Young-turtle-french-polynesia-513638-xl.jpg (1280×1024) Bizarre swirly rainbow in Washington sky captured in photo. A colorful apparition materialized over Washington this week; the rarely glimpsed, rainbow-tinted specter appeared and vanished in the space of just minutes.
Fortunately for anyone who didn't look up at precisely the right moment, an enterprising resident of Anacortes, a small town about 80 miles (128 kilometers) north of Seattle, captured the mysterious light show on film. "My wife said, 'Wow, look at that! Too bad you don't have your camera,'" said Del Zane, a retired software executive and photographer. The couple was in the car after a morning bike ride and lunch — and just a half-mile from home.
"So I just gunned it," Zane said. In the morning by Yoshiaki Oikawa. Animals_Dogs_Hachiko_021665_.jpg (1680×1050) 6a00d8341bf8f353ef015433812b53970c-800wi (800×541) Green Lake - An Austrian Lake That Is Used for Hiking. A rare natural phenomenon turns one of Austria’s most beautiful hiking trails into a 10 meter-deep lake, for half the year.
Located at the foot of the Hochschwab Mountains, in Tragoess, Styria, Green Lake is one of the most bizarre natural phenomena in the world. During the cold winter months, this place is almost completely dry, and used as a country park where hikers love to come and spend some time away from urban chaos. But as soon as temperatures rise, the snow and ice covering the mountaintops begin to melt, and the water pours down, filling the basin below with crystal-clear water.
Water levels go from one-two meters at most, to over 10 meters, in the early summer.