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Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:52 am
by BlowingOldBoots
Aja wrote:Definitely a guess....
Starts in Holland and ends in Germany?
Donald
Sorry, not this time.
Clue: the French
had an interest at one end.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:14 pm
by Burst Boiler
Suez canal
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:15 pm
by Burst Boiler
Panama canal
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:46 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
Burst Boiler wrote:Suez canal
Burst Boiler wrote:Panama canal
Not a canal, a natural waterway. However, it is significantly managed with civil engineering controls in places, especially towards it's lower reaches.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:15 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
A clue! Don Maclean sang a song which had a significant feature of this river in one of the lines.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:48 pm
by Alan_D
American Pie - must be the Mississippi. I thought it looked tantalisingly familiar - I've flown over the Mississippi delta and the ship channel (in an airliner).
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:12 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
Alan_D wrote:American Pie - must be the Mississippi. I thought it looked tantalisingly familiar - I've flown over the Mississippi delta and the ship channel (in an airliner).
Yes indeed it is the Mississippi. The very end of it. Technically, I was looking for the start State and the end State, Minnesota and Louisiana respectively, but it’s been a long haul getting here. Thanks everyone.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:58 pm
by Alan_D
BlowingOldBoots wrote:
Yes indeed it is the Mississippi. The very end of it. Technically, I was looking for the start State and the end State, Minnesota and Louisiana respectively, but it’s been a long haul getting here. Thanks everyone.
Ah, but then we could have had an argument about whether the river was actually the Mississippi or the (considerably longer) Mississippi-Missouri, with its source in Montana.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:54 am
by BlowingOldBoots
A good anchorage, name the bay, what is the significance of the cottages regarding the anchorage.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:48 pm
by Alan_D
BlowingOldBoots wrote:A good anchorage, name the bay, what is the significance of the cottages regarding the anchorage.
Could it be Gometra (South) Harbour? If so the cottages were once occupied by boatmen who rowed passengers ashore to Staffa from the MacBrayne's steamer. (A journey I undertook as a child about 1955.)
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 6:20 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
Sorry Alan_D, not Gometra.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:16 pm
by Aja
St Ninian's Bay, Bute? No road to the cottages.
Donald
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2020 5:55 pm
by DaveS
Lowlandman's Bay, Jura? Former coastguard cottages.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:05 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
DaveS wrote:Lowlandman's Bay, Jura? Former coastguard cottages.
Sorry, not Jura.
Re: Where Am I?
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:07 pm
by BlowingOldBoots
Aja wrote:St Ninian's Bay, Bute? No road to the cottages.
Donald
Yes indeedy!