Post Your Pics & Videos of the Great Outdoors

[Tim Harrison]

This ancient packhorse bridge is a stones throw from where I live. It's grade II listed and made of local granite with rubble infill. It's just one of 3 in the local area. I sometimes sit on one of its walls and watch a small school of roach lazily swimming against the gentle current, and occasionally rising to take insects from the surface. Immediately beyond is a meadow with a fairly diverse flora. And further beyond that the footpath takes walkers deeper in to Charnwood Forest, amongst wood covered granite hills, and exposed outcrops, and tors.

 

[Nont]

Went to Vietnam months ago forgot to post some pictures. Here’s Ficus bonsai courtyard at Linh Ung Pagoda, Da Nang.

 

[foxfish]

Fantastic, very Jealous !

 

[The Miniaturist]

Wow! I'm not a fan of turning trees into miniatures despite loving all things minute but those are amazing! There must be many years of care gone into their creation.
It looks like a chess game for giants!

 

[foxfish]

With over three thousand people arriving in our tiny island for the island games, we have a busy

week ahead…..

 

[PARAGUAY]

A ny more pictures of the event, Martin we had small updates on the Isle of Man results on our local NW news

 

[seedoubleyou]

The heart of Cumbria in Tebay gorge.

A little out of focus as it was taken on an Avanti Pendolino travelling at speed.

 

[Krzysztof 82 (Kris)]

On the way to Sheffield...

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[foxfish]

A ny more pictures of the event, Martin we had small updates on the Isle of Man results on our local NW news

Hi mate, the whole week was fantastic, I dont know of any major issues, the games were superb from day one to the end.
We meet quite a few IOM visitors, they were a great team coming third overall.
Your basketball teams were very vocal at the matches especially considering they were just a tiny minority in the spectator numbers, they were well prepared though with horns and ratchets etc … all good fun.

Also we had two IOM policemen with their white helmets walking around, I think they had a fantastic time with all the attention and photo calls!

We had extra police from several other islands including motor bike police .

The opening ceremony was spectacular (must of cost a fortune but that is another matter) with an estimated 4000 visitors and 12000 locals attending!

The whole of Guernsey was alive, all the busses we free for the week and an army of volunteers also ferried competitors around, every restaurant was full, the supermarkets extra busy and town was buzzing.

Of course not every local was happy with the numerous road closures for the cycling ,running and triathlons events.

This was as close as Guernsey will get to the TT feel I guess.

We went to as many sports as possible, leaving home most mornings at 9am and getting home at 6-7pm.

The very last event was the mini triathlon on the streets and in the harbour of our town, making the whole town car fee for a whole day was fantastic for us but again some folk complained!

Unfortunately we had rain for the last two hours of the week and because the town streets were actually a live race track with bikes racing around at 35mph, a lot of folk got caught out in the heavy rain with no escape until the race finished.

We were two of those folk, the weather went from sunny 23c to 18 with heavy rain and like every one else, we wore shorts and T shirts and ended up soaking wet and freezing cold.

There are lots of videos on youtube and most events were shown live on youtube.

Also you can look here https://guernsey2023.gg

 

[PARAGUAY]

Looks like a great success, @foxfish ,credit to our local BBC news for Isle of Man updates,living in Greater Manchester it's our local island, notice even the Falklands were there, Worthy of TV coverage

 

[foxfish]

There were quite a few TV producers and commentators on island, more for places like Bermuda and Cayman, who have bigger budgets than places like St Helena, Froya or Gozo who were more obviously on a budget!
There is this BBC production that concentrates on the older competitors ……. Island Games - One Sporting Family
We have a close relationship with the IOM due to many similarities including the air link that allowed the two islands to integrate during lock down.
The next games are in the Orkney islands but they wont be able to compete with this years games as they simply dont have the sports facility's or even the accommodation available.
Hosting this years games cost the islands tax payers a lot of money but it was a fabulous event that I am sure most competitors and visitors will never forget.
We met so many nice people, made many new friends and many people have promised to return.

 

[Gill]

Todays walk, thru fields of wheat, bit of forest and the park and lakes.
Never seen so many crows before, a proper murder of crows - Counted 50.
Lakes had alit more trees planted. Still alot of water, but alot of grass has grown In.

 

[Tim Harrison]

Pics of Atlantic Coast Geology, Cornwall.

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[Wookii]

Pics of Atlantic Coast Geology, Cornwall.

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Probably my favourite part of our country!

 

[foxfish]

Looks great, did you look for any geodes?

 

[Tim Harrison]

Looks great, did you look for any geodes?

I didn't look for geodes, but there are some fossils in the mudstones and siltstones. The formations are upper carboniferous, around 310 million years old. But unsurprisingly the site is a SSSI so hammering is frowned upon. The coast line is stunning, and primordial in places. It'd make an excellent setting for a Jurassic Park type film.

This is about as close as I got to finding any fossils 😁

 

[foxfish]

What a great afternoon taking advantage of Festung Guernsey open day around Albecq headland on Guernseys west coast.

There were four German bunkers open including two new ones recently restored that we had not previously seen.

One of the bunkers contained a state of the art mortar launcher, this amazing device could throw out two mortar bombs a second at a range of 600mt .

Equally amazing was the build time, as for this particular bunker it was a mere 17 days! I am assuming this was the time it took to dig the hole shutter the shape and fill with concrete. A mixture of paid and slave workers were used under the instruction of German engineers.
Beautifully restored, a real time capsule and very interesting!
“For the benefit of my oversea friends who may not know that Guernsey was occupied by the German forces during the second world war.
They left a myriad of concrete building many of which are now very prominent features on our island!”

 

[foxfish]

Sky divers today.

 

[foxfish]

Lovely weather and huge spring tides allow us to access the old silver mine without the normal swim!

 

[Tim Harrison]

Another mini adventure in Guernsey. I’m guessing you’re hoping the sea will do the excavating. It’ll be interesting to find out if the mine entrance opens up more too. Is it a deep mine? Could be a secret entrance to Agartha 😁