Tropical vacation
Jul 1, 2010
During a week's vacation on an island in the Yucatan Strait near Cancun, Mexico, Carol Stack posed for a picture at sunset.
Hole in the Clouds
Tag: waterscape
More Than a Tad
Feb 7, 2013
Tadpoles swarm amongst the lily stalks in a Canadian pond, in a photo submitted to National Geographic by Campbell River underwater photographer Eiko Jones.
Dusk
May 4, 2013
Friends live here, on a bluff above Canyon Lake in Cottondale, Alabama.
There Be Snakes, Maybe
Jun 22, 2014
The grass grows tall here, deep in the water of White Rock Lake, East Dallas, Texas.
Even if you don't see any snakes in the picture, there's something about this place that looks potentially very snakey. They could be hiding hereabouts.
Astride from Land to Land
Nov 17, 2014
The dome and minarets of Istanbul's Ottoman-era Ortakoy Mosque flank the bridge towers at the European end of Turkey's Bosphorus Bridge; to the right is the superstructure of a ship passing through the strait.
The Long and the Short of the Boat
Jun 18, 2016
"I went hiking one morning at about 5 am and found this boat," Ted told his Facebook buds, referring to a morning last month when he was in Dingle, a town on the far southwestern coast of Ireland.
"I wanted to sneak it out for a ride soooo much," Ted continued. "But somehow, I managed to refrain from stealing the boat. Sadly."
That was the short story. Recently, we learned the long story–which is really only a little bit longer–during a recent conversation with our traveler, now home again in Tedland, West Virginia.
Of course he wasn't going to steal the boat; the idea was just to borrow it. And it wasn't locked. It was just tied up with so many ropes, so many knots, big knots, tight knots, and it was five in the morning, way too early to be fussing with lots and lots of tightly tied knots.
In other words, sadly, Ted was too lazy (hungover?) to take the boat. So he kept on walking.
Scum
Feb 1, 2018
These logs near Longview, Washington, apparently escaped their fate somewhere between clearcut and mill. They have been floating in a brackish backwater of the lower Columbia River for so long that a mat of green algae has grown thick and glossy in the shelter of their trunks.