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Tom at the summit of Ben Nevis.
I did this a while back, but figured I'd leave a long gap between flickr.com/photos/elwanderer/463362518/ and this one.
The top of Ben Nevis is one of those places you don't want to pick any old direction if the weather is bad; you could easily walk off a cliff doing so. Fortunately, though the weather wasn't good for views off the top, we had no trouble finding our way off.
My satnav insists this is uptown Seattle.
I really hope somebody comes to rescue me. I think there are trolls here.
Annotated generic wireframe depicting navigation types and mechanisms. This categorization is based on the described by Kalbach, J. (2007) in Designing Web Navigation. rosenfeldmedia.com/uxzeitgeist/books/0596528108
Canadian Coast Guard putting out the summer season navigation buoys on the Detroit River. March 23, 2021
Here is my idea on how to make the NPE (new photo experience) easier to navigate with just one click. I am finding it difficult to readily access or go back to the places I am most interested in visiting. Personally I would like a little navigation bar on individual photo pages that allows me to jump back to where I was, depending on how I get to view the individual photo page.
When on one of my one photo's, it would be great to quickly jump back to explore/search; latest posts from those I follow; or my own photostream.
When I have uploaded one of my follower's individual photo page, it would be great to quickly jump back to the latest posts from those I follow at the point where I exited that page; go to the persons individual photostream or head back to my photostream which I regard as home base.
When I have uploaded an individual photo page within a group, it would be great to quickly jump back to the group page where I left off, go to that person's photostream or simply go back home to my photostream.
Seeing that Flickr likes the move to icons, these may be useful. If Flickr wanted something a little more obsure, we could use symbols like a drop of water for personal photostream, an eddy pool for another individual, a river (two squiggly lines) for all the people you follow, a wave for groups. Or how about different sized boats ... personally I would like a raft boat to symbolise my individual photostream, a sailing boat for other individuals, a ferry for all those I follow and a steamliner for groups .... explore could be a battleship!.
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Taken 02/01/14: I've found some interesting information about Godalming Wharf on the net:
www.weyriver.co.uk/theriver/god_nav_A.htm
"Prior to the National Trust taking over Godalming Wharf (GR: SU974441) the site, after the Navigation closed for commercial business, went through considerable morphing of uses, which at various stages included a gas works (located where the police station now stands on stilts) and a bus station. The original 18th century wharf was built on a 10 acre plot of land acquired by the Navigation Commissioners when the waterway was completed here in 1764, and riverside it stretched up to Town Bridge. The difficulty of having the towpath running on the opposite side to the wharf was initially overcome by the building of a swing horse bridge, although this quickly fell into disrepair and the towpath was extended up to the road bridge very much as you see it today.
By 1849 the dock had been filled in. In the 1980s the National Trust and Waverley Borough Council agreed a plan for the site which involved much of it being sold off to raise £2m in funds for the Trust, but also provided the council with an opportunity to impose some strict controls on the waterfront development. Today all that remains of the original Godalming Terminus is the wharf moorings and an original brick and weather-boarded building now used as a stable by the Godalming Packet Boat Company for a rest facility for its tow horses. The moorings are used for their boat, the Iona, and other privately owned vessels.
Given the historic importance of this location as the upstream limit of the Wey Navigations it is a pity that more couldn’t have been made of the site, perhaps even with a small education facility. In its heyday in the early 19th century traffic to and from the busy wharf here carried timber planks, hoops for barrels, bark, flour and manufactured iron. The main site of the wharf was converted for retail use in the 1990s and today a large supermarket and several smaller stores occupy the site."
Das Molenfeuer markiert die Hafeneinfahrt von Travemünde. Travemünde besitzt mit dem Scandinavienkai den größten deutschen Fährhafen mit Verbindungen nach Finnland, Schweden, Russland, Estland, Lettland und Norwegen.
"Eine Besonderheit ist, dass dieser Leuchtturm auf der Nordmole nachts durch seine gläsernen Wandringe selbst leuchtet und nicht, wie sonst meist üblich, angestrahlt wird."* Das Molenfeuer ist seit 1967 in Betrieb. Höhe des Bauwerks 9 m, Höhe des Leuchtfeuers 11 m, Tragweite des Signals: rot 6 sm, grün 5 sm*.
* Quelle: www.leuchtturmseiten.de/home.htm
(Sehr informative Seiten mit einer Vielzahl toller Leuchtturmbilder!)
25 Minuten vor Sonnenaufgang aufgenommen
The Juan Sebastián de Elcano docked at Palafox Pier in downtown Pensacola to celebrate the Five Flags Fiesta.
From the Armada Española web page:
The main mission of this ship is to train future Spanish Navy officers in navigation and seafaring procedures and techniques. Her most important task is to keep the midshipmen in their 4th academic year, in continuous and intimate contact with the sea, an environment where they will later carry out their main professional activities.
This, along with the eminently practical teaching on board, contributes to consolidate and strengthen their technical and nautical expertise, aimed at achieving a high level of general culture, as well as getting acquainted with the principles, customs and virtues which make up the soul of the profession.
In accordance with the current syllabus of the Naval Academy, the students embark on board the ‘Juan Sebastián de Elcano’ during the second semester of the fourth academic year. During this period they follow an Instruction Cruise on board. A standard cruise consists in a six month voyage to America sailing 20,000 miles with 155 day’s runs. Upon conclusion of the instruction cruise, Navy midshipmen will be promoted to Ensigns and those from the Marine Corps to Second Lieutenants.
The ship’s home port is in ‘La Carraca’ Arsenal (San Fernando – Cádiz) where most Maritime Action Force units have their base. This port is a station especially devoted to the maintenance and repair works of other naval units. The name ‘Carraca’ derives from the name given to an ocean-going boat – Carrack – much used in the 15th century.
Unlike most Navy units, this four mast brig-schooner has no combat weapons like torpedoes or missiles. Nevertheless the ship has a series of light weapons for self-defense, should an unexpected threat occur either at sea or in a foreign port; namely 2 BAZAN mountings, 2 Browning machine-guns, 2 MG machine-guns and an assortment of rifles, pistols and other portable weapons.
Candidates to Navy Officers are called Midshipmen (Guardia Marinas) since 1717 when Quartermaster General José Patiño founded in Cádiz the Royal Company of Midshipmen during the reign of King Phillip V, the first Spanish Monarch of the present Bourbon dynasty.
The city of Cádiz was therefore the city that welcomed the first Midshipmen and it was fit that the same city built the training ship ‘Juan Sebastián de Elcano’ 200 years later.
Since the very beginning, the Royal Company of Midshipmen – the one already mentioned in Cádiz and two further schools in Ferrol and Cartagena – gave great importance to the practical training of students. No wonder that six of the eight years that lasted the military instruction of candidates until promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade, were spent on board different warships; their Commanders and Senior Officers were also their teachers.
It was in 1862 when the concept of an exclusive training ship for future naval Officers took shape. To this end the frigate ‘Esperanza’ was tasked with this mission along with the corvettes ‘Villa de Bilbao’, ‘Santa María’ and ‘Trinidad’. They were subsequently replaced in 1874 by the frigate ‘Blanca’ and in 1881 by the ‘Almansa’ and ‘Asturias’.
In 1886 the corvette ‘Nautilus’ was entrusted with this instruction task. Her first training cruise with midshipmen took place in 1888 under the command of Commander Fernando Villaamil.
In 1910 the ‘Nautilus’ was decommissioned as training ship and in 1933 she was broken up at La Graña shipyard. Her last Commander was Manuel de Mendívil Elío who, in turn, was the first Commanding Officer of the ‘Juan Sebastián de Elcano’.
After decommissioning the ‘Nautilus’ in 1910, the Spanish Navy had no training ships. Midshipmen trained on board other operational warships although they did not fulfil the necessary instruction requirements. A new ship was needed, capable of meeting those demands.
The project began to take shape in 1923 when the Ministry of the Navy signed a contract with Horacio Echevarrieta y Maruri on April 6th to fit out the sailing ship ‘Minerva’ as training ship for midshipmen. Next year, a Royal Decree dated June 30th approved the shipbuilding of a new ship also called ‘Minerva’.
Once the Spanish Navy gave its consent, a project based on the model designed by English engineer Charles V. Nicholson was signed with the Echevarrieta & Larrinaga Shipyards. The keel was laid on November 24th 1925 in the presence of Infante Don Carlos, Prime Minister General Primo de Rivera, the military governor of Cádiz Pedro Mercader and other authorities. During the ceremony, Horacio Echevarrieta suggested general Primo de Rivera to change the name for ‘Juan Sebastián de Elcano’. The general raised the proposal to King Alfonso XIII who accepted the change.
With her new name the ship was launched on March 5th 1927 in the presence of Carmen Primo de Rivera, daughter of the Prime Minister. In all fairness and after four centuries after his death in 1526, Elcano received a most wonderful homage.
In the course of all these years, the ship has sailed 10 times around the world and has visited 68 countries and 181 different ports. The ship has sailed one and a half million miles which amounts to 26 years of continuous sailing.
The ship belongs to the “Sail Training Association” and participates in its races and Naval Weeks. In 1974 she got for the first time the “Boston Tea Cup” awarded to the ship that travels the longest distance in 24 hours in full sail. She has also won that Cup in 1979, 1996/1997 (ninth cruise around the world), 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 1997 she established a new record sailing 275.2 miles in 24 hours. She has reached 17 knots with 75-knot winds and spent 42 at sea without visiting any port. She has also crossed the Magellan Strait twelve times recalling the heroic feat of the Portuguese sailor.
In 1937, 38 and 39 the ship did not sail because of the Spanish Civil War. There were important overhauls in 1956 and 1978. The ship’s hull is made of iron and her four masts are named after previous training ships: ‘Blanca’, ‘Almansa’, ‘Asturias’ and ‘Nautilus’.
The ship’s complement consists of 197 people: 24 officers, 22 non-commissioned officers, 39 leading seamen, 107 ratings and 5 civilian personnel. Apart from the ship’s own crew, the ‘Juan Sebastián de Elcano’ can accommodate up to 78 midshipmen who embark to complete the 4th year subjects on board.
Every year the training ship ‘Juan Sebastián de Elcano’ welcomes midshipmen from the Naval Academy who embark to further their studies on board. During the cruise they combine the syllabus subjects, conferences, astronomical observations and cultural activities with the routine errands of a tall-ship side by side with the ship’s crew.
The vessel has two classrooms where the midshipmen attend the different courses and lectures. A typical school day has five hours of classes on Navigation, Astronomy, Meteorology, Geography, Naval Manoeuvers and English, among other subjects.
Apart from those academic subjects the students participate in all joint activities with the rest of the crew including daily watches. In this way the midshipmen share and get to know the demanding life on board a tall ship and understand the difficult tasks of command and leadership, something they will have to exercise and improve throughout their lives.
Another important aspect of the training ship worth mentioning is her role as an instrument of the State in support of its foreign policy, thus sometimes referred to as a ‘floating embassy’. The ship welcomes local authorities whenever she visits a foreign port and conducts an intense schedule of activities on board; but midshipmen, officers and crew members also pay official visits to institutional and cultural organizations of interest.
I made my sister a Colette Cooper backpack for Christmas. Check out more photos at craftrambler.blogspot.com/2013/12/cooper-christmas.html.
Hargreaves barge No61 heads back to the NCB British Oak Colliery Staithe, near to Calder Grove. after taking coal to Thornhill Power station at nearby Ravensthorpe.
This view of the Calder and Hebble Navigation with the MGR wagons stabled in the west side of Healey Mills yard is taken from an old railway bridge that linked Thornhill Midland Jnc and Middlestown Jnc which closed in 1968, looking at Google maps this bridge is still in place (2017).
18th July 1973
der Kirchturm rechts des Gesichtes im Hintergrund ist die Kirche "Santa Maria in Cosmedin";
unter ihr befindet sich der "Bocca della Verita", der Mund der Wahrheit
The church in the Background is Santa Maria in Cormedin, beneath is the mouth of truth
Day Mark on St Martin's Head.
The Day Mark was built as an aid to navigation in 1683. It was built by Thomas Ekins the first steward of the Godophin Family to live on the islands. Ekins encouraged the resettlement of St. Martins from the 1680s. It is the earliest surviving dated example of a beacon in the British Isles. It was painted white until 1822 but by 1833 had been painted red, and is now painted in bands of red and white.
Camera: Contax T2
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