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Geology Picture of the Week, June 4-10, 2006: Something Completely Different - Blue Grottoes
Natural Arches ^

Posted on 06/07/2006 8:49:06 AM PDT by cogitator

"Grottoes" (grottos?) can be both natural, man-made, or man-modified. Searching for grotto images finds many of these categories. This one struck me as pretty impressive, on the island of Malta. I had to shrink the image a bit; click on it for the full-size image. The second shot is of the notable tourist attraction Blue Grotto of Capri, Italy. There are a lot of pictures on the Web of this place; I couldn't find what I felt was a great one. The glow of the underwater illumination is pretty good; it appears that there is a considerable photographic challenge in capturing the glow and the ambient light.



TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Education; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: arches; cliffs; erosion; grotto; island; malta; mediterannean; sea
I like the Natural Arches site; may have to come back to it. I found the picture below on that site; yes, it's real. No, you can't go see it -- the area is completely closed to visitors. It's a Condor sanctuary north of Fillmore, California.

Strong Arm Arch

1 posted on 06/07/2006 8:49:10 AM PDT by cogitator
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2 posted on 06/07/2006 8:50:04 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator

That's an amazing photo!


3 posted on 06/07/2006 8:54:52 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
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Reminds me of a show I watched as a kid. These people row a boat up into a grotto and end up in a land of dinosaurs. NO...it wasn't Land of the Lost. It was a serial that they use to show on Channel 5 in Charleston on the Happy Raine show. Charlestonians and lucky Savannahians will remember her as the Piggly Wiggly lady also.


4 posted on 06/07/2006 9:24:19 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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I've been in the Blue Grotto in Capri.*Very* impressive...and dark enough so that getting good shots is difficult.


5 posted on 06/07/2006 9:32:33 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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These are really spiffy pictures. Reminds me of Arches National Park and the Star Trek movie when the whole ship was inside a rock or some such thing. Anyway, the pictures are great!


6 posted on 06/07/2006 10:03:16 AM PDT by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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To: Conan the Librarian
These people row a boat up into a grotto and end up in a land of dinosaurs.

I remember that same show too! There's a trivia question for ya.

7 posted on 06/07/2006 10:05:19 AM PDT by cogitator
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That photo from the condor sanctuary is amazing. Can't believe it's just down the road near Fillmore!


8 posted on 06/07/2006 10:27:00 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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