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Motorsports, travel, and random photos from around the world. Rally driver, car #91 in ARA National L2WD. Life is too short to just sit around and wait.

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A lone flamingo feeds in a small pool in a desert. All around are salt flats, white and dusty with a blue sky above. — Salt Flat Flamingo
Visited the salt flats in the northern desert of Chile. Wild flamingos galore, apparently they feed on a form of shrimp that manages to live in these small bodies of water. The sun is so powerful here that I felt myself burning already - surreal that these birds just shrug it off.

An otherworldly photo, with mounds of dirt that raise like spikes. The dirt is red and looks like Mars. — Mars-esque
The “Valley of Death”, which apparently is similar in terrain to Mars. When we got here, we knew we had to try climbing the hills so we ditched the truck and gave it a go. I don’t know if I’ve been anywhere else on earth like this, stunning beauty especially with the way the shadows cast.

Waves in a small cove, with a small pier on the right. Expansive blue skies above with a few clouds. — Hangaroa
My wife has long wanted to visit here, and on our travels around South America we were able to find a way to fit it in. The small town that’s here on the island is quaint and functional - and perhaps most importantly, has a few fun bars. (We’ll get to the cultural stuff in a day, it’s been a long bit of traveling)

A closed up storefront that’s covered in street art of a mouse in a trenchcoat. — Mouse Street Art
The shadows and colors on this made me double back for a photo. I wish I knew the artist - what a cool style!

Striking black cliffs with patches of ice and snow line a channel of water. The sky is gray and the reflection of the mountains is visible in the water. — Channel Reflections
We took a scenic detour through this channel and it didn’t disappoint. Some of the most stunning cliffs I have ever seen.

A striking blue glacier floats in Antarctic waters. The glacier has a series of ridges cut into it. — Resisting the obvious joke
Finally made it to continent seven, and the views don't disappoint. If anything they're hard to capture in photos! The sheer silence of the area is deafening, cut by random penguin calls and sounds of distant avalanches and iceberg shifts. Utterly magical.

Me dressed in black holding a blue coat, posing in front of some old rusting oil tanks. The ground is silty and soft, and stretches into the distance around me. Two penguins walk nearby. The sky above is blue with clouds. — Deception Island Landscape
A photo of myself that I wound up liking. It feels somewhat trippy to look at: the texture of the ground, the rusting remains of the old whaling station, and the two penguins to the left (one is not beheaded, it’s just scratching itself).

A dilapidated wood building sits at the bottom of a set of cliffs. The cliffs are a mix of red rocks and are covered in snow. Two small graves can be seen in the background. — Deception Island
A former whaling station inside a natural harbor. A few buildings and tankers remain, along with an old airplane hangar from the first flights in Antarctica. The rock walls are particularly neat, the red hue is very striking.

A view of an island from out on the water. The island is made up of sheer cliffs lined with ice, and clouds are rolling and surrounding the island. — Elephant Island
Seemingly not visited too often these days due to rough seas and winds that can increase out of nowhere. We did manage to get fairly close albeit not a full landing - but it was cool to see such a historic spot up close. This island is where Ernest Shackleton sought refuge before sailing to South Georgia to seek help, and when you see this up close, it really sinks in just how monumentally difficult the entire journey was.

Penguins crowd around a winding stream. Mountains can be seen in the distance, with smaller groups of penguins on their way to the stream. The photo is in black and white. — Penguin Pilgrimage
A seemingly endless river, with scores of penguins on both banks. It’s really interesting to see seals around them, since they seemingly tolerate one another and just kind of coexist.

An army of penguins on the beach. Mountains cascade in the background, topped with snow and with an ice field as a path down. — Army of Penguins
This area holds an estimated 350,000 penguins, and it’s absolutely staggering to witness if you can make it here. The closest comparison I can make is that it’s like watching an army from Lord of the Rings in real life, just stretching as far as the eyes can see.

A white church with a dark roof sits in the shadows of a backdrop of cliffs. Green grass and quarry rocks all around the church. — A church-not-church
I usually wouldn't take a photo of a church, but the history of this one is somewhat fascinating to me. While it originally was built as a church (~1913), whalers apparently... didn't really care too much about church. As a result it wound up being used for a litany of other things: showing films, social hall, library, and more. It remains today as one of the best kept up buildings in Grytviken itself and makes for a neat photo against the cliffs. There's also the remains of a ski jump off to the right (outside the shot), because apparently they'd hold ski jump competitions to pass the time.

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