Siste dagen før hviledag skulle vi sykle over fjellet sørover til Lairg.
Det var ekstremt mange orkideer langs veien og mange gullris. Veldig vakkert!
I Lairg var the Lairg Gala Week og mange ting skjedde. Både flåtepadling og disko på kvelden.
Først bilder fra tidlig på dagen, en lang bakke gjorde at jeg kom først i gruppa og fikk tatt litt actionbilder.
Det var mye fin utsikt utover havet mot Orkenøyene.
I Betty Hill spiste vi lønsj, fant Bror ut at hjelmen hadde instruksjon for hvilken side som var fram (har du noen gang lurt?), knakk en del av giret til Erik, så vi var bare fire stykker på turens verste klatreetappe den ettermiddagen.
Vi fant noen Sunnmørsalper som hadde forvillet seg bort.
De brukte ikke egentlig gjerder langs veiene vi syklet, så det var innimellom litt ubehagelig hvordan kuene stirret på oss.
I Tongue (eller Tunga på gælisk) hadde de en gammel borg som så ut hele fjorden.
Og kjøkkenet på hotellet vårt laget innmari god mat. Det var egentlig det aller beste stedet vi bodde på, tror jeg.
Nå er det vår i botanisk hage i Oslo og alt blomstrer. Det er bare å komme seg ut! Jeg var med på omvisning i går kveld og hadde med meg makrolinsa.
Tindved
Magnolia
Det er alltid så vanskelig å ta fine bilder av bregner, siden de nesten bare vokser på skyggefulle steder.
En Trillium eller treblad som den heter. Men det er mange arter treblad.
En annen type magnolia
Mogop
Slåpetorn
Kubjelle
Vårsøte
Rhododendron
Ballblom
Jordbærmure (som er en mure, ikke et jordbær)
En eller annen fin, blomstrende starr
Blomstrende lønn
Snømagnolia
Lønneblomster
Right now there are about 1140 pictures from our trip to Thailand. Some will be deleted, but there is still a sizeable number to go through. I am looking forward to publishing the pictures and go through the memories.
I have so many pictures from Italy last year and so few posted. Here are some of me after vi had climbed all the stairs up to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa.
Warming up for sun and sea in Thailand, I wanted to show some pictures I took while sailing with Komite Speiding last june, I didn’t take many, but I love looking for details in the landscape.
We are currently dreaming of a hot and sunny holiday sometime late this winter. We have an almost impossible list of criteria for it, but have many suggestions.
Criteria:
Places we have thought of:
But we haven’t decided yet. Do you have any suggestions?
All pictures from a day in Okpo, Korea. We climbed a mountain and went to the beach.
I haven’t been to many aquariums before and wasn’t sure what to expect of the actual animals in the aquarium in Korea. But I was very happy that they (too) were mostly interested in local animals, so we got to see a lot of fish and other animals that I have only heard about in university.
Well, I have seen penguins before, but not this species.
And I really liked these while whales. They were the stars of the aquarium.
As I am a proper biology nerd, I also love these animals. It’s funny how everyone thinks they’re plants, just because they don’t move.
Many animals had bright colours and big forheads 😉
It worked surprisingly well to use the macro lens through the glass.
These are piranja, pretty!
Not this one though. I think.
These pictures are from the big water tank. Lots of sharks and skates.
Can you call that wash board in English as well? Fun to see the underside of it at least.
Oooh, this is the mantis shrimp! Maybe the only thing that Erik and Ruben were as exited as me to see in real life, as it is super fast and super strong and very pretty.
This strange creature is actually (probably) one of the really old animals on the planet. There are fossils of the same species. A quote from Wikipedia:
Horseshoe crabs resemble crustaceans, but belong to a separate subphylum, Chelicerata, and are closely related to arachnids, e.g.,spiders and scorpions. The earliest horseshoe crab fossils are found in strata from the late Ordovician period, roughly450 million years ago.
So this was probably the most interesting thing I saw…
Had to take a picture of this fish with huge eyes in what looks like a face. Will it kiss you?
I’m not sure if I will go to every aquarium I see, but I think I will try to go to some that are in entirely different habitats than the one I grew up in (or at the shore of).
The Tuesday in Norwich I was invited home to one of my class mate’s house for dinner. We walked to her house through the park that the Univeristy of East Anglia owns. They have a lake, a wood and some fields and it was beautiful to walk through.
Insects are one of my favorite subjects to photograph, but I did do a lot of running around after butterflies this time.
All pictures from a hike in Okpo, South Korea
We visited the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea. There are a lot of bus tours and even though you know that everything they tell you is propaganda, it is still an interesting insight into the ongoing conflict between the two countries. If we had planned better we would have gone to the border where the soldiers from the South and North are staring at each other, but we didn’t. But here are the pictures I was allowed to take.
Thought I’d share some nature photography from my trip to South Korea. We did some hiking in the woods and I found many beautiful plants and animals. Here are some shots from people’s gardens just at the edge of the woods.
We drove to this free rock festival just outside Busan in Ruben’s car.
Erik and Ruben did not plan this.
They didn’t have light shows, but water shows and there was this big mud pit.
There was even this firetruck to keep people cool.
Aren’t we pretty?
Cool Korean festival girls.
We used our umbrella for shade.
As we didn’t have a tent…
I had just bought a new bikini and was very happily matching the two guys.
Mmmm, iced coppi.
It’s just too beautiful in the mornings these days. And cold.
Ville bare dele det fine lyset fra i går morges. Selv om det jo også er litt trist at sola nå bare akkurat rekker å stå opp før jeg er på kontoret.
I just love the flower arrangements here at UMB. Here are the new ones for autumn.
I am really looking forward to see how the arrangements will change during the seasons.
There was Internet and a quiet night here in Okbo, so here are some more pictures. These also from Seattle. This is the Saturday we spent being tourists.
Hello! New bag and some colour.
Before breakfast.
Too many choices.
Mmmmm, coffee.
Hash brown, two eggs, bacon and toast. What else do you need?
Banana pancakes!
Then we did the underground tour of the city. The whole city is one story up and there is a whole network of sidewalks and things on the ground.
The city was founded in 1850-something when the first settlers arrived.
Up there is the street.
Old things that have been left behind.
What once was a very high building.
We then went to Pike Place Market, where you can find anything, but especially fish. We had breaded cod
and fish tacos for lunch.
Then we walked around and found this guy doing Korean painting.
And they sold loads of flowers.
So Erik bought flowers for me and we went home. This is actually outside the first ever Starbucks. The first one was here in Seattle.