2018 Treasure Hunt Challenge

Can we add #21 - Lighthouse? :wink:

I was here for … something else … but too windy for what I wanted to do with Litchi not allowing Sport Mode. But I would have flown for this if it was on the list.

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Back on topic ……

#7 - Mill

This is Eling Tide Mill, just to the west of Southampton, one of only two remaining Tide Mills in the UK.

This vid is also me getting used to the features in Litchi. Anti-seasick pills needed!!! I flew too close to the “focus” in Litchi’s “Focus Mode”. The gimbal wasn’t at all pleased!
Flew back over it a bit higher with results closer to what I was wanting.

In the background, at the end, is the massive vehicle import/export marshalling area and sea freight terminal at Millbrook in Southampton.

Taken today.

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Cracking lighthouse photo :+1:

Lol, yeah, I see what you mean :smiley:

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Heacham beach , Norfolk

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@Rodh Don’t know if you caught Dave’s message yesterday before this post was merged in to here? Please keep all entries in this thread :+1:

Leaderboard updated!

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Gonna have to venture far to find something other than cooling towers round these parts, and probably retrain as a pilot flying round something different ;o)

Heres a start, Drax Power Station (again)

For seconds, Flamborough light house (over a hundred years old)

Taken in the last 5 days? Just not seen you post from there recently. :wink:
#CompetitionPoliceman. LOL!

Edit: Damn! My lighthouse, yesterday, was over 100 years old! I should have flown … even in 27mph wind! :stuck_out_tongue:

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I shall withdraw my Lighthouse, having read the rules properly ;o(

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LOL! … great pic tho! Worthy of “Daily Photo Thread”. :+1:

Hi thanks for that,I was not sure were to post them.

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@milkmanchris added to the leaderboard :+1:

HOPEFULLY … if the G&Ts I’ve sunk this evening make it legal, let alone feasible, in the morning I may be up at the crack of dawn to beat the later windier conditions for some more treasure hunting! :wink:

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Awake and up @ 4am. Drove 100 metres. Realised I had a slow puncture. Came home. #Meh
Waiting for tyre place to open. Pump up tyre and should be able to get there before it’s deflated too far. #BloomingTreasureHunts :stuck_out_tongue:

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Alton Water (Reservoir)

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#12 - Something over 100 years old

Hurst Point Lighthouse

So - after the visit here the other day, when it was really windy, I was up at 3am, today, to re-visit at sunrise.
I parked up, almost no wind! Yay!
It’s a 2km walk, each way, along a shingle bank (a mini Chesil Beach), and the further I went along Hurst Spit the stronger the wind became.
Took some DSLR shots of the sunrise, and hung about for a while in the hopes the wind died.
Eventually, hiding behind a blooming big wall, I got into a low hover and then popped up into the wind. Poor MP … almost flat out just to maintain position … 10ft of the deck.
Selected Sport Mode, and pressed on knowing that I had plenty of room to drift down wind and lose height it needed.
Bucking like a bronco in the wind, it pressed on into position for the pics.
I should have taken some video … if for no other reason than to see how damned stable the gimbal made it look.

I had hoped to submit videos of all Challenge submissions - but the weather forecasts are looking even more windy for well over a week (even if I don’t believe forecasts for 24 hours, anyway. :stuck_out_tongue: ) - but hope to get back here for a Litchi mission I have planned.

Anyway … Hurst Point Lighthouse.

Located at the western end of the waters between the mainland and the Isle of Wight (The Solent) …

… this incarnation, of the 5 that have been built hereabouts (the first in 1786), was built in 1867.
Two of the other 4 previous lighthouses remain, though both decommissioned - and even “camouflaged” to prevent confusion, since one used to be bright red.


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In addition to Alton Reservoir, Suffolk I’d like to add another pic for the Treasure Hunt Challenge.

This is Lode Mill, in the grounds of Anglesey Abbey, Cambs. It’s still in use today, grinding grain into flour!

National Trust don’t like people droning above their property (like they own the sky!) so I went off onto some public land and did this…

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Here’s my third offering to the Treasure Hunt.

I have a train line near me and left my filter on, so there was a bit of blur… but I could say that it’s intentional to give movement!

Location - Near Bourne Park, Ipswich

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Image number four -

A Water tower near Freston, Suffolk. I’ve often wondered what’s in the top bit of them!

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Image number five! (Yes I was busy this evening!!)

A drone selfie. Light was failing, and I was bringing Foxbat in from taking the photo of the Water Tower and I remembered this was a category image. Sun behind me, so I’ve edited it heavily!!

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2 … 3 … 4 … 6.
A Suffolk counting system? :wink:

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