I thought it was more likely to be a tsunami with some strength to disfigure the trees. Some very cool pics - the luxury island home, crescent shaped hotel and crazy lighthouse man were the best.
The last picture is about a 45 min drive from where I am. I drive across that runway at least once a month. It's quite bizarre, but for Gibraltar it totally makes sense.
Driving over the border from Spain into Gibraltar is like entering the twighlight zone. The people there are a little bit "different".
I think the trees were tied to some curved object and forced to grow that way. You can tell they seem to be planted in rows, so man had something to do with it most likely.
I didn't believe the lighthouse pic was real until I found these videos:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7RSryuJAwE]French lighthouses and VERY BIG waves during stormy weather (+ description) - YouTube[/ame]
I got this from another forum but it is definetely a collection worth seeing.
The title is "Pictures that say 1000 words".
WARNING! SOME PICTURES ARE DEEPLY DISTURBING
^This photographer committed suicide shortly after taking this picture
^Picture of bullet casings carpet a street in Monrovia (the capital of Liberia), at the heart of the battlefield between government and rebel soldiers
this one is pretty graphic, guy getting burnt at the stake - yeti
brutal justice
^Omayra Sanchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano which erupted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concrete for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died.
The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on June 3, 2008. The Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence. The bright spot above the ground shield in the foreground is Jupiter. The white streaks of light going up are the Milky Way. (Keith Vanderlinde/National Science Foundation)
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a bomb dropped by an Israeli air force F-16 jet exploding in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, on January 3, 2009