Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: ranunculus on October 10, 2007, 02:42:39 PM
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A little late I know but I have only recently begun to sort the wheat from the chaff from a weeks holiday taken in Fuertaventura during spring 2007. The images represent a cross-section of photographs taken on the beaches, in the beautiful cactus gardens, in the zoo and on an offshore island and feature landscapes, plants, creatures and an occasional abstract. I would greatly appreciate reaction in the form of your favourite three images if possible (votes by personal e-mail to free up this wonderful forum please)? As there are at least sixty images then it will take a while to upload them...please be patient....especially those of you who cannot access by Broadband....my humble apologies...perhaps you will have to be selective or give this subject a very wide berth?
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Batch two....
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Batch three.....
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Batch four....
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Batch five....
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Batch six..... One more batch after this featuring all the images that were oversized files....Oops!http://
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Batch seven.....featuring all the out of sequence numbers......Sorry!
ENJOY PLEASE.
END OF TOPIC. AMEN
All this posting uses enormous amounts of nervous energy.....and fingertip skin....but YOU ARE WORTH IT! AAaaaah!
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Award yourself a cup of tea and a bun, Cliff, while we cogitate.....with such diverse subjects, a choice of three will be tricky...we'll let you know!
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Be very careful Maggi....cogitating without a safety net is not strictly PC!!
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Not exactly alpines Cliff - but another great series all the same !
What a diversity in cacti and what stupendous quality of the photographs !!! :o
And I who thought you spent Spring in the States .... did you have two springs this year ??? ;D
I'll be back with my favourites later on - in the mean time, my deepest sympathy with what remains of your fingertip skin.
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birds in the wild
Turnstones
Cage birds or escapees
Californian Quail
Serin/wild canary
Java Sparrow
Glossy Starling
Scarlet Ibis
Red-wing Laughing Thrush
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I cannot choose three, they are all lovely images.
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Many thanks folks.....
...And special thanks to Mark for the very welcome identifications.....Red-wing Laughing Thrush, you couldn't make it up...what a wonderfully evocative name....
From the Purple-Nosed Piccie Poster......
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Another most interesting thread Cliff, thank you very much. I don't know about a cup of tea, i would have awarded you something much stronger ;D
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Thanks Brian....I like Bovril!!
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Forgive my ignorance but where is Fuertaventura please? And assuming not in the USA, are all those wonderful cacti in a man-made garden area? I especially like the barrels and the hairy one top of batch five.
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Yes, I had never heard of it either, so I Googled. It's one of the Canary
Islands belonging to Spain.
Here is a Yahoo Answer: It's a volcanic Ireland, looks like you'd imagine Mars
It looks like someone's private zoo.
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Amazing pics Cliff. The Cactus and the variety of birds are amazing. Couldn't choose 3 favs!!
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Good morning all,
My apologies for jumping to the conclusion that the rest of the world will know our european holiday destinations as well as we do.
The second largest of the Canaries, Fuertaventura is only slightly smaller than Tenerife and twice the size of Lanzarote. With a population of about 60,000 and a practically rainfree climate all year round (average 16 days per year mainly between December and February), the island itself is very barren with a distinctly unspectacular landscape due to more than 20 million years of erosion and weathering. We stayed in Corralejo at the northern tip of the island with views over the Atlantic to Lanzarote and the tiny island of Lobos...a curious uninhabited volcanic protusion, a haven of calm and tranquility which we visited for a climb to the top of Montana Lobos, the seabirds, the unusual plants and the spectacular views back to the main island.
All these islands provide the perfect habitat for cacti and the dedicated gardens near the zoo on Fuertaventura are truly spectacular with many acres of magnificent specimens (Lanzarote also boasts wonderful cactus displays, especially at the Jardin de Cactus, north of Arrecife, which boasts over 1400 species and well over 10,000 plants).
A good number of the images in my posting were taken in the pretty and well-managed zoo where the birds were housed in large and spectacular walk through aviaries.
Not, of course, an 'alpine' destination in any shape or form, but I hope this posting illustrates that members of this wonderful Rock Garden Club can be stimulated by plants and nature images of every type and persuasion.....though I may personally draw the line at summer bedding displays in parks and gardens. (Shudder, shudder).
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Here is a Yahoo Answer: It's a volcanic Ireland, looks like you'd imagine Mars
If only it was part of Ireland!