Same tour we did, I also really enjoyed it :)
Nooodel
joined 7 months ago
The oldest traces of mankind in the cave go back to the Celtics, so quite some time ago. It is well explored. The cave is only accessible with licensed guides. We went in the first kilometer, where everything is still pretty tame, no protracted crawling etc + it was a dry day with low water levels. But yeah, 2h in and you know you will take 2h again to get out. That's the point where you start wondering what happens if someone breaks their ankle...
The guide explained to us that there is a cave rescue team that comes and gets you out of anything happens, but it takes roughly 14 h to get someone injured back out again o.O
Correct the drainage is around the next bend, but then you don't see the beautiful exit anymore...
The cave's interior is out of a story book, with stalactites, stalacmites and gigantic round dripstones, cathedral like openings, waterfalls and tight spots to dive and press through. Was a real adventure
SCMP... ain't that a state run propaganda agency?
Spending time outdoors
Austria, near Leutasch
Probably the reason for that new direction; they noticed that quite some people are very emotionally heated against last generation etc and think 'hey more cars in the city' could bring them those voters. But most of them are not against doing sth against climate change... They are just part of the lazy majority that says anything as long as it doesn't affect me and my lifestyle
Yep, seeing as they're not a 'everyone has to agree to everything the leadership says' kind of party, but one that accepts and promotes discourse, I feel absolutely fine voting for them every time and calling it out when they make a bad decision. I don't think that holding the exterior ministry is helping Germany a lot to meet our climate goals, I do however see that the traffic ministry is failing the goals spectacularly after handing it off to the FDP
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15573986
Tacos.
A year ago a devastating wildfire went across the slopes of El Teide on Tenerife. The Canarian Pine is a tree especially adapted to wildfires, which starts to sprout again just a few months after a fire.
Not really a beach this time, just volcanic rocks that form natural pools. I tried to work in the feedback I got on the last post and took a lot of time with trying out compositions on this one. Still didn't figure out the topic of a good subject though
I like the clear separation of fields the image allows, with the water, wet stones, dry stones, orange vulcanic sand and finally the green fields. The center piece of the image is made up by my wife in a cyan colored shirt sitting on a white towel. However to get the shot of the color lines right I had to go up quite a bit, which makes her so tiny in the image that she does not really have any influence on the watcher anymore...
As whitewater paddler on the alps you get used to relying on the weather report (and develop a healthy judgement for what's the kind of rain that will get you in trouble). The kind of rain it takes to make trouble doesn't come out of the blue :) Still, the cave has rescue spots that are fully equipped with food and thermal blankets and have several meters height as buffer. And still after all of that you are right, it always is a risk