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20 September 2022 - SALTY LAKE ABBE - DJIBOUTI

SALTY LAKE ABBE

- DJIBOUTI -

G'day folks,

Welcome to a salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Situated in the middle of the hot and hellish Afar Depression, Lake Abbe stretches six miles in width and is covered in clusters of massive, steam-blasting limestone chimneys.

Although Lake Abbe is the ultimate destination for Ethiopia’s Awash River, its dry landscape absorbs the water, and the area is a vast landscape of salt flats. Besides Mount Dama Ali, a small dormant volcano, the landscape is almost completely level, and the steaming, sulphuric vents lend the region an apocalyptic, and Tatooine-like look.

Some of the vents stretch as high as 150 feet into the air, and make the lake visible from miles around. Despite the hellish climate near Lake Abbe, nomadic Afar shepherds live in the area, along with a surprising population of flamingos.

24 August 2022 - INVERTED BOAT HOUSES - FRANCE

INVERTED

BOAT HOUSES

- FRANCE -

G'day folks,

A holiday destination in Equihen-Plage, in the North of France, is reviving an old tradition of building houses out of discarded boat hulls. In the past, this type of unconventional abode was made by poor fishermen and, in some cases, their widows.

The hulls, after receiving a waterproof coating of tar, become the roofs. They’re then raised on small brick-and-mortar walls that only allow for a small bit of headroom. Doors and windows are then cut out from the hulls. The interiors of these houses, which are typically single-room, are quite dark and cramped.

This kind of house was mainly used by fishermen in the 19th and 20th centuries as makeshift shelters or cheap homes. Today, they serve as a niche tourist attraction.

Most of the original boat houses were destroyed during World War II, and it seemed that this piece of coastal heritage would be lost forever. But in the 1990s, interest in the houses resurged, leading some to reconstruct inverted boat houses and use them as rustic holiday accomodations.

21 January 2021 - A COLLECTION OF WEIRD CARS

A COLLECTION

OF WEIRD CARS

G'day folks,

Imagine walking down the road and seeing a car with a giant and scary rat's face glaring at you. No, that’s not a scene from a bad sci-fi film. That’s one of the many weird car designs we're about to present for you today. In these pictures below, you will get to see some of the most peculiar car models ever designed. Some of them resemble tanks and boats and some have been inspired by animals. Looking at them, you will surely wonder how these oddball designs ever got made.