A group of small cascades is spread across the top of Mink Falls, nestled in a forest beside the Trans Canada Highway north of Lake Superior, Ontario. Black and white.
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Fall Break – Sørsidevegen & Solvorn
Last autumn, we stayed for a week along the Lustrafjorden in western Norway. On one of the days, we decided to do a donut around our arm of the fjord to explore the villages of Skjolden, Ornes and Solvorn.
Sørsidevegen is a tiny road that winds along the fjord from Skjolden, a town at the very end of Lustrafjorden, past Feigefossen (the waterfall we could see from our rental across the fjord) and ends at the village of Ornes. We wanted to check out the Urnes Stave Church but there was a construction crew outside so we just took a quick peek before we boarded an old ferry that chugged us across Lustrafjorden to the very cute village of Solvorn.
Here are some images captured along Sørsidevegen as well as in the village of Solvorn last fall.
White houses in Skjolden across the turquoise waters of a river that is about to enter the Lustrafjorden Looking from Skjolden over Lustrafjorden The tiny Sørsidevegen Farms with a partial view of Feigefossen (our view from our rental was better, actually) Some shaggy friends on the hillside Signs of fall (which came late again this past year) A small set of twin falls along the roadway Urnes Stavkyrkje apparently having gotten some beauty work done Looking through a porthole in the ferry at the village of Solvorn (most car ferries in Norway are now electric so this old chugger was a bit of a throwback) A large tree next to the oldest family-run hotel in Norway Some of the trees in Solvorn were just starting to turn as colorful as the rorbu Rocks and red rorbu Looking the other way from the beach Close on the colorful rorbu Just a couple of buoys having a break Someone’s tiny cottage Another look at rocks and rorbu The diving platform Can’t get enough of rocks and rorbu See how the turquoise water looks in the shallow, sandy areas near the beach #Architecture #church #Churches #Fjord #Norway #Ornes #Photoblog #Photography #Sheep #Solvorn #Travel #Waterfalls
2025-06-17, Tu: Hear birds singing and #waterfalls roaring, during an hour and a half long #walk and #hike through the endless green #forest of #Žumberak - a less known #nature park in #Croatia. Now for free, as a #fitness video on #Kinomap:
Seljalandsfoss, Iceland, 2024 !! by pankaj.anand
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Roads cutting through mountain ranges and waterfalls
Do they cause landslides and reactivate old ones?
Temporary fix for Waterfall Way at Gordonville slip site
"Waterfall Way has reopened between Bellingen and Dorrigo after temporary repairs to the Gordonville slip site. The temporary fix consists of a gravel filled shipping container wall, two containers high and eight containers long, attached to the rockface using nine high-strength steel anchors drilled deep into the rockface." >>
https://insidelocalgovernment.com.au/temporary-fix-for-waterfall-way-at-gordonville-slip-site/
Video of landslide: Waterfall Way, Gordonville Crossing Landslip >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGymAVc1u8g
Do roads mean landslides are more likely? >>
https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2015/01/16/geosciences-column-do-roads-mean-landslides-are-more-likely/
Could road constructions be more hazardous than an earthquake in terms of mass movement?
"In this study, we report a distinct correlation of mass movements and major road constructions that explicitly shows human impact on mountainous environments which are under anthropogenic disturbance recently. Our results further suggest that slope instabilities increased drastically after major service road constructions for hydroelectric power plants and as well as other road extension works."
"We also stress that the impact of road construction can disturb the natural slope equilibrium to an extent comparable with moderate (larger than 6 Mw) earthquakes."
"Such an observation implies that human activities can have a large, if not even dominant, impact on landscape evolution and the natural regime of surface processes. This is part of the definition of “Anthropocene,” an age where our society shapes nature for our purposes, frequently at the risk of damaging ourselves."
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-021-05199-2
Image: Sisyphus, Franz von Stuck, 1920
#roads #WaterFallWay #mountains #ecosystem #denudation #overloading #waterfalls #Bellingenshire #Dorrigo #landslides #landslips #infrastructure #cars #engineering #Sisyphus #mindsets #Anthropocene
Large, spectacular #waterfalls make great images for calendars, posters, and landscape paintings. But I am charmed by smaller cascades, like this one on the Virgin River in Zion National Park, #Utah. Though often overlooked, these modest waterfalls have their own enchanting appeal. Attending to the small things in life often brings large rewards.
#ZionNationalPark #rivers #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
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