Nature Photos

Something different, some night shots with a Samsung amp prime cell phone. Back side of Strawberry Point....Death valley Jct.....west of Pahrump NV. Simple pics of the Moon on a clear night. Missed a couple of opportunities when driving to get that full moon with clouds highlighted around it. Oh well... it will come[emoji2] 20180527_201734.jpeg20180527_201726.jpeg20180527_194119.jpeg20171104_070059.jpeg20170508_041640.jpeg
 
Went hiking today along the Nooksack river in Glacier, WA. Always an awesome time! We picked up a lot of trash too. So many morons who come here and are too damn lazy to throw things away or bring with them. I pulled an entire trash bag out of the woods that was full of red plastic cups and PBR beer cans. It was clearly placed there intentionally too. Best part is, not even 50 ft. Away was a public restroom with recycling and trash can receptacles. Makes me sick [emoji58]
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Went hiking today along the Nooksack river in Glacier, WA. Always an awesome time! We picked up a lot of trash too. So many morons who come here and are too damn lazy to throw things away or bring with them. I pulled an entire trash bag out of the woods that was full of red plastic cups and PBR beer cans. It was clearly placed there intentionally too. Best part is, not even 50 ft. Away was a public restroom with recycling and trash can receptacles. Makes me sick [emoji58]
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Great pics. Look at all that potential firewood in the stream bed:laughing:.. I hope you took some cleanup photos of the trash. If you did post them in the "leaving it better than you found it" thread.

Let me guess...the trash wasn't because the CANS were full. Lazy yahoo's....go out into nature and trash what you came to admire.
 
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Great pics. Look at all that potential firewood in the stream bed:laughing:.. I hope you took some cleanup photos of the trash. If you did post them in the "leaving it better than you found it" thread.

Let me guess...the trash wasn't because the CANS were full. Lazy yahoo's....go out into nature and trash what you came to admire.


Unfortunately I didn’t snap a pic. I left my phone in the car when I spotted the poorly placed beer can filled trash bag. We also found a Burger King cup, a styrofoam take out tray and some other random crap. And no, the forest department does a decent job with emptying the recycling and trash containers. It’s stupidity and straight laziness.
 
A couple of the denizens of Buffalo Gap National Grassland just to the west of Badlands national park in South Dakota. It was one of my favorite places I visited with Jeep No. 1, so we took Jeep No. 5 back there last October (2018) when it was about two weeks old.
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Which South African animal is that? It looks too big to be a gazelle

It is actually blackbuck. From Wikipedia, "The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India, Nepal and Pakistan." They have naturalized in this area. Ranchers originally brought them in as exotics for ag exemptions and they have since naturally colonized in the wild.
 
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It is actually blackbuck. From Wikipedia, "The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India, Nepal and Pakistan." They have naturalized in this area. Ranchers originally brought them in as exotics for ag exemptions and they have since naturally colonized in the wild.

Sweet. I wonder what the natural threat would be to them in the wild. I think they are to big for coyotes. What is the largest predator in the region. They could be doing more harm than good.
They are beautiful
 
Some pictures of my playground

the Artzamendi (litteraly Bear's Mountain, in bask language), France

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the "castil de tierra" in the Bardenas desert, Spain

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Esterencuby in the Pyrenees, France

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And Biarritz where i live, between ocean and mountains

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