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Grundlsee Fairytale View

Talk about beautiful - look at the view from the Grundlsee webcam in Austria. From what I can glean from some travel sites on the web, Grundlsee is a little town in the middle of Austria, right at the center of the "Styrian Salzkammergut" or the lake district around the salt mine area. According to one site I visited the population of this tiny town is 1,200. Approximately 56 miles from Salzburg and 240 miles from Vienna, this village overlooks a lovely lake of the same name. Evidently, the word 'see' means 'lake' in German. One thing is for sure, this looks like a picture out of a fairy tale. When I was just out of college, I went to Europe for 6 weeks and once place we visited was Salzburg. This reminds me of the beauty of that area.

Sun Mountain

The Sun Mountain Lodge Cam in Washington provides a northwest view from the lodge towards Goat Peak (towards the left). It loads every 2 hours between 8 AM and 4 PM. It provides a restful view of valley and mountain. Just breath in the fresh air.

Lake McDonald, Alaska

This Lake McDonald webcam is all water and mountain. The lake is the largest in Glacier National Park. It updates every 5 minutes. You can float the cam image on your desktop if you wish you were enjoying an Alaskan vacation but have to face another day at work without mountains or lake in sight.

Mendenhall Glacier

From Tongass National Forest in Alaska, this glacier webcam provides a view of the face of Mendenhall Glacier. This cool and peaceful image affords a great view of glacier and surrounding landscape. The camera is mounted in the visitor center and the image is refreshed every 5 minutes. For more info on the Tongass Forest, the Juneau Icefield, and the Mendenhall Glacier visit this page providing Tongass National Forest Facts.

Olympic Mountains

Dale Ireland's Live Webcam and Astronomy page promises "weather and astronomical events from my back porch". I say how can you miss with this mixture of sky and water and mountain. The camera is in Silverdale, WA. You're looking across Hood Canal towards the Olympic Mountains. Camera has date and time stamp and can be reloaded for latest view.

UCLA's Telescope Dome

The UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy provides this webcam image from atop a 150-foot tower. It provides a view of the Mount Wilson Observatory, Mt. Wilson, California and the mountains beyond. The camera looks northeast towards 100-Inch telescope dome. The picture is refreshed every 4 minutes day and night. A time and date stamp is provided.

Craving more Mt. Wilson astronomy info? Visit the Mt. Wilson Observatory Tower homepage for more observatory data.

What About Bob?

Have you every heard of Lake Winnipesaukee? I have because it's the lake that Bob Wiley (played by Bill Murray), the neurotic patient newly acquired by Dr. Leo Marvin (played by Richard Dreyfuss), has to travel to in order to track down his vacationing shrink in the movie - What About Bob? It's a favorite movie in our family and it is fun to see some images from this location.

I've been visiting this Wiers Channel cam for quite a while without realizing it had anything to do with beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee. The cam looks over the channel of water that connects Lake Winnipesaukee to Paugus Bay. From here you can get a view of the marina, a drive-in theater, and majestic mountains including the Sandwich Range. The view from these cottages is amazing. Just how charming can a vacation setting get? Proctor's Lakehouse Cottages have been around for 1/2 a century according to the brief history provided on their website and it looks like a quaint vacation getaway. Both cameras - Proctor's Lakehouse Cottages and WIer's Channel Cam provide a nice clear image, have excellent scenery to focus on, and provide a rapid change of images that makes these cameras fun to tune into everytime I've visited.