Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[Pkrd]

Esperance, Western Australia?

 

[Andres Falconer]

Esperance, Western Australia?

Nope. Not anywhere near Australia.

 

[Andres Falconer]

But you’re on to something already…

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Lake Retba, Senegal

 

[Andres Falconer]

Lake Retba, Senegal

Yes, Lake Retba, or Lac Rose, in the surroundings of Dakar, Senegal. You’re on @3 Dawg Night.

Are we done with bodies of water already?

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Heh. I googled "pink lake," and your exact picture was on the first site that came up.

OK, at least one more body of water.

 

[Miraculix]

Heh. I googled "pink lake," and your exact picture was on the first site that came up.

OK, at least one more body of water.

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Dauphin Island?

Fort Gaines.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Right on, @Miraculix! I chaperoned a middle-school field trip recently to the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, which is the group of buildings to the right of Ft. Gaines. We took a research vessel out into the Gulf of Mexico and trawled for fish. We caught fish, shrimp, jellies, and a stingray. The kids had a blast!

You're up, @Miraculix!

 

[Miraculix]

Double

 

[Miraculix]

Second try:

It is featuring one of the locals but I have her permission to show it. She said that she looks marvelous on this picture and that the world deserves to see it. So there you go!

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Jakarta, Indonesia?

 

[NickTheGreat]

I see a Monkey. It must mean Austin, TX, University of Texas

 

[Miraculix]

Jakarta, Indonesia?

No, but correct continent.

 

[Andres Falconer]

Jaipur, India

 

[dirkomatic]

Looks like a Formosan Rock Macaque... Taiwan. I'll guess Taipei.

But probably just a Rhesus Macaque, which doesn't narrow it down as much

 

[Miraculix]

Nope and nope!

 

[Andres Falconer]

Lopburi, Thailand.

 

[beermanpete]

Batu Caves, KL, Malaysia?

 

[McMullan]

Rhesus Macaque in a sprawling metropolis. New Delhi?

 

[Miraculix]

I am afraid, none of these.

 

[McMullan]

That narrows it down. Kathmandu, Nepal?

 

[Miraculix]

That narrows it down. Kathmandu, Nepal?

Ok, spot on, that is correct. My favourite country on this planet, standing in my favourite city on this planet and it is actually my favourite place on this planet. Can you guess where I am standing? (you are up anyway @McMullan ...).

 

[Andres Falconer]

I am afraid, none of these.

Or all of these… they’re coming after us!

Forbidden City, Planet of the Apes - joining two different threads, Name that Skyline and the Movie Name Game

 

[McMullan]

Swayambhunath?

 

[McMullan]

This might be a challenge unless you've actually been there, but it's actually quite a significant place, internationally and personally. Good luck!

 

[Miraculix]

Swayambhunath?

Brilliant mate! Swoyambhu stupa, overlooking Kathmandu valley.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Kingley Vale,, UK. A yew forest/nature reserve. But I don't understand why it's special to you. We need the story.

 

[McMullan]

Well, I wasn’t expecting that so soon. Days with clues, I reckoned. Well done, @D.B.Moody! You must have trodden the paths. You’re up.

Kingley Vale, one of the finest natural yew (Taxus baccata) groves on the South Downs; one of the finest in Europe, if not the world. Once used by the British army for target practice. They turned their artillery on the peaceful giants and blew many to smithereens. Arthur Tansley appreciated Kingley Vale as something ecologically valuable and fiercely lobbied the government. It was made Britain’s first protected natural area, thanks to Tansley. The yew, revered throughout history since before Christianity, thrives on the chalk downland; where it’s prospered best since the end of the last ice age. One of my favourite places on the South Downs. I surveyed the South Downs yew years ago - along with the village pubs - and never stopped returning to Kingley Vale. I met my wife there. We picnicked and made love there. Our children played there. And the dog enjoyed her early Sunday morning walks in the mists there. Summer before the virus was our last visit. I sensed something was wrong. It was sick. A dumb management practice prescribed ignorantly by a jobsworth? Climate change? Air pollution? Imported pest? Too many visitors? Boris Johnson? Who knows? All I know is that when we let this kind of thing happen we wish for the world to end. Maybe the neoliberal world today doesn’t deserve its Kingley Vales. We’ll see.

Edit: It's difficult to do it the justice it deserves, but this captures some of it. I'd view the legends, tall stories including the yew tax, with a little scepticism. Analysis of the pollen record shows it's been a stable (climax) ecological community on the chalk downland since the end of the ice age and elements of it survived in refugia on the steep slopes of the Downs, which can't be managed, and now protected areas.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Thanks for the story. This is from 1991, and, keeping it personal, that's my wife next to our car in the lower right:

 

[dirkomatic]

So, in Canada or is that a red herring?