The Liebenberg Monument is located at Vienna’s first district near the ‘Mölkerbastei’. It has been created to honor Johann Andreas von Liebenberg – Vienna’s mayor as of 1680. He played a major role at the Second Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman empire.
CU, Andrew >:o)
I hope the weather gets better soon so I can walk around without getting wet. So today hopefully the last flower-picture for some time ;) A special clip of one of our pink tulips.
Hope you like it, Andrew >:o)
Today we checked our garden which hasn’t been trimmed over the last two weeks while we’ve been on vacation. It’s unbelievable how fast grass grows and the same is also true for the rambling weeds ;) A lot of work has to be done over the next two weeks to get everything back in shape!
Nevertheless there was enough time to snap a macro of a candytuft-blossom.
Enjoy it! Yours Andrew >:o)
Today an interesting clipping of a ‘Water Liliy’. Really nice color-mix – maybe an idea for the prefered summer-colors by ‘Karl Lagerfeld’ ;)
Enjoy it, Andrew >:o)
Vacation is over – we’re back to Vienna. The weather is better than yesterday but in comparison to 30 °C (= 86°F) we had at the Maldives it’s pretty ‘pitiful’ :(
At the moment I’m working on two articles available by the next weeks here on this site. The first is a travelog of ‘Angaga-Island’, where I’ll show a lot more pictures and background information if you plan to visit this beautiful place or just for the curios reader.
The second thing is a detailed description of the underwater-equipment I’ve used to get the pictures I’ve posted of the sea@angaga over the last two weeks.
So you see – life goes on – and it won’t become boring at ‘lensblues.com’ :)
Cu tomorrow, Yours Andrew >:o)
Now … today we took off from Angaga-Island at 7:00 in the morning, heading back to Vienna/Austria. A lot of strong feelings – happy to get home again and very, very sad to leave paradise on the other hand ….. anyways …. this was an incredible vacation … we never will forget this time …. probably the best holidays we had so far!
Many thanks to all the readers of this blog who have been with us virtually – hope you enjoyed the show ;)
And last let me close todays post by saying goodby to Angaga-Island by a famous quote from Douglas Adams book ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‘:
We fly home tomorrow so no diving is allowed today. To easy the pain we decided to go snorkeling and now see who we met there – the famous Angaga ‘nurse shark’!
It’s unbelievable but it seems that the ‘goods of the see’ sent us a last present before we leaf Angaga-Island :) Thanks a lot!
Enjoy it, Yours Andrew >:o)
Today I present you the most dangerous animal we met over the last two weeks … a stonefish. It is one of the most venomous fish currently known in the world. They carry potent neurotoxins secreted from glands at the base of their needle-like dorsal fin spines which stick up when disturbed or threatened.
I snapped this picture about 10 meters from the shore at 1.5 meters depth. So watch out next time and it’s a good idea to wear diver-shoes or something like that to prevent you from problems ;)
Ciao from Angaga, Andrews >:o)