Travel Theme: Eerily Delicate

Last week I attempted to combine the photo challenges from Where’s My Backpack? and The Daily Post to produce Stone Horizons. I think it worked out quite well, so I’m going to give it another shot.

Ailsa’s (of Where’s My Backpack?) travel photo challenge this week is Delicate, while The Daily Post’s theme is Eerie. Naturally then, I’m going with Eerily Delicate…

Bonanza Mine, Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, Alaska

What’s left of the main mine buildings emerge from the clouds, at an altitude of almost 6000 feet

Proof we made it, after our 4½ mile hike up from the ghost town of Kennecott, roughly 3800 feet below (that’s me on the right)

A tram tower, still supporting the cables down which buckets of copper ore once made their way from the Bonanza Mine to the mill at Kennecott

Another tram tower, being swallowed up by the clouds

McCarthy Road, Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, Alaska

Built in just 11 days in the depths of winter, the abandoned Gilahina railroad trestle carried trains full of copper ore across the Gilahina River, from 1911 until the Kennecott mines closed in 1938

San Marino

The foggy night provides the Eerie, while the elaborate ironwork of the balconies provides the Delicate

Prague, Czech Republic

Dawn mist lingers around the statues on the Charles Bridge

Years-worth of candle wax in a cellar restaurant in the old town

Tower of London, England

This photo was taken on the wharf outside the Tower of London (which features in Jaspa’s Journey 2: The Pride of London)- just left of centre, the infamous Bloody Tower can be seen through a curtain of bare winter branches

Notre Dame de Paris, France

Intricate stonework offsets the bulkiness of the building as a whole

Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

Stalactites, stalagmites and careful lighting in the Big Room really does the job