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Lightnup
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Initially Posted - 06/18/2006 : 22:47:23

[url="http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=9970&mode=sequential&flags=9&year=current"]California Coast[/url]

Stumbled across this site which shows highly detailed color photographs of the entire California coastline, 1 mile at a time. The link I posted is at Coronado Cays (San Diego) and you can move up or down the coast 1 mile at a time, 10 miles at a time or click on the map to move a greater distance up or down the coast. A couple of shots at San Diego show an entire platoon (?) of Navy Seals on a training run in shallow water. Shot 9817 shows a beached ketch at Point Loma. If you click on the big picture in the center it zooms way in for a detailed shot. Just thought it was cool.

Steve

Steve Madden
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Edited by - Lightnup on 06/18/2006 23:14:40

tinob
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Response Posted - 06/19/2006 : 07:55:30

Fantastic Steve,

It's like old times day seeing all of the coast of California that we drove last summer on our motorhome trip from N.Y. to Ca. and back.

Thanks a bunch.

Val on Calista,N.Y.

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PZell
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Response Posted - 06/19/2006 : 09:06:14

This is really cool. Go to Half Moon Bay and find Globe Wireless Ship-to-Shore Antenna System and you will see the cliffs on the coast where I work. Scroll a little south towards Shark Fin Rock and you will see the cove that is part of our company's property. I sure would like to figure out how to anchor there. Early last century they used to bring freighters in close here (you can still see the big mooring rings in those flat rocks. They had a contraption that looked like a big wooden roller coaster for loading grain. In those days the coastside was really isolated and roads were really poor. We have a magnificent view of the ocean from our Building. Scroll up further to the Ritz Carlton area and those beaches. We live on the east end of the Golf Course.
Not the gated community though. Don't have those kinda bux.

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JJM
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Response Posted - 06/19/2006 : 11:16:44

Very cool! A lot of work went into this.

Okay, so I sail on the California coast - and oh....what's that?

Hey - if you want to see our boat go to Image 200405317, http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=200405317&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=9&year=current - look in the upper left hand corner and you will see a 250 edging down the fairway towards it's slip. That's our boat.

I am going to print this shot - I am amazed that we were in that position when the shot was taken.

Amazing world we live in...

Edited by - JJM on 06/19/2006 15:02:59

Lightnup
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Response Posted - 06/19/2006 : 21:04:14

Did ya see the nude sunbather in image 234684367? Naw...I'm just kidding.

But it sure is fun to look at the different areas, the marinas, etc. and the MANSIONS! Some of those oceanfront homes in LaJolla and near L.A. Holy Moley!

Seems to me that the guvmnt would take issue with someone flying along taking relatively detailed shots of all those military installations along the coast near San Diego.

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Response Posted - 06/19/2006 : 22:38:26

I remember watching these folks take the photos... wondered what was going on... sombody circling round and round in a helicopter out over the beach. Saw an article and the photos on the web a few months later.

Here's my home. The ranch with the barn & 2 Silos. Middling-upper left in the small photo. Easy to see in the big version... can even count the cows.

Taken in the fall... the grass is brown.

http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=7649&mode=sequential&flags=0&year=2002

Big view...

http://www.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=7649&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=0&year=2002

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