Fred--you know, I HATE that bridge!! Ever since I was a little girl, my mom installed in me a deep fear of high bridges, and that one is the one that I most often have had to deal with!!
Carol Hill
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249287 03/06/202102:46 PM03/06/202102:46 PM
I'm afraid I don't know about the latest photo. But if I can back up one destination, that Pont de Normandie does look beautiful from the photos. It seems that cable-stayed designs have become very popular for their aesthetics, and are used for many new bridges including three here in the NYC area. But that one looks particularly impressive.
Dan
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249489 03/09/202107:29 AM03/09/202107:29 AM
Great pics Kim. Can’t wait for the green light to travel!
I know !! I just want to get on a plane to somewhere...anywhere . To make matters worse all of my Facebook memories this week are from BVI trips for the past 10 years ..this is the first year in the past several decades that we were home for the entire Canadian winter ...which can be brutal at times
We have a boat but it is covered with snow and we are dreaming of the day we can sit on a lawn chair on an actual lawn
Kim
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249553 03/09/202107:19 PM03/09/202107:19 PM
Looks like typical German posts for the wine, and typical German houses on the hill and an old Roman lookout tower, perhaps from the "Limes". At first I thought it might be along the Mosel-Saar-Ruwer rivers, but the Limes would put it further east along either the Rhine or Main. Am I close or very far off?
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249573 03/10/202103:45 AM03/10/202103:45 AM
Not far Arnd but not Germany. The next pictures are the river below the hill in the first picture and and then in the heart of the village which has the name of a well known wine...
Ah, I'm sipping a nice Franken wine right now - but my next picture is not from a wine-growing region. The tree is a ficus (fig) tree, not known for growing in central European regions.:
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Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249633 03/10/202101:34 PM03/10/202101:34 PM
If it is the USA I don't know where would support plants like the ones shown. The stone in the building looks like the kind of stuff used in places like St Kitts.
Mike, those plants are quite common in FL. I had many of them in my yard when I lived there. However he did say it wasn't in FL. You might find them in southern CA or Hawaii as well but I don't know. It does resemble buildings in St Kitts.
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[color:"red"]FRAN[/color] "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late"
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249673 03/10/202107:11 PM03/10/202107:11 PM
It is Nevis, that picture was of the Plantation Hotel, across the way from the Botanical Gardens and A. Hamilton's house - which were to be the next in the series. Fred has it.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249700 03/11/202108:52 AM03/11/202108:52 AM
I knew it wasn't Hamilton's house, but the vegetation looked like some I recall seeing at a higher elevation. This next picture is definitely from an obscure location, but I know of one person who has possibly seen this.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249707 03/11/202109:29 AM03/11/202109:29 AM
Me either, although it does remind me of a place by the interstate around here that this guy buried a half dozen Airstream trailers on end, sticking straight up in a row. Bizarre!!
Carol Hill
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249719 03/11/202110:43 AM03/11/202110:43 AM
That first image was immediately recognizable for what it represents - a belief that can be abbreviated as "cc"? But I've not been to those islands so can't narrow it down further without resorting to mystical google-fu arts.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249763 03/11/202106:39 PM03/11/202106:39 PM
Fran, Niue is correct and those $ signs were NZ dollars. I thought Jeannius (Mike) might guess this one. Fran, you are up.
I didn't recognise the 'sculpture' Fred. Must have arrived since I was there. Then I had to google the beach name so ruled myself out of answering. Did they still have the same dinghy-landing system when you were there...
Oh darn it ! Sorry Rick .. i will await my turn for now and can post again another time .. maybe you can remove my post Carol and i can play next time ?
Kim
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: BaardJ]
#249850 03/12/202109:06 PM03/12/202109:06 PM
Fred you are correct ! How did you know? I was going to give other clues about common wealth , and royal and confederation but you got it .. we go by boat but others take the bridge
Kim
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249868 03/13/202109:56 AM03/13/202109:56 AM
Kim, one of your pictures had your flag displayed and one boat had a registration of PE etc. You should get ready to post another picture because the next one I post will go quickly.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249871 03/13/202110:18 AM03/13/202110:18 AM
Kim, finding small clues makes it fun for me and I guess others. You might want to use the MS Paint feature to obscure details like flags, license plates, etc. Thanks for continuing to post your pictures.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249887 03/13/202101:44 PM03/13/202101:44 PM
Winner. The Tip Top Tap was a Speakeasy. The story is they would shut down the elevators when the raid came and by the time the feds climbed the stairs to the roof, everyone and the booze was gone.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#249922 03/13/202110:56 PM03/13/202110:56 PM
Getting very close Fran ! We actually went to Campobello on that same trip ... keep guessing .. this is the ferry we took .. we were very lucky it was flat calm that day
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Kim
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250076 03/15/202109:04 AM03/15/202109:04 AM
I have a friend that lives in New Minas NS and she is a photographer as well. Maybe that's why so many of your great shots look so familiar. She also used to be on TTOL but haven't seen her post in ages, actually, I haven't heard from her in ages.
Anyway, you've got me at this point without Google.
[color:"red"]FRAN[/color] "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late"
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250093 03/15/202111:37 AM03/15/202111:37 AM
Kim, your pictures are very, very good. I seem to find a power line or some such obstruction to be in the foreground of mine. Next, even using Google, I would have picked the wrong island. I guess since you have disclosed the location, you get to go again.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250169 03/16/202107:11 AM03/16/202107:11 AM
Kim, keep them coming. You're not monopolizing and many of us are either out or very short on photos so...By the way, that island was my next choice after using Google.
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[color:"red"]FRAN[/color] "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late"
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250174 03/16/202107:45 AM03/16/202107:45 AM
It is the southwest most point of St. John. I see it to my right when I sail (or take the ferry from the BVI) past "Current Rock" heading towards Charlotte Amalie
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Zanshin]
#250306 03/17/202112:06 PM03/17/202112:06 PM
It is the southwest most point of St. John. I see it to my right when I sail (or take the ferry from the BVI) past "Current Rock" heading towards Charlotte Amalie
Arnd, you're half right! Not St. John, but the rest of your description is correct.
This picture is taken from another beach close by. The beach in the initial picture is located just past the hilltop marked by the mast of the trimaran at the dock in this picture.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250364 03/18/202108:09 AM03/18/202108:09 AM
The island that these two beaches are on is not part of Grenada and not on Guana Island. Both beaches are open to the public. The latter beach is tougher to get to, though - a long 500m walk from the road on a rocky dirt path; despite that, it is usually pretty crowded. I'll wait a bit before posting the next beach picture (also a panorama from a non-standard angle) and if that doesn't prompt a response I've got a final shot that will certainly trigger memories.
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Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250380 03/18/202109:24 AM03/18/202109:24 AM
Yep. Beerman has it. By the way, those moorings are tough to pick up, there's little slack and I my freeboard forward is so high that I can't pull up the mooring far enough to get a line through it! And doing it singlehanded is even tougher; I wish they hadn't put those in a couple of years back, it was my favorite anchorage. Now I will usually anchor there, but the no-anchor zone stops at 50-70 feet water depth and it isn't usually very calm out that far.
I'll throw in the last picture, because as a panorama it distorts what would usually be easily recognizable as Plage de Pompierre. The first beach is at Anse Crawen and the second is "Sugarloaf" (Pain de Sucre). All are on Terre-de-Haut in the Iles-des-Saintes off Guadeloupe, FWI.
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Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250399 03/18/202111:49 AM03/18/202111:49 AM
Thanks Kim, she does love photography...and travel!! I'll give a hint to narrow it down a bit, Jim Rockford might have visited here if he drove about 5 hours in his gold Firebird!
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: BEERMAN]
#250423 03/18/202103:30 PM03/18/202103:30 PM
Fran I had to look Capitola up! Yes it is, but all I knew is that she was in Santa Cruz ;-) I've never been there but she's facetimed a few times and it's beautiful there!
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Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250555 03/19/202105:24 PM03/19/202105:24 PM
OK, let's give this one a try. Please forgive the image quality -- it was taken at dusk and cropped from a small section of a cell phone photo. If no one recognizes it, I'll post a version that is zoomed out a bit more.
Dan
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250594 03/20/202108:28 AM03/20/202108:28 AM
That is hauntingly familiar - I know I've been there but can't quite place it. The buildings look European but the water tower is uniquely American... Annapolis, MD?
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Zanshin]
#250608 03/20/202109:33 AM03/20/202109:33 AM
Hard to see but the writing on the building looks like something in an Asian language. Possibly Japanese or Chinese. I think there's a tower like that in Tokyo but don't think that's this one.
[color:"red"]FRAN[/color] "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late"
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250706 03/21/202108:27 AM03/21/202108:27 AM
Tokyo Tower is a replica of the Eiffel Tower (just made a couple of feet higher than the original) but this city is closer to Tokyo than it is to Paris
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250710 03/21/202108:41 AM03/21/202108:41 AM
The language puzzled me - English on the tower and possibly characters on the building (or was that something you obscured?). Then there's the palm tree so I'll try Okinawa? Don't know a city name.
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250729 03/21/202110:36 AM03/21/202110:36 AM
I was going to say Mostar but if it is Switzerland then I've no idea. The only 'famous' bridge I can think of is Luzerne and the photo is definitely not from that bridge.
OK, had to Google. Lavertezzo double arch bridge? Apparently while people don't jump from the actual bridge they do jump from the rocks under it. Beautiful spot but jumping is not for me.
If correct someone else go ahead and post the next photo please.
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[color:"red"]FRAN[/color] "Yes I am a pirate, 200 years too late"
Re: Game Time Part 19
[Re: Fred]
#250872 03/23/202111:37 AM03/23/202111:37 AM