
Onward to Dobbie's Grave or to Buckholm?
Not the resting place of the Harry Potter house-elf, Dobby who died from a knife-wound inflicted by Bellatrix Lestrange at Malfoy Manor.
Not Dobbie's Garden Centre either.
A man called Dobie who in 1790 attempted for a bet to march all the way from Lauder to Galashiels and who collapsed and died on the way.
Walking trails criss-cross the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain. Some of these ancient routes are the pathways of medieval saints; most connect old villages; and one we found even lead us through a landscape of magical Cantabrian characters.
Brick streets, stone buildings, and mountains lost in mist: Cicera is a traditional Cantabrian village. But, as a nod to modern times, that signboard has a QR Code!
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/woods-prayers-and-myt...
Walking trails criss-cross the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain. Some of these ancient routes are the pathways of medieval saints; most connect old villages; and one we found even lead us through a landscape of magical Cantabrian characters.
Brick streets, stone buildings, and mountains lost in mist: Cicera is a traditional Cantabrian village. But, as a nod to modern times, that signboard has a QR Code!
For the story, please visit: www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/woods-prayers-and-myt...
Another missing arm on this one but this has a fine boss . Buchlyvie was where I lived for 14 years. 16/5/75.
These signs are posted at the trail intersections. It is very unlikely you will get lost if you visit a Metro Vancouver Regional park like Pacific Spirit Park
Ferring, Sussex, England. Taken with a Rollei 35 SE + Kodak Ektar 100 Film. © DSAM7 all rights reserved.
This old signpost had a concrete post situated at the Glen Orchy unclass. road turn off near Bridge of Orchy on the A82.
Photographed on 12/8/84.
Signpost between Starý Smokovec and Hrebienok in the Vysoké Tatry (High Tatra Mountains), Prešovský kraj (Prešov region), Slovakia.
The High Tatras are a high mountain range at the border of Poland and Slovakia. They are part of the Tatras mountain chain which again is part of the Carparthians.
The High Tatras are a well-known hiking and winter sport region. There are several beautiful glacial lakes in the High Tatras.
The highest peak of the High Tatras (and also of the whole Carparthians) is Gerlachovský Å¡tÃt (Gerlach Peak) with 2655 m (8711 ft).
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The High Tatras, having 29 peaks over 2,500 metres (8,200 ft) AMSL are, with the Southern Carpathians, the only mountain ranges with an alpine character and habitats in the entire 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) length of the Carpathian Mountains system. The first European cross-border national park was founded here—Tatra National Park—with Tatra National Park (Tatranský národný park) in Slovakia in 1948, and Tatra National Park (Tatrzański Park Narodowy) in Poland in 1954. The adjacent parks protect UNESCO's trans-border Tatra Biosphere Reserve. (...)
Many rare and endemic animals and plant species are native to the High Tatras. They include the Tatras' endemic goat-antelope and critically endangered species, the Tatra chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica). Predators include Eurasian brown bear, Eurasian lynx, marten, wolf and fox. The Alpine marmot is common in the range. (...)
Flora of the High Tatras includes: the endemic Tatra scurvy-grass (Cochlearia tatrae), yellow mountain saxifrage (Saxifraga aizoides), ground covering net-leaved willow (Salix reticulata), Norway spruce (Picea abies), Swiss pine (Pinus cembra), and European larch (Larix decidua).
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Slovakia holidays May 2016
Hiking tour High Tatras: Starý Smokovec - Hrebienok
This sign is a bit miss leading as the Leisure Centre sign is pointing out to sea, but it's just past the Town Hall
And the Gardens are listed twice in different directions.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9598667,1.3509525,3a,16.8y,196....
If you have reached this via a UKIP website, please note that I do not support this organisation in any way.
This was taken on one of my 'long lone runs' during the Covid pandemic as part of my keep fit following a heart attack.
Latest blog from Heart Attack to 10K series - (re-integrating back into society, returning to parkrun, attack the attack 7, AFib and more)
peterjemmett.blogspot.com/2021/08/heart-attack-to-10k-par...
Cook is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Adelaide to Perth, with no inhabited places around.
The town was created in 1917 when the railway was built and is named after former Prime Minister Joseph Cook. The town depended on the Tea and Sugar Train for the delivery of supplies, and is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 479 km which stretches from Ooldea to beyond Loongana. When the town was active, water was pumped from an underground Artesian aquifer but now, all water is carried in by train. Attempts have been made to introduce trees and other vegetation, but these have not been successful.
Today, it is said to have a resident population of four, and is essentially a ghost town. The town was effectively closed in 1997 when the railways were privatised and the new owners did not need a support town there, although the diesel refuelling facilities remain, and there is overnight accommodation for train drivers. Cook is the only scheduled stop on the Nullarbor Plain for the Indian Pacific passenger train across Australia and has little other than curiosity value for the passengers. The bush hospital is closed, and the shop is only opened while the Indian Pacific is in town. It has a few houses and fuel tanks for the locomotives. The crossing loop can cross trains up to 1800m long.