Album nature & scenery from Loose_Grip/Pete

HFF Gullfoss Iceland 2nd August 2012

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:20:28 +0000

Gullfoss is the second largest waterfall in Iceland & being only 90 minutes drive east of Reykjavik gets lots of tourists.

HFF (it's just in view!) to everyone. Have a great weekend.

HFF Kwazulu Natal South Africa

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:00:11 +0000

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We spent 3 weeks in South Africa and rented a car to do an anti-clockwise road trip from Johannesburg. We headed east and then south.

I think I took this shot from the roadside somewhere south of Glencoe as we were driving to Rorke's Drift. The landscape was wide and open and this fence did little to hem it in!

HFF to everyone and have a great weekend.

Calpe Valencia Spain 16th November 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:30:42 +0000

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A Crane or Bird of Paradise flower (Strelitzia) happily growing in a garden by the beach in Calpe.

HFF Aylestone Leicester England 17th August 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:30:16 +0000

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A view of the Meadows & the Grand Union Leicester Line canal in Aylestone opened in 1794.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Granada Andalucia Spain 7th November 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:22:43 +0000

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Taken from the Mirador San Nicolas viewpoint in full sun. This shot shows the snow capped mountains behind the Alhambra.

The Sierra Nevada mountain range in the Andalusian province of Granada contains the highest point of continental Spain: Mulhacén, at 3,479 metres.

Iznallos Granada Spain 11th November 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 05:23:00 +0000

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Driving from Cordoba to Mojacar along the A308 road east of Aznallos we stopped for this view of the mountains. One of the peaks is the Peñón de La Giganta in the Sierra Arana.

The whole area is studded with olive groves on every hillside.

Pancurbatu North Sumatra Indonesia February 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:48:15 +0000

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Walking in the fields off the Berestagi road near Pancurbatu southwest of Medan. We were recce-ing a trail for the Medan House House Harriers in this area.

The atap hut has seen better days. In this view there are ground nuts in the foreground, maize beyond, with a smattering of banana & palm trees. The Barisan mountains are on the skyline to the south.

Leicester England 2nd April 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:41:24 +0000

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Senetti Violet Bicolour.

Kruger National Park South Africa 20th May 1982

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:07:54 +0000

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We drove from Johannesburg to Kruger Park for a short break spending just one night at Pretoriuskop in the park. With no particular plan we just drove around for the day and were surprised how many animals were about although we didn't see any big cats.

This pod of hippos were lazing about in the river. In fact they are among the most dangerous animals in the world due to their aggressive and unpredictable nature.

Puncak West Java Indonesia June 1981

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:00:11 +0000

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We were staying in the Mobil guesthouse in Puncak in the mountains south of Jakarta. This was the view looking west towards Mount Pangrango (3,019 m/ 9,905 ft) a dormant volcanic peak, one of many on the Sunda Arc.

Big Bend West Texas USA 2nd October 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:56:32 +0000

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The Window & the Chisos Mountains looking west from the lodge in the Chisos Basin at the centre of Big Bend National Park out towards the Chihuahua desert.

The Chisos Mountains are mainly of igneous origin and were erupted and deposited during the Cenozoic. The oldest rocks in the mountains are volcanic ash, mixtures of ash and clay, sandstone, and conglomerates.

Calpe Valencia Spain 25th February 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:27:42 +0000

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What a sky!

The Penyal d'Ifac bathed in the sunset light.

It was known as the Northern Rock to the Phoenicians, the Southern Rock was Gibraltar.

El Capitan Carlsbad Texas USA 2nd October 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:46:14 +0000

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The Permian El Capitan reef complex in the Guadeloupe Mountains on the Texas-New Mexico border. After the flight from Dallas to El Paso we transferred to the tour bus for a geological field trip around West Texas.

As an undergraduate I wrote a long essay on carbonate reefs referring to the Guadalupian El Capitan as the prime ancient analogue of modern build-ups. It was a real buzz to actually visit it and hit the rocks with a hammer!

Langkawi Malaysia 12th April 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:31:36 +0000

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When I first started working for Blue Circle Cement in 1970 one of my fellow geologists had just come back from an assignment in Langkawi Malaysia. I was impressed by his stories of this island paradise in the Strait of Malacca near the Thai border but never thought I would ever go there.

Wind on 10 years & I was living in North Sumatra and discovered that a short flight from Medan to Penang followed by a shorter flight by light aircraft northward would take me to the small airport at Langkawi.

It was well worth the trip and the unspoilt island was a delight.

It remained a quiet backwater until 1986, when the Malaysian Prime Minister transformed it into a major tourist resort. A large international airport was built and the island rapidly grew as a tourist destination, and by 2012, it received over three million tourists a year.

HFF Como Lombardy Italy 12th April 2019

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 07:16:02 +0000

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The clouds are down on the mountains but it's wisteria time on the banks of Lake Como.

HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

Mount Sibayak North Sumatra Indonesia 8th June 1980

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 10:19:50 +0000

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From one volcano to another!

We are on on Mount Sibayak (Indonesian: Gunung Sibayak) an active Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano peaking at 2,181 m (7,156 ft). The other volcano is Mount Sinabung, about 15km to the southwest, that in 2010 erupted after a 400-year-long hiatus, a blink of an eye in geological time.

Both volcanoes are part of the Barisan Mountain range that runs NW-SE for a 1000 miles along the whole length of Sumatra parallel to the Sumatra Trench & includes 35 active volcanoes.

Although its last eruption was more than a century ago, Sibayak has geothermal activity in the form of steam vents and hot springs on and around the volcano. The vents produce crystalline sulfur, which was being mined on a small scale in 1979 (men carrying sacks down the mountain on their backs). Seepage of sulfurous gases has also caused acidic discolouration of the small crater lake part of which can be seen bottom middle.

Kinchley Leicestershire 6th December 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 10:10:37 +0000

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Sunrise over Swithland reservoir on the same cold and misty morning.

Acapulco Guerrero Mexico 19th November 1978

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:47:10 +0000

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We left Mexico City by coach and after an overnight in Taxco we reached the Pacific coast at Acapulco where we spent the rest of the week. This was the view from our hotel window on the beach.

Calpe Valencia Spain 15th November 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:48:45 +0000

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The last gasp of the sunset over the headland.
The fist sight of the moon.

Treyarnon Bay Padstow Cornwall 19th September 2023

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:35:14 +0000

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Sunset over the cliffs and beach at Treyarnon in North Cornwall.