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Travellers have always been attracted to its beauties, as have artists and writers, including one Nobel Prize winner. Yet it has not succumbed to the vulgar side of tourism, and its beaches are never crowded
Between Reef and Rainforest | Anthony Toole | Australia, Queensland, Cairns
The cliffs appeared bottomless, and the fish were even more abundant and profligate in their colours. Three shimmering cuttlefish swam just beneath me, while more circumspect creatures peered out of small caves
Bird Watchers' Paradise on the Solway Coast | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Southern Scotland, Dumfriesshire
In 1957, fewer than 1000 barnacle geese wintered here. This number has now swelled to over twenty thousand that fly to the Solway coast from Arctic Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, more than 3000 kilometres away
Bloodless Mountaineering | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Scottish Highlands, Glencoe
Known as The Lost Valley, this is where the cattle-thieving clans of Glencoe used to hide the proceeds of their raids. It was also where the Macdonalds sought refuge following the massacre of 1692
Contrasts in a Red Desert | Anthony Toole | Australia, Northern Territories, Ululru-Kata Tjuta National Park
The road to Yulara headed south for half its distance, then west, through endless desert scrub and sand so glaringly red as to appear almost unreal
Discovering the Missed Hills of your Youth | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Cumbrian fells
When I first discovered the Cumbrian fells, in my early teens, I soon became obsessed by peak-bagging. I would venture out under any conditions to add just one more hill to my growing list
Galdhopiggen and Glittertind | Anthony Toole | Norway, Jotunheimen, Lom
To west and east lay the glaciers and snow-topped summits of Galdhopiggen and Glittertind, Scandinavia’s two highest mountains
In the Jotunheimen Cathedral | Anthony Toole | Norway, Jotunheimen, Balestrand
Cliffs in excess of 1000 metres fell onto the Maradals glacier, with the spectacular, tooth-like peaks of Mannen and Kjerringa beyond
In the Trenches of the White War | Anthony Toole
From 1915 to 1917, the ‘White War’ mirrored the excesses of The Somme, with its barbed wire and trenches. It also included the construction of a remarkable city, carved into the ice of a glacier.
Mosedale Horseshoe | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Wasdale
It was a view of little colour but marked contrasts, an abstract of snow and precipice, white and black, against a backdrop of the dark green forest and sunlit, bracken-brown slopes
On the trail of the Killarney copper mines | Anthony Toole | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Killarney
As well as providing a fascinating insight into a little known aspect of Irish history, the Ross Island walking trail gives stunning views across the lake toward Mangerton, Torc, Shehy and Tomies mountains
Pier's Ghyll | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Cumbrian fells
The walls reached up for perhaps fifty metres to each side of me, yet were so close together that in places I could touch both simultaneously. Snow clung to small ledges, from which an occasional tree sprouted
Singapore Stop-over | Anthony Toole | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore City
Tall buildings lit up like galaxies, and where these were reflected in a broad stretch of water, they assumed an almost transcendental quality that compelled and held the gaze
Standing stones in a land of legend | Anthony Toole | Ireland, Clare & Limerick, Ballyvaughan
One feels drawn into a land of magic soaked in the mist and mysticism of ancient Celtic legend, for nothing in the Burren is as it seems, at first, to be
Tarns | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Lake District, Lake Windermere
The mountain tarns, however, take one's understanding of stark beauty into a new realm altogether. Generally treeless and often rocky, they appear bare, grim, forbidding, yet strangely compulsive
Teesmouth Nature Reserve | Anthony Toole | United Kingdom, Northumbria, Teesmouth Nature Reserve
Surrounded by this industrial landscape, and dominated by it from every viewpoint, is the Teesmouth National Nature Reserve
The Largest Sand Castle in the World | Anthony Toole | Australia, Queensland, Fraser Island
As the jungle opened out abruptly, it revealed a scene that was as magical as it was unexpected. It had the appearance of a picture advertising a South Sea paradise
Tropical Miniatures | Anthony Toole | Ireland, East Coast Ireland, Straffan
Delicate floating films settle gently onto head and shoulders like falling leaves, and transform magically into the denizens of this minuscule jungle
Unwinding | Anthony Toole | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Schull
The brightly coloured houses, scattered about the rocky headlands of the harbour and up the slopes of Mount Gabriel, gave the town a Norwegian appearance