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[colin traveller]

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[uktabber]

NICE Pics Colin.....lovely!!

 

[colin traveller]

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[colin traveller]

Wednesday ...

 

[HorniePonie]

The winter feels like a bad memory now with the midnight sun.

 

[colin traveller]

...Wednesday Sunset

 

[OldGuy]

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That has to be an ancient pier ?

 

[colin traveller]

That has to be an ancient pier ?

Was made during the War left to the elements ever since

 

[colin traveller]

Spirit of Endurance leaving the Holy Loch ...

 

[OldGuy]

Was made during the War left to the elements ever since

I guess time does some strange things. It looked much older. I saw something that was equally surprising in Jan 69 on my way back to RVN after Christmas Leave. We stopped at Mid Way Island to refuel and as we landed I looked out the window at the WWII machine gun emplacements that were all under water and coral reefs on them. The Island had already shrunk that much since the war. It was a really desolate place to be stationed if you were in the Navy and due to the small size and being isolated it was only a 6 month assignment I read some time later. Nothing but Goonie Birds and a lone wrecked large Navy Prop Plane that had been shoved over to the side of the runway years before our stop over. They had the small tower and just a few buildings not much more. Since we were on a civilian liner we were not allowed to get off plane while fueling was underway and I watched down in front of the wing and the Pilot handed the refuel er a common credit card. I thought to myself damn glad I'm not paying for all that fuel. All of these long decades I think of myself as one of the few people in the thousands of course, that have actually been on Mid Way Island Pacific. Just a simple gas station as it was in WWII, no place to expand or grow.

 

[colin traveller]

I guess time does some strange things. It looked much older. I saw something that was equally surprising in Jan 69 on my way back to RVN after Christmas Leave. We stopped at Mid Way Island to refuel and as we landed I looked out the window at the WWII machine gun emplacements that were all under water and coral reefs on them. The Island had already shrunk that much since the war. It was a really desolate place to be stationed if you were in the Navy and due to the small size and being isolated it was only a 6 month assignment I read some time later. Nothing but Goonie Birds and a lone wrecked large Navy Prop Plane that had been shoved over to the side of the runway years before our stop over. They had the small tower and just a few buildings not much more. Since we were on a civilian liner we were not allowed to get off plane while fueling was underway and I watched down in front of the wing and the Pilot handed the refuel er a common credit card. I thought to myself damn glad I'm not paying for all that fuel. All of these long decades I think of myself as one of the few people in the thousands of course, that have actually been on Mid Way Island Pacific. Just a simple gas station as it was in WWII, no place to expand or grow.

Their is still slipways , Gun implacements at along Gourock / Greenock

 

[OldGuy]

Their is still slipways , Gun implacements at along Gourock / Greenock

I was looking for pictures of those gun mounts and ran across this great little movie of the area. Some people don't like such weather but if it were me I would be sitting on one of those benches with a rain slicker on enjoying the clean air and spray.

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[colin traveller]

I was looking for pictures of those gun mounts and ran across this great little movie of the area. Some people don't like such weather but if it were me I would be sitting on one of those benches with a rain slicker on enjoying the clean air and spray.

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To the right of the cloch lighthouse . There is what used to be the placements for a Main Gun and AA

 

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[uktabber]

Lovely pics Colin!!

 

[Adamicz]

Spent a nice day out at an "Aviation Fair" air show in Pardubice, here in Czechia. Unfortunately, the weather didn't allow flying display to some warbirds as was originally planned (P-51D, Me 262, Me 109).

 

[Adamicz]

 

[Jake84]

Sunset competition?

Overlooking the pond in my neighborhood this past weekend. Relaxing as can be.

 

[OldGuy]

Sunset competition?

Overlooking the pond in my neighborhood this past weekend. Relaxing as can be.

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Where I live there would be alligators enjoying it as well.