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Xmas Eve in Vienna! From the top of the south tower (all 343 spiral stone steps) and the markets at the Rathaus.
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Just wow. Amazing.
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Beautiful. I hope you’re having a wonderful time.
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Some photos taken with my daughter’s old cell phone through the lens of a spotting scope while in Costa Rica this week. We had the most excellent guide with great photo skills for our tour in Manuel Antonio NP. The lizard is the “Jesus” lizard, the kind that can actually walk on water.
We also saw a fer de lance, from a safe distance. It’s the most venomous snake in Costa Rica I think, but the photo wasn’t very good as it was halfway under a log. Also saw toucans and Macaws, but not when we were with our wonder guide sadly.
The sloth is a baby being held by its mother. The grasshopper was huge.
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First is the fer de lance, then a harmless vine snake, an orb weaver- the horns are on its abdomen, and the sad macaw pic.
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This was our very last view of Tokyo from the airport hotel where we stayed because we had a morning flight and didn’t want to do the commute from my son’s apartment.
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@LeastComplicated What spotting scope did you use? The photos are great! I’d like to get one for DD’s phone (older model I-Phone).
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This one I believe, but it wasn’t ours, it was the tour guide’s. He just held her phone up to the lens and quickly made all the adjustments needed on her camera to take the photos.
Price $4K ish!
Oooh…not what I was thinking, but thanks!
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The tour guide we had in Manuel Antonio NP also took pictures for us like this, using their telescope lens. Amazing pictures.
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Some cliche pics from our last night in Costa Rica at a gorgeous uncrowded beach in Esterillos Este. Our hotel, the Alma del Pacífico, right on the beach, was also amazing (we also visited Carara National Park, Manuel Antonio NP, and Uvita). We took one last walk on the beach at low tide and found lots of shells including several intact sand dollars. In fact, we discovered that hundreds, possibly thousands of live sand dollars were being washed up by the shallow waves and so had to carefully walk on the edge of the tidal zone so that we didn’t step on them. A great ending to our wonderful Costa Rica adventure where we saw beautiful birds, sloths, monkeys, crocs, turtles, iguanas, a boa constrictor, a fer de lance, basilisk lizard (Jesus lizard), caiman, dolphins, and a humpback whale.
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omg how did I not know this thread existed, i’ve been on this site for over five years.
I have nothing recent to contribute because I am in seasonal depression mode, and because my ailing dad has moved in with us, we can’t do our usual escape-to-warmer-climes trip this winter. Or much of anything, tbh.
However! Here are some from my happy place in Florida from last year.
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