Beautiful places to visit.

[the other mike]

Aboard the Thailand Express.

 

[gipper]

My tremendous hometown of Youngstown.

I can beat that. My beautiful home town of Detroit.

 

[the other mike]

Jacques Cousteau's last photograph
before being eaten by a giant grouper in the Galápagos Islands .

 

[Dick Foster]

It's far flung to be sure but I guess that helped keep it pristine. I got there shortly after the airport went in on Mahe in 1972. I was there in 73 when it was still a British protectorate. Before that the only way to get there was by sea. I think they still have only the one airport for international travel. They may have strips on some of the other islands now. But likely only to and from Mahe.

Before Jaws came out and nobody was scared of sharks yet ?
Aren't those great white & tiger shark-waters around south Africa ?

I was once an avid scuba diver. I was NAUI certified in the south Pacific and took the course in the open ocean, not a swimming pool. The first thing I saw when I jumped in the water with a scuba tank on my back was a 6' white tip. It was a coral atoll so sharks were very prevalent and common. I saw sharks every time I went diving. White tips, black tips, tigers, greys, hammerheads, nurse sharks and even a whale shark once. I also did a lot of diving in the Seychelles and other islands around the world Guam, Hawaii etc. Including the California coast. While I've seen many species of sharks in the water with me, I've never seen a great white.
In all of that diving I got out of the water just once on account of sharks and that was more likely due to my own ignorance than anything else. It was just after I'd become certified and a bunch of juveniles began circling us so we turned chicken, surfaced and got back on the boat. The sharks were just curious, not hungry nor aggressive.

 

[the other mike]

Iguazu Argentina

 

[BigDave]

Here's one of the nicer places i've been to on vacation Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic

 

[the other mike]

Zhangjiajie National Park , Hunan Province, China

 

[the other mike]

Check out where this is on the map of Michigan.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[the other mike]

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[Mindful]

Iguazu Argentina
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I really want to go there.

 

[the other mike]

North Island New Zealand

 

[gipper]

We were at Barceló Bávaro Beach Punta Cana DR a few years ago. Beautiful place but the food sucked. A couple years later several people died in and around there.

 

[gipper]

Check out where this is on the map of Michigan.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Been there. Cold as Hell 11 months out of the year.

 

[skye]

Alaska.

The Aurora Borealis in Alaska, I wouldn't mind visiting before I depart this Earth....but then....I love cold weather and starry nights.

 

[percysunshine]

Natural cave inside a salt dome in Iran.

Note the person on the lower right for scale.

 

[the other mike]

Natural cave inside a salt dome in Iran.

Note the person on the lower right for scale.

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Makes me want to cry that I'll never get to see it and that my country will
probably bomb it.

 

[beautress]

Natural cave inside a salt dome in Iran.

Note the person on the lower right for scale.

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Makes me want to cry that I'll never get to see it and that my country will
probably bomb it.

2024.

 

[beautress]

Iguazu Argentina
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IGUAZU Falls are on my bucket list of one to see. *sigh*

 

[BlackSand]

Off the coast of Belize.

Aptly named The Blue Hole not far from Lighthouse Reef ...
Wonderful place to dive, even with the sharks.

Trunk Bay, St. John ... The US National Park Service has an underwater nature trail here.

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[skye]

Iguazu Argentina
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IGUAZU Falls are on my bucket list of one to see. *sigh*

I have been there! It's beautiful!