Life Forms

Some more of the amazing sea creatures and flora at the Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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The Giant’s Causeway

A fascinating geological site. Learn more about it from this Wikipedia entry. More to come. Click any image to see them all enlarged (if you’re viewing this in your browser. If you’re seeing this in email, click through to obBLOGato first).

Walla Crag to Keswick

No place to go but down from Walla Crag, passing along the shore of the Derwent Water and through Manesty Park we eventually made it back to our hotel in Keswick.

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The Foetal Shore?

December 2003, I took the train out from Sydney to Bronte beach then walked back along the beach to Bondi. The ocean has carved these incredible rock formations, poorly captured here, I’m afraid, by my Dimage A1. Digital cameras way back then really didn’t have tremendous dynamic range.

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A visit to Ulster Co

Natural sculpture, black & white

This past weekend we went to visit friends in Ulster County, NY, near Woodstock. After lunch we went for a walk on the Ashokan Reservoir rail trail from which I got a number of interesting pictures.

Natural sculpture, color
Esopus Creek

Blog note: this is also the first time I’ve been forced to use the new block editor for my post and I can’t say I’m loving it. Please excuse the next few posts if they don’t look quite right as I get used to the new way of doing things.

Danny’s

Walking along Central Street in the Edge we noticed an interesting rock sticking up from some palm fronds – it looked like perhaps it had been carved into an animal shape. Hanging over the railing, hunting for the right angle from which to photograph it we were hailed from within a deep garden by Jazzmen who invited us to walk around the building to the back where he took us on a tour of the art park, full of scavenged odds and ends (and no trespassing signs) deposited in nooks and grottoes throughout the lush plot whose owner, Danny, it seemed we were expected to know.

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