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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:
First white fella to see them was Cook who in what was a somewhat Cookian quirk missed the very large harbour close by. This was one of three large harbours Cook had managed to miss on his way up the NSW coast.
Hi Zanshin,
thanks - I will claim the home advantage, but clarify that the wombats 2 photos are 1000nm north of me and 500 nm south. So the the young furball has covered a lot of ground/water to show and tell.
Nailed it again StAnna. Broughton Island(s) it is. Gem of a spot btw. I'd never been there until late last January when we sailed over from Port Stephens ( see Cook's misses) for an afternoon. Never went back. We ended up staying there until it was time to head back down to Sydney. Just us and two other boats. Wonderful.
Ref cook's misses ..... after spending some time in Botany Bay he then sailed up the NSW coast without noticing three large harbours .... Sydney, Broken Bay and Port Stephens.
StAnna .... I've not sailed further north than Broughton, south Jervis Bay but I did join a boat up north and sailed across the top. Places like Cairns, Port Douglas, Thursday Island, Gove even Darwin. Very very different to today both good and bad.
When I can answer so easily I'm always a bit loath to do so. Old Jimmy Cook was apparently doing poorly at the time.
Oh to hell with it ..... The town is obviously Napier in New Zealand which is located on Hawkes Bay. To the north (70 odd nms) is Poverty Bay which was Cook's first anchorage in NZ waters.
BTW, it's too bad no one provided more background on the photo on Zanshin's post #129. The columns are the ruins of the sail loft at Nelson's Dockyard, English Harbor, Antigua. The loft was above the columns.
'Not sure if this will be very easy or very difficult. 'Looking for the name of the location, not the building and I'll post progressively easier pictures until someone gets it. I think everyone will know of this place even if they haven't been there.
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