2022
Introduction
In early 2020, I was sailing around New Zealand and then headed off to Fiji and Vanuatu in the South Pacific, see for example Captain James Cook's Five Fingers, Auckland, the City of Sails and Living on a small Island. This was my last holiday, as COVID hit and I only just made it back home in Australia before they closed the border because of COVID. Hard to believe but that was 4 years ago now this was when the Top 100 Local Guides Leaderboards were born.
Well a few weeks ago, my lady and I decided to have a break from the Leaderboards another holiday, our first post-COVID and this time we revisited New Zealand (see one of my photos here) then went to Tasmania, an island state of Australia (see some photos here and here) and then, why not, we decided to extend this and sail up the eastern coast of Australia. Our first stop was Eden (see photo here), today we're at Airlie Beach in the Witsundays (believe me a beautiful, must visit part of the world) and soon we'll be heading to Cairns and then Port Douglas. I did say that this was our first holiday but in actual fact we did have a short break while at the Moderators face-to-face brainstorming in Tokyo when we also took a cruise around the southern islands of Japan and also visited Taiwan.
Now to the Seals at work!
Well that was a long winded introduction/background to what this post is all about LOL. Well as usual, being a keen hobby photographer, I've been snapping and snapping throughout the entire holiday and as I'm sitting here in Airlie Beach, I was browsing through some of the photographs I had taken and saw the ones included in this post. While not candidates for Google Maps, and lets face it when travelling we do take photos for pleasure, and I obviously took these as they caught my eyes, they depict different kinds of "seals" at work and I thought this would make a fun story to tell. We do see some interesting things when we travel.
Are you like me and when travelling take photos other than photos for Maps? If so, I'd love to see them and hear the story behind them so please do jump in and share.
Dear @AdamGT sir
Recently i spent my autumn vacation in Buddha pilgrimage circuit - kushinagar i klick the one of the beautiful picture in government resort & tourism information centre, i share with you this pic. check the what is unique in this picture.
thanks in advance sir
Hey @AdamGT this is a very nice photos☺️👌🏻 I saw a very interesting marine during my trip to Monaco last summer. Captain Cousteau, who made programs on television for a long time, used this in his tv programs. Now it is on display in Monaco.
Hello @ShailendraOjha
I've been to quite a few Buddhist sites including temples around the world (see example below) but I never before hear I heard about Buddha pilgrimage circuits and had to Google to find out more. You clicked an interesting looking tourism information center Shailendra, thank you for sharing.
Hello @Annaelisa
Navy Seals are the United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams and the equivalent to Navy Seals in Australia are the Commandos but for the point of this post, I referred to them as SEALs.
How interesting @Gezendunyali, I saw many of Captain Cousteau's television programs. Was there anything else related to Captain Cousteau on display there or was this a one of?.
Thank you very much sir @AdamGT sir, in india GOI (government of India) made -
Buddh circuit - Lumbini(Nepal) kushinagar, saarnath, Bodhgaya this tourism centre called Buddha circuit.
Krishna pilgrimage circuit - Dwarka - Nathdwara - Mathura - vrandavan - Puri, called Krishna pilgrimage circuit.
Ramayana circuit - Janakpur ( Nepal) & Ayodhya ( India) called Ramayana circuit
& Many more tourist circuit As A My best knowledge. It's just for knowledge sharing sir.🤝
Recently i visited Krishna pilgrimage circuit Mathura - Vrandavan so i clicked on my Google pixel mobile camera, one beutiful picture share with you.
caption:- Krishna janmsthan(potra kund) pilgrimage pic.
Note:- this city also famous for ancient festival Holi.( Festival of colors).
Thank you @ShailendraOjha for more information about the circuits. We can learn something every day.
