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GENERAL STUFF => CLUB MEETINGS & MEMBERS TRIPS => Topic started by: PhireSideZA on November 08, 2014, 18:31:02
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Hi all.
I took Hippo out today to Schoenmakerskop outside of Port Elizabeth as I was planning on seeing a nice red sunset. Alas, in the last half-hour before sunset some ugly thick clouds pulled in but I managed to grab a few shots of the surrounds while I was there.
En route just past Cape Recife
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6343_zpsd83f138e.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6343_zpsd83f138e.jpg.html)
Come on, sunset!
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6347_zps67cfce4e.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6347_zps67cfce4e.jpg.html)
A little bit further down the road
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6349_zps9df6991b.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6349_zps9df6991b.jpg.html)
The Afrikaans plaque commemorating the shipwreck of the Sacremento, translation below
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6362_zps5d3c928a.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6362_zps5d3c928a.jpg.html)
Donated by Commander C.J. Allen
30 June 1993
In memory of Port Elizabethan David Allen and dedicated to those who perished in the Portuguese Galleon Sacremento wrecked on 30 June 1647. The 72 survivors set out to walk the 1300km to Mozambique. Nine persons survived to reach Delagoa Bay on 5 January 1648.
This cannon, length 469cm, mass 2500kg covers the site of the wreck. It was cast in bronze by Bocarro in the Portuguese territory of Macao, China in 1640 and is one of 40 salvaged by David Allen and Gerry van Niekerk in 1977.
Looking back towards Cape Recife
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6360_zps70c68b1f.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6360_zps70c68b1f.jpg.html)
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6359_zps04eb0724.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6359_zps04eb0724.jpg.html)
Sunset over the cannon memorial
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6351_zps0239f62f.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6351_zps0239f62f.jpg.html)
Hippo at Sacremento
(http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z469/Wabbit16/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6363_zps5edeaecf.jpg) (http://s1191.photobucket.com/user/Wabbit16/media/2014%2011%2008%20Schoenmakerskop/IMG_6363_zps5edeaecf.jpg.html)
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Thanks for the pics......
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Keep the pics coming, they're most interesting. Hippo looks great. :goodjob2:
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Great pics wabbit16. Thank you.
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Very nice :victory:
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Great photos!! Thanks for posting!!
:goodjob:
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Thanks all :)
I was experimenting a bit with the RAW shooting mode on my Canon SX50, as I was planning on messing around a bit in Lightroom. The SX50 is a great little camera but it makes me wish I had a proper DSLR, but maybe one day when I can afford one I will spoil myself to a nice model. I have no complaints with the SX50, it takes great photographs for a bridge camera :goodjob2:
I am heading off to the farm next weekend so I will probably play around a bit more then and hopefully manage to find that elusive red sunset I was hunting yesterday :p
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Nice work.. thanks for sharing :goodjob:
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:whsaid: