21 Unbelievable Wonders of the Natural World...

Posted on 21 May 2015 at 13:40

Mother Nature in all her glory can create some of the most mind-blowing, breath-taking occurrences. Creating such unique wonders that they look like the came out of a Hollywood movie. Nature’s paintbrush is truly unbelievable, adding color where unexpected. The magnificence of nature can leave you speechless.

Here are 21 of those places in our world that have left mankind without words to express the excellence and grandeur that nature has to show.

1. Red Tide

Looks like someone dumped barrels of tomato soup into the ocean, doesn’t it? In reality, it is a marvel caused by algal bloom, aquatic microorganisms.

2. Cano Cristales (The River of Five Colors)

Located in Colombia, this river for a brief period of the year offers such a brilliant show of colors. The cause of the colors is a unique plant (Macarenio clavigera) which lines the river floor; it turns to a profound shade of red. When the water level is just right, the plant is offset by the yellow and green sand and the water itself, the river is mesmerizing.

3. Luminescence Beaches

It is real. The neon blue water is a result of a natural phenomenon, bio-luminescence. It occurs when microscopic organisms react to the oxygen in the water. This unusual, rare shoreline occurrence is from the beaches of Maldives.

4. Sun Dogs

This beautiful halo created by light interacting with ice crystals found in the atmosphere. Where the sun is the center, and two patches of light will appear on either side.

5. Frost Flowers

These beautiful flowers are formed when thin layers of ice come off long stemmed plants in early winter or autumn in the Ozark Mountains of the USA.

6. Volcanic Lightning

This display of power was a result of a weather phenomenon when lightning occurred in the plume of a volcano.

7. Spotted Lake

Located in Canada, this polka dot lake is displaying its dense deposits of minerals.

8. Geyser Eruption

An Icelandic geyser caught just before its eruption.

9. Great Sphinx

Not Eygpt. This marvelous nature rock formation is along the Makran Highway in Pakistan.

10. Danxia Landforms

Beautiful sloping rock formation hills in the country of China. Caused by millions of years of sandstone and mineral deposits.

11. Frozen Methane Bubbles

Occurs during the winter, when the dead organic matter consumed by microbes on the bottom of the lake rises. With temperatures below freezing the bubble freezes as it nears the surface. These are from Abraham Lake in Canada.

12. Princess Hope

Named by Angelina Jolie, this incredible rock formation is in southern Pakistan.

13. Everlasting Storm

This storm occurs in the same spot, 200-300 days a year and displays its raw beauty up to 10 hours each time. The spot is the mouth of the Catatumbo River in Venezuela where it feeds Lake Maracaibo.