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04-23-2023, 08:08 PM | #1189 | |
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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. |
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04-23-2023, 08:38 PM | #1191 |
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Yes, it is.
Can you share with us how you came to this conclusion?
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04-23-2023, 08:58 PM | #1193 |
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Thanks.
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04-24-2023, 01:51 AM | #1195 |
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Hmmm is it old cars lying at the sides of the canal?
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04-24-2023, 04:13 AM | #1197 |
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04-24-2023, 09:08 AM | #1198 | |
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04-24-2023, 09:23 AM | #1199 |
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^ 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.
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Nice Googling, but no. You'll have to scroll down a bit more. Quote:
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 |
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Not too difficult of a landmark.
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^Castel Nouvo (or Maschio Angioino)– has dominated the Bay of Naples since 1279.
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^ 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)
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A high density Island.
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Migingo Island, Lake Victoria Kenya (disputed by Uganda), est population density=
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An iconic landmark in the Canadian Maritimes and near the offshore crash of Swiss Air 111.
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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
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