Rene Sanchez updates us on Yosemite’s $440M plan to “change human activity in and around the glorious & beleaguered park”.
I posted some photos from a 2003 trip to Yosemite here.

Think Spring! Washington Post’s Cherry Blossom Guide

Beautifully done Quicktime VR and Video tour of the Bahamas (58MB)
Rather appropriate on a cool, snowy Madison day…

Virtual Parks has a beautiful new Quicktime VR tour of California’s Eastern Sierra, starting at Florence Lake (near Bishop, CA)

liu zen shares a stunning Quicktime VR Scene from China:

Situated in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region,
Guilin has always been famous for its scenery and culture.Guilin is a
karst basin surrounded by mountains. The Li River flows through Guilin
from north to south.

Liu’s email: liuyz37@hotmail.com

Ignacio Ferrando Margelm shares a stunning Quicktime VR scene from a recent ice climbing expedition (I don’t know where this was shot)
He shared this note: “The wheather was fine to do this (max temperature -8:C) but not for my foot fingers…. I wait 2 hours in place and lost some sensibility…”

Today’s windy/cold weather makes French Polynesia very tempting…. (Quicktime VR Tours)
(From Quicktime News)

Affendy Awalludin shares a very nice Quicktime VR Hot bath in a natural pool scene from Perpignan in the South of France. (650KB)

A very cool gallery of photos from a Marine aviator, here. Shot with a Sony DSC-F707 digital camera. There’s a lot of very impressive stuff in his portfolio. Thanks to instapundit.

Acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt and Pier Wisconsin officials made public the long-awaited redesign of the $46 million lakefront education center at Municipal Pier. In an earlier interview, Pratt called it “spectacular” and “a wonderful addition to the lakefront.”