In my travels I’ve seen quite a few rocks and rock carvings and statues carved out of rocks like the monoliths of Easter Island known as Moai. The monoliths of Easter Island have fascinated and puzzled Westerners since the Dutch seaman Roggeven made landfall there on Easter Sunday, 1722. The mystery of Easter Island’s first settlers remains just that - a mystery.
However, the rocks that seem to really impress upon me most are the natural rocks, carved by nature like this example I came across in Greenland. It’s known as the Knud Rasmussen Stone because of its uncanny affinity to Knud Rasmussen, the great polar explorer. How did a natural rock in Greenland come to have such an uncanny affinity to Knud Rasmussen, the great polar explorer?
This is “Kamyany Selo” in Olevsky district of Zhytomyr region, Ukraine or “Ukrainian Stonehenge”. The impression is that this stone wants us to smile or say something.
Thank you for sharing with us, I don’t know why but the rock reminds me of the shape of a whale.
I want to let you know that @AdamGT had started a thread about rock face and I will merge your post there, because I think your post will bring interesting variation in the thread.
@ermest, no worries. I didn’t know you have love for interesting looking rocks. Now I know something new about you.
I am more interested towards corals and sea shells, and I usually collect some of them whenever I visited a beach. Maybe it’s a bit out of context in this thread, but rocks and corals, they are a bit similar right? ?
Here is a shot of my previous collection from Sanur Beach, Bali, Indonesia.
Haha @AngieYC I too have a small collection of corals and sea shells from my travels. Yes not a face, however they are natural and beautiful. They have beautiful shapes, colors, textures and some, well the conch do, even “play” the sound of their origin ocean when placed against your ear. Now how beautiful is all that!!! What is the most interesting piece you have?
You are absolutely right about the beauty of nature.
The most interesting or beautiful piece for me so far, is actually on the picture I shared. If you can see there is one shell which is white with grey to dark grey gradation. I love that one!
It is very beautiful, I used to have a coffee table where I stored all of my shell collection there, but I don’t have the picture of it because it was a long time ago!
Anyway, I am glad the Local Guides are enjoying this thread! Looking forward for your next exciting topic.
Oh that’s a great idea to showcase your collection. So you are looking forward to the next exciting topic hey…have you see this topic ? But perhaps you best close both eyes and open slowly because it wasgood at the start but then our dear @ErmesT made it very bad!!
My dragon was very quiet, on a tree inside a butterfly house. How can you consider that one “scary”. Your was scary for sure, walking on a woods. I don’t want to imagine the eight of your jump
Hola @AdamGT es muy lindo el post, descubrir esos grandes monumentos que los pueblos antiguos nos legaron, en monumentos tan hermosos y en algunos casos con tanto misterio de como lo realizaron con las herramientas que te -Ian en su época, que al día de hoy no terminamos de comprender cómo fue su realización, aquí les comparto algunas de las que tuve oportunidad de ver a lo largo de algunos viajes como el Calendario azteca (México), las piedras en Machu Pichu (Perú), o los Moai (en la isla de Pascuas (chile), que tú comentas y la Pedra movediza de Tandil (Argentina)
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