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Contest/Game - Identify this picture

639K views 5K replies 130 participants last post by  obelisk 
#1 ·
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:


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#139 ·
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.
 
#143 ·
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.
 
#145 · (Edited)
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.
 
#155 ·
I confess I had to check that myself. I knew it was Bare Island but didn't know the name of the fort .... imaginatively enough it is Bare Island Fort.

Forts Banks is on Cape Banks barely one nautical mile distant.

BIF was built against the possibility of the Russians invading NSW in the 19th century so it was absolutely pointless. Fort Banks was WWII era.
 
#156 ·


'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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