While everyone's rarely travelled beyond their area at times, let alone around the world, perhaps like me you have some photos of your immediate vicinity to share. Prefer to see photos you've taken if possible. Images don't stretch the whole page any more, but I suggest making them about 1024 pixels wide so phone users aren't scrolling across for miles.
I've been temporarily living back where I grew up (Porirua NZ), and walked a bunch of paths I'd barely set foot on, including during sunrise hours, something I haven't always been out and about for thanks to insomnia. Caught some cool lighting in this first one:
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Insane path here, 12 zigs and 12 zags:
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Where I was born:
(https://i.postimg.cc/Jh2N9Rwr/Alexandra-Victoria-Grant-Street.jpg)
Where I grew up:
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Where I live now:
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those cows look cool Trevor
Top one looks like Alexandria, bottom one is Shepparton, middle is possibly Mornington peninsula/Phillip Island
Born under a bridge, banished to an island and now put out to pasture. ;D
Last year I performed the rare action of walking past the building I was born in (Wellington NZ), so took a photo. My spawn point, to use video game terminology:
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Quote from: madbugger on July 12, 2021, 11:44:02 AM
Top one looks like Alexandria, bottom one is Shepparton, middle is possibly Mornington peninsula/ Phillip Island
very good, although no 'i' after 'r' and before 'a'
Quote from: meha on July 12, 2021, 10:51:05 AM
those cows look cool Trevor
it's called 'moooving art'
Rural as it gets
Lovely, the view out my office window is similar
February 2019.
I'll take a current photo tomorrow.
(https://i.postimg.cc/1RVm3P04/20190225-160045.jpg)
Yesterday.
We've been in drought for 5 years and we still are.
Technically it's a green drought at the moment.
We have surpassed last year's total rainfall this year but have no idea if that's going to continue.
We're hoping of course.
That dam is just shy of 8m deep in the middle and we still have another metre and a half till it's full.
But at least we have some water I can use.
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How many snakes do you see down by the pond?
This is where I live - if you can work out the town then well done!
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Quote from: murph_fan51 on July 14, 2021, 06:41:13 PM
How many snakes do you see down by the pond?
This is where I live - if you can work out the town then well done!
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Hardly ever see snakes. I could probably count on one hand the number we've seen in the last 8 years.
We have horses and dogs who are always running and jumping all over the place. Snakes don't like the vibrations so tend to stay away.
And judging by the long white clouds in your photo, murph fan 51, it has to be a Kiwi town. ;D ;D ;D
Thanks for this thread and opportunity to share, Bloops.
Every day when I have a chance I go for a walk. I start out of the peaceful confines of the backyard at V8CFL Headquarters.
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If you look real close you can see Dot the Cat, Matriarch of the Yard, low in the grass.
I then go up to the corner and turn left, crossing over Interstate 94.
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1.5 hours west to Chicago. Off to the left and up the berm is actually the back of our backyard.
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3 hours east to Detroit
The cars and trucks were actually sounding their horns as I took the pictures. Maybe they though I was going to jump?
And then down the hill over Hickory Creek and back up the other side.
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I thought you guys might like the sign on the right. :)
Everything else (where the "action" is) is a few km north of here in St. Joseph, Michigan.
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The south pier where the St. Joseph River empties into Lake Michigan - one of the five Great Lakes.
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The St. Joseph River itself with the Coast Guard Station on the other bank.
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Looking south at Silver Beach with Lake Michigan to the right.
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A little further upriver at Clementine's on the outdoor patio. My favorite restaurant. Is any of you blokes ever get here the fried lake perch and onions rings on a 2 foot pole are on me! :)
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Back south to Stevensville, my home town, looking downhill as we go.
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Your true patriotic American town - Stevensville, Michigan. The WHOLE BLOCK!
Then I come home.....
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HOLY SMOKES! It's a girl, my lord, in a short bed Ford, stopping by to take a look at me!
Cheers to all, from Stevensville, MI USA.
Mike and Sue
OH! One more you might like. I did not notice this until after I posted:
Another picture of downtown Stevensville, where Americana THRIVES!
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Check out the black and white sign on the left. Only in America. We are world's apart, gentlemen, and we deal with this issue every day.
Believe it or not, the guy who owns/runs the gun shop used to work where I work. He has made quite a good living selling heat to the locals.
You'd know I spent a little time in the US a few years back, Mike. To think we were once merely 3 hours apart at one stage.
Went for a swim in Lake Michigan (Chicago side) late May... certainly got the nipples hard.
Looking east off my balcony. The bushland is the beautiful Royal National Park in southern Sydney, with the Illawarra line and the Princes Highway in between. That is the Maccas where ScoMo allegedly made a mess of himself.
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A couple of shots from Nasho, as we call it:
Looking east from a trail near Loftus, Grays Point in the foreground and Cronulla in the far, far background
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Having lunch on the cliffs near Bundeena
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Quote from: mikeamerica84 on July 15, 2021, 07:38:23 AM
Check out the black and white sign on the left. Only in America. We are world's apart, gentlemen, and we deal with this issue every day.
We have gun shops too of course, though surely far less with more restrictions on what you can buy. Not many segments in "gun fails" videos on YouTube will be from down under. Looks like there's about 1 gun shop per 100,000 people around these parts.
There's one not too far from my sister's place in Melbourne. I went in there once just to see what sorts of clothes and other things they had. Some time later there was an armed robbery there (https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-charged-following-thornbury-gun-shop-robbery-was-a-shooting-victim-in-2016-20180206-h0uod9.html), so I figure I have no reason to be in there again. How many guns did they steal? 37 (https://www.v8central.com/index.php?topic=49.0). ;D
Quote from: Kytabu on July 15, 2021, 10:39:47 AM
Having lunch on the cliffs near Bundeena
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An absolutely incredible view and lunch, Kye! I am right there with you with the greens. This thread is for max sharing!
Once again, Bloopy, thanks HEAPS for this idea!
Quote from: skaifeman on July 15, 2021, 08:41:31 AM
You'd know I spent a little time in the US a few years back, Mike. To think we were once merely 3 hours apart at one stage.
Went for a swim in Lake Michigan (Chicago side) late May... certainly got the nipples hard.
I remember that time period. You were in Nebraska, right? We never hooked up. A scar I bear in my motorsport history.
love the photos Mike, thanks for sharing
Quote from: murph_fan51 on July 14, 2021, 06:41:13 PM
How many snakes do you see down by the pond?
This is where I live - if you can work out the town then well done!
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Ngongotaha?
Quote from: murph_fan51 on July 14, 2021, 06:41:13 PM
How many snakes do you see down by the pond?
This is where I live - if you can work out the town then well done!
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Pokeno
Quote from: mikeamerica84 on July 15, 2021, 12:16:46 PM
Quote from: skaifeman on July 15, 2021, 08:41:31 AM
You'd know I spent a little time in the US a few years back, Mike. To think we were once merely 3 hours apart at one stage.
Went for a swim in Lake Michigan (Chicago side) late May... certainly got the nipples hard.
I remember that time period. You were in Nebraska, right? We never hooked up. A scar I bear in my motorsport history.
Just a little town called Manhattan... Kansas... :P
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Quote from: murph_fan51 on July 14, 2021, 06:41:13 PM
How many snakes do you see down by the pond?
This is where I live - if you can work out the town then well done!
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Pokeno
Yep it's Pokeno.
Mike you certainly have shown your area well!
I thought I would add a couple more, I took these photos last year in Level 4 lockdown, a short walk up the road to see... an empty motorway. Very strange.
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The motorway pics look like something out of The Twilight Zone, murph. Amazing how all of this unraveled last year.
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Quote from: skaifeman on July 15, 2021, 08:41:31 AM
You'd know I spent a little time in the US a few years back, Mike. To think we were once merely 3 hours apart at one stage.
Went for a swim in Lake Michigan (Chicago side) late May... certainly got the nipples hard.
I remember that time period. You were in Nebraska, right? We never hooked up. A scar I bear in my motorsport history.
Just a little town called Manhattan... Kansas... :P
Well, this is just MY opinion, but once you get West of the Mississippi River and into the plains, you can start in Kansas and make the big circle - Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming....... and without state border markings you'd swear you never left Kansas. But I'll tip my cap the folks out that way. That is where the crops are grown and harvested. The backbone of the country.
Quote from: mikeamerica84 on July 17, 2021, 01:37:07 PM
Quote from: skaifeman on July 16, 2021, 09:02:10 AM
Quote from: mikeamerica84 on July 15, 2021, 12:16:46 PM
Quote from: skaifeman on July 15, 2021, 08:41:31 AM
You'd know I spent a little time in the US a few years back, Mike. To think we were once merely 3 hours apart at one stage.
Went for a swim in Lake Michigan (Chicago side) late May... certainly got the nipples hard.
I remember that time period. You were in Nebraska, right? We never hooked up. A scar I bear in my motorsport history.
Just a little town called Manhattan... Kansas... :P
Well, this is just MY opinion, but once you get West of the Mississippi River and into the plains, you can start in Kansas and make the big circle - Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming....... and without state border markings you'd swear you never left Kansas. But I'll tip my cap the folks out that way. That is where the crops are grown and harvested. The backbone of the country.
Can't disagree with you. Did the road trip from Kansas to Denver a few times, and later on Kansas to Chicago.
Makes for great windmill spotting.
Quote from: Trevor on July 16, 2021, 02:18:59 AMNgongotaha?
Really weird guess given no sign of the lake in the photo. Coincidentally I was there to see a rock/metal concert on Sat night:
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Quote from: Bloopy on July 19, 2021, 09:51:14 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 16, 2021, 02:18:59 AMNgongotaha?
Really weird guess given no sign of the lake in the photo. Coincidentally I was there to see a rock/metal concert on Sat night:
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A company I worked for had a branch there, now long gone, I used to travel over about 4 or 5 times a year once upon a time
Quote from: Bloopy on July 19, 2021, 09:51:14 PM
Quote from: Trevor on July 16, 2021, 02:18:59 AMNgongotaha?
Really weird guess given no sign of the lake in the photo. Coincidentally I was there to see a rock/metal concert on Sat night:
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Haha. That sign looks bad, almost like DEKA in Huntly.
I actually got engaged on Mt Ngongataha in 2016 :)
Well the lava that formed the mountain may have cooled off but there's still a fire in the heart. ;)
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Quote from: murph_fan51 on July 20, 2021, 07:19:00 PM
Haha. That sign looks bad, almost like DEKA in Huntly.
Hahaha, funny you mention DEKA, the company I worked for was a heavy vehicle driver training company called DECA (Driver Education Centre of Australia), they had to change their name when they went into NZ to DECA Training so as to not confuse with the chain of stores called DEKA, I have actually been into the DEKA in Rotorua. They went into Ngongotaha because of the amount of logging trucks there, they reckon it was the best place to put themselves. I employed all their trainers. Then the Japanese economy collapsed in the '90's and weren't buying timber so the whole outfit fell on its arse - they spent hundreds of thousands setting it up, buying logging trailer, sending truck over there etc
Rotorua. a.k.a. RotoVegas
Born here and home for 50 of my 59 years.
The (now) famous Mount Ngongotaha in the top left. The island in the middle is a plug of cooled magma.
Lake Rotorua is surrounded by hills that are the rim of a caldera. A volcano that erupted about 220,000 years ago. The city sits inside the rim and enjoys a sulphur smell the locals rarely notice, steam oozing from the ground in various spots. Small earthquakes (they say the earths crust is too thin & soft here for pressure to build so we consider ourselves lucky that pressure is released through small earthquakes rather than large. But I think Christchurch thought they were safe from a big one.) But it's all good because we've got no snakes or animals trying to kill us!
NZ's most popular tourist destination with around 3.5 million visitors a year (pop. 70,000). Plenty of hotels & restaurants etc. 3 hotels currently being used as isolation (that's iso for your Aussies!) facilities for arrivals to the country. The attractions are geothermal (geysers etc), Maori culture, lakes, mountain biking & a lot of other man made activities designed to extract the tourist $.
When covid hit we thought the city would be stuffed without international visitors who make up about half the 3.5m. But it turns out that when Kiwi's can't fly - they drive to Rotorua for breaks. So it's going quite well.
Part of the city, taken from the south looking north. Apologies for the image size. I think it might be quite large.
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Lake Tarawera, one of my favourite lakes for boating and trout fishing. A 20 minute drive away. Mount Tarawera erupted big time in 1886 killing over a hundred that lived nearby. In one part (imaginatively named hot water beach in true NZ style) you can catch a trout on one side of the boat and cook it on the other in very hot water emerging from the shore.
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I get my summer motorsport fix at Paradise Valley Speedway on the edge of town.
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Everyone's here to see Superstocks. A full contact class where the aim is just as much to finish first as it is to stop others finishing first. The local team (who last year changed their flag from the confederate flag to a new home grown design) were crowned team champions at the last Palmerston North teams champs. An event rated more highly than the NZ teams champs. Teams racing is considered the pinnacle of stockcar racing and is something to behold.
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An hour or so north to beautiful Pacific Ocean beaches. No Crocs or stingers. Maybe a few sharks.
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2 hours south to Ski Fields on an active volcano
it usually looks like this.
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Occasionally it looks like this
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I've only been up Mount Tarawera twice, but it's probably my 2nd favourite place in the world. Descending into the crater is like stepping onto another planet and the loose scree makes it a lot of fun.
To be a bit of a cliche, 1st is Milford Sound and I've only been there once. It's further from civilisation, and something carved out by glaciers just seems cooler, somehow...
Hey @djr18fan, do you remember the red & white with a black stripe DECA trucks getting around Ngongotaha & Rotorua?
This is me in front of one of their Freightliner fuel tankers here, but the colour scheme was the same over there, but with logging trailers
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Quote from: Trevor on July 29, 2021, 04:40:47 PM
Hey @djr18fan, do you remember the red & white with a black stripe DECA trucks getting around Ngongotaha & Rotorua?
This is me in front of one of their Freightliner fuel tankers here, but the colour scheme was the same over there, but with logging trailers
(https://i.postimg.cc/Z5d35WTt/TrevwithFreighliner_zpsee5ef30e.jpg)
I vaguely recall hearing some advertising for or hearing about a truck driver training organisation in these parts. I don't recognise the name or colours. My brother-in-law may. He lived here then and was a truckie. Now in Brisbane working for Sims Metal after quite a few years driving around Australia.
Great post djr18...
Rotovegas is such a cool place. We head there every year for a short holiday. Have always stayed at the Rydges but is it a MIQ place now? Been to most of the thermal parks around the area - Te Puia and Waimungu Volcanic Valley were my favourite.
I find it funny, there's a house at an intersection on Lake Road that has their fence steaming every time I drive past, and part of the fence is charred ;D
I was very lucky as a kid my parents took me up Mt Tarawera and much like Bloops slid down into the crater, this was before it was guided tours only.
Quote from: murph_fan51 on July 29, 2021, 05:38:34 PM
Great post djr18...
Rotovegas is such a cool place. We head there every year for a short holiday. Have always stayed at the Rydges but is it a MIQ place now? Been to most of the thermal parks around the area - Te Puia and Waimungu Volcanic Valley were my favourite.
I find it funny, there's a house at an intersection on Lake Road that has their fence steaming every time I drive past, and part of the fence is charred ;D
I was very lucky as a kid my parents took me up Mt Tarawera and much like Bloops slid down into the crater, this was before it was guided tours only.
Yep. Rydges is off limits. I did Mt Tarawera a few times too. Another tricky one is Mt Edgecumbe which has a lot of loose scoria on the outside. Bloody hard to climb up.
For those that have been here before, we are spending $40m revamping the lake front area. $20m of that is a pre-last election bribe from the government and $20m courtesy of local ratepayers. A lake edge boardwalk has just been opened. It's actually quite nice and I see potential. A young kid has laready fallen off into the lake. https://www.rotoruanz.com/zh-cn/stories-articles/lakefront-selfies-could-win-you-prezzies
The most photographed building in NZ, the bath house in the government gardens sometimes referred to as the Rotorua museum is still fenced off with earthquake strengthening work going on. The blue baths building has recently been closed due to earthquake risk. The performaing arts centre is still undergoing earthquake strengthening and upgrading. There's a fair bit going on!
Even the Ngongotaha roundbout is getting an upgrade!
Very nice djr18fan.
Thanks for that SUPERB tour of your part of NZ, djr! I fell like I just had a five minute vacation. Love the boats on the lake. Are they amphi-craft a la WWII? Over here in Wisconsin Dells they use the ducks of the sort for tourist rides. Nothing like making a plunge into a river with one of those.
And thanks for showing my what it is like filling up on the road, Trev!
All good stuff, guys. All good stuff. Thanks!
Quote from: mikeamerica84 on August 03, 2021, 05:17:23 AM
Thanks for that SUPERB tour of your part of NZ, djr! I fell like I just had a five minute vacation. Love the boats on the lake. Are they amphi-craft a la WWII? Over here in Wisconsin Dells they use the ducks of the sort for tourist rides. Nothing like making a plunge into a river with one of those.
And thanks for showing my what it is like filling up on the road, Trev!
All good stuff, guys. All good stuff. Thanks!
Yes they are WW2 relics
Great local music club here in Porirua. Last year I went to a bit of socially distanced seated live music at Wellington bars during 'level 2' but it hasn't appealed to me yet this time around. Nice to have the alternative of private clubs/functions where the seated rule doesn't apply.
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Wellington city last week:
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Checked out where the eels hang out around here today, just for somewhere to walk to:
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Here is the latest photo from PÅkeno (the name changed in recent times due to pronunciation).
The population has expanded massively in the last few years.
As you can see in the photo, compared to one I posted earlier.
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This is my home town.. but I'm not too sure how many can guess it.
And the current town.. which is just down the road from my home town.
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Mt Morgan?
Quote from: murph_fan51 on June 13, 2022, 03:24:24 PM
Quote from: V8SuperRiley on June 13, 2022, 01:57:03 PM
Quote from: LG on June 13, 2022, 01:08:58 PM
Mt Morgan?
You got it ;D
What a guess! How could you tell where it was LG?
Something tells me he's been through this part of the woods.. Not too many towns will look like Mount Morgan lol.
Yeah I have a mate who lives there and also I often drove through there when I went the back way from Brisbane to Cairns.
I am also of the era who was taught History and Geography at school. :)
Quote from: LG on June 13, 2022, 04:16:29 PM
Yeah I have a mate who lives there and also I often drove through there when I went the back way from Brisbane to Cairns.
I am also of the era who was taught History and Geography at school. :)
Plenty of History floating around there.
Who is your mate who lives there, if you don't mind me asking? It's a pretty small place haha.
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Quote from: LG on June 13, 2022, 04:16:29 PM
Yeah I have a mate who lives there and also I often drove through there when I went the back way from Brisbane to Cairns.
I am also of the era who was taught History and Geography at school. :)
Plenty of History floating around there.
Who is your mate who lives there, if you don't mind me asking? It's a pretty small place haha.
Kev Crawford - retired school principal.
Quote from: LG on June 13, 2022, 08:37:16 PM
Quote from: V8SuperRiley on June 13, 2022, 04:20:50 PM
Quote from: LG on June 13, 2022, 04:16:29 PM
Yeah I have a mate who lives there and also I often drove through there when I went the back way from Brisbane to Cairns.
I am also of the era who was taught History and Geography at school. :)
Plenty of History floating around there.
Who is your mate who lives there, if you don't mind me asking? It's a pretty small place haha.
Kev Crawford - retired school principal.
Well there you go, a name I don't know for once haha.
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Quote from: LG on June 13, 2022, 04:16:29 PM
Yeah I have a mate who lives there and also I often drove through there when I went the back way from Brisbane to Cairns.
I am also of the era who was taught History and Geography at school. :)
Plenty of History floating around there.
Who is your mate who lives there, if you don't mind me asking? It's a pretty small place haha.
Kev Crawford - retired school principal.
Well there you go, a name I don't know for once haha.
Goody two shoes! :) :) :)
Quote from: LG on June 14, 2022, 08:53:14 AM
Well there you go, a name I don't know for once haha.
Goody two shoes! :) :) :)
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Haha, I didn't attend school there, so if he was principle there, I wouldn't have know about it.
I was guessing Garibaldi, Oregon, USA. Been through there once, but I pretty much figured out I was on the other side of the sphere and on the outside looking in.
(https://i.postimg.cc/ZK8qGS7N/Gari.jpg)
Great post and pics! ;D
Quote from: mikeamerica84 on June 14, 2022, 12:25:57 PM
I was guessing Garibaldi, Oregon, USA. Been through there once, but I pretty much figured out I was on the other side of the sphere and on the outside looking in.
Great post and pics! ;D
Similar stacks, but probably very different uses, haha.
Back in it's hey day, they mind in Mount Morgan had quiet a few stacks from what I've read/seen.
Unfortunately it shut down before my time. I would have loved to have seen it fully operational though.
I found this little gem recently..
https://www.facebook.com/TechTezza/photos/3174285939500787 (https://www.facebook.com/TechTezza/photos/3174285939500787)
This is an awesome view of Mount Morgan.