Codroy Valley - Gros Morne - Arches Provincial Park - Flower Cove's Thrombolites

Benoz wrote:

MightyMike wrote:

Benoz wrote:

MightyMike wrote:

From Aug 31st to Sept 14th I did a road trip vacation Around the Gaspe Bay Peninsula, through New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and the Cabot Trail, across to Newfoundland AND Labrador for 8 days and then back. 8744km in 15 days. I'll be posting one gallery link per post to share what I managed to photograph. At the point of this post I only have photos from Day 2 to Day 7 completed in galleries.

Codroy Valley - Gros Morne - Arches Provincial Park - Flower Cove's Thrombolites "Living Fossils"; This day starts out with hearing weird animal sounds in or on the side of the Grand Codroy River, closer investigation showed it to be a whole pod of seals, 30+, the light was poor but I got photos proving they were there. There are landscape photos as we drive through Gros Morne National Park including a 13-photo panoramic. Then photos from Arches Provincial Park (don't get too dizzy by my angled photos) and finally an amazing sunset and photos of the rare Thrombolites "Living Fossils" in Flower Cove. I'm told but haven't confirmed this that this type of thrombolites is only known to occur in 2 places in the world.

I very much enjoyed both of your new series Mike. The sunsets are just beautiful!

Thanks Ben

You might be interested to know that not far South of Perth, at Lake Clifton, we do have the thrombolites formations. (See the link below). Apparently Lake Clifton is one of about five sites, the best known in Shark bay North of Perth, where these pre-historic living rocks can be admired.

https://www.roamingdownunder.com/thrombolites.php

Ben.

The person who told me the other location did say it was in Australia. Those look like they'd be even more spectacular to see given they're under shallow clear waters, I wonder what a long exposure would do, could you eliminate the ripples and see the thrombolites more clearly.

The image on the link it's not mine. One day I will visit the site for sure. It's about 100 kilometers South of Perth.

I never knew about the thrombolites in this part of the world before!

This is the best I could do by enlarging and playing around with in PP.

I appreciate your effort Ben, but I was thinking hypothetically and possibly suggesting for the next person to try the idea with something like a 10 stop ND filter,