Some Wow Pictures

I got one of those e-mail that are circulating around the Internet that have some amazing pictures. So I decided to archive them here for future reference.  I also did a search to see if I could find where they came from and discovered a few to add, but my detective work did not result in successful attribution.

Clouds in New Zealand.

Starfish

Water spirals of Elakala: Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia

The Lighted Cherry Blossom Lake at dusk: Sakura, Japan

Preikestolen, Norway

Canal through rice paddies in Vietnam.

Mirror Pond

Prskalo Waterfall, Serbia

The Footbridge in the Dolomites, Italy

Cave Hotel: Cederberg Mountains, South Africa

Bougainvilla as sunshade over a patio

Ice Cave off the Greenland coast.

The Enchanted Bottomless River (Philippines). Supposed no divers have reached the bottom.

Trekking on a mountain pass in the Andes (Peru).

The calm before a storm at dusk. [Hong Kong]

An unusual slider staircase.

The annual crab migration on Christmas Island off the Australian Coast.

Vanishing underwater roller coaster: Japan

Voringfossen, Norway

Three-dimensional art: Rennes, France

Unusual bathroom

The Guelta d'Archei: An Oasis in the Sahara Desert

The Redwoods: California Redwood forest

The island of Aogashima, Japan: Note that some homes are in the middle of the caldera of an extinct volcano.

Zacharias Bryggen, Bergen, Norway.

Lake Huron on the Canadian side of the lake.

Zhiangjijae Stone Forest, Hunan, China. [the "floating mountains" in the movie Avatar]

A stone path across a pond in Poland.

Victoria water lily native to the Amazon River.

Unusual bent pine trees in the "Crooked Forest" in Poland.

Amalfi Coast in Italy

Treehouse in the Philippines.

Le Elephant - Nantes, France.

Face to face with a manta ray in the Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey, CA)

The town of Gudvangen, Sognefjord, Norway.