re: Most Beautiful Sight You've Seen

Just don't have the time to dig out photos but (all of these on a crystal clear day):

The view from a hike outside Wengen, Switzerland. That mountain range is incredible with Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau.

Picture Lake in the Cascades with Mt. Shuksun and Mt. Baker.

Glacier Point - Yosemite.

Crater Lake.

Canadian Rockies near the summit between Banff and Jasper.

Milford Sound, New Zealand would be incredible on a clear day but we didn't get that, and not many people do.

I had forgotten about Denali, the first time I saw it. The size of the mountain is just unbelievable. Driving on the park rd to Savage River, watched a bear and a couple of foxes. Overlooking the park, clouds suddenly opened and there it was with lenticular clouds above it.

Resurrection Bay, Alaska
Watching the Northern Lights in Healy, Alaska
Clearly being able to see the Milky Way with the naked eye in Arizona about 1.5 hrs west of Phoenix
Napali Coastline
Sunset on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico

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I had forgotten about Denali, the first time I saw it. The size of the mountain is just unbelievable.

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Yeah, I'd meant to put that on my list as well. The park road is something like 3,000 feet elevation while Denali is over 20,000. So there is 17,000 feet of vertical. In most places (like Colorado) you are at 9,000 feet looking at a 14,000 foot mountain. So 5,000 feet of vertical is about as much as it gets. This is from Wonder Lake, about as close as you can get to Denali by park bus.

I was at Trillium Lake this past weekend. It was a bit windy, and the reflection of the mountain in the lake were not very good. Here is a pic when the lake mirrors the mountain.

Machu Picchu



Whitsunday Islands




Not my photos obviously but those are a few of my favorites. Anywhere in the Andes Mountains are insanely beautiful if you get the chance to go.

1 Angkor Wat at sunrise, Cambodia



2 Gullfoss, Iceland



3 Church of Our lady before Tyn, Prague




I was too young to have digital pics of Newschweinstein.

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Was there just recently. I've never seen it so nice on the Oregon coast.

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Lucky. Ecola was enhanced for me bc the first time I was there, it was in the middle of a big winter storm.

I'd never been to the Oregon coast and it was mid November. It had been raining and windy with zero sun for 1.5 days when my wife and I went to Ecola. Right when we pulled up to that view, the clouds split and we got drenched in sun. The storm was still going, so we got that exact view with sun plus giant waves and the storm.

It's beautiful and my first sight of it makes it even more memorable for me.

1. My daughter being born

A close second the Swiss Apls and Switzerland as a whole just amazing.

Peniche, Portugal is definitely up there (including Berlenga).





Best drive goes to Great Ocean Road just West of Melbourne.