Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[InspectorJon]

Looks like higher elevation (6000-8000 feet), eastern Sierras. June Lake or nearby?

 

[Brewsmith]

Looks like higher elevation (6000-8000 feet), eastern Sierras. June Lake or nearby?

Even higher, and yes, June Lake is relatively close

 

[beermanpete]

Tenaya Lake?

 

[InspectorJon]

Mammoth Lakes, maybe Lake Mary?

 

[Brewsmith]

Tanaya Lake and Mammoth/Lake Mary are all in the neighborhood, but too far northwest.

 

[govner1]

Lake Crowley

 

[InspectorJon]

Above 8000 feet so can’t be Crowley. Not sure there are any roads to lakes above 8000 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Can one drive here?

OK, I’m going with Rock Creek Lake in Mono County.

 

[Brewsmith]

Above 8000 feet so can’t be Crowley. Not sure there are any roads to lakes above 8000 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Can one drive here?

OK, I’m going with Rock Creek Lake in Mono County.

You are correct. The clue was in relation to the colorado location being the highest public paved road in the US. Rock creek lake is on the highest paved road in California. The elevation of the lake is just about 9800 feet and the end of the road a half mile or so south is a little over 10,000 feet. We camped there over the 4th of July in 2020 during the pandemic. I have never seen so many people above 10,000. Everyone had to get out of the house. We hiked from the end of the road just over 7 miles to get to the Gem Lakes, next door to Morgan Pass.

Inspector Jon, you are up!

 

[InspectorJon]

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Palm trees and what looks like volcanic rock, so I'm going to start with Hawaiʻi?

 

[InspectorJon]

That’s a good start. Correct country and state. Now we need a correct island , city and hopefully specific location. The nearest city will do.

If you zoom in there is a beach. The name of the beach and community would be cool.

 

[tracer bullet]

Moku nui and Moku Iki, across from Lanikai, picture taken from Lanikai Monument.

Given Hawaii it didn't take too long to peruse the waters outside the islands. Cool place to kayak to, I bet.

 

[InspectorJon]

Lanikai is the place. @tracer bullet is up.

 

[tracer bullet]

Not my picture. But I'd love to check the place out in person if I ever make it to the area.

 

[govner1]

Hocking Hills State Park

 

[tracer bullet]

Hocking Hills State Park

Got it!

 

[govner1]

Staying with the waterfall theme-

 

[cmac62]

Looks tropical, but different rock, i'm guessing the Caribbean?

 

[govner1]

Looks tropical, but different rock, i'm guessing the Caribbean?

You’re guessing correctly

 

[cmac62]

Okay after a quick google search I'm going with Dunn River Falls Jamaica.

 

[govner1]

Not Jamaica

 

[govner1]

Not Jamaica

Dunn River Falls is much steeper and generally full of people

 

[tracer bullet]

Is it a natural falls, or man made? I keep feeling like it's something put together for a resort.

I was checking the Bahamas but per the internet the place has no natural waterfalls anywhere. Haven't had a chance to branch out further.

 

[govner1]

Not Jamaica

Dunn River Falls is much steeper and generally full of peoplec

Is it a natural falls, or man made? I keep feeling like it's something put together for a resort.

I was checking the Bahamas but per the internet the place has no natural waterfalls anywhere. Haven't had a chance to branch out further

Is it a natural falls, or man made? I keep feeling like it's something put together for a resort.

I was checking the Bahamas but per the internet the place has no natural waterfalls anywhere. Haven't had a chance to branch out further.

Is it a natural falls, or man made? I keep feeling like it's something put together for a resort.

I was checking the Bahamas but per the internet the place has no natural waterfalls anywhere. Haven't had a chance to branch out further.

You’re on the right track

 

[D.B.Moody]

Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island, Bahamas.

 

[govner1]

Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island, Bahamas.

That’s it! You’re up

 

[D.B.Moody]

Sticking with the theme of lesser known waterfalls, we visited this one in 1993:

 

[govner1]

Anna Ruby Falls

 

[tracer bullet]

Interesting guess, a good one. I keep thinking around the Highlands / Cashiers area down in that SW section of North Carolina. Spent a few weeks there once, beautiful, and waterfalls everywhere. First and only family vacation we came back weighing less than we started.

I think I see a pine tree high and back so it is looking like it could be a lot further north or higher in elevation. The rocks are gray and I feel like that North Carolina area had them more brown.

I feel like we might be back in Colorado again.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Northeast

 

[D.B.Moody]

Northeast

The Northeast is correct.

 

[DBhomebrew]

New Hampshire granite

 

[DBhomebrew]

Georgiana Falls

When visiting Boston, just an easy jaunt up I-93.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Georgiana Falls

When visiting Boston, just an easy jaunt up I-93.

Good guess. But, if the 1993 trip started by dropping #2 son in Waterville, Maine for his freshman year in college and then visiting #1 son in Cambridge, Mass., where he was beginning his final semester in college, one would more likely head west on I-90 from Boston to get back to Kirkwood, MO. So, not New Hampshire/Georgiana Falls.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Bash Bish Falls just E of the NY border.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Bash Bish Falls just E of the NY border.

That is it. If fact we parked in New York to walk back into that Massachusetts state park to see it. (It's an easier walk than parking in Mt. Washington, Mass., and hiking in.) You're up @DBhomebrew.

 

[DBhomebrew]

I've only accessed it from NY as well.

Continuing the theme of moving water...

 

[D.B.Moody]

I presume you mean the tide of war. As a once-was history teacher, I have to approve of this display of knowledge
Gettysburgh Battlefield, Gettysburg, PA. A colorized version of a picture taken at the reunion marking the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the high tide of the Confederacy and a turning of the tide to favor the union.

 

[DBhomebrew]

@D.B.Moody You got it. The High Water Mark of the Confederacy.

More specifically, the angle of stone wall at which the Irish immigrants of the 69th PA held their ground against Pickett's division. The regiments to left and right broke. The 69th held.

@camonick

Interesting narrative, maps...

https://longislandwins.com/es/colum...ended-picketts-charge-gettysburg-july-3-1863/

 

[D.B.Moody]

We didn't travel far enough south after seeing Bash Bish Falls on that 1993 trip to see Gettysburg because we turned west on I-84, but, going back to the lesser known waterfalls theme, we got off to visit this: