The Wave at Coyote Buttes, Arizona:



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Facinating, brome. I can't quit staring at it. What must it be like to be there!


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WOW.

Magic....if you caught that wave, you'd be surfin forever haha

Wow!
Was that formed by water? Wind?

Here is another beautiful place....my patio

I dont have to venture far.
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That's Pennsylvania, Vinny? It looks sorta northern Florida

River in winter. Canadian Rockies:

That is unreal...and stunning. Wow...

Ooooooooooohhhhhh.

brome, it's stifling here--hot and humid--today, and that photo is like being enveloped in wintergreen! Thanks for posting

I'll add Yosemite and perhaps the cloud forests of Costa Rica

I would love to visit all of these places!

Cool Pertwee, that suspension bridge is very similar to one not far from my home in a national park. I'll have to take a pic of my back yard for ya all to see. Only thing is that the council are 'beautifying' the area. I wish they'd just leave it alone, but they reckon it will bring more tourists.

Cheers, jalan

Patagonia has always been high on my wish list. A huge variety of beauty down in the southern tip of South America:

Cuernos del Paine from Lake PehoƩ


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Very nice, as the young countries have incredible rugged, jagged mountains. Older continents, such as Australia have there own beauty, like the history, as it's still debated whether man came from Africa or Australia???

jalanutan,

Debated? I thought the consensus holds migration on long boats and/or land bridge from southeast Asia to Australia about 40k-ish years ago, no?

This is my backyard, where I can see the bar which leads out into the open ocean.

That looks nice!

There's much more to the Himalayas than the magnificent peaks. There's the flower filled valleys. Here's Valley of Flowers National Park in India, Himalaya:



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Hey Jan, consensus yes, though the consensus doesn't have any real evidence. The land bridge THEORY near the end of the last ice-age is the most popular. But evidence in the form of fossils being dated using the C-14 method show that the oldest bits of human activity should have been near the top end of Oz, but it's not. The oldest fossils are found much further south. Moreover, various types of skeletal remains would suggest a evolutionary factor where the rugged, thick bone structures would give way to a more refined, graceful bone structure. However, within two digs in Australia, the more finer, graceful skeletal structures pre-dated the more primative thick set bone structure.

I've included my very first paper on the subject at uni, which I presented to the class, and there are references as well, to show where I got the info from.

Cheers, jalan x

jalanutan,

So, long boats from Asia then, no?

Damn, my paper didn't go through grrr. Anyhoo, 'long boats from Asia'? maybe, as like I said, there's no concrete evidence for any of the theories. At one stage, there was a theory that humans used long boats from South Africa straight to Tazmania. This was because there have been found very old remains in Tazmania that would suggest it was the first contact point. These remains indicate that people lived there during the last ice age too, incredible.

Personally, it's logical to believe that they came over the land bridge from Asia like you say Tam. But there's no evidence, and even when comparing blood types, genes, language or physical similarities, there is nothing that even comes close to link up with Australian Aborigines.

Link the above with the fact that Western Australia is one of the oldest land masses on earth, there's also a theory that humans were first created or evolved there, and then migrated out to the rest of the earth including Africa.....

Valley of the Fire State Park near Las Vegas, Nevada:



Also see Red Rock Canyon nearby.

This is Otawairere Beach. It looks like black sand in this photo, but it isn't. In places it is rice-sized crushed shells that are smooth like beach glass. I used to walk there often, sometimes every day. When I did, I was often the only person on the beach. When you're there, you can't see a house, telephone wires or any buildings at all. The island that you can barely see on the horizon is an active sea volcano. I could see it puffing smoke from my house! The red flowers are on a pohutukawa tree that blooms in December. Mature ones can be as big as an old oak tree.


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Wow Trive, what a beautiful place to live. I guess most of New Zealand is incredible.

Wow, Trive, I couldn't stand to leave a place like that! Shangri-La for sure

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all thosephotos

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earth is beautiful