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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:
One Abel Tasman was one of the very first Europeans to stumble across the land of Oz and he named the bit he found Van Diemens Land after the governor of the Dutch East Indies. It was later renamed Tasmania.
Does the lettering on the white ferry say Stena Lines? They run mostly to Scandinavian destinations. My guess is we're in Oslo, Norway, but I am not sure of the sky and water color clue...
dock looks different in a nicer day...the only problems here are winds from NW, and drunk teenagers making noise at 3 am...besides that, is expensive and crowded on weekends, and very shallow in low tides, but I like the place...
Unesco World Heritage Site
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
Founded by the Portuguese in 1680 on the Río de la Plata, the city was of strategic importance in resisting the Spanish. After being disputed for a century, it was finally lost by its founders. The well-preserved urban landscape illustrates the successful fusion of the Portuguese, Spanish and post-colonial styles.
Unesco World Heritage Site
Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
Founded by the Portuguese in 1680 on the Río de la Plata, the city was of strategic importance in resisting the Spanish. After being disputed for a century, it was finally lost by its founders. The well-preserved urban landscape illustrates the successful fusion of the Portuguese, Spanish and post-colonial styles.
The pink is a red primer on the ship superstructure.
Officially it is an island, and is noted as an island on maps and charts but is connected to the mainland by one bridge, a road over a culvert and an infilled channel.
The Philadelphia Navy Ship Yard moved from Front Street where Captain Barry later Commodore Barry built the ships for the navy of the Continental Army, (now under I 95) to League Island in 1871.The back channel between the island and the mainland was infilled for Mustin Field and aircraft factory after WWI.
Most of the Navy Yard is now operated by the City of Philadelphia, a part is still used by the navy for engineering facilities and the Reserve Basin, but most of the land is leased out including Aker Ship Yard in two of the original dry docks.
The island is one league long, 3 nm.
The blue bridge in the distance is the I 95 Girard Point bridge. the opening scenes of the 1984 sci-fi movie The Philadelphia Experiment are of the main character driving over the bridge to the Navy Yard.
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