[noelcmn]

E-Eleven

[WPRESTO]

Fish, possibly Pachyderminasus durantii. (sorry, I did not record the actual name, common or scientific for this curious fish)

[aslyfox]

F is for Flamingos Feeding

in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania

[noelcmn]

Giraffe-Zoo Lake Curio shop

[WPRESTO]

Headstone. This partially commemorates a famous incident that dominated the news across the USA for several months in 1925. Collins was trapped 60 feet down by a rockfall at his feet while crawling up a very tight passage to the exit from a cave system he was exploring. Attempts to free his feet from below failed, attempts to pull him out from above with a hoist failed, but food and water could be passed to him in jelly jars. Then a second rock collapse above above his position blocked off all communication and attempts to dig through it failed. Volunteer rescuers started to dig a parallel shaft working 24 hours a day in shifts by hand only for fear machinery or explosives would cause more collapses. A carnival atmosphere developed with up to 10,000 people arriving daily with their children and picnic lunches to await the rescue, with games and fun for day after day (national guard troops were called up to keep the mob away from the rescuers). After two months of digging a horizontal shaft of 12 feet got to Collins, but he had long since perished.

[aslyfox]

Headstone. This partially commemorates a famous incident that dominated the news across the USA for several months in 1925. . . . .

SPOILER ALERT


fictionalized in the 1951 film, "Ace in the Hole" by Billy Wilder, starring Kirk Douglas
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" As in the movie, a decision was made to drill a shaft and, also as in the movie, the rock was fairly unstable and prone to collapse from the pounding of the cable tool drilling rig. The longer the effort went on, the more unstable the cave passage became.

Unlike Kirk Douglas' character in the movie, Skeets Miller [ the real cub reporter ] served a most honorable role. Due to his small build he became one of very few persons able, and eventually the only one willing, to enter in an attempt to deliver food and water to Collins. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting. Also unlike the movie, there was no manipulation of the event to delay the rescue, but there was considerable disagreement over how to best do it. Area coal miners made the initial attempts and the event concluded with the above-mentioned shaft. "

Ace in the Hole (1951) - IMDb

[WPRESTO]

Thanks for that addendum, Aslyfox. I did not know about the film.

[noelcmn]

Irazar

[WPRESTO]

Jumble of rocks, Mammoth Cave, KY. Roof collapses such as this are thought to be extremely rare in these caves. with the most recent ones estimated to be several million years old.

[noelcmn]

Kite-- Black shouldered kite, across the road from my home, and the wires are the railway lines that pass here too.

[pepperberry farm]

lilies

[WPRESTO]

Mueller's gibbon

[aslyfox]

after Noon

[Riggomatic]

O- Overhead. Samaritan helicopter from the Fort Wayne Parkview hospital cruising by this evening.

[WPRESTO]

Pitter-patter pattern made by drops of melt water from overhead branches falling on some Spring snow.