Here are some of the BP pics with BP captions and reader comments. Some of the big items, if not all, will astound you.
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Unreal Landscape: Dolomites, Italy
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It's absolutely majestic!
I will admire it from the bottom of that slope.
Looks like an alien world...
Serene!!
How can you not want to immediately be there? 💕
This just proves how gigantic the earth really is. Just beautiful
The edge of one plate pushed up by another. Bigger version of a slab of sidewalk lifted by a tree root
Reminds me of Pride Rock from The Lion King 😊
The light .... It's otherwordly!
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Thunderstorm Over Panama. Picture Taken At 37,000 Feet By Santiago Borja
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How do you even get a shot like that? Amazed. Spectacular!
A huuuuuge ladder.
Just wow
Nature....ANGRY!
A forever moment.
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Perseid's Meteor Shower Over Stonehenge
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Taken over a longish timespan, probably several hours.
i went through that once at sea. saw about 40 an hour all night. 1976
In ancient times... 'undreds of years before the dawn of 'istory... lived a strange race of people... the Druids...
how come I never see this kind of thing when I go past
Remember what happened during the Triffid shower
Nope, I always keep my eyes closed. And a keen lookout for my tomato plants afterwards.
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Just Imagine Going Hiking In The Woods And Coming Across This Beast
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Mr Moose makes the trees look like alders 🌱
That's Miss Moose... missing an important part to be a Mr.
I saw moose many times. There used to be an Air Force Base in northern Maine (Loring), and I was stationed there for a couple years. I was working on the flightline the night when a military police officer in an SUV-type car was honking the horn at a massive male moose trying to get the moose to leave the runway. The moose got mad, attacked the car, and flipped the car on its side.
Was driving though Wyoming on our way to see Mt. Rushmore when we noticed a moose down off the road near a creek. Then we noticed the woman it was chasing down. The moose had a small calf and the woman's dog wouldn't stop barking at it. So she picks up the dog and tried to get away when the moose kicks her in the back with it front leg, sending her face down into the dirt. She got back up with her dog and tried to get away again, but the moose followed and kicked her to the dirt again, with the dog still barking. We stopped and started shouting at her to come up to the highway. She did, and the moose followed. We were driving a little Aspire with our camping gear taking up everything but the front two seats. So all 3 of us, plus the dog, crammed in with one of us sitting on the stick shift, and managed to close the door. But uh oh, the passenger side window was rolled down and none of us could quite reach it because we are all sitting on each other
One of us was barely able to reach the handle and was desperately trying to roll the window up while the moose was closing in. The dog would not stop barking. We managed to get the window closed just as the moose reached us, and I swear to god we all thought it was going to smash the window. Fortunately, it decided it couldn't reach the dog so walked on with its calf. But don't ever mess with mama moose.
May be hard for some to believe, but there are actually people who will get close to get a selfie.
Not hard to believe. People are idiots.
We had one in our campsite last fall. We have a tree tent, called a Tentsile, that is strung between trees 4 ft off the ground. Effing moose stepped OVER the straps. OVER.
OMG. So my ex and I were "camping" with some friends. Yeah, we were in a van that got stuck in the snow up in the Cascade National Forest (WA State). I was the only girl & had to pee. So I walk down the road a ways (full moon, so it was gorgeous at about 1:00am) and find my perfect peeing bush. Doing my business when I hear this "chuffing" noise. I turned my head and came face to face with a bull moose easily this size. I couldn't see the end of his rack in my peripheral vision, he was so big. So, I said "Um, hello. Not here to bother you, just had to pee. WOW - You're a BIG fella, aren'tcha?" He just stared at me for a minute (that lasted an hour) and moseyed on down the road. I was terrified and thrilled at the same time. No one belleved me until I made them walk down the road where they could see his tracks. One of the most awesome nature encounters I've ever had.
I suspect a flying squirrel is nearby...
[ My contribution for Scottish Dave:
A Scotsman walks into a bar in Canada and notices an animal's head hanging on the wall He asks the bartender what it is and the bartender replied “a moose". The Scot says "Jesus Christ! How big are the cats then?” ]
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Iceberg Passing By A House In Greenland
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I'd love to see that in real life - while standing on solid, rocky ground.
With a fluffy, warm jacket!
"Wall of ice closer today Thag"
Very very very very scary to me,
If I lived somewhere as cold as Greenland I’d want a very cozy house that looks like it’s sealed with great insulation and double pane windows. I’m freezing looking at this little trailer.
Honey, can you get me some ice for my drink please?
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White-Bellied Sea Eagle
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Magnificent
It's majestic, but I'll admire it from a safe distance. Just look at that beak!
Beautiful bird, even more beautiful woman that is handing it so for me I see two stunningly beautifully gorgeous creatures loving up on each other
That bird looks like something out of Narnia!
For some reason, I do not think I would like to put my face within pecking distance of that pointed beak
I didn’t even notice the eagle
lost in girls eyes
Magnificent bird, and the eagle to her left is nice as well.
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The Sky Looks Way Too Much Like A Gigantic Wave
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Kelvin-Helmholz clouds or fluctus clouds. Beautiful but tiny bit scary..
Not fluctus as they are not curling in wave shapes. This is a cumulus cloud.
*puts on goggles and snorkel and prays*
If I saw that, I think I would scream like a two-year-old and soil my trousers.
terrifying!
Looks as though the road goes straight into the ocean
Incoming tsunami!!!
Holy C**p! Runnnnn!
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Saltwater Crocodile Next To A Human
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Gonna be a hard pass from me, thanks
That's not all I'd pass.
That's just a straight-up dinosaur.
Is the human in a plastic container to keep them fresh for the crocodiles snacking pleasure?
I've seen videos of them next to boats and it's mind blowing how big they actually are!
I'd love to do this! It looks absolutely amazing and a wee bit terrifying!
It's not wee, it's massively terrifying. The only wee would be flowing out of me in sheer fright
Is the croc held captive? Looks like walls in the background
Of course it is
And this is why you don't go swimming in the Northern Territory of Australia.
I have done it in The Northern Territory, Australia 🇦🇺, It's called The Cage of Death 🐊🤠✨️
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And another for Disco Dave from Scotland to finish . . .
Kelpies
The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here. Each head is 30 metres (98 ft) high.
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If I had no idea what these were, and drove by them on a foggy day like that, I would probably think, "Well, I guess the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are here. It was fun while it lasted."
This is so cool. Particularly in a foggy day like that.
I’m not usually bothered by big things but for some reason, the Kelpies make me really uncomfortable. I could not for the life of me say why.
Stunning monument
Spent a wonderful morning there…magnificent…
Imagine not knowing about these and randomly stumbling upon them.
I would like to see these in good sunlight.
They're in Scotland, not gonna happen.
By the way:
Dave et al, some notes and comments:
- A kelpie, or water kelpie is a mythical shape-shifting spirit inhabiting lochs in Scottish folklore. It is usually described as a grey or white horse-like creature, able to adopt human form. Some accounts state that the kelpie retains its hooves when appearing as a human, leading to its association with the Christian idea of Satan as alluded to by Robert Burns in his 1786 poem "Address to the Devil".
- Almost every sizeable body of water in Scotland has an associated kelpie story, but the most extensively reported is that of Loch Ness. The kelpie has counterparts across the world, such as the Germanic nixie, the wihwin of Central America and the Australian bunyip. The origins of narratives about the creature are unclear, but the practical purposes of keeping children away from dangerous stretches of water and warning young women to be wary of handsome strangers has been noted in secondary literature.
- The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here. Each head is 30 metres (98 ft) high.
- The sculptures, which represent kelpies, were designed by sculptor Andy Scott and were completed in October 2013. An unveiling ceremony took place in April 2014. Around the sculptures is an area of parkland known as The Helix.
