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Showing posts with label Scenic Sunday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scenic Sunday. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Cape town scenery - Chapman's Peak Drive


The Atlantic near Cape Town, Chapmans Peak Drive, February 2011
A view from a very scenic road. The Chapman's Peak Drive is famous for it's beauty. We had a wonderful day. I love this view!

From Wikipedia:
Chapman's Peak is the name of a mountain on the western side of the Cape Peninsula, about 15 kilometres south of Cape Town, South Africa. It is opposite the inlet on which the town of Hout Bay is centred.


The western flank of the mountain falls sharply for hundreds of metres into the Atlantic Ocean. A spectacular road, known as Chapman's Peak Drive, hugs the near-vertical face of the mountain from Hout Bay to Noordhoek. Hacked out of the face of the mountain between 1915 and 1922, the road was at the time regarded as a major feat of engineering. Chapman's Peak Drive was closed in the 1990s, after a rockfall caused a death and a subsequent lawsuit, and subsequently reopened after being re-engineered to protect motorists from falling rocks. It was reopened in 2005 as a toll road. The road was again closed for a number of months beginning on 19 June 2008 "as a result of risk areas identified on the mountain above the road", but has since been reopened indefinitely

Linked to ABC Wednesday, todays letter is V.
Linked to Watery Wednesday and to Scenic Sunday.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Namibia

In the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Sossusvlei Area, Namibia, March 2010.


Do you see the trees at the bottom of this huge dune, my son Andreas walked up to the top (nearly).


Linked to ABC Wednesday and yes, my last post for the letter N was from there too. The Namib Desert is a very special place, with overhelming nature.
 
Linked to Scenic Sunday.




Saturday, June 11, 2011

American beauty

Antelope Island, Utah, USA, September 2009
Antelope Island is the largest island in the Great Salt Lake and a Utah State Park . It's such a beautiful place. That's the view from our camp site.
Linked to Scenic Sunday

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Scenic drive

On the road between Kotzehoop and Keetmanshoop, Namibia, March 2010.

My first contribution to Scenic Sunday