Hobart is lovely (to visit anyway, living there might be different) and pretty different from what people normally think of Australia (ie it's cold!). I've thought of moving down there but then I look at house prices and yikes
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 02:12 (two years ago) link
Yeah it went nuts about 5 years ago. Cold? currently 30°C / 84 F, but we had snow down to 300m two weeks ago ...Hobart's climate is almost exactly the same as the Bay Area.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
I was there one spring and it was bloody freezing! But I'm currently in Sydney so my idea of what's hot and cold is probably warped. Mind you, we've just had one of the wettest/coldest Novembers in history here...
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 02:43 (two years ago) link
the animals in Australia really freak me out - fruit bats hanging off of trees, snakes, giant spiders, crocodiles
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
True, but I have wallabies and pademelons in my back yard every evening, and one morning an echidna bumbling around.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/RPNHrTf/lizpardabagail.png
― micah, Friday, 3 December 2021 11:16 (two years ago) link
oh thats tiny. full size here
― micah, Friday, 3 December 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link
Port, or port city. Multiple monuments
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Friday, 3 December 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
feels like Mexico
― tomorrow, Friday, 3 December 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link
Yeah I thought the shape of the war memorial is very Latin America. Also a statue of a soldier with what looks like either the Virgin Mary or a saint in front of it.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 3 December 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
I think the petrol station is PetroEcuador but can't find history of them having a split logo like that.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 3 December 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
- the second word on that petrol station looks like America to me- that big brown monument is the crow's nest of a ship, memorial to some big sinking disaster?- building to the right with the two portals looks more Middle Eastern- palm trees
― StanM, Friday, 3 December 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
Found the right logo for PetroAmerica in Peru, the O is a globe.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Friday, 3 December 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
Plaza Garibaldi, Callao, Peru
https://www.google.be/maps/@-12.0527781,-77.1387772,3a,75y,4.99h,87.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKqPAnAH-KhTJbADVyUoaew!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― StanM, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
couldn't have done it without aldo though, thank you :-)
Well done team!
Loving the extremely spartan look and concrete street furniture of Plaza Garibaldi, perhaps like that because it is surrounded by a three/four lane road with no visible means of pedestrian access.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Friday, 3 December 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
newer pics have a fence and guys painting the ground red
https://www.google.be/maps/@-12.0526874,-77.1395731,3a,75y,44.84h,76.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHK79BdadlNJ3-ybcuIgurw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― StanM, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
if you survive traffic, here's the entrance: https://www.google.be/maps/@-12.0529065,-77.1391566,3a,75y,2.39h,69.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6qqG04lYsv5qLAy5G4RVBA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― StanM, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
Oh weird! I was some way out, I found the same green/white poles in Esmeraldas, Ecuador but couldn't make it work. Mostly because it wasn't there
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Friday, 3 December 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
more detail on the statues
https://www.google.be/maps/place/Plaza+Garibaldi/@-12.0522805,-77.138989,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipO7jqWcPfQZrgtDg9LPBJCex4kdnRAsmo5OFDVT!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO7jqWcPfQZrgtDg9LPBJCex4kdnRAsmo5OFDVT%3Dw203-h113-k-no!7i4160!8i2336!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x9105cdcc6bbfffa3:0x4aed9b274e053057!2sCallao,+Peru!3b1!8m2!3d-12.0508491!4d-77.1259843!3m4!1s0x9105cb85c56878b3:0xc84001f6393e04ad!8m2!3d-12.0522805!4d-77.138989
― StanM, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
A fine addition to this weeks great run
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Friday, 3 December 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
― StanM, Saturday, 4 December 2021 1:12 AM
well done!
― micah, Saturday, 4 December 2021 04:13 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/jGkrBsB/757.png
Monday
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Monday, 6 December 2021 08:11 (two years ago) link
what in the - that pickup truck is all kinds of wrong
― StanM, Monday, 6 December 2021 09:47 (two years ago) link
its a sixth gen dual cab tray back hilux ute
― micah, Monday, 6 December 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
that absolutely screams Queensland to me
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 6 December 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
sure
btw cherry you might be interested in https://github.com/digitaldickinson/Clean-StreetView
― micah, Monday, 6 December 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
specifically it looks like Indooroopilly looking toward Mt Coot-Tha, but if it is then you guys are fucking with me because my uncle and aunt lived in that exact region
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 6 December 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
ive never been north of urangan so you're on your own
― micah, Monday, 6 December 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
no, that's further north.
― micah, Monday, 6 December 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
(suburb of Brisbane I mean)
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 6 December 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link
based on the satellite dish i think the photo is looking north.
― micah, Monday, 6 December 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
specifically it looks like Indooroopilly looking toward Mt Coot-Tha,
the 3d data is good around there and maybe i'm missing it but i can't see anything like the large developments in the middle and to the right of the hill.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Tuesday, 7 December 2021 10:25 (two years ago) link
So many apartment buildings - must be a big/touristy part of a big city? Not many clues to go on except the truck - the plants feel like they're more tropical than the parts of Brisbane I looked at, maybe?
― StanM, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link
the steering wheel is on the wrong side for Japan/Okinawa, right? and that 27 wouldn't be in western numbers either - nah, it almost has to be Australia (NZ? not hilly enough around Auckland?)
― StanM, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
Japan drives on the left side too, but I think it's Australia/New Zealand too.
Looks like a Norfolk Island Pine behind the truck, which are native to that area, but widely planted elsewhere. Doesn't look fully tropical to me; that could almost be SoCal if you caught it at the right time of year.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
i think it could easily be as far north as cairns
― micah, Tuesday, 7 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
it's certainly intriguing. there are a lot of very nice hillsides on the eastern side of Australia, I'm learning, but apartment buildings on them? Not so much. Or I keep missing them. But where, then?
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 December 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Second view needed, or a bit more time with this one?
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 9 December 2021 12:11 (two years ago) link
My gut says it's NZ and somewhere in the Hutt Valley but I can't get any more from the pic.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Thursday, 9 December 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
... can we get a hint instead of a second pic? :-)
― StanM, Thursday, 9 December 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/QHGDCtm/Screenshot-2021-12-09-at-19-49-34.png
― Christmas in Davenport (cherry blossom), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
intriguing part 2
- nearer the equator than we initially thought, based on the very short shadows?- ACIFIC- those two houses straight ahead have very eastern influenced looking roofs- guy on the right looks rather white/american?
... is it like some Western enclave/american military presence in an otherwise Asian country, maybe?
or Hawaii, even?
― StanM, Friday, 10 December 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
i clicked a street in Honolulu that looked very similar indeed. but I think the right-hand steering wheels suggest not?
― kinder, Friday, 10 December 2021 10:06 (two years ago) link
(similar to first pic, I mean)
Father Christmas in summer suggests southern hemisphere
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 10 December 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
man I nearly thought I got it, north of Hobart, Tasmania, but the 4+ apartment buildings aren't there either
― StanM, Friday, 10 December 2021 11:01 (two years ago) link
4+ storey
― StanM, Friday, 10 December 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
that kind of foliage would die within six months in Tassie
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 December 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
I was convinced it's Cairns but i couldn't find it, so now I'm not
― ignore the blue line (or something), Friday, 10 December 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link