That iceberg definitely looks bigger than my house!

Here is a waterfall somewhere in Hawaii.

Those ice bergs are amazing...

Antarctica iceberg.

The first iceberg is shaped a little like this view of the Corcovada Mountain across the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon.

I rented a bike from a shop between Copacabana and Ipanema and cycled the length of the the two beaches and also circled this lagoon on a path about 5 miles long.

Another panorama across the lagoon from that bike ride.

and a panorama of the length of Copacabana beach (4 km long) from the northern end.

and a panorama from the southern end of the beach, from an earlier trip.

Anne, If you look directly above the man walking on the beach, and then three buildings to the right, I think that is the Regente.
Note the images should all be clickable for a larger view, since the formatting of the website does so poorly with wide images.

Iris

Finished this puzzle a couple days ago. So much rain. Yard is swampy, so another puzzle is underway.

That is beautiful gazania.
Kittywhiskers

Yes... Bob...I think you're right.

I simply can't get over how much the strip has grown and filled in. There isn't an empty lot anywhere in sight. And the beach looks deserted. That was never the case when I was there. The natives lived their whole lives on that beach...24 hours a day. It never looked that bare. Husbands would do their morning exercises...then the school kids would come on their way to school...the nannies arrived with their charges...and then the Mom's..reversing the order 'til the whole family showed up later in the day. Once darkness fell...the Macumba offerings would appear in the form of lit candles. It was amazing to watch. Now that Rio's become such a booming metropolis...they probably all work at one level or another...leaving their beach to the touristé. LOL

I think it may just have been that most of the days I was there the weather was not so great. Cool, cloudy, often drizzly, and the locals stayed away. It may be because our trips have been off-season for beach weather: end of November for two of them and early August for the other.

These pictures from the rooftop of our hotel in Ipanema on the second trip was one of the few truly glorious beach-weather days. and by 10:00 A.M the beach is already getting crowded.

Ahhh! Now that looks much more normal. :-)

I purposely stayed away from Rio during the Lenten season and Carnival. I loved the Spring and Summer...their Fall and Winter seasons. The global weather patterns are so different these days that those seasons may be different now. I was lucky to have wonderful weather when I was there with a rare rainy day now and again.

We are in Nebraska as many of you know from Facebook. One of the things we enjoy is doing
Diner, drive ins and Dives stops. A since we are in Omaha we went back to one we had visited before. Amato's. It's an Italian "dive" where the locals go for breakfast and brunch. Here's then map that people who have seen the shoes get to pin their home towns on...he really ran out of room so people started signing the wall and many from other countries just sign the wall instead of the map.
{{!gwi}}

This post was edited by ruthieg__tx on Sat, May 3, 14 at 16:35