The Great Big GADC 7th Birthday Challenge and Treasure Hunt!

Item 8. A recreational motorboat - not an inflatable or a RIB

  • Bonus for two or more outboard engines on the boat
  • Bonus for a waterskier being towed
  • Bonus for the boat having a red hull

Great North Road, Southoe, St. Neots 31/08/2024 DJI Mini3 pro

I claim 1 bonus points for:

  • A waterskier being towed.

I claim 2 points total, please.

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2 points for the picture

Thanks for the video but no bonus points for that!

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James Hamilton Heritage Park, East Kilbride - 31/08/2024 - 18:12 - Mini 3 Pro
I claim 2 points please. I must have gone past this park about a dozen times over the last few weeks and have given up hope of ever seeing 7 boats on the water. So took a pic today with … yep, zero boats!

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No boats in the water but we accept it is a boating lake / loch. Especially as JoeC confirmed it some 29 days ago.

2 points :slight_smile:

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With the final week a quick update on the unofficial scores…

Who has dropped points, who can still win?

What is the maximum score attainable by everyone?

19 bridges, 18 Towers, 17 NT, 16 Red vans, 14 Motorways at night & 13 national flags

Just 7 drones and violet cars to come.

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Expecting reports of drones hovering over car parks at supermarkets etc. :rofl:

2. A public park :white_check_mark:

  • Bonus for a boating lake :white_check_mark:
  • Bonus for seven or more boats being used on the water (not attached to anything) :white_check_mark:

Stanley Park Blackpool, 28/7/24, DJI Mini2

3 points claimed please

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24. An abandoned or derelict building (Don’t trespass!) :white_check_mark:

Derelict building, 28 Dock St , Fleetwood

Scaffolding was erected last year when bits of the building started to fall off onto the road below, and the roof has now been removed.

30/8/24, DJI Mini 2

1 point claimed please

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Stanley Park - would be 3 points if you hadn’t already entered the subject on 28 July. And been awarded points

Derelict building 1 point

Total 1 point

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Item 19 A heritage railway . Any gauge from minimum (15 inch) upward✅

Taken Rothley 1520 29th August 2024 DJI Mini4 pro image frame grab from video

Bonus point for a steam -hauled train in motion✅

Bonus point for two trains in motion in the same picture ,one steam -hauled ,the other any motive power❌
Bonus for a rail-mounted breakdown crane in picture✅

Claim 3 points

added extra image as proof train moving

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John, could you give us another screenshot from the video showing that the locomotive has moved? All we can see in the supplied image is a wisp of steam from the safety valve and nothing from the cylinders or smokestack.

Thank you.

Not a problem stand by…

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added extra image to submitted item

Thanks for the image. We have spent a little time on the Great Central Railway website admiring the locomotives and rolling stock and also found the timetable for this weekend. 48305 is on the roster. :). Heres a wee bit more about that particular engine, "Please don’t let me die … "

Anyway - 3 points :slight_smile:

ChallCom will be unavailable from 13:30 until the end of the Italian Grand Prix

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Self marking of items then :wink:

:joy:

Enjoy the race

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While us mere peasants have to wait for the Channel 4 highlights :frowning:

It’s a bit of a lashup. Two browsers, one using the normal connection, listening to the race on the BBC sport website, the other browser running a VPN pretending to be Luxembourg to watch the race (muted) on RTL Zwee. Sound and video don’t quite synchronise and the VPN has a habit of freezing every so often and needing a restart. But we get to see about 90% of the action (and learning Luxembourgish)

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Item 23 Seven trees -exactly seven ,obviously isolated from any others✅

Taken Cleethorpes 18th August 2024 DJI Mini4 Pro

Bonus for both deciduous and evergreen trees in the same clump of trees❌

1 Point Claimed

Above image is as it came out the camera to assist judges I have cropped the image to show the trees in more close up detail

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We took some time to establish which trees you meant as the submitted picture is somewhat well-populated with all kinds of trees.

We now think you mean the strip of verge and driveway entrances at the far side of the road and not any of the clumps of trees and bushes in the front gardens

Either we discount the mature tree on the right of picture as it is separated by a driveway, in which case the two trees on the lefthand side of picture, separated by a driveway do not count or we accept that the driveways are not separators and include all eight trees.

From left - there is one group of 2 trees, a driveway, another group of 2, a space with a street lamp, a group of 3, a driveway and another tree.

Eight in total.

Sorry, but we are rejecting the picture

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