Is this the "hidden canyon", @Vulpes? My brother and sister-in-law were recently in Zion and sent us this photo of a hike they did. It looks amazing!
Unfortunately, no Thripster, we didn't see it. Somehow we didn't even see that it was happening. Thanks for the photo, though.
Remember being docked alongside her sister ship USS Missouri in Sydney harbour in 1986. So impressive to see (sigh)...great times...
Adie, I'm in awe of your ability to remember things from your past adventures in such wonderful and vivid detail. Crater Lake sounds breathtaking. It's not a place that has been on our ride bucket list but it may now well be added to it. And as you say, it's closer to Tucson than Arches National Park. However, some of the difficulty for us in Arizona in getting to places to the west of us is that there aren't nearly as many good back roads as some of the places more to our north or even to the east. We'd love to ride to San Diego, for example, but there are few other ways to get there than riding on "the slabs" of I-10 and I-8 which is definitely NOT enjoyable. But I shall scope it out based on your recommendation and the picture you painted in your post of this beautiful place. I have been to The Lost Coast in California. I lived in Oakland and worked in Berkeley back in the 80's when I moved to California from Minnesota after college. I haven't been there in years but remember it well enough to remember how stunningly wild and beautiful it is. I'd certainly go back. In fact, Mr. Sandi hasn't been anywhere in northern Cal and I've always wanted to go there with him. We'd likely rent motorcycles in San Francisco and ride north.
I think that was the concept to show navy strength when they were build. The guns can throw a 16" shell approx 20 miles and on a full broadside the recoil pushes that huge hulk of steel ship 6 feet in the other direction
Yikes! Although this is spectacular, I think my take-away is to stay away. When in a situation like thisI get that weird sensation where I feel like a giant magnet is pulling me to the edge and over. It's not that I'm afraid of heights--I'm afraid of falling.
I like reading books on the old second world war battleships, but there's not many on the Japanese Yamato the biggest battleship ever built, she was sunk in the battle of Leyte Gulf, but boy did she take some punishment before she went down.
But firing at a moving target from a platform itself moving in 3 dimensions using analogue calculators does not make for great accuracy. At extreme ranges the shell spends well over a minute airborne. The sideways shunt is a bit of a myth reinforced by the optical illusion created by the massive muzzle blast over pressure. They were more missile than hittile!
Ok, well that's reassuring, @Vulpes. Lawyers probably had a hand in getting those chains in place. But I'd still be white-knuckling this hike and certainly not gawking at the view while I was shuffling meekly along with a death grip on the chains. Actually, I'm not quite that much of a wimp--only half again that much.
That looks very like my Dad's tool box. He was a carpenter and made the box for his tools as part of his apprenticesship. It went when he passed away, I wish I had kept it and a photograph. Hey ho!
David Hers an interesting article showing what "may" have happened if the biggest warships had duelled it out. Of course we will never know http://www.combinedfleet.com/baddest.htm The Yamato was 20,000 tonnes heavier than the Iowa!
