FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON. The Giant Canyon swing will throw you 1,300 feet above the Colorado River at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, America. Owner of Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, Steve Beckley, 41, admits that despite being the brains behind the operation he has only ever tried out the ride for himself on one occasion.
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
