A wide world category of posts from outside of my near world environment. Some old and some new. Look outside your borders.
Another Daily Archive photo – Austria. On route to Innsbruck from Munich, I transited the small town of Jenbach, Austria. Jenbach is an old town, with the earliest settlements as far back to the end of the Bronze Age. It is a tidy place that served as an important rail hub during WWII. The town […]
In this Daily photo from the Archive – France, Leave it to the French to have a dog that is appropriate for the personality. The Afghan hound and its owner are both long-legged and shiny. The guy on the left appears to be admiring one or both of these pedestrians on the streets of Nice,
On a working trip to the Australian outback, I found the nest of an Australian Wedge-Tailed eagle. Wedge-tailed eagles are found in all Australia, including Tasmania. The eagles also range as far as southern New Guinea. There were two fledgling sized birds in the nest, and after a short climb up the eucalyptus tree I
Yellowfin tuna from the archive – This photo, from the archives was taken in 1998 in Muscat- Sultanate of Oman. The local fisherman take advantage of the tuna run and provide the local market with fresh tuna. These fish are caught from small boats on hand lines with live sardines. Studies show that the medium-sized tuna
I dredged these photos up from a long ago, but not forgotten trip. – Osprey and Bougainville Reefs in the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef – Queensland Australia. Osprey and Bougainville Reefs are both remote dive sites, located northeast of Cairns Australia. They erupt from deep oceanic waters with about 100 miles separating