To be honest I looked up the name of the lake but had somewhere in the back of my head that Canberra had an artificial lake.
You can't mistake Cumbria for anywhere else, IMO.
But in my opinion just part of the mystic map:
Go left and west to Scilly, where a murderous Viking King, St. Olaf found forgiveness.
JUL I NIDAROS / CHRISTMAS IN NORWAY - YouTube
God bless my soul, I love this place. 😱
But in my opinion just part of the mystic map:
Go left and west to Scilly, where a murderous Viking King, St. Olaf found forgiveness.
JUL I NIDAROS / CHRISTMAS IN NORWAY - YouTube
God bless my soul, I love this place. 😱
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If anyone is interested:
The castle is in Wick, Scotland (and is the Castle of Old Wick).
The wharf with the high tide is in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.
The first Fort George is in St George's, Grenada.
The second Fort George is better known as the Halifax Citadel, in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Thanks nezbleu, your ruined castle defeated my googling skills - there's just so many of them!
My Fort George is described as a 'dagger' thrusting into the Moray Firth.
Located near Inverness, it was built following the 1746 defeat at the Battle of Culloden of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
George II created the ultimate defence against further Jacobite unrest, but it never saw action!
My Fort George is described as a 'dagger' thrusting into the Moray Firth.
Located near Inverness, it was built following the 1746 defeat at the Battle of Culloden of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
George II created the ultimate defence against further Jacobite unrest, but it never saw action!
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Time after time, we keep trying to knock sense into you Scottish blockheads.
A mobile gun platform is worth far more than a fixed defense.
We can just run rings around you. How it is.
A mobile gun platform is worth far more than a fixed defense.
We can just run rings around you. How it is.
Who wants to live in the tiny house in the middle picture?
A bit cramped but what a view!
HMS Warrior's connection with Scotland was as a guardship in the Firth of Clyde between 1881 and 1883.
The armoured frigate served on behalf of the entire United Kingdom and was certainly not tasked with taming the Scots!
But why let history get in the way of a wee jibe? 😀
P.S. Apparently, as well as meaning a 'taunt', a jibe or gybe is a sailing maneuver whereby a sailing vessel reaching downwind turns its stern through the wind, such that the wind direction changes from one side of the boat to the other. Gybing with Shirley Robertson - YouTube
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Still the Brits (no doubt including some Scots) knew how to build a fort. At some point in the murky past the British defeated the Spanish at Havana, where the Spanish had built a couple of weak forts guarding the harbor. When the Brits took possession they promptly built a proper fort, which still stands today. They handed it back to the Spanish in some subsequent treaty, and it was never taken again.
'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.'
