Photos by Nakor: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

It's amazing how beautiful Flinders Island truly is. A wonderful part of the world that has largely gone unseen thank goodness. The environment is so pristine and so full of wildlife (land and sea) that I think those who live there are truly very lucky. While it may not be the warmest of places, it supports a wide range of bird and animal life as well as farmed areas with cattle and sheep.

Hello Judith, Thank you for your kind words on my Dolbadarn castle photos. You are right of course that they were in March.

Interestingly, the photos were about 24 hours apart from each other and yet have such differences in mood and lighting. It was the 29th and 30th of March!

I enjoyed your swan photo - they are always such curious creatures. Your photos of the cold winters up in Scotland remind me of time spent in Canadian winters... very cold...

Take care, Richard

I LIKE YOUR OTHER ONE BETTER. WHAT MONTH WERE THEY TAKEN? LOOKS LIKE MIGHT BE MARCH TO ME. I WAS THERE YESTERDAY FOR AN EARLY MORNING WALK.

I HAVE LOOOKED AT MOST OF THE GOOGLE EARTH PHOTOS OF THIS WEE CASTLE & YOURS IS DEF' MY FAVORITE

Certainly they are not original Harvards, that is true. In reality they're a modified Pilatus PC9 (as flown as a trainer by many countries) although for some reason, locally, they're called Harvards by NFTC. I never really found out why they called them that.

Nice!

CarmenmiraMadrid DECEMBER CONTEST

Greetings from Madrid. Carmen

Very dramatic photos. Greetings from Australia.

Truly, there are times of the year that transform different places around the planet. An otherwise largely mundane residential collection of units suddenly becomes magical with the trees in bloom but not a petal on the ground... I find that this photo sums up some of the ideals behind the American dream (pristine goals). My only regret is that the tree on the right had been split in some previous storm... deep care and thanks to Jess who brought this and so many other opportunities to life...

This is one of my favorites in some ways. The positioning of the two subjects and that this is the first time that Heather had come face to face with a Kangaroo were both pretty special situations. The washed out clouds behind the kangaroo and the hills behind Heather helped give the right perspectives on both subjects. The other aspect that was intriguing was the transition from cultivated land behind Heather to a natural bracken/bush edge for the kangaroo nicely summed up the two subjects origins. Maybe I just think too much...

From memory this is wombat pond. It's on a lovely, although short, circuit walk around the area. This track leads on to the overlander track from memory and passes through some stunning countryside. Beautiful...