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David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Sailing The Tectonic Seas It might take a few million years to get anywhere but you can imagine what this amazing mountain has "seen" in its time... Mont Aiguille (el. 2085 m./6842 ft.) is a mountain in the massif du Vercors in the French Prealps, located 58 km (36 mi) south of Grenoble. The mountain is most noted for its first ascent in 1492. Charles VIII ordered that the peak be climbed, so one of his servants, Antoine de Ville, made the ascent using a combination of ladders and other artificial aids. This makes it particularly important to climbers and is now climbed many times each year. SAILING THE TECTONIC SEAS by David Cale The mountain rears magnificent like a titanic ship’s prow it cuts through countless dawns sun warmed or storm wracked mute testimony to the tectonic brooding of the planet below our feet I am tempted to feel small But a mountain is just a mountain not a comment on me
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Not Hard To Swallow
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Autumn Glory This is a rift in the Niagara Escarpment (a geologic feature left behind by the retreating glaciers about ten thousand years ago) It is somewhere north of Toronto Ontario Canada, probably Mono Cliffs in the Caledon area. This aerial photograph was taken from a single engine light plane about 30 minutes after the dawn of an October morning when the trees were at the height of their autumn color display. Our altitude was probably about 900 m.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Santorini Sunset from Ios. The open water is actually the caldera of the volcano that exploded several thousand years ago destroying the Minoan civilization on Crete. x
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Normandy A Personal Journey by David Cale ® It was D-Day plus 55. .The day was gray and blustery and a cold wind, blew in from the sea, typical June weather for Normandy. As It was high tide, I did not have to walk a great distance to the water's edge, so I walked straight out from the beach until I was standing, gazing out to sea, knee deep in the cold English Channel waters. I had traveled for five days North from Paris to Dunkerque and then exploring on my way down along the coast of France to Caen, and to the D-Day invasion beaches of Normandy. Driving north I crossed the river Orne at Pegasus bridge, which marks the Eastern edge of the D Day invasion. From there it was a short drive to the beaches. First Gold and Sword Beach, where British troops landed and then my objective Juno Beach where my countrymen, Canadians, came ashore. On a day similar to this, June 6, 1944, D-day, this six kilometer stretch of beach from Courseulles to St-Aubin sur Mer was newly christened -in blood- Juno Beach. It was here that Canadians of Toronto's Queen's Own Rifles, Regina Rifles, and Royal Winnipeg Rifles and others jumped into heavy surf and struggled ashore into the teeth of strong German resistance. Many of the German bunkers had not been destroyed by the preliminary bombardment, and until they were "silenced", these inflicted heavy losses. Many of the Canadian Amphibious Tanks went straight to the bottom in the heavy seas, as they were not equipped to handle the heavy seas. At the end of the day "The German dead were littered over the dunes, by their gun positions", a Canadian journalist reported. "By them, lay Canadians in bloodstained battledress, in the sand and in the grass, on the wire and by the concrete forts. ..They had lived a few minutes of the victory they had made. That was all." Three hundred and forty Canadians had given their lives. Another five hundred and seventy four had been wounded. This was just the beginning. In the days to come Canadians would see some of the bloodiest fighting of the invasion.
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > How did he do that?
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Sailing The Tectonic Seas It might take a few million years to get anywhere but you can imagine what this amazing mountain has "seen" in its time... Mont Aiguille (el. 2085 m./6842 ft.) is a mountain in the massif du Vercors in the French Prealps, located 58 km (36 mi) south of Grenoble. The mountain is most noted for its first ascent in 1492. Charles VIII ordered that the peak be climbed, so one of his servants, Antoine de Ville, made the ascent using a combination of ladders and other artificial aids. This makes it particularly important to climbers and is now climbed many times each year. SAILING THE TECTONIC SEAS by David Cale The mountain rears magnificent like a titanic ship’s prow it cuts through countless dawns sun warmed or storm wracked mute testimony to the tectonic brooding of the planet below our feet I am tempted to feel small But a mountain is just a mountain not a comment on me
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Shadows Taking Flight
David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > La Place Du Canada One of these old bullet scarred German bunkers remains, renamed "Place du Canada." The Queen's Own Rifles memorial plaque describes the battle that day which and asks you to try to imagine what it was like. The trouble was I couldn't and suspected that only those actually there could ever grasp what took place. I took a deep breath. The salt spray smelled of the iodine rich seaweed strewn on the beach, the surf crashed and roared, and the grey-green sea was empty of the madness of men.
Santorini Sunset from Ios. The open water is actually the caldera of the volcano that exploded several thousand years ago destroying the Minoan civilization on Crete.

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David Cale (ImagesOfTheJourney) > Santorini Sunset from Ios. The open water is actually the caldera of the volcano that exploded several thousand years ago destroying the Minoan civilization on Crete. x
Santorini Sunset from Ios. The open water is actually the caldera of the volcano that exploded several thousand years ago destroying the Minoan civilization on Crete.

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