Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 29, 2008




A bar inside the trunk of a Baobab tree has tourists flocking from far and wide just to drink a cold brew in the amazing tavern. It was fashioned inside a massive 72 foot (22 meters) high tree in a garden in Limpopo, South Africa, for thirsty locals.
Grown in the grounds of Sunland Farm, the tree trunk is so wide it takes 40 adults with outstretched arms to encircle its 155 foot (48 meters) circumference. The trunk is hollow, but its walls are still up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) thick.

The tree has its own cellar, with natural ventilation to keep the beer cold.

Carbon-dating has determined the ancient tree to be about 6,000 years old. “This tree is likely to be older than the Giza Pyramids of Egypt.” said Heather van Heerden, owner of Sunland Farm.

“It is phenomenal to have such a magnificent tree in your back garden. It is possibly the biggest living thing on earth.” she adds.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Wednesday, July 2, 2008


Trees are reflected in the still waters along a river near Eugene, Oregon July 1, 2008.

REUTERS/Mike Blake

Tuesday, June 10, 2008


A green parakeet carries a flower petal in its beak in Sao Paulo, Monday, June 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Saturday, June 7, 2008


Driving through rapeseed : A car seems to drive in the middle of a rapeseed field near Bautzen, in the eastern German state of Saxony. (AFP/DDP/Norbert Millauer)

Birds flying at sunset. Starting as a single excited shout, the words rippled down the line: "Hoopoe! Hoopoe! Left! Left! Left!" To the uninitiated ear it sounded like the chant of an excited crowd of football fans. But these gasps of delight came from a jovial group of a dozen binocular-wielding Britons doing what they love best -- birdwatching in Europe's avian megalopolis. (AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

Lake landing : A bird lands in a rock in the Llanquihue lake, some 50 km east of Puerto Varas, 966 km south of Santiago. (AFP/Francisco Negroni)

Saturday, May 10, 2008


The Major Oak of Sherwood Forest.
Size in 1790: Trunk at ground level: 34 ft 4 in circum; at 1 yard: 27 ft 4 in; at 2 yards: 31 ft 9 in. Measured by: Major Hayman Rooke
Size in 1990: Height=16 metres, average diameter=337 cms, species robur, measured by: Alan F.Mitchell

Wednesday, May 7, 2008



The earth from the moon.


A cloud of smoke and ashes produced by intensified eruption of the Chaiten volcano are seen over Chaiten on Tuesday, May 6, 2008, in southern Chile. The eruption spewed incandescent material and blated ash some 20 miles (30 kilometers) into the Andean sky, forcing authorities to a complete evacuation of the area.
(AP Photo/La Tercera)

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Dragon Blood Tree on the virtually untouched Yemeni island of Socotra.