Game: Where-is-it? (international)

[GregG]

Picture problem solved, sorry for the delay. This one is over the Tasman on the North Island .

[johnw]

Taranaki Falls?

[GregG]

Crikey John, what can I say? My worry was that I would get a rocket from someone because the pictures didnt show enough of the landscape or something. But yes, you are right first time, Taranaki Falls. I've done the Tongariro Crossing a couple of times and enjoyed it immensely, last time was 2011. I recall that the sulphourous smell wafting up from Hades put an extra spring in my step. Over to you John.

[johnw]

Crikey John, what can I say? My worry was that I would get a rocket from someone because the pictures didnt show enough of the landscape or something. But yes, you are right first time, Taranaki Falls. I've done the Tongariro Crossing a couple of times and enjoyed it immensely, last time was 2011. I recall that the sulphourous smell wafting up from Hades put an extra spring in my step. Over to you John.

Thanks Greg. That's a very clear photo with plenty to ID it IMHO, even though I've never been there.
The Tongariro Crossing remains on my bucket list (along with more places than I'll ever be able to visit).
I've pretty much only explored some of the South Island to date.

USA:

Replica bark covered houses in the reconstructed 1870s Miwok village of Ahwahnee in Yosemite Valley
Yosemite NP California USA

[commando]

Yosemite

[johnw]

Yosemite

Correct. Replica bark covered houses in the reconstructed 1870s Miwok village of Ahwahnee in Yosemite Valley.

[commando]

That place where Alex Honnold scaled the nose of El Capitan solo (no ropes) in half a day.

USA

[johnw]

That place where Alex Honnold scaled the nose of El Capitan solo (no ropes) in half a day.

I watched the doco of that recently, sent my vertigo into overdrive. My adventures there were far more sedate.

USA

At first glance that ship looks military, but I can't see any relevant flags etc.
I've been to Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco and the location reminds me of that stretch of waterfront.

[commando]

East Coast

[GregG]

I would guess Norfolk, Va.

[commando]

A good guess
Elizabeth River
Norfolk Virginia
United States
N 36.843855, W-76.292236

over to you

[GregG]

Yes, the home port of T-AO-203 USNS Laramie, a Henry J Kaiser- class fleet replenishment oiler, so well captured in the background of the navy base marina.

[commando]

USS Wisconsin BB64 is a tourist museum, unforgettable 16 inch guns.

[GregG]

Once again I can't copy images off my PC, I'm over it. Someone else please have a turn, maybe Commando?

[commando]

ok thanks
Where am i and what can i play near here

[eggs]

Auckland harbour - climbing the sky tower...??

[commando]

Sorry its USA
i forgot again

[johnw]

The west end of the Santa Monica Pier

[commando]

yes john correct
and the game you can play is chess at the start of the pier

over to you

[johnw]

Thanks commando. Here's another from the USA with a quasi-similar theme:

Creek Street, Ketchikan Alaska USA

[GregG]

I think my wife knows this location - I'll ask her.

[Last]

not hard to find. Dolly was quite a character it appears

[GregG]

Hahaha.

[GregG]

....to say nothing of Star House.

[GregG]

Ketchikan, Alaska.

[GregG]

Inuit all along!

[johnw]

not hard to find. Dolly was quite a character it appears

Inuit all along!

Ketchikan, Alaska.

Creek Street, Ketchikan it is. Yes, Dolly was a local character, um, a lady of the night, with quite an industrious track record.
Reputedly charged each man $3 and didn’t close her door for the night until she had made $75. Do the math.
The salmon run was on when I was there last year, so followed the creek quite a way upstream with salmon everywhere, in varying states of life, death and decay.
Over to you Greg.

[GregG]

Fred: What's the capital of Alaska?
Charlie: Juneau
Fred: If I knew I wouldn't be asking

[GregG]

.... sorry, I just had to say that.

Now we move to England's green and pleasant land.

[ribuck]

No idea where your photo is, GregG. It looks fairly generic apart from the island in the estuary.

But your photo epitomises of the first verse of Dorothea McKellar's poem "My Country" - the verse they omit from the version taught in primary school:

The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot bear it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country... (etc)