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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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#200 ·
Geoff's got it. I realized after posting that this one might be hard to spot on GE, but thought the flag would help you narrow things down.

The town is Dewey and its got some good provisioning (grocery stores, chandlery, restaurants), but getting water is a chore. We ended up buying a 5 gal jug for our chartered bareboat and lugging 60 gallons or so back to the boat. The nice thing about the Spanish Virgins is that the moorings are free and relatively available, compared to the USVI and BVI. Here in Dewey, you anchor, but the holding is good and it's protected.

Geoff's turn.
 
#209 ·
wow .... is he good or what ? Sadly we will need the name of that largish dunnish stoneish towerish lighthouseish thingymebob that they are walking past in order to complete your card ....
 
#214 ·
Lighthouses are a bit too easy - esp one as unique as that.. AND I know where you've been ;);)

Different part of the world... the second pic has a significant clue for any 'locals' in the area.



 
#216 ·
No.. not there... it is salt water, though... and Northern Hemisphere...
 
#217 ·
Your neck of the woods or the other side ? I'm presuming we are in Canada, though it doesnt look all that cold. Meanwhile it doesn't look much like Mexico. Is the clue for the locals those odd looking circular stone blocks ?
 
#218 · (Edited)
Hey... we don't all live in igloos! ;) Yes Canada, west coast, yes the stone 'blocks'...

To the rest of the board... we need more players here!! (no offence, fuzzy...)

Here's a slightly less summery look...

 
#219 ·
I don’t know of any tall buildings on the West coast once you get North of Vancouver and the first picture shows what looks like Yucca so it must be at least temperate. Vancouver area but that’s not the Vancouver skyline. And the round stone could be mill stones but they look a bit thick and I don’t see any grooves. Maybe stone wheels for cannon. hmmmmmmmmmm...
 
#220 ·
Tell you what Fast , if anyone is going to get this then we definitely need more Canadian players ....

Anywho ... I'm bored, stuck in office, nothing to do, so ..... That's the Fast boat in the foreground correct ? Now I think I know you've not sailed her all that far north so I reckon me should be below 50 snd I'm guessing mainland ?
 
#221 ·
Yes, below 50N by quite a bit.. barely north of 49, actually... The dock is a pretty distinctive shape, it's on an island... the city is on an island as well....

btw our local cruising in recent years has taken us only to 50:30 or so, but I grew up at 52:20
 
#223 · (Edited)
Nanaimo it is.. The dock is part of a real gem of a park.. Newcastle Island Marine Park..an entire island with moorage, camping, hiking, a dance pavilion, zillion dollar views and plenty of wildlife literally in the middle of Nanaimo Harbour and an easy dinghy ride to the aptly named 'Dinghy Dock Pub' (visible in the first pic with it's shuttle lifeboat ferries)

It was a coal mining centre (hence the name) and also a significant sandstone quarrying operation for years. The columns standing in the front of the San Francisco mint come from here, the stones in the other picture are the leftovers of pulp mill stones used up and down the coast in the many Groundwood pulp mills that thrived in the 20s through 60s.

Nanaimo itself has done a wonderful job with the waterfront with parks, several city and private marinas, seawall walks and good facilities within easy walking.

Plenty of history here (by West coast standards) and just a great place to spend a weekend any time of year...



All yours...
 
#226 · (Edited)
Wow .... that was impressive. The ferry terminal bit is wrong if I'm looking at the same gables as you .... Newcastle doesn't really have a ferry terminal, there is only one ferry that goes across the river to Stockton, you can see it further to the right. To the left of the top pic there used to be a Waterman's dock where my great great great grandfather used to ply his trade. Sadly he was also a pisspot and ended up a floater.

(Carrington is a suburb of Newcastle on the other side of the river with a highly regarded small ship yard. They specialise in tarting up super yachts and the like. The old floating dock is set for scrapping I believe.)
 
#227 ·
I was looking just to the right of the tower with the mushroom cap, where you can see a rather distinctive building with a dozen gables. The Newcastle terminus of the Newcastle-Stockton ferry is on the Western side of the Queens Wharf, which is right in front of the many-gabled building.

If you are still game for this, see if you can identify the following harbor:

 
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