Damn, Australia is almost as beautiful as Hawaii. Almost.The hills in the distance are Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay.![]()
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No volcanoes though. Just spiders, snakes, crocs, great whites and the odd grumpy koala.Damn, Australia is almost as beautiful as Hawaii. Almost.
I've lived in Hawaii, but never been to Oz, so I can't compare directly, and I was quite young when there, but no other part of the world took my breath away like that. Not the untouched parts of the Japanese wilderness, not the Alps, not the Rockies, nor any part of the Caribbean.No volcanoes though. Just spiders, snakes, crocs, great whites and the odd grumpy koala.
On the 4th of July, you can see the Macy's fireworks from that window. There are cool things you can't see in the photo that are clear in person. Like the Freedom Tower, and the George Washington Bridge.
I grew up on overseas military bases. The bases were always in remote locations, and the dependent housing area of any military base tends to involve a mass of buildings of equal height, so not much in the way of views, but when Dad was stationed at Yakota, I had a bedroom view of the wilderness beyond the base.
That sounds very nice. I lived on a very steep hill. I'm sure the easternmost folks had a great view of the sunrise, but the rest of us could really only see sunset. I tried to watch from my best friend's house many times but nearly always fell asleep. We managed to stay up once, and found out we couldn't see it. It never occurred to us she had no view of the horizon. That's life in the Bronx.
