Our hotel near Kona…The big dipper over KonaHelicopter volcano tour from HiloPuu OoPuu OoKilaueaBack at the hotelKona hotel beachShipwreck bar, KonaFalse killer whales near KonaFalse killer whales near Kona
Battleship USS Missouri. The Empire of Japan formally surrendered on the Missouri on Sep. 2, 1945, ending WWII.Under Siege was filmed on the Missouri.The spot where the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on Sep. 2, 1945.Crew messCrew berths
QantasLink Fokker 100 at Perth AirportIn flight from Perth to ExmouthSal Salis Ningaloo Reef Safari CampD hanging out in northwest Australia.Humpback whales breaching from Sal SalisMilky WayYardie CreekBlack-flanked rock wallabyD and a turtle on Ningaloo ReefSnorkling with humpback whalesManta rayLooking towards Cape Range National Park, northwest Australia
Singapore Airlines SQ23 from New York-JFK to Singapore, travels more than 15,300km (about 9,500miles) and is the longest scheduled nonstop flight in the world. Today’s flight was shorter than average; 17h 44m in the air. The gate-to-gate time was 18h 44m due to a 58 minute taxi at JFK. Aircraft A350-900ULR 9V-SVF. Click on post […]
EF-2 tornado near Eldorado, OK at 19:30 CDT.The Eldorado tornado, several minutes earlier, at 19:18 CDT. (Series of 5 photos).Horizontal vortex can be seen next to the main funnel.A suction vortex moving quickly from left to right.
First tornado near Grant, Iowa moving through a rural area.Building destroyed by first tornado near Grant, Iowa.Flatbed thrown onto the highway.Multi-vortex tornado south of us on HWY 71. This tornado would go on to level part of the town of Greenfield. The SPC has rated it an EF-4. Multiple vorticesThis went on to become what is probably the tornado of the decade.
Passing Bridge no 84.027 on the Kansas Turnpike, near El Dorado, famous as the bridge under which a KSN tv crew took shelter during a 1991 tornado. As the crew, still filming, approached the bridge with a tornado bearing down on them, they advised several others who had stopped their cars underneath to, “get up […]
Update 1: We are now safe in the vans chasing this. Update 2: Back at the hotel now. A couple of tornadoes were reported with this severe thunderstorm west of OKC. One had a rather strong velocity couplet on radar and seemed to be tracking almost directly towards our hotel. The storm had dissipated slightly […]
My taxi out to Bishkek airport hit a cow head on at what must have been 70km/h, on the highway outside of town. I was fine and so was the driver. The cow limped away but was not in a good state. The car could not continue. I felt horrible for the cow but there was […]
View from the Hyatt Regency in Dushanbe.Approach to DushanbeLanding in DushanbeDushanbeDushanbeIskanderkulIskanderkulOld soviet power plant on the road to IskanderkulTakeoff from Dushanbe, Tajikistan for Almaty, Kazakhstan
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