This Lake Doesn’t Just Kill, It Makes The Corpse Turn Stone

The lake Natron in Northern Tanzania has been welcoming a lot of attention ever since the photographer Nick Brandt happened to grab hold of a few images of dead birds and such creatures off the coast. Of course there is nothing fascinating about the pictures of dead creatures, but what makes you gasp in a deep breath would be the way they were found on the shoreline – they were petrified.

The ultimate deception comes into play when any bird or an animal comes across this mysterious  and deathly pool of water, they get confused by the hyper reflective surface, hit onto it right about just to be turned out to an insensible hard matter. Is this starting to look like another ‘Bermuda Triangle’? Though the word petrified might be a misnomer, Nick Brandt recollects that the birds he found on its coasts were literally calcified and looked like a stone carved figure of a bird perfectly preserved,although it wasn’t as hard as a stone.He took them with him and set them up in its natural shape,still remaining as a token of obscurity.

Natron is one among the most alkaline lakes in the world with enormous amounts of sodium carbonate and baking soda that are believed to have contained in it from the volcanic ashes of the Great Rift Valley. And that’s how the name was coined. It holds within itself such harsh environment that barely any organism could survive within it unless they are adapted to it,like the extremophile fish and certain algae. The lake can reach a surface temperature of about 60 °C and a pH as high as 10. This might be just enough to burn the skin and gradually pull away its life. The whole phenomenon is believed to be due to the chemical composition of the lake which turns the animals into a shape resembling the Egyptian mummies.

Nevertheless,as against the popular belief that the lake turns anything into a stone, the process doesn’t necessarily turn every living unadapted creature into a stony mass and it’s not essentially an instantaneous process, rather it occurs over extended periods.The place is a huge breeding ground for the North Africa’s lesser flamingos and certainly they come out alive, and yes, some might get trapped into this nature’s magic box turning itself into the epitome of misfortune.

Mumbai, India

Mountain Climbers Refuge

 

Mountain Climbers refuge on Mont Blanc, France. This building is designed to withstand 300km winds, completely self sustainable and is built at 3,800 meters. It took 5 years to build this structure, having battled constant 70km/h winds, freezing temperatures and only being able to work in Autumn and Spring.

I Think Its Suppose To Be One Of Those Flamingo Bird

Thorny Devils

Thorny Devils are a thorny little lizard that lives in dry desert areas of Australia. They have unique way of collecting water. Water in the form of rain or dew is collected on their backs and then drains towards their mouths.

Giant Leatherback Turtle

The giant leatherback sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is the biggest turtle species still in the world. In addition to being very large, one thing that is immediately noticeable is that they don’t possess a bony shell, like most other turtle species. They are instead covered in a thick layer of “leather” and fat, hence their name — the Giant Leatherback Turtle. They have what is considered to be the most hydrodynamic body design of any living turtle, which is part of what allows them to reach speeds of up to 22 mph, making them the fastest moving reptile in the world.

On average Dermochelys coriacea adults tend towards around 6.0–7.2 feet in total length, and towards a weight of around 550 to 1,500 lbs. They can reach much, much larger than that though. The biggest one reported in modern times was over 9.8 feet when measured from head to tail, with a carapace longer than 7.2 feet, and weighing in at about 2,000 lbs. That individual was found on a beach on the west coast of Wales.

 

Atlas Moth

Atlas moths are considered the largest moths in the world in terms of total wing surface area . Their wingspans are also amongst the largest, reaching over 25 cm. Females are appreciably larger and heavier.

Dongchuan, Red Land in China

If there is one word that best captures Dongchuan Red Land, it must be “palette”. It is such an amazing spectacle that you can never imagine if you have never been there. God knocked over his palette, dropping the heaven paint, which makes Dongchuan such a stunning masterpiece. Red, green, white and yellow are matched into rolling rainbow ribbons stretching to sky.

Dongchuan, a rural area in the northeast of Kunming, is believed that it has the world’s most imposing red earth, even more magnificent than that in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Because of the warm and humid climate in Yunnan, the Iron oxide in the soil deposited slowly through years and gradually developed an extraodinary reddish brown soil. It is seldom visited by general tourists for its remoteness and inadequete lodging facilities, however, the land with picturesque scenery is paradise for photograghy fans.

Borneo Rainforest Canopy Walkway

Rainforest Canopy Walkway is located in Danum Valley Conservation Area which is situated on the north coast of the island of Borneo (The part ruled by Malaysia).
The  Canopy Walkway, suspended almost 30 metres above the forest floor is roughly 300 meter long and it provides multiple viewing platforms, spanning and pedestrian access to the forest canopy, great way to get closer to birds and take amazing closeups.
The Walkway was designed to be “Tree Friendly” meaning – no rigging of steel cables directly onto the trees.

Amazing Moth.