Iceberg, Dead Ahead!
Some pretty spectacular icebergs here off the coast of Greenland. Some of the larger ones are at least 5 miles across.
Thanks: Juha Vierinen
Some pretty spectacular icebergs here off the coast of Greenland. Some of the larger ones are at least 5 miles across.
Thanks: Juha Vierinen
Astonishing picture here of what looks like a massive glacial flow at the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland. Low reolution I’m afraid, but scroll around the rest of Iceland and you’ll see loads more stunning natural imagery.
Thanks to Rachel and Lauri Kangas.
This is Fina’s Tree which at 110 feet, is the tallest tree in the whole of Tucson, Arizona. The story goes that back in 1910 a storm hit the city, and uprooted the young Red Gum tree, which was discovered and replanted by a little girl named Defina Bravo. Since that day the locals have called it ‘Fina’s Tree’ in rememberance.
Thanks to Jeff Burton.
This is Ilamatepec, the Santa Ana Volcano in El Salvador which erupted at the beginning of the month. It hadn’t previously erupted since 1904, and there were reports of lava rocks the size of cars, and villagers fleeing from a flood of boiling mud and water.
Ilamatepec is El Savador’s highest point at 2381 metres, and although in low resolution here, it can be seen quietly smoking away prior to its current activity.
This is the tiny Scottish island of Little Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, near Glasgow. It has a jetty, two cottages, three vacant houses, a lighthouse complex and a twelve bedroom baronial mansion… and it’s currently for sale.
The price? A cool 3 million pounds.
There’s more info about Wee Cumbrae over at Wikipedia.