Bootsteich, Bremerhaven
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Schlagwort: places
Grüner See (Green Lake) is a lake in Styria, Austria. In the winter you’ll find crisp, tranquil grasslands and lake that is only about 3 to 6 feet deep. However, during the spring, when the temperature rises and the snow melts, the basin of land below the mountains fills with water. The lake reaches its maximum depth of around 40 feet from mid-May to June and is claimed to look the most beautiful at this time.
Mom I’m talking the dog for a swim.
Growing Your Own Bridge
For more than 500 years, locals living deep in the rainforests in the village of Nongriat, India have guided vines and roots to stretch horizontally across rivers and streams to make living bridges. The natural bridges are much sturdier than conventional wooden bridges because they are still living so they do not rot.
The ‘double decker’ living tree root bridge is made from the their native rubber tree (Ficus elastica). When the roots and vines reach the opposite side of the river bank, they are allowed to take root. The vines create a sold latticework structure strong enough to support the weight of over 50 people. Some of the bridges are over a hundred feet long and can take up to fifteen years to grow. And because the growing bridges are still alive, they actually get stronger over time.
The great bear rainforest in British Columbia is one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world, with twenty five thousand square miles of mist shrouded fjords and densely forested islands that are home to white furred black bears.
Neither albino nor polar bear, these rare black bears (there are fewer than five hundred) are known as kermode bears, or what the gitga’at first nation call mooksgm’ol, the spirit bear — a word they did not speak to european fur traders lest the bears be discovered and hunted. to this day, it remains taboo to hunt a spirit bear, or to mention them to outsiders.
The white fur in these bears is triggered by a recessive mutation of the same gene associated with red hair and fair skin in humans. though it remains unclear as to how the trait arose (or disappeared), it is especially pronounced on certain islands.
Photography: Paul Nicklen | Fabrice Simon | Paul Burwell
The Light in the Sky 