Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Northern_Brewer]

Two separate roadways with no land in sight reminds me of crossing the big bridge/tunnels across Chesapeake Bay?

 

[Miraculix]

Hopefully, another quick one:
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Seven mile bridge? Florida keys.

 

[dirkomatic]

Two separate roadways with no land in sight reminds me of crossing the big bridge/tunnels across Chesapeake Bay?

That's it. It's the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.

You're up @Northern_Brewer

 

[Andres Falconer]

Ah, I could tell it was not the Bay Bridge from Annapolis, but missed the tunnel...

 

[dirkomatic]

Ah, I could tell it was not the Bay Bridge from Annapolis, but missed the tunnel...

Yeah, this is the Eastern Shore end of the CBBT in Virginia.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

This one is definitely more obscure - but not altogether random...

 

[duncan.brown]

Edit: too slow. nvm

 

[duncan.brown]

Looks like a small loch with a standing stone, but googling "small loch with standing stone" doesn't bring up anything like that.

Is it in Scotland, or am I too far afield?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Not Crater Lake, but is it nearby?

 

[Andres Falconer]

What I want to know is - why isn't it altogether random?

 

[dirkomatic]

What I want to know is - why isn't it altogether random?

Same question here.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Let's say... Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Is it in Scotland, or am I too far afield?

You are not.

What I want to know is - why isn't it altogether random?

Well, on the face of it, it looks like any one of a thousand other lochs, but I've chosen this one in particular. And you know me, my NTS entries are always either related to drink production or are topical in some way.

 

[dirkomatic]

Loch Etchachan?

 

[dirkomatic]

Loch Etchachan?

Scratch that... Looks like Loch Coire an Lochain

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Scratch that... Looks like Loch Coire an Lochain

I'm going to have to make these more obscure! It is indeed - the highest named body of water in the British Isles at 997m above sea level, just below the summit of Braeriach. I learnt to ski on the slopes of Cairn Gorm, about 5 miles behind the photographer. It's topical with world leaders meeting in Scotland to discuss climate change and melting ice sheets, as it has been claimed that it was the site of the last glacier in Scotland, up until the Little Ice Age in the 1700s.

Although some think Scotland's last glacier would have been in the nearby Garbh Choire Mor, which by complete coincidence has been in the news today as a "permanent" patch of snow there has melted for the 8th time in 300 years, of which 5 times have been in the 21st century.

Edit - I've never looked at a satellite view of the Cairngorms before, it's extraordinary how it bears the scars of glaciers scraping the rocks. The photo above was taken from roughly where the red marker is, looking west; to the north is Aviemore, Britain's main ski resort, and in the bottom-right is the Queen's holiday home at Balmoral, in the Dee valley.

@dirkomatic, you're up.

 

[dirkomatic]

Don't get much more obscure or people might complain about it being impossible...

I've learned more playing this game than I have in a long time.

This was taken in June of 2002.

 

[Andres Falconer]

This is about as obscure as it gets… Except that the internet seems to confirm there was a drought in the US in 2002, as the picture suggests. Could this be in Maine?

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Vegetation feels more North American than European.

I'm guessing it's fed by a glacier that's now melted or something?

 

[dirkomatic]

It is North American. Not Maine.

Not fed by a glacier or melted snow, interestingly enough.

 

[Miraculix]

Yellow stone? ....guessing, counts, doesnt it

 

[dirkomatic]

Yellow stone? ....guessing, counts, doesnt it

Sure, a guess counts... But it is not Yellowstone.

Here's an older picture of the same spot from 2001.

 

[dirkomatic]

And another from the same location from 2016:

 

[Northern_Brewer]

I'm guessing a local would know better what the geographical range of those yellow flowers is, but let's try and knock out some possibilities.

Is it the Rockies?

 

[dirkomatic]

Not the Rockies.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Are we looking at a lake or are these tidal waters?

 

[dirkomatic]

A fairly popular movie from the 1980s was partially filmed here.

 

[dirkomatic]

Are we looking at a lake or are these tidal waters?

It is a lake.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Looks like a mountain lake, so lets say Mountain Lake, Virginia

 

[dirkomatic]

Looks like a mountain lake, so lets say Mountain Lake, Virginia

Ha! That took less time than I thought.

Mountain Lake is the only natural lake in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

The drought in 2002 started the sediment to be disrupted in the lake which caused the holes in the bottom of the lake to open. At one point it was draining one million gallons of water per day.

Studies have shown that the lake has been dry only four times in the past 6000 years and one was in 2008.

When the lake was dry this most recent time, human remains were discovered. A 1904 class ring from what is now Clemson University, a silver belt buckle with an elaborate engraving and a pair of old wing-tip shoes were among the items found and are now enclosed in a 12-foot-long glass display case in the lobby of Mountain Lake Hotel. The items belonged to Samuel Ira “Si” Felder, a 37-year-old New York man who drowned at the lake while on an outing with his wife and friends on July 23, 1921. Divers searched the lake after it was reported that Felder went overboard, but his remains were not found at the time.

The resort and lake were the setting of the 1987 movie "Dirty Dancing", although the film takes place in the Catskills.

Great job, @D.B.Moody!