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Old 13th February 2016 | 16:37
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Guess where

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

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Old 13th February 2016 | 16:52
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Giants Causeway?
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Old 13th February 2016 | 18:00
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Looks like it, but...Scotland or Ireland?
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Old 13th February 2016 | 18:25
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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.
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Old 13th February 2016 | 20:31
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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...
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Old 13th February 2016 | 20:52
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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.
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Old 14th February 2016 | 07:25
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Where oh where??

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

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Old 14th February 2016 | 07:52
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Giants Causeway

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Old 14th February 2016 | 15:59
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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.
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Old 14th February 2016 | 17:59
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That photo ..Giants Causeway 1979

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
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Old 14th February 2016 | 18:02
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Nice photo.

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Old 14th February 2016 | 19:32
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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.
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Old 14th February 2016 | 19:42
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Perhaps Mr Box is talking to Mr Gee as opposed to Mr Gem.
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Old 14th February 2016 | 19:44
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Paddyboy, you're right that was for M Gee as opposed M Gem. Although I do know both.
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