Flee-Marquette

Long live the King!

I had the honor of congratulating KOR on his 10K post in person today.   

Enjoyed talking about the early days of the boards. 

I think that HolidayHam was just as nice as Andy. 

On 10/14/2021 at 4:14 PM, Point Five said:

Flee's masterwork was the thread with all the 19th century stuff. Hoping someone has the link!

 

Also, during the dry season, the third Saturday of each month, Harley brings his "B" stock

for those in the area. 

On 9/20/2021 at 12:33 AM, bronze_rules said:

Flee. Fantastic job. Could you help me to understand how the clues guided you? I'm still really lost at how they all connect to the end.  I wouldn't have even gotten it with your final picture (would have chased down famous tombs in london).

Sure, here was my thought process in regards to the clues.

In the official rules, Domo said that the picture is somewhere on Earth.
Gut feeling is that it is not in the US, or he would have probably stated so.

Clues 1 and 2 - Not enough info to search with. Increased the exposure
of the upper right snippet and saw that the trees did not appear to be of
the evergreen or tropical variety. 

Clue 3 - After a lot of searching, determined that this was the WWII era 
searchlight emplacement in Shoeburyness England.  Began going
up and down every street in the area looking for matching clouds or trees. 

Friday between 7:52 and 7:53 Domo changed the color of the word "CLUE #"
from all blue to blue and red in the first 3 clues. Blue and Red are the primary
colors of the British flag. Significant?  Not sure.

Clue 4 - Not seeing any sidewalks or guard rails. Slightly out of focus like a
motion blur or lens distortion. Still looking in Shoeburyness.

Clue 5 - Still no evidence of a city street and the ground appears worn
or less green like a path.  The compass indicator tells me that the view 
is looking west, so the street direction could be North and South.

Clue 6 - Some blue sky is now showing. I had assumed that the sky would be
completely overcast because of the clouds in clue 1 and overall darkness of
the other squares. Beginning to feel that this in the country somewhere and
starting to expand the search to Stonehenge and castle ruins.

Clue 7 - More worn grass, still looking at landmarks and Shoeburyness.

Clue 8 - Quickly identified as the London Eye ferris wheel.  So 100% certain
it will be in England somewhere.  Begin looking in the London area at the street view to
see if anything matched, but too many city details.

Clue 9 - Confirms that this view is in the country.  So what would Shoeburyness and
London have to do with the location? I began thinking that if the next clue brought
us to another city then maybe it is heading in the direction of the final location.
I started looking at cities further west and realized that the River Thames flowed
from the west. I kept zooming in on the map and "Followed" (Clue 3) the river to the west to
see where it went. It got more difficult because the river got smaller. (Clue 8 - "It grew
from small, to bigger in size").  When I got to the Official source of the River Thames, I
saw that there were no streets that went right by it.  I clicked on the Google Street view
man anyway and saw that hiking (?) trail called Wysis Way lit up blue.  I plopped the man
down on the part of the trail closest to the River Source and oriented the view to the west.
I immediately recognized the skyline, but it took me almost an hour to stand in the exact
spot and get everything lined up. 

On 9/19/2021 at 11:29 PM, Domo Arigato said:

We possibly have a winner here......but I'm going to make a judgment call (based on the last rule in my list) so I know you actually stood in the same spot I did and didn't just do some kind of reverse image look up.  Where and what is this location?

 

It is the official source of the River Thames.  I figured that the commonality of Shoeburyness and London was the River Thames.

I followed the river on Google Maps to try and find the westernmost point.  I then followed the trail on Wysis Way until I saw a familiar

horizon.  This was all done on Google Maps and not with an image search. 

I'm in. 

Many years ago, I was driving home and saw the Google Street View car taking pictures of every road

off of US 1 FL.  So I parked my van on the corner as the Google car came out of the neighborhood and

waved at the cameras.  I then followed the car to the subsequent side streets and parked on the corner each

time and waited for the cameras to pass by.  So for someone using Street view going down US 1, my van was on every

corner for a mile or so.  #GoogleStreetViewFamous.   

On 8/25/2021 at 10:16 PM, thehumantorch said:

It would be wonderful if you created a thread to archive them here.

I'll see what I can do.  

On 8/7/2021 at 4:49 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

@Flee-Marquette

I still have everything in a Photobucket folder as well as hard drive backup.  I am guessing 1.8-2K images and animations that

mostly span 2007-2014.  I also have most of the boardie pictures posted during that time period.