Name The Location

[aduffE37]

Lets see if this works. Can you recognise this place?

 

[inarathree]

Its the dock on Garden Key, Dry Tortugas.

 

[Rich Stidger]

aduffE37- that is waaaay to easy. Even I knew that one and I'm from Massachusetts!

 

[inarathree]

And I have never been there.

 

[aduffE37]

okay okay...... i had to start some where's. try this one!

 

[inarathree]

It looks like our house in the Caymans, after the last hurricane... minus the writing on the walls.

 

[aduffE37]

same place just 180 degrees the other direction

 

[Joe]

Hmmm... I'm not getting the point of this thread.

 

[aduffE37]

no point to it just simple bordem. and quietly reliving memories, nothing too serious.

 

[Rich Stidger]

Here is another easy one...

Can you name this place?

And for extra credit, can you explain why two lighthouses would be built so close to each other?

 

[cbsailor]

No extra credit for me, but my guess

Cape Ann (Thatcher Island) Lights between Gloucester and Rockport

 

[aduffE37]

never been up that far north. what is up with two light though? one is broken?

 

[Bill Roosa]

So you can do that horizontal angle thing

and tell your distance off
Used prior to GPS when all we had was eyeballs

 

[Rich Stidger]

Well, cbsailor got the location, though no extra credit.

aduffE37 - no, one is not broken. Duh.

Bill Roosa - I guess you could do a horizontal angle to figure distance off, but it would be rather complicated unless you knew that you were perpendicular to a line drawn between them. Otherwise, the angle would vary from zero if they were in-line (one behind the other) to some maximum value if you were perpendicular to them.

Actually according to one source, they were placed so that sailors could line them up like a range and then know what direction north lay. I suppose if your compass was broken in a storm that info could be useful.

See the link below for even more than you ever wanted to know about the Thacher Island lights.

http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=475

 

[aduffE37]

how bout this one

i had never seen so manny dingys in one place

 

[Ed Schenck]

OK, I'll play. Let's see if there are any Great Lakes sailors out there. Where is this lighthouse?

 

[aduffE37]

presque.isle.entrance!

 

[melliott0352]

coral bay St John usvi

 

[Buck420]

i had never seen so manny dingys in one place

This one is Key West Harbor

 

[aduffE37]

Buck 420 got it....... Buck420 do you have any pictures of spots that aren't to generic? has some sort of recognizability to it? throw it up.