Amazing picture thread

[Neverna]

Verona, Italy

[Neverna]

[Latindancer]

Wow ! How old would that be ?

[palexxxx]

^ and ^^ Apparently the Boab tree is very slow growing and some examples are up to 1,500 years old.

Here is some more info.
The Boab Tree - A Kimberley Icon

[bobo746]

aussie as those trees.

[bobo746]

A male chimpanzee, Chacha, screams after he was darted following an escape from nearby Yagiyama Zoological Park, in a residential area in Sendai, northern Japan, on April 14, 2016. The chimp was eventually caught after being shot with a tranquilizer gun and falling from the power lines

[bobo746]

A U.S. Navy picture shows what appears to be a Russian Sukhoi SU-24 attack aircraft making a very low pass close to the U.S. guided missile destroyer USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea in this picture taken April 12, 2016, and released April 13, 2016. Two Russian warplanes with no visible weaponry flew near the destroyer in what one U.S. official described as one of the most aggressive interactions in recent memory

[bobo746]

An Air Force Test Pilot School T-38C jet passes in front of the sun at supersonic speed, creating shockwaves that are caught photographically for research, in this photo provided by NASA on April 12, 2016. NASA is using a modern version of a 150-year-old German photography technique—schlieren imagery—to visualize supersonic flow phenomena with full-scale aircraft in flight. The results will help engineers to design a quiet supersonic transport, according to NASA.

[bobo746]

The journalist Hassan Hanafi, convicted of murdering colleagues for the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab jihadist group, is tied to a wooden post before being executed by firing squad at a police academy square in Mogadishu on April 11, 2016. Hassan Hanafi, was sentenced to death last month after military judges said he had confessed to his role in the killing of five journalists after being arrested in August of 2014 in Kenya and extradited to Somalia.

[bobo746]

Tourists view Buddhist sculptures at Longmen Grottoes on April 10, 2016, in the outskirts of Luoyang of Henan Province, China. Longmen Grottoes comprises more than 2,300 caves and niches carved into the steep limestone cliffs over a 1-kilometer-long stretch, containing the largest collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties (316-907)

[bobo746]

Villarrica Volcano and Trancura river are seen at night in Chile,

[misskit]

Cappadocia, a semi-arid region in central Turkey, is full of otherworldly natural sites, most notably the “fairy chimneys,” tall, cone-shaped rock formations clustered in Monks Valley and elsewhere. Popular for exploration are Bronze Age homes carved into valley walls by troglodytes (cave dwellers) and later used as refuges by early Christians.

[bobo746]

Steep cliffs filled with nesting birds on the south side of Bjornoya (Bear Island), Svalbard, Norway,

[bobo746]

Isfjorden fjord on Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard

[bobo746]

[BaitongBoy]

Stunning...

[bobo746]

Great diving mate.

[BaitongBoy]

I don't doubt that...Tripping, for sure, as they say!...

[Bower]

Such a great thread, thanks guys.
I am including misskit in these thanks

[misskit]

A double-crested basilisk, dubbed the Jesus lizard, runs across water in Santa Rita, Costa Rica.

[misskit]

Glass frogs

[BaitongBoy]

One of my favourite animals, the frog...

[Neverna]

One of my favourite animals, the frog...

Here's one for you, then.

[BaitongBoy]

^ Are they Thai frogs on a motocai?...

[Neverna]

Yep, heading off to the market before going to school.