Imagine…you and your buddy are out in the middle of nowhere, cruising on your bikes down a mountain and out of the corner of your eye, you see a massive Grizzly bear heading straight for your buddy!

Well, that was a reality for the guys in the video below. Luckily or the world…the riders were wearing GoPro cameras on their helmets.

As the riders barreled down the mountain, a grizzly bear starts chasing the first rider. The second rider, not know what to do…keeps on rolling down the hill with caution. Luckily for the pair, the bear decided they were not worth the chase!

This all took place on a popular bike path in Slovakia.


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Beautiful, Giant, And Nearly Frozen Waves Are Captured On Camera By Nantucket Photographer

Photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh found himself staring at an ocean full of Slurpee. The waters of the Atlantic Ocean looked like it due to the unusually cold temperatures that were making it freeze. Lakes freeze every year, but oceans freezing is a rare sight.

The photographer/surfer/ocean enthusiast set out to capture the beauty of this rare event. While the partially-frozen waves churned and hit the shore, they appeared to be made out of something thicker than water. Jonathan describes the sight as follows, “The wind was howling from the southwest which would typically make rough or choppy conditions, not so good for surfing. But since the surface of the sea was frozen slush, the wind did not change the shape. They were perfect dreamy slush waves.” The pictures below show this bizarre phenomenon.

They were a strange, thick consistency.


His photo series “Slurpee Waves” is breathtaking.


The unusual look of the waves comes from the shifts in the water and air temperature.


When he took these photos, the temperature in Nantucket was 19°F.


In “Stay Wild Magazine,” he talked about the day he took the photos: “Just been super cold here. The harbor to the mainland is frozen solid … The day after I took these it actually froze up the shoreline for 200 yards out.”


Jonathan is “obsessed with the ocean,” and, in addition to his sea-centric photography, is an avid surfer.


Check out this video to see the Slurpee waves in action:


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California’s super bloom is a visual spectacle. From the deserts of Anza-Borrego to the vast Carrizo Plain National Monument, abundant seasonal rains produce a carpet of color across a large portion of the state.

Super blooms, or a number of wildflowers exceeding normal spring blooms, typically occur in desert landscapes when excess rain is followed by cold weather, which locks moisture into the ground.

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NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured the spectacular view on April 14th, 2020
The poppy super bloom is a prized shot to many landscape photographers











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Every photographer’s dream is to get the opportunity to capture a unique photo, something the world has never seen before. Nature is ever-changing, complex, vibrant, and rich, so it is certainly challenging for a wildlife photographer to leave everyone open-mouthed.


Yet, in November 2016, biologist Vanessa : managed to film probably the largest swarm of sea turtles to date, while flying her drone over the Costa Rican coastline.

The drone was used in a study that investigated olive ridley sea turtles and their reproduction.


The footage reveals thousands of them while swimming across a region just off Ostional National Wildlife Refuge.

There is about one turtle for every square meter, and as the drone ascends, new turtles are rising from below the surface.

Bézy said:

“I immediately knew there was something special going on. To this day I’m still blown away by the video. They look like bumper cars out there.”

Ostional was established in 1983 as a protected area specifically for the turtles, but as they are considered a vulnerable species, this might be the last time we see swarms this dense.

Roldán Valverde, scientific director of the Sea Turtle Conservancy in Florida, said:

“This is the only time I’ve seen a video capturing this phenomenon in the water. Most of the photography documenting this occurs on the beach.”

Bézy studies them and her goal is to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the species and hopes her footage will help it to remain robust. Even though these sea turtles are widespread, they have very few nesting sites globally.

Bézy worries about the rising tourism industry around the beaches where they nest, as regulations proposed to protect the area seem to not be enough.

Also, olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings have a very low survival rate into adulthood, so if we additionally threaten the population, it might crash fast.

She hopes that her investigation will find out the reason and the way such a great number of turtles gather there, especially in the period between August and October. This might be due to factors such as sand type, beach orientation, and sea currents.

These findings might provide an answer that can maximize the chances for survival for the species.

Olive ridley sea turtles are among the six sea turtle species that the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed as threatened, so mass aggregations of this kind are a critical part of their life cycle.

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