Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Park

A view of Bradgate Park and Old John Tower taken from Beacon Hill, approx. 5km to the north. On the hill to the right of Old John Tower is the Yeomanry War Memorial. Erected on consecrated ground, the obelisk was built in 1924 and is dedicated to the Leicestershire Yeomanry field regiments that fought and died in the Boer War and the First and Second World Wars.

Not actually a bench but the view over the lake and the Canadian Geese swimming in it is very pleasant from this spot. Clumber Park is owned by the National Trust. HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of the new week.

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.

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.

The original wooden footbridge at Dutton Park station is of course is now long gone as is everything else in view. The bridge was in two sections but neither span looked particularly solid! A Queensland Railways 2000 Class railcar is seen heading north towards Brisbane city centre. Currently the station is closed for rebuilding as part of the Cross River Rail development. HFF to everyone. Enjoy your weekend.

Feeding the birds on the Serpentine in Hyde Park. The Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner and the Palace of Westminster seem much closer than they really are but almost 50 years of tree growth has spoilt the view today.

In 1981 I was working in Medan, North Sumatra but as I was about to transfer to The Hague we decided to take vacation and travel around some other parts of Indonesia before leaving. We had just spent a few days in Yogyakarta and were now flying east to Bali over East Java and the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The islands of Sumatra and Java lie on a long volcanic arc above a subduction zone where the Indo-Australia plate is moving beneath the Eurasia plate making it very volcanically active.