The Grey Arrows 3rd Annual Birthday Competition and Treasure Hunt

Still missing some points :grimacing:

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Don’t know how I’m still second but I’ll hang on. Not sure I’ll get many more points tho. Not over till over tho. :grin:
Still all fun the same :+1:

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According to my calculations, my points should be 35 after today’s submission. 34 if you don’t count me drinking the wine at the vineyard just holding it. :pray:

Thanks :ok_hand:

yeah but they’ve deducted some for you being too keen

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I like to get things done Lee, :joy: then I can move on :+1:t4:

@GADC_Committee

Meanies… :frowning_face: :frowning_face:

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McSteamy2010 have you been hacking this site. I blink and you have 10 points more :joy:.
I need to pull my finger out and get more points.

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Best stop blinking then. :+1:

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:joy::rofl:

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19: A motorway and railway line
Claiming 2 points please (canal also visible in view)
Off the A5, just south of Wilton Marina
30th July at 4:30pm
Take Off Location: 52.267740,-1.095446

an extra point for cars, boat and train all in shot would be really nice. :laughing: :laughing:

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Thwaites brewery at Samlesbury Taken yesterday at 07:15
Bonus for dray in shot and bonus for brewery name on on truck.

taken off point was the red dot on the map

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Bonus for for 15 or more, and bonus if 5 are painted in different colours.

Taken yesterday at 06:30. with permission from Blackpool ATC

Take off location was the red dot below.

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No 17 Repurposed quarry

Bonus point Wikipedia link included

Photo was taken on 02.08.20

Eilean a beithich or Eilean nam Beitheach (island of birches) was once one of the slate Island now harbour.

Location 56.2929705,-5.6507985

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Right next to the smaller island (Easdale) where they hold the world stone skimming championships (almost) every year in a similar flooded/breached quarry. :+1:

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Do they have a Guinness world record attempt for skimming stones there?
AND
Is it before the 4th September?
:grinning:

The world record is actually further than can be achieved in that location … although not a lot more.
In the championships, there, they score points for how many times they manage to reach, and hit, the rock face at the far side of the ex-quarry.

No point going then is there :man_shrugging:t3:
:grinning:

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My submission for item 12 - A train station

The video shows Portsmouth Harbour Station on Sunday August 2, 2020 at around 06:40

I claim a bonus for 5 or more platforms

Full disclosure: The station has five platforms. Platform 2 is decommissioned for structural reasons

Portsmouth Harbour railway station is a railway station in Portsmouth, England. It is situated beside Gunwharf Quays in the city’s harbour, and is an important transport terminal, with a bus interchange and ferry services to Gosport and the Isle of Wight. The station currently has four platforms in use: numbered 1, 3, 4 and 5. It is managed by South Western Railway. Platform 2 is no longer in use, having been decommissioned in the early 1990s following major repair and refurbishment work to the pier that the platforms sit on. The station is built on a pier made of wood[citation needed], between the Gunwharf Quays shopping centre and the Historic Dockyard

The station opened in 1876 as the terminus of Chief Engineers Frederick Banister’s Portsmouth Waterside Extension to the Portsmouth Direct Line, which runs between this station and London Waterloo station. It was rebuilt in 1937 when the route was electrified but was almost totally destroyed during World War II by fire after German bombing, then rebuilt after the war. (Taken from Wikipedia)

The video shows the Spinnaker Tower, two Wightlink FastCat passenger ferries, the green and white vessel is one of the three that provide the Gosport Ferry service. On shore is the Hard Travel Interchange which ferry, taxi, train, bus and coach passengers pass through

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@GADC_Committee when this evenings leader board Is updated, could I please have the repurposed coal mine added. :pray: post #463 thank you. :kissing_heart:

No… he doesn’t want it really, he’s got enough points as it is :laughing::laughing::laughing:

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