Guess where

[Michael Gee]

Have a guess where? Where are your 'skids down' best feats?

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[Ed Winchester]

Giants Causeway?

[MightyGem]

Looks like it, but...Scotland or Ireland? :E

[Sloppy Link]

Giants Causeway isn't in Ireland, it's on the North Antrim coast, Northern Ireland. It's also not in Scotland but the same rock formation exists at Fingals (sp?) Cave. Looking at the aircraft type and the grainy style of shot, and having been there in the past (albeit a tad confused by a visit to the nearby Bushmills Distillery), I would say it is of the Northern Ireland Giants Causeway but happy to be corrected.

MG, you should know better.

[helicopter-redeye]

Clearly the hex columns of a basaltic igneous structure. But there have been others apart from the GC in Antrim.

I sense a trick question - the Scout in the background clearly plays a part in the puzzle.

There is a lot of Basaltic intrusion formations associated with the TIC in Mull but I don't recognise the rest of the shot.

Somewhere else bar Ulster or Scotland perhaps?

H-R wearing his geologist hat...;)

[Hedski]

Don't forget my home island of Ireland consists of both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. And Ulster includes Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan.

Must be Causeway Coast. Impressed by the landing alright.

[Geoffersincornwall]

My guess is the Falklands. Scout with stretcher door extensions, grainy '1980's' piccy.

G

[tistisnot]

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And there are no basalt columns in the Falklands - plenty of other strange geology (rock rivers for example) but nothing like the GC.

[Mr_G_Box]

Hi MG, If it's the time I think it is, I reckon that's Apr 1979. As your Observer that day you gave me your camera and threw me out on to the Causeway with instruction "to take a photo of the Scout on the Causeway" Came out okay..which is a surprise as I've never been noted as much a photographer! Hope you are well. Good memories. JC

[fijdor]

Nice photo.

JD

[MightyGem]

MG, you should know better.
Hmm...
Northern Ireland is a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland

Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal%27s_Cave

Hi MG, If it's the time I think it is, I reckon that's Apr 1979. As your Observer that day you gave me your camera and threw me out on to the Causeway with instruction "to take a photo of the Scout on the Causeway" Came out okay..which is a surprise as I've never been noted as much a photographer! Hope you are well. Good memories. JC
Your memory's not that good. In 1979, I was still a Sapper serving in Tidworth. Never did my pilot's course until 84.

Old age is a bugger with memory isn't it? :) Plus, I've never been there, by air or by foot. :)

[paddyboy]

Perhaps Mr Box is talking to Mr Gee as opposed to Mr Gem.

[Mr_G_Box]

Paddyboy, you're right that was for M Gee as opposed M Gem. Although I do know both.