A long walk on the beach
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- DonNewcomb
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A long walk on the beach
I'll let the group try to guess where this photo was taken. The hints are that it was yesterday (3 March) and that the panorama has North on the left and South on the right. The white stuff is sand, not snow. For miles in every direction there is virtually no sign of human activity.
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Re: A long walk on the beach
Dauphin Island
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Re: A long walk on the beach
Not a bad guess but on Dauphin Island the beach would run mostly East-West, not North-South. Also, I think that the dunes on the unpopulated (West) end of Dauphin Island were pretty badly washed out by Hurricane Katrina and not yet recovered.Ingo wrote:Dauphin Island
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Re: A long walk on the beach
My guess is it's south of Illinois and I don't know much about anything south of Illinois. Do people live south of Illinois?
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Re: A long walk on the beach
Yes, but only during the winter. The rest of the year it's just gators and snakes.LeftOvers wrote:Do people live south of Illinois?
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Re: A long walk on the beach
The panorama was taken at St. Joseph Peninsula State Park near Port St. Joe, Fla. I was standing about here.
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Re: A long walk on the beach
Very nice. I guess there is reason to go south of Illinois.
Did the BP oil spill hit that area? How's it doing?
Did the BP oil spill hit that area? How's it doing?
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Re: A long walk on the beach
When I.R. is closed, for sureLeftOvers wrote:I guess there is reason to go south of Illinois.
BTW, what's in Illinois? I usually just set the cruise, lock the steering wheel and take a nap
(just kidding... about the question anyways )
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Re: A long walk on the beach
The oil never reached this far east. There is no trace of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon left anywhere. The Gulf of Mexico is a very dynamic biologic environment and what oil the cleanup crews didn't remove, the bacteria ate. All the oil that was supposed to be lurking offshore, to rise like Godzilla, isn't there. This area is not like the Gulf of Alaska where the stuff hangs around for decades.LeftOvers wrote:Very nice. I guess there is reason to go south of Illinois.
Did the BP oil spill hit that area? How's it doing?
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Re: A long walk on the beach
The birthplace of Lincoln!"IngoBTW, what's in Illinois? I usually just set the cruise, lock the steering wheel and take a nap
and my birthplace. It's like we're connected.
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Re: A long walk on the beach
Lincoln was born in Kentucky, spent a fair amount of his boyhood days in Indiana and got stuck in Illinois when their wagon broke down on the way to somewhere else.
OK, only 2 out of 3 of those are correct.
OK, only 2 out of 3 of those are correct.
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Re: A long walk on the beach
I like to think they were headed to Iowa when the wagons broke down near Springfield, IL....
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Re: A long walk on the beach
LOL. From everything I've read, Lincoln had plenty of opportunity to go to Iowa or spend time there but he only spent a total of just a few days.Ernest T Bass wrote:I like to think they were headed to Iowa when the wagons broke down near Springfield, IL....
Just having some fun but on a more serious side, with all the stuff going on here now, some of that Iowa real estate looks inviting.