La Isleta del Moro

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Benagil : effondrement

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N44ZF Gulfstream IV. Seen on area "Y" (Disused Runway) at Glasgow on 22nd August 2018

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wenn es Abends zeitig dunkel wird ist es eine gute Gelegenheit Nachtfotos zu machen. Das Wetter bereitete Hochnebel zu, so das die Lichtverschmutzung durch die Stadt einen sehr hellen Himmel macht.

when it gets dark early in the evening it is a good opportunity to take night photos. The weather prepared high fog, so the light pollution through the city makes a very bright sky.

SALINAS DE AÑANA - Álava

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LLENADO DE LAS ERAS

Consiste en verter sobre las plataformas horizontales entre dos y cuatro centímetros de salmuera, agua salada con unos 210 gramos de sal por litro que surge del manantial, y llega a las eras por un entramado de canales de madera.

FILLING OF THE ERAS

It consists of pouring on the horizontal platforms between two and four centimeters of brine, salty water with about 210 grams of salt per liter that comes from the spring, and reaches the eras through a network of wooden channels.

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Volleys Coblenz - SV Viktoria Räckelwitz 92

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Volleyball, Herren, Sachsenklasse, Saison 2022/23, Turnhalle Sorbisches Gymnasium Bautzen, Volleys Coblenz - SV Viktoria Räckelwitz 92, Ergebnis: 2:3 / 106:104 (25:27, 25:15, 18:25, 25:22, 13:15)

Volleys Coblenz - SV Viktoria Räckelwitz 92

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Volleyball, Herren, Sachsenklasse, Saison 2022/23, Turnhalle Sorbisches Gymnasium Bautzen, Volleys Coblenz - SV Viktoria Räckelwitz 92, Ergebnis: 2:3 / 106:104 (25:27, 25:15, 18:25, 25:22, 13:15)

late evening swans

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Morning cycle ride

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Red Hill National School Teacher

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Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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G-CCBT Cameron Z-90 flying from the 2014 Exclusive cup

Taken with a Nikon D90

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Ballarat Reform League Rally (13 of 13)

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A Sovereign Hill activation depicting a rally to gain support for the Ballarat Reform League.

Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

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L1190109_02 - Camden Fort Meagher

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During the ‘naughties’ I paid a few visits to Crosshaven on the west side of Cork Harbour as it offered a good location for ship photography.

Located above Crosshaven is the impressive bastion of Camden Fort Meagher.

Today it is a museum and tourist attraction which I must visit when I get to return to Cork. However, back then it was an abandoned site which was firmly locked up with two substantial gates one each side of a bridge over a very deep, dry moat.

However, when I visited on July 29, 2006 both the outer and inner pedestrian gates were open!

There was no sign of life.

I couldn't resist the temptation to take a quick look inside!

However, being aware that should the gates be closed and locked I would have no means of escape and having left my mobile phone in my car I would have had no means of summoning help.

Hence, I only spent about 10 minutes inside and didn’t wander far beyond the view of the entrance.

In the early 2000s this historic site faced and uncertain future but by the 2013 when I sailed past on the MV BOUDICCA restoration was clearly underway. I was pleased to see it featured in a recent episode of UKTV Play’s Underground Worlds.

A Short History of Fort Meagher

Fort Meagher was originally constructed by the British Military along with other coastal defences in the Cork Harbour area during the Napoleonic Wars. During the British rule the fort bore the name Fort Camden - after the second Early of Camden, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1795. It occupies a 60 acre site 200 feet above sea level.

Fort Meagher is situated on the west side of the entrance to Cork Harbour. On the opposite side of the entrance lies Fort Davis (Fort Carlisle) which is still used by the Irish Army.

Between 1850 and 1865 the fort served as a convict prison. It was returned to military use being extended and extended present size during the period 1875 to 1880 using both contract and convict labour from the nearby Spike Island convict prison.

During this extension 30 additional guns were installed

A narrow gauge railway was installed to handle torpedoes in the 1890s, remains of the tracks are visible down on the quay.

There is a tunnel engineered to house a torpedo system invented by Louis Philip Brennan on the site as well as other extensive underground tunnels and a large underground magazine

Along with other military bases in the Cork Harbour area the British garrison remained 1938. However with war clouds looming in Europe and the presence of the British military threatening Irish neutrality the British withdrew on July 11, 1938 from Cork Harbour, along with the other "Treaty Ports", and they were handed over to the then Irish Free State Army.

The Irish Army renamed the fort after Thomas Francis Meagher. Meagher was born in the City of Waterford, Ireland, in 1823. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, in Lancashire, England and played a key part in the Young Ireland Rebellion in 1848.

After the rebellion he was sentenced to transportation to a penal colony in Tasmania from where he escaped to the United States of America.

He fought on the Union side in the American Civil War rising to the rank of Brigadier General, following the war he became Governor of Montana and died in a drowning "accident" in 1867.

Fort Meagher was occupied by the army during "The Emergency" as WWII is often referred to in Ireland. Following the war it was used by the Irish Naval Service.

In 1989 the fort was sold to Cork County Council. It is now a museum and open April to October each year.

More photographs of Camden Fort Meagher can be found here: www.jhluxton.com/Ireland/County-Cork/Camden-Fort-Meagher/