What does it look like where you live?

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    Pap said:
    I grew up living on the 6th floor of the tallest apartment building (a.k.a. "The Tower") in a small seaside village called Aspra Spitia (English: White Houses), population 1600. View from the "Tower":
    But I'm originally from - and currently residing in - one of the 10 major Greek cities (named Serres). It's located in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece and has a population of 58000. View from the Acropolis of Serres:

    Very nice, Pap!  My sister lived in Greece for six months several years ago.  She loved it.  Came back home having learned how to do all kinds of marvelous Greek cooking!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,420
    This is where I  used to live ....
    This is where I  live now.....


  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Bentleyspop said:
    This is where I  used to live ....
    This is where I  live now.....


    Both look nice, but the top pic would be my preference.  My dog would love that pond...
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Maybe I'll post a pic after Sunday's windstorm, supposed to be 110kms winds...that's if I'm not in Kansas after tomorrow.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    edited February 2019
    Meltdown99 said:
    Maybe I'll post a pic after Sunday's windstorm, supposed to be 110kms winds...that's if I'm not in Kansas after tomorrow.
    Yikes!  On the Beaufort scale that's what's called a "violent storm", one classification short of a hurricane.  Be safe!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • the_don
    the_don Posts: 513
    PJ_Soul said:
    Here is downtown Vancouver ... it is gorgeous, but we are fucked when it comes to rising sea levels. They better get to work on raising the the sea walls pronto.


    Hey fellow Vancouverite here! That’s a great pic!!!
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    If Vancouver isn't the nicest 'big city' in the world... I don't know what is.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    San Diego...they got the weather and it is probably cheaper to live there.
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,625
    rhanishane said:
    Near my home ... recently renamed "The Barrington Coast" formerly known as "The Great Lakes" ..3 huge lake systems between the Barrington Mountains and Mid North Coast of NSW. This is Sand Bar and Celito Beach in Pacific Palms NSW. I took the day off work to hang out there last Monday. Its a pretty boardwalk through the palms and undergrowth to get to the beach.
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    Damn that’s gorgeous..
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,118
    the_don said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    Here is downtown Vancouver ... it is gorgeous, but we are fucked when it comes to rising sea levels. They better get to work on raising the the sea walls pronto.


    Hey fellow Vancouverite here! That’s a great pic!!!
    Is that section of Vancouver an island?  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    From my patio door looking to the east: 


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  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    josevolution said:
    rhanishane said:
    Near my home ... recently renamed "The Barrington Coast" formerly known as "The Great Lakes" ..3 huge lake systems between the Barrington Mountains and Mid North Coast of NSW. This is Sand Bar and Celito Beach in Pacific Palms NSW. I took the day off work to hang out there last Monday. Its a pretty boardwalk through the palms and undergrowth to get to the beach.
    Australia 👍💖

    Damn that’s gorgeous..
    Thankyou i live on a very pretty stretch of coastline with multiple beaches. I never knew how many we had but there you go i did a quick google search....A beach can be defined as a stretch of sand longer than 20 metres and remaining dry at high tide. Based on this definition, the Coastal Studies Unit at the University of Sydney has counted 10,685 beaches in Australia.
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Rhan...

    At the mouth of the river/stream feed... isn’t that the place they warn you not to swim? Sharks?
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    Don’t get me wrong- absolutely beautiful.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    mcgruff10 said:
    the_don said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    Here is downtown Vancouver ... it is gorgeous, but we are fucked when it comes to rising sea levels. They better get to work on raising the the sea walls pronto.


    Hey fellow Vancouverite here! That’s a great pic!!!
    Is that section of Vancouver an island?  
    No, it’s a peninsula. Burrard Inlet to the North and False Creek to the south. 
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  • rhanishane
    rhanishane NSW Australia Posts: 505
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Rhan...

    At the mouth of the river/stream feed... isn’t that the place they warn you not to swim? Sharks?
    its an inlet to a lake. Yes may be sharks but usually dusk and dawn. Most people are aware of the dangers. surfers are the most ar risk but attacks are not too common. bull sharks can live and breed upstream and can live in almost fresh water and can be found kilometers upstream. they can be quite aggressive. 
  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,118
    oftenreading said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    the_don said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    Here is downtown Vancouver ... it is gorgeous, but we are fucked when it comes to rising sea levels. They better get to work on raising the the sea walls pronto.


    Hey fellow Vancouverite here! That’s a great pic!!!
    Is that section of Vancouver an island?  
    No, it’s a peninsula. Burrard Inlet to the North and False Creek to the south. 
    That's what I thought.  I haven't been to vancouver since 2001, I think it is time to go back.  
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    rhanishane said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Rhan...

    At the mouth of the river/stream feed... isn’t that the place they warn you not to swim? Sharks?
    its an inlet to a lake. Yes may be sharks but usually dusk and dawn. Most people are aware of the dangers. surfers are the most ar risk but attacks are not too common. bull sharks can live and breed upstream and can live in almost fresh water and can be found kilometers upstream. they can be quite aggressive. 

    Last question (sorry if I'm being a pain): do you have any personal experience with sharks (seeing them)?

    I kinda want to see one. Not up close and in a menacing way, but from a distance so I can observe. Also the reef variety- not a tiger.
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  • mcgruff10
    mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 29,118
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    rhanishane said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Rhan...

    At the mouth of the river/stream feed... isn’t that the place they warn you not to swim? Sharks?
    its an inlet to a lake. Yes may be sharks but usually dusk and dawn. Most people are aware of the dangers. surfers are the most ar risk but attacks are not too common. bull sharks can live and breed upstream and can live in almost fresh water and can be found kilometers upstream. they can be quite aggressive. 

    Last question (sorry if I'm being a pain): do you have any personal experience with sharks (seeing them)?

    I kinda want to see one. Not up close and in a menacing way, but from a distance so I can observe. Also the reef variety- not a tiger.
    I" m surprised you didn't see any sharks while vacationing in Hawaii.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    mcgruff10 said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    rhanishane said:
    Thirty Bills Unpaid said:
    Rhan...

    At the mouth of the river/stream feed... isn’t that the place they warn you not to swim? Sharks?
    its an inlet to a lake. Yes may be sharks but usually dusk and dawn. Most people are aware of the dangers. surfers are the most ar risk but attacks are not too common. bull sharks can live and breed upstream and can live in almost fresh water and can be found kilometers upstream. they can be quite aggressive. 

    Last question (sorry if I'm being a pain): do you have any personal experience with sharks (seeing them)?

    I kinda want to see one. Not up close and in a menacing way, but from a distance so I can observe. Also the reef variety- not a tiger.
    I" m surprised you didn't see any sharks while vacationing in Hawaii.
    I've had lots of experience diving with reef sharks (blacktip, lemon, nurse, bonnethead), and I dove in a cage to observe a tiger once. My SCUBA certification expired long ago, but I still recall my time studying sharks at Mote Marine in Sarasota as a very important time in my life. I wish I'd stayed with it sometimes.

    I still study reports and have a tracker app for sightings up in this area in the summer. I basically spend my summer week on the Cape cycling and watching/watching out for great whites and seals. My wife and I saw a great white eat a harbor seal a few years back. As soon as I saw the size of the dorsal, I could tell that was like no shark I'd ever seen before in Florida. Seeing the apex predator in action was breathtaking, even if we did feel bad for the seal. The seal was in a protected, roped-off area on the beach. It was wounded and the wildlife folks and lifeguards had set up a little healing den for it. We just so happened to be there the day it decided that it was feeling better and made its way back into the Atlantic -- only to have the great white waiting for it. It was so weird; it was like the shark knew or something. We just saw the whole thing play out, knowing that little seal's seconds were numbered as it humped its way back to the ocean and the huge dorsal fin just waiting for it. 

    I'm about a five minute walk from the beach now, but the great whites and seals don't make it to our little area. Bodies wash up from time to time, though. So we've got that going for us....
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