Best piece of nature youve ever seen/been in the middle of

Dubwat · 16-06-2015 07:46PM

A certain part of the Mahon Falls valley in Waterford. The river does a kind-of u-turn to make a little island. The valley walls seem especially steep and you can just about see the sea in the distance. You sit there in near-silence and feel like a dot in the universe. I'm not religious but...

Getting the train from Seattle to San Francisco in USA - absolutely loved the Sierra Mountains.

Turtyturd · 16-06-2015 07:48PM

Watching a lion chase down and kill a gazelle.

Myself and my OH got stuck in a shop during a thunder storm years back too. Went from a sunny 90+ day to completely dark in a matter on minutes. Eventually had to leave the shop because it wasn't passing over. Thunder claps setting off car alarms is a memory I will always have.

Turtyturd · 16-06-2015 07:50PM

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Wouldn't be one for really remembering nature and it's beauty, but one image will never leave my mind. Back in Sept 09 i was in Orlando. It was about 22.30 and i was in the hotel pool, suppin on a can. To my left, the fireworks from Seaworld. To my right, a lightening storm not too far away. It was amazing!

Same place as mine.

GrumpyMe · 16-06-2015 07:54PM

10kms off the Fastnet Rock and "Thar she blows!" whale breaths...
Magic!

tricky D · 16-06-2015 08:06PM

Grand Canyon - check.

A graceful Basking Shark grazing away in Balscadden Bay many, many years ago.

Under a large murmuration of starlings on Bull Island. Amazing stuff, a bit like... (kicks off around 25secs in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k

16-06-2015 08:07PM

In a remote section of Killarney National Park about 5 years back, was walking along at dusk when about 15 deer just rose out of the mountain around me. I had managed to walk right into the middle of a large herd that was resting. Could never figure out how it happened as deer are so skittish and have such a great sense of smell.

fleet_admiral · 16-06-2015 08:35PM

Slieve League in Donegal. The cliffs of Moher are nothing in comparison

16-06-2015 09:25PM

tricky D wrote: »

Grand Canyon - check.

A graceful Basking Shark grazing away in Balscadden Bay many, many years ago.

Under a large murmuration of starlings on Bull Island. Amazing stuff, a bit like... (kicks off around 25secs in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k

I grew up right beside the same lake and was about to say starling murmurations myself.

I've never seen one as massive and spectacular as that one though. Hugely impressive.

LadyFenghuang · 16-06-2015 09:31PM

The Dublin mountains.

Sandymount beach.

The sally Gap.

Different parts of the wicklow way. I walked that with my mom.

The hell fire club. ( I spend a lot of my childhood messing around there !)
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Sandymount beach.

The Hag's Nipple in mullingar.

Powerscourt. (cultivated but still)

I love GARDENS.

There is now a field left wild in Marley like a meadow!

Tony Beetroot · 16-06-2015 09:32PM

A silver feather.

JohnMearsheimer · 16-06-2015 09:33PM

Since I was a teenager I always had an ambition to see the Rockies. When I was in Canada I was lucky to get a job out that way. I spent 6 months working at Moraine Lake in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. It was a really stunning place and I still think about the lake often. You'd pinch yourself everyday that you were being paid to live there. To stay in the lodge cost something like $600 CAD a night.

LadyFenghuang · 16-06-2015 09:34PM

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

A silver feather.

Shhhhhhut uuuuup sssshhhh

Why do people keep doing that!? }:-(

LadyFenghuang · 16-06-2015 09:37PM

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

A silver feather.

But thank you if it was a compliment. I need to get better at being ....secretive....

Next user name ....discreet feather.
I'm a feather head.

Tony Beetroot · 16-06-2015 09:38PM

Over 100 posts a day is a give away

LadyFenghuang · 16-06-2015 09:39PM

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Over 100 posts a day is a give away

Not if I call myself MATT next time

!

nibtrix · 16-06-2015 09:49PM

Milford Sound, NZ

That was actually pretty hard to decide!

gw80 · 16-06-2015 10:12PM

One morning I got up early to fish a small river near where I live, about 6 in the morning, early spring, everything had a coating of frost, really quiet, nobody around,

About half an hour into my fishing I notice downstream a v shape wave coming towards me so I stop in my tracks, I was kinda confused, so when the wave got to me I seen a huge otter swimming underneath it, then the otter spotted me and poked his head out of the water and just kinda threaded water starring straight at me and me starring back,

It felt like ages but was probably just a few seconds and then real casualy ducked his head under the water and carried on,

Ill never forget it

LadyFenghuang · 16-06-2015 10:12PM

nibtrix wrote: »

Milford Sound, NZ

That was actually pretty hard to decide!

We are so lucky to have many choices in Ireland itself actually.

Amirani · 16-06-2015 10:31PM

Iguazu Falls probably. Though Halong Bay was pretty awesome too.

osarusan · 16-06-2015 10:31PM

There's a place in Japan called Kamikochi - it s tourist mecca in summer, but i love snow so I was more interested in getting there in winter.

I wasn't disappointed.

(not my pic, but basically what I saw)

mohawk · 16-06-2015 10:34PM

Gonna jump the Grand Canyon bandwagon. It literally blows your mind.

NachoBusiness · 17-06-2015 01:53AM

Santa Ponsa.

percy212 · 17-06-2015 02:03AM

LadyFenghuang wrote: »

The Dublin mountains.

The Hag's Nipple in mullingar.

What's this?

LadyFenghuang · 17-06-2015 02:10AM

percy212 wrote: »

What's this?

:-) It's a nickname for a place in Fore westmeath. Also there is the Cat's stone near it.

df1985 · 17-06-2015 02:12AM

Grand canyon probably for me too.

worthy mentions: Yosemite, halong bay. I climbed mt Fuji in Japan in terrible conditions but the clouds cleared briefly at the top, I didn't realise how high I was until that point because I saw nothing but mist and fog on the way up. Some of the scenery skiing in the french alps.

In terms of animals, I hugged and cuddled a panda at the conservation centre in Chengdu in china. They are as affectionate as puppies. Adorable. I'm a 29 year old guy and I had a bigger smile on my face and was more excited than anyone else there , I look slightly strange I'm smiling so much in the pictures.

LadyFenghuang · 17-06-2015 02:14AM

Loughcrew hill was called the hag's hill or mounatin and all around that place from loughcrew to fore has nicknames like that.

The hags nipple. I have sat on the hag's nipple!

LadyFenghuang · 17-06-2015 02:16AM

df1985 wrote: »

Grand canyon probably for me too.

worthy mentions: Yosemite, halong bay. I climbed mt Fuji in Japan in terrible conditions but the clouds cleared briefly at the top, I didn't realise how high I was until that point because I saw nothing but mist and fog on the way up. Some of the scenery skiing in the french alps.

In terms of animals, I hugged and cuddled a panda at the conservation centre in Chengdu in china. They are as affectionate as puppies. Adorable.

I have held lizards and snakes. :-) You can feel the pulse right through the entire body of a snake.

I have held odd things. I sometimes need a minute to screw up courage!

the evasion_kid · 17-06-2015 02:18AM

The great barrier reef

View of Snow capped mountains from the middle of the great salt lake

CruelCoin · 17-06-2015 02:25AM

Milford Sounds

http://mstecker.com/images/NewZealand/NZMS/MS/a23ms4a-3.jpg

LadyFenghuang · 17-06-2015 02:32AM

CruelCoin wrote: »

Milford Sounds

Wow.

My brother has some great pics of his travels actually. He is more widely traveled then I. He went off in his twenties. And he is an AMAZING photographer.

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