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It has been a while since I've seen a thread like this - the rules are simple: attempt to identify the location of the last posted picture in the thread. Once the picture poster confirms the first correct responder that person then gets to add a (sailing-related) picture to the thread and the game continues.
Since I'm no good at this type of guesswork my only chance of getting a picture into the thread is by starting it off with the following picture:
It's about 800 miles NW of Winston, where the Waltzing Matilda Centre is located. It's likely not the exact river in the song, but a good enough reference point. (Learned a lot about the song doing this research.)
And it's about 500 miles NE of the Prince Regent River.
Yes. I was standing on the bow during filming. Soderbergh wanted the scene back lit. The wind was very light off the port quarter so I set the autopilot under bare poles. It worked well. The water there can get a bit shallow at low tide. There wasn't much under the keel the whole time, but I'd earlier sailed around a bit and it was a pretty consistent depth. Those are our pillows.
The rock is well inside. I'd never sailed there before, but I gave my son a sailing lesson at the south end of this area, right near where a lightship was docked, a few years back.
My guess is this is the lightship, seen here somewhat south of Newport, heading east last year. Maybe someone can figure out the the name of the pier as well as the L.I. harbor where it was docked.
Well done Fallard, Lymington River it is. Zanshin was on the mark when he homed in on the Solent. Pic was taken from the train window between Lymington Pier and Lymington Town. This one a moments earlier.
Even though I doubt that I'm correct, my immediate thought was "Single Malt... Scotland... Islay". Perhaps I just have whisky on my mind. But it does look like left-hand drive traffic and the form and color of the license plate would fit as well.
Oh great That narrows it down to a couple of hundred Scottish Isles reachable only by ferry... How about the Isle of Arran, that ferry landing could be it and Arran is a good whisky to boot.
I recently had a tasting of Bowmore, the oldest Islay, which prompted my first post and I was fairly certain that I was thousands of miles away - just goes to show the power of suggestion and how the subconscious mind notices things.
It's on the map, which really narrows things down--not "thousands"! This view is from the other side of the ferry route, looking back to the mainland terminus.
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