The Postcard Challenge is back
I know this is the moment you've all been waiting for. The Postcard Challenge is indeed back. All you have to do is be the first to identify the body of water and the nearest city, by adding your answer to the comments on this post and you win.
The prize this time out is a work on paper by Mister Anchovy (I haven't exactly decided on this one yet...it might be a digital work, it might be a drawing, who knows....)
DEADLINE is TUESDAY at 6:00 p.m. my time.
26 comments:
I'm not going to venture out on this one - but do have to comment on that cute cat with the little pink tongue sticking out....awwwwwwwwwww
Pacific, Victoria.
ok I counter with: Atlantic, St. John's pre 1949
Muppie
Hmmm, intriguing. I'm going to wildly guess at the Erie Canal at Troy (despite the Ensign flying).
It is not Pacific, Victoria
It is not Atlantic, St. John's pre 1949
It is not The Erie Canal at Troy. Har!
Gatun Lake, Panama
Well let me say this...Barbara and Shemvic have both made very smart guesses. Both are very wrong as it turns out, but dem's da brakes. You can get this one, I know you can.
St. Lawrence Seaway near Kingston
Well, another good guess, this time by anonymous, but wrong.
Once again, I'm looking for the name of the body of water and the nearest city.
the second anonymous comment was by mr. agawa canyon! the first one about St. John's by some other usurper of his mantle :-)
Mersey River, Liverpool
No idea. This is harder than winning Super 7.
Zydeco Fish: It is not. Winning Super 7 is way harder.
Hey Mister Anchovy: I'm going to guess the Panama Canal, and Panama City. Your faithful servant, Ingrid Randoja
Well Ingrid, I can certainly see why you would say Panama Canal, but it isn't right.
I'm going to give you all one clue. The nearest city was named after the body of water.
A wild guess but Bristol was named after the Bristol Channel. There's a British flag flying therefore I must be right.
the other anon guy
AC
The Strait of Malacca is situated near the the State of Malacca and the Town of Malacca ....
It's got the tropical colonial feel about it.I mean the postcard!
And the winner is Agawa Canyon a.k.a AC!
It's the Wessex coast of southern England
wrong-o...
...by the way, where the heck is Malacca?
malacca - indonesia way - very narrow at points - pirates. not sure what it is but know where it is.
AC
How about the Welland Canal, Welland, Ontario.
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Suez Canal
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Suez Canal, Suez
24 minutes to go and you're all wrong, wrong, wrong. Har!
OK friends. Those of you who were thinking St. Lawrence Seaway were really on the right track. I'm really surprised nobody got this one.
The postcard depicts the St. Mary's River approaching Sault St. Marie.
The St. Marys River (French:rivière Sainte-Marie), drains Lake Superior, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and flowing 120 km (74.5 miles) southeast into Lake Huron. For its entire length it is an international border, separating Michigan in the United States from Ontario, Canada.
The most important area along the river are the rapids and the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The rapids of the St. Mary's (Sault Sainte Marie in French) are just below the river's exit from Lake Superior. Before Europeans arrived, native Americans fished, traded, and maintained a portage around the rapids. French explorer Étienne Brûlé was the first European to travel up the rapids in about 1621. In 1641 Jesuit priests Isaac Jogues and Charles Raymbault ventured the same route as Brûlé finding many Ojibwa at the rapids and named it Sault Ste. Marie (sault meaning "rapids" in French).
Fort St. Joseph was built on the Canadian shore in 1796 to protect a trading post, and ensure continued British control of the area. The fort fulfilled its role in the War of 1812. The first modern lock was completed in May 1855 by Erastus Corning's St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, and is known as the American Lock. Competitive pressure led to the construction of a Canadian Lock in 1895. The locks were made a part of the Great Lakes Waterway system in 1959 known as the Soo Locks.
drat ...
ac
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