Guess where in the world?

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

This is very generic but as the saying goes: "The Lord hates a coward but he's not too keen on fools."

I'll take a stab a it regardless. I see some type of palm trees and a port in the distance. It's probably south of the US. Maybe on the Mexican pacific Coast. If not, you'll 'correct me and I'll go to bed much wiser.

You are too funny. Me correcting you is like Bill Mikkelson correcting Wayne Gretzky.

The hint in this photo only helps if you are familiar with California. That twin peak mountain the background is Mount Diablo. It's about 30 miles east of San Francisco. Mount Diablo is interesting because it's much taller than anything else around it, so it stands out as you can see in the photo. Because if it's prominence, it was used as the basis for surveying of California and Nevada back in the day.

I took the photo this morning while at a car show in Benicia, CA. The waterway is called the Carquinez Straight, which is the path that snow melt takes from the Sierra through the Delta to get to the Pacific Ocean via San Francisco Bay.

Another fun fact: the little town of Benicia was the capital of California back in the mid-1800s.

LJ, please rest easy tonight as you ponder this new information.


Here are a couple of photos: One looking westbound on Carquinez Strait toward San Francisco Bay. The others are random shots at a local car show held in Benicia each April.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by dradernh

This is my first attempt at contributing to this demanding thread. I'm posting because it's a very special place I enjoyed many years ago and imagine it's just as enjoyable today as it was then.

Hotel Humboldt in Caracas, Venezuela.

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Hotel Humboldt in Caracas, Venezuela.

Yes, it is.

Can you share with us how you came to this conclusion?

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by dradernh

Yes, it is.

Can you share with us how you came to this conclusion?

This one was easy. The picture imbedded info came from Bimmerpost 2addicts.

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

This one was easy. The picture imbedded info came from Bimmerpost 2addicts.

Thanks.

[iminhell1]

I would lay odds not one of you has ever seen this. It is in the USA and very near a main road.

[anielsen71]

Hmmm is it old cars lying at the sides of the canal?

[M5Rick]

Mississippi river?

[iminhell1]

Originally Posted by anielsen71

Hmmm is it old cars lying at the sides of the canal?

It is. Goes on for a few miles that way.

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Mississippi river?

No.
Much smaller.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by iminhell1

I would lay odds not one of you has ever seen this. It is in the USA and very near a main road.

Detroit Riprap method using old cars to control erosion. Used on many rivers. Possibly Big Horn River in Montana.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/0...iprap%E2%80%9D

[M5Rick]

^ That's what it says on goggle too,I looked it up myself, many river banks were polluted in the fifties like this to stop bank erosion..they thought it was a good idea at the time.

[iminhell1]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Detroit Riprap method using old cars to control erosion. Used on many rivers. Possibly Big Horn River in Montana.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/0...iprap%E2%80%9D

Nice Googling, but no. You'll have to scroll down a bit more.

Originally Posted by M5Rick

^ That's what it says on goggle too,I looked it up myself, many river banks were polluted in the fifties like this to stop bank erosion..they thought it was a good idea at the time.

All of these cars had the running gear removed. They are just bodies from what I recall.



So as not to put a stop on this thread,

https://history.nebraska.gov/detroit...he-loup-river/



https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4523...7i16384!8i8192

[Lady Jane]

Not too difficult of a landmark.

[GarySL]

^Castel Nouvo (or Maschio Angioino)– has dominated the Bay of Naples since 1279.

[Lady Jane]

It's not Gaspé.

[GarySL]

^ Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz CA (near where I grew up, here are my grandparents holding my dad on the inner bridge that collapsed in the recent past)

[Lady Jane]

A high density Island.

[GarySL]

Migingo Island, Lake Victoria Kenya (disputed by Uganda), est population density=
65,500/km2 (169,600/sq mi)

[Lady Jane]

An iconic landmark in the Canadian Maritimes and near the offshore crash of Swiss Air 111.

[GarySL]

Peggy's Cove is a small rural community located on the eastern shore of St. Margaret's Bay in the Halifax Regional Municipality, which is the site of Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, Nova Scotia

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

An iconic landmark in the Canadian Maritimes and near the offshore crash of Swiss Air 111.

Attachment 3186005

We use to go there on Dirt Bikes and play who can get to closest of the Ocean without falling in...

Sadly my last visit was trying to find the Black Box (actually Orange) of Swissair Flight 111 back in 1998

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

We use to go there on Dirt Bikes and play who can get to closest of the Ocean without falling in...

When I rode there, it was a real zoo... Dozens of tour buses and a gazillion tourists all over the place. I parked at the entrance of the village and planned on having lunch but not planning on waiting in line for ever. At least, the Hwy 333 loop is a great riding road. Managed to pick-up fries and fried clams at a roadside stop.