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Monday, October 12, 2009

Stars Over Easter Island

Why were the statues on Easter Island built?

No one is sure. What is sure is that over 800 large stone statues exist there.

The Easter Island statues, stand, on the average, over twice as tall as a person and have over 200 times as much mass. Few specifics are known about the history or meaning of the unusual statues, but many believe that they were created about 500 years ago in the images of local leaders of a lost civilization.

Pictured above, a large stone statue appears to ponder the distant Large Magellanic Cloud before a cloudy sky that features the bright stars Canopus and Sirius.

( http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0910/statuesky_guisard_big.jpg )

Friday, October 9, 2009

An Unusual Sight!

In November , the yacht 'Maiken' was traveling in the South Pacific when they came across a weird sight -

... It was sand in the water, and the sand was floating ON TOP of the waves..

This is not a beach, it is floating on the water.

And then this was spotted... Ash and steam rising from the ocean...

A brand new island formed...

Tonga volcanic eruption seen by yacht crew on 08 Nov 2006

Mother nature in all her amazing splendor!!!

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Bagan Pinang near Port Dickson

Start the day with breakfast on the balcony before going on a day of boating

Buddha pears

Buddha shaped pears are seen in an orchard in Weixian county, Hebei province September 10, 2009.

Hao Xianzhang, a local famer, spent six years to perfect the process by growing the pears inside moulds

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Biggest, Tallest Tree Photo Ever

By Claire O'Neill ( http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.html )

National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols is one of the world's foremost wildlife photographers. But he recently said that he'd happily spend the rest of his life photographing trees. Of course, the folks over at National Geographic would almost certainly never hear of it. Nichols' newfound love developed after a serious, yearlong relationship with redwoods.
National Geographic sent Nichols to spend an entire year in California's redwood forest. His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which date back before Christ. And if you've ever photographed in a forest, you'll understand the challenge this presented. There's no capturing the awe one feels before these monoliths that measure, in some cases, upward of 300 feet.

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