Name That Skyline - Picture Game

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Hrm. Was thinking it must be US but per a geography site: "Most of the barrier islands in the United States are found along the East Coast and Gulf Coast. Every state in this area from Maine down to Florida and over to Texas has barrier islands. There are no barrier islands along the Pacific coast of the United States due to its rocky shoreline and short continental shelf."

Seems there are plenty of barrier islands in Alaska, though I'm struggling to think they look like that or are populated. Gut feel says that picture is not of any place in Europe. Perusing the map of South Africa doesn't show a match. I'll take a guess - somewhere in North Africa? Can look further if it's right.

 

[D.B.Moody]

There are no barrier islands along the Pacific coast of the United States

And yet Wikipedia lists 32 bays in California. I didn't check Washington and Oregon.

 

[Rodent]

that the north and south jetty across the bay from King Salmon, CA

 

[bracconiere]

i was actually looking for the name of the bay...but King Salmon, Ca good nuff...

(it's Humboldt Bay)

I remember eating at the Samoa Cookhouse once, which is what reminded me of it....

 

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And yet Wikipedia lists 32 bays in California. I didn't check Washington and Oregon.

Yeah, definitely - maybe barrier island is a strict definition. Clearly there are many similar things up the coast. Don't trust everything you read!

 

[Rodent]

keeping a theme ...

A place I really wanted to relocate to, but never found the right place that was also affordable.

 

[bracconiere]

one of the florida keys?

 

[Rodent]

I can see that, but no not FL

 

[bracconiere]

can i ask if those are okra fields?

 

[Rodent]

Okra might be able to grow in that town, but it would not be it's preferred growing conditions

Those are not Okra fields (at least not the last time I visited the town while house hunting)

 

[InspectorJon]

Looks like the Pacific Northwest.

 

[bracconiere]

i never knew that there was a "Useless Bay, WA" before i started playing this game......

 

[Rodent]

Looks like the Pacific Northwest.

PacNW aye

 

[Rodent]

i never knew that there was a "Useless Bay, WA" before i started playing this game......

tis not on Whidbey Island

 

[bracconiere]

I woke up this morning, and thought hawaii. and wondered why i didn't think of it sooner as a possibility...

 

[Rodent]

I woke up this morning, and thought hawaii. and wondered why i didn't think of it sooner as a possibility...

there is a loose connection with Waikiki

 

[D.B.Moody]

Not as romantic as Waikiki sounds, but ya gotta love a beach named for the dead body that washed up there. And right there with Cape Disappointment. It's so inspiring. No wonder @Rodent wanted to live there. Waikiki Beach, Washington, is south of Ilwaco, Washington, the skyline picture.

 

[Rodent]

Not as romantic as Waikiki sounds, but ya gotta love a beach named for the dead body that washed up there. And right there with Cape Disappointment. It's so inspiring. No wonder @Rodent wanted to live there. Waikiki Beach, Washington, is south of Ilwaco, Washington, the skyline picture.

Ilwaco, WA it is!

Deadman's Cove is such a beautiful place

as is Waikiki Beach, a short 2.5 mile bike ride from 'downtown' Ilwaco, and just around the bluff from Deadman's Cove

I never attempted to bring a ship ashore here, and have never yet been disappointed during a visit.

@D.B.Moody - you're up!

 

[D.B.Moody]

This may be timely, but it was taken in 1988:

 

[InspectorJon]

This may be timely, but it was taken in 1988:

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I think that’s Windsor Castle

 

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Never mind, site didn't show me the 20 new posts since the harbor picture.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Windsor Castle it is. You're up @InspectorJon.

 

[InspectorJon]

 

[bracconiere]

Puetro Vallerta? area code 322?

 

[InspectorJon]

Not Mexico

 

[D.B.Moody]

Apotek Robika right down the street is in Parapat, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

 

[InspectorJon]

Parapat it is

 

[D.B.Moody]

This is from 1967:

and a different perspective, same day:

 

[DBhomebrew]

I feel like we've been here before. Is that a river valley past the horizon in the first pic?

 

[D.B.Moody]

I feel like we've been here before. Is that a river valley past the horizon in the first pic?

It is. This one:

picture taken the same day. And we have been here before.