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I never really thought before about how this worked, but learned that elephants drink water by sucking it up into their trunk, inserting their trunk into their mouth and blowing up to 8 litres of water into their mouth. In this photo, we can see some of the water droplets released during this intriguing behaviour.
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Port of Vancouver, BC, Canada

The abundance of sand here is not so much from that carried by Theodolite Creek, for most is derived from the longshore flow of sand northward along the surf coast of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
The dominant southeasterly approach of the waves generated by storms in the Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean generate a flow of sand in the surf zone, northwards along the coast. The sand is derived from the many rivers (Hunter, Manning, Hastings, Macleay, Bellinger, Clarence, Richmond, Tweed, Nerang, Coomera, Logan, Brisbane) that discharge their sediments along the coast. All the while sand accumulates on the southern side of headlands, sweeps around the heads especially following local storm weather, and continues to flow to Cooloola and K'gari (Fraser Island). While some of the sand that supplies the surf beaches dries and is blown into foredunes, the majority of the sand eventually reaches Sandy Cape at the northern extremity of K'gari. Here some descends off the edge of the continental shelf, whilst some is worked into Hervey Bay and across the bay to the differently aligned main coast around Burrum Heads, Woodgate and north to Elliott Heads. Additional sand reaches this area (pictured) having come through Great Sandy Strait, augmented by sand from the Mary River, and then worked by tides and variable waves across Hervey Bay to this coast. The result is an abundance of sand which is then worked and reworked by the incoming and ebbing tides into bars, banks, beaches and fingers.

This estuary and its beaches is a get-away-from-it-all kind of retreat. This is Burrum Coast National Park. One can totally relax at this creek side, shaded by a woodland of swamp paperbarks, blue gums, pink bloodwoods and weeping cabbage palms. Sheltered from prevailing south-easterly winds, it is a delightful place to picnic, birdwatch, kayak, fish, crab and swim. Wading birds and migratory shorebirds spend time at this creek mouth each year.

P.S. A double zoom allows you to see two 4WD Vehicles and two boats being launched into the estuary (far left) and two people walking on the far side of the spit.

Frozen Wadden Sea at sunrise, the Schorren of Texel the Netherlands a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Aardea alba

Sunset rainstorm over the Maroochy River on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

A breeze wafts over the Maroochy River as the terminator shadow appears on cloud over the river mouth. I like the patterns the breeze makes on the river surface and the first night light on the foreground pier.

The mouth of the Sumas River as it enters into the Fraser River. At the foot of Sumas Mountain on the left, a national railway train transports goods to and from the port city of Vancouver. This is an amazing region but is a challenge to reach, unless travelling by boat.

Ah the North Fork Zumbro River seen here exhibiting a blandly mild pleasantness despite its freakazoid name, Zumbro.

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In Zumbrota, Minnesota, on September 2nd, 2023, the North Fork Zumbro River as viewed from the east side of a bridge on Main Street (Minnesota State Highway 58), during a severe drought as declared by the National Weather Service.

The North Fork Zumbro River flows to the Zumbro River, which flows to the Mississippi River.

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Its grassy clumps were strategically positioned.

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In Zumbrota, Minnesota, on September 2nd, 2023, the North Fork Zumbro River as viewed from the east side of the Zumbrota Covered Bridge, during a severe drought as declared by the National Weather Service.

The North Fork Zumbro River flows to the Zumbro River, which flows to the Mississippi River.

There is Minnesota State Highway 58, on yon bridge, which was built in 2010, according to the National Bridge Inventory.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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• Driftless Area ecoregion (Q122302119)
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI Combined Statistical Area (Q122271702)
• Minnesota State Highway 58 (Q2484582)
• Mississippi River drainage basin (Q2887546)
• North Fork Zumbro River (Q122427085)
• Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland (Q122303614)
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• September 2023 (Q61312993)
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• Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (Q7837264)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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The Camargue is an area of coastal wetlands situated south of the city of Arles, and between the cities of Montpellier and Marseille. It consists largely of salt water lagoons which are cut off from the sea by sandbars and reed marshes. With an area of over 930 square kilometers it is western Europe's largest river delta. This point and shoot photo was taken during an organized walk around some of the salt flats in the Camargue.

This image is my entry for the "Lives in the Open" category in the 'World Photography Day Contest 2024'.

This was a largely unplanned, 'spur of the moment', photograph. I was walking along Oxwich Bay in the Gower at low tide, in the opposite direction to this little group, when I looked across and saw their silhouettes against the wide open expanse of the beach. It seemed too good to be true: the perfect picture of a family enjoying the beach, the sun and the sea.

I took the opportunity and pressed the shutter button - fortunately it all worked out.

Jamuna RIver, Bangladesh. 2023.