This blog is about the lesser known but beautiful, wonderful, huge, unique and sometimes bizarre places around the World.
Started on January 1, 2009, it is an outcome of my association with Google Earth Community, which I joined on Sept. 29, 2006. Since then I have been regularly flying to almost all the corners of WWW (Whole Wide World) and have virtually adopted the age old motto - Perfect time to see the World is after retirement.
Google Earth Community is full of information which ranges from, but not limited to, history, geography, nature, environment, architecture, military, transportation, social / religious beliefs, festivals, huge, unique, bizarre items, current happenings etc etc.
My favourite section in the Community is "Fun and Games" - in which members post riddles and puzzles on almost all subjects and generally give hints for searching and locating the relevant places and or events on Google Earth. I have made several hundred posts in this forum and must have solved about the same number, though several were beyond my grasp. Believe me it is not easy to solve these riddles - Finding the answer is 90% perspiration (research) and 10% inspiration but it is pure 100% joy and sense of exhilaration.
This forum provides a stimulus to my brain and keeps it active. I strongly recommend this for those who have time and penchant for solving puzzles, but a word of warning – it is highly addictive.
My travels around the World are not limited to Fun and Games only, however many of the places being covered in this travelogue were found as a result of my researches for making posts in Fun and Games or trying to solve the riddles given therein.
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Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, Australia has some amazing rock formations very aptly named 'Remarkable Rocks'.
As per geologists about 500 million years ago these were once a giant granite monolith. However the erosive forces of wind, sea spray and rain has produced this stunning work of weather-sculpted granite boulders perched on a granite dome towering 75 metres above the sea.
The orange coloured lichen covering on some of the rocks displays various hues of golden-orange at different times of the day.
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