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Yeah, boats eh - maybe some ships - we love a good floating craft. Together with land transport we really only have one other place to go now, UP TO THE SKY! This Is What Drowning People Actually Look Like

What, it's Wednesday already and we've done the week of daily animals in water , how time flies when you're having fun eh. The theme for the 4 weeks of animals consists of: four legged water flying in motion And after that we have themes of Plants, Universe, Transport, and UK. Enjoy the water creatures:

Walking along the ripples on the beach.

Whilst the cloud is quite spectacular it's the tiny fishing silhouette that drags my eye down. One of the few photos that I don't recall taking, very happy I did.

Dew or rain drops on plants are also something I find irresistible, I wish I had a proper camera though. Lupinus arboreus, the yellow bush lupine (US) or tree lupin (UK), is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. [ source ]

The rain in the forest collects in a pool and is coloured by, I assume, the ferns at the bottom of the shallow water.

By Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) - Own work , CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link There's not much that we humans build that makes me as awestruck, I am a Universe sort of chap.\, except maybe the Hoover Dam which has always left me a bit gobsmacked. This excellent and detailed video has only increased my amazement. Explore the incredible Hoover Dam in 3D x-ray vision, including its construction and functionality, from overviews down to the fine details.

Holding the rod up at the water's edge hoping to snag the big one for tea. I do like a silhouette of people fishing 😁

Reflections, go on, do a search on this blog and you'll see just how many photos of reflections I've shared 🪞

Sulphur from the volcanic vents give Rotorua it's distinctive smell, even more so at Sulphur Point. So, what can we learn about Sulphur (also spelled sulfur in US English): a chemical element, has symbol S, atomic number 16, abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic, elemental sulfur is bright yellow, 10th most abundant element by mass in the universe, 5th most common on Earth, mentioned for its uses in ancient India, ancient Greece, China, and ancient Egypt, historically and in literature sulfur is also called brimstone, which means "burning stone". greatest commercial use is the production of sulfuric acid for sulfate and phosphate fertilisers, an essential element for all life, 8th most abundant element in the human body by weight, a 70 kg (150 lb) human body contains about 140 grams (4.9 oz) of sulfur, when burned in air, it produces sulfur dioxide gas, in water, this gas produces sulfurous acid. Every day is a school day.

Must be quite the adrenaline rush to pop put of the dark into the bubbling pool of Okere Falls .

Sun rays over Wellington Harbour with Matiu Island behind the curtain of light.

Staring out from under the wharf to the harbour, so restful as the crowds walk above, the water gently sloshes in and out.

As I walked through the house I saw my housemate's son was watching episode 4 of Ed Pratt's  Source to Sea down the River Thames WITHOUT Leaving it , yay the new one is out! I’m attempting to travel from the source to the sea down the River Thames. That’s 210 miles of wading, swimming and kayaking along Britain’s busiest waterway. And to make things harder I’m doing the whole thing alone and self-supported. It's a delightful series as Ed , a convivial chap who has circumnavigated the globe on a unicycle, challenges himself to travel the entire length of the River Thames whilst staying in the water at all times. He allows himself to get out, camp up and sometimes pop into a pub etc, but enters the river at the same spot he left it. Like a lot of lockdown videos or even Gone Fishing with Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer, there's something very English-calm about it, it's extremely engaging, very endearing and I absolutely look forward to each episode as they come ou...

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is a treasure holding taonga, it's a delight to visit on a regular basis. And it's spot on the waterfront gives one too many options for photographs. I'm trying to get them all 😉

It doesn't look too far down when you're watching them jump off. It doesn't look too far down in the video tbf, but it is a fair drop and a big splash. Definitely no belly flops though!

Raindrops envelope the pink rose petals.

The hockey centre needs water, the sun needs to eat down, I need to take photographs of RAINBOWS. Rainbows are everywhere and you can pretend it doesn't mean anything but fuck you, it does.

A dark, rainy winters evening as the Wellington traffic heads home from a days pod work.

Rain drops on a skylight being lit up by a full moon.