A late #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
Where we used to walk but cannot anymore as the path which led to it is now out of bounds.
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I'm guessing this is off the beaten path for many. Found myself having a mediocre coffee and a decent sandwich just across the street from the Wukang building in the French Concession in Shanghai yesterday. The cheesecake was very nice.
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Hardknott Pass, a steep single track "road" in the Lakes
The time this year we accidentally ended up going up Hardknott Pass in the Lakes
By the far the worst road I've ever driven on and the only road I'll never drive again
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The hills and valleys of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. A trail of flattened grass drops over the edge of the meadow and becomes a steep descent to Nutclough Woods. In the distance, green fields and woodland with trees in full leaf. Blue skies above, with a grey cloud on the horizon.
Feel rinsed, so I'm going to start heading for bed. Hopefully, I can get there without the usual two hours of faff!
One last shot for #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack This was my daily walk to and from Hebden rail station, and leads to Nutclough Wood.
'night, peeps. And don't bite the bed bugs.
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A very narrow path through fairly dense vegetation. A former goat track rarely used now.
More of the goat track. A narrow pathway through dry dense vegetation.
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Exploring an old rarely used goat track on Corfu
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An elephant is crossing a bare dirt track in Tanzania. The ears are spread and the face is staring directly at the camera. In the distance a hazy summer's day is filling the air with dust and clouds.
A thin-looking lioness is walking up a dirt track away from the camera. Her face is hanging low and she's half-turned back towards the viewer. She looks a bit in need of some dinner. Her paws have large brown feet and her ears are tufty.
A landscape view of an airstrip in the Ruhua national park. A black and white windsock is blowing in the leftmost edge of the picture. A redish area of bare dirt shows where the runway is. In the distance, just visible in front of a line of trees, a large bull elephant is walking from right to left. In the foreground, a baboon sits half hidden in long grass.
Three for #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack - taking the prompt a bit literally; here are three from Tanzania, where animals are crossing the beaten track as they coexist with humans.
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A gravel path winds between a fence post and clusters of wildflowers. There is a glimpse of golden sand beyond, and a beautiful baby blue sky, with only a couple of white, wispy, nothing clouds
The sea kisses the shore between two rocky outcrops. The sand is wet with the outgoing tide, and reflects the blue of the sky, while golden pre-sunset light turns the rocks a deep glowing yellow. The sapphire sea is calm and peaceful
The sea ripples lazily onto the shore. In the background huge rocks are stacked as breaker. Pebbles litter the foreground. Both the pebbles in the foreground and the rocks in the background are bathed in golden, glowing light. The sky is a soft baby blue, fading to gentle yellow hues at the horizon
I think this counts as off the beaten track, because who has ever been to Elmer Beach in Bognor Regis? I didnt see another soul there all day
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It photo monkey in the forest, there a baby monkey on its back, the baby monkey is bit fed up because of how it wet with rain and the bigger monkey that it cling to keep on screeching and ignore it. The monkey it have fingers on its paws and furry hands
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It loud macaque and small macaque in rain in trentham forest
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In amongst the ivy and nettles is a small sign which reads 'Rabbit Town Keep Out'.
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Hidden in a hedgerow..
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A clear water lake, on white sand. A strip of almost completely white sand, then the first strip of the still lake water is turquoise and drops to a royal blue. In the distance, on the other side, is a dark line of forest, under a clear blue sky.
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Lake McKenzie, a sweet water lake on the all sand & tropical rainforest island, Frazer Island, in Queensland, Australia. 1998. It was spectacular.
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A female rock wallaby with joey visible in her pouch sits atop red sandstone and sparse native vegetation, with a red dust road off in the distance © 2015 Tracey L. Baglin
Mumma rock wallaby
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Alice Springs NT
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Hardy clumps of native grasses poke through pristine snow, with an icy creek wending slowly in the background © 2012 Tracey L. Baglin
Forgoing the overpriced Selwyn snowfields for exploring Namadgi National Park
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Kiandra NSW
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A tween with straggly blond hair wearing gymboots, purple shorts and a panda hoodie sits astride a wooden “horse” in front of a teen sitting “sidesaddle” wearing striped boardshorts, a black tshirt and baseball cap. An older woman wearing yellow and a middle aged man wearing blue stand behind them © 2013 Tracey L. Baglin
Not quite the Wild West
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Old Town San Diego CA
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A view across the mountainous landscape of Switzerland in the summer. All the hills are covered in green forests and grass. In between, in the valley are clusters of buildings of the townd and the main road. The blue sky is scattered with white clouds.
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That time we decided to quit the standstill traffic on the motorway and go over the Gotthard pass in Switzerland, after our holiday in Italy. 2014
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A very serious pale grey and hairy monkey sits on old sandstone retaining wall bursting with green fernery and scrutinises its distant cousins for food © 2014 Tracey L. Baglin
In their world
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Sacred Monkey Forest, Ubud Indonesia
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The dry interior landscape of Gran Canaria, mountains in distance, town in valley below, frazzled leafless trees and grass in foreground
In the middle of Gran Canaria (or possibly by the edge of the Glowing Sea) #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
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Not many people go on holiday to Bosnia. And those that do don't go far from Sarajevo and Mostar. Of those that do find Pocitelj, even fewer stay the night. It's wonderful.
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Colorful flowers along an old wire fence. The field on the other side is filled with tiny yellow flowers, and some trees in the distance.
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From quite a few years ago, during a spring flower bonanza.
Leander, Texas, US
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Kenya, with giraffes
Luard Falls, Kenya
Montserrat, view of the volcano
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Kenya, Kenya, and Montserrat
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A glorious sunset over choppy Lake Michigan waters. The beach curves up the left hand side of shot, and a dog can be seen in the middle distance.
Lake Michigan shoreline near Bear Lake.
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A statue of a man taking a photograph
A statue of a woman watching the photograph being taken
A statue of a female fashion model - the subject of the statue photographer’s picture
This statuesque photo shoot i happened across in a Marylebone backstreet #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
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A scuba diver with pretty perfect buoyancy explores the outside of the Hilma Hooker, a wreck at approximately 30m in Bonaire. The Hilma Hooker was originally a Dutch cargo ship but sank in 1982 after being seized by authorities due its cargo of drugs. Today it is recognized as one of the best wreck diving sites in the Caribbean.
#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack Diving the wreck of the Hilma Hooker in Bonaire
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Waterfall catching sunlight falling over lush vegetation into a deep pool
#SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack reminded me of this holiday we spent in the Aveyron region of France for the simple reason that we’d left it very late to book campsites on the coast. Apparently not many people go there. They should. Its lovely.
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Moorland, rocks and more moors
I’m not usually off the beaten track, being a ‘Stay on the path, you fool!’ kind of guy. But no idea where I was here #SundayPixOffTheBeatenTrack
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Me standing on a slanting grass hillside, next to a palmtree, behind there is a view to the sea.
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Botanical Gardens, Barbados. 1999. Back in my skinny days.
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The leaf wasn't falling. It was caught on a single strand of spider silk. I have a photo from my Fuji that shows the silk, but this iPhone pic is a better composition. I'm amazed I caught this given how rapidly it was spinning in a relentless wind coming off the moors. I'd clambered to the top of the Dill Scout's Wood, late in the day, out of curiosity. The sun was about to sink over the horizon, and I had a way to go, but this was mesmerising.
After a lengthy hike that took in Callis Wood, Edge End Moor, Stoodley Pike, Higher Moor, and Shaw Wood, I spotted a sign pointing to a footpath through another small wood. It seemed to head in the direction I was going, so I took the diversion, and clambered up a narrow, tricky path and found myself in the Jurassic era. The light was breathtaking, so I decided to snap a pic and ended up with a bonus lens flare. Seconds later, the Sun had moved just enough to vanquish the moment to history.
I headed out for a walk through Hathershelf Scout Wood one late spring evening. After taking several diversions, I found myself headed up towards Blackwell Common but thought better of ploughing on as it began raining. You'd never guess from this picture, but the rain was horizontal when I spotted this young Roe deer in the middle of a buttercup-filled meadow.
Heading up to Wadsworth Moor to get some snaps of the blooming heather, I encountered rush hour traffic on the path ahead! The sheep moved off the path and into the grass, then stopped and all turned to look at me. Well, all bar one. Or should that be all baa one?! Anyhow, this is a crap alt-text, but it shows a group of sheep standing in a green and purple landscape looking towards the camera.
These shots are why I keep deviating from my planned routes, despite the time, despite the aches, despite the nettles, bramble, flies and swamps.
Just one fleeting moment is all it takes.
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