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rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 22:01 on 30th October 2014 Sorry for the delay folks, here we go Five of us have names, one of us is named after a ship. Who/What are we ? Edited by: rustyruth at:30th October 2014 22:02 |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:09 on 30th October 2014 Wild guess to start off The inhabited Isles of Scilly |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 22:28 on 30th October 2014 Good start Vince, not correct though. |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 15:33 on 1st November 2014 The ship sank with the loss of nine lives. |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 16:06 on 2nd November 2014 Good try John, not correct though. We are a natural feature in the UK. |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 22:37 on 2nd November 2014 Bedruthan Steps, and you were not far from them recently. |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 13:10 on 3rd November 2014 Yes Vince you have it, one of my recent photos was pointing in that direction. Each of the stacks has a name and from North to South they are called Queen Bess, Samaritan Island, Redcove Island, Pendarves Island and Carnewas Island. Samaritan Island is named after the ship the Good Samaritan which was wrecked there in October 1846 with the loss of nine lives. Well done and over to you |
Vince Hawthorn Posts: 12758 Joined: 19th Apr 2010 Location: UK | Posted at 20:51 on 3rd November 2014 That is one dangerous place there Ruth, only looked down from above but I understand the steps down are pretty steep and worst of all it is so easy to be cut off by the tide down there. It is also very dodgey to swim there because of the currants in the sea- ( not that would worry me as I do not like swimming at all, in fact the last time I ever ventured into the sea or a swimming pool was in 1973 and that was I was thrown in fully clothed- TWICE !! ) Right , thank you Ruth and I have had this little puzzle waiting for a while now - so I shall pose this for you all : - " Where is Boxhill " ? |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 21:01 on 3rd November 2014 We've been down a couple of times Vince, they are quite treacherous, coming up is much easier than going down. I'll be back when I've had a think about this quizzy. Edited by: rustyruth at:3rd November 2014 21:09 |
rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | Posted at 21:12 on 3rd November 2014 OK this is interesting, the only Boxhill I can find so far is two separate words, Box Hill So I'm assuming it's not the hill in Surrey. Edited by: rustyruth at:3rd November 2014 21:13 |