Where is Sergio?

looks like Flo RI DUH
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come on in the waters fine------- SMILES SMILES everyone
 
I thought that I had some photos of the waterfront and beaches around here. Instead, I found some of the other shenanigans that go on here on the North Shore. The Vikings have enjoyed this area for over a thousand years.


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Sérgio said:
Robert, next time you come to the deep South, spare some time to visit Brazil. It's very different from most of South and Central América.

A huge country, almost as big as the US, with different landscapes.

Here's a panoramic view of the seaside in the city where I play guitar:

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For sure!!!!
 
Robert Herndon said:
That's Gahr's houseboat!
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Man, do you realize how much work it takes to maintain a ship like that? It kills me just thinking about it...:D But my ancestors might have had one, who knows? What I do know is that one of my ancestors got rich selling wood to ship builders (and then got even richer when he started turning iron ore into cannonballs, selling them to Napoleon's armies in the early 1800s).
 
Do any of you recognise this Beauty! The original built in Lunenburg Nova Scotia's Legendary Smith& Rhuland shipyard to compete for International Fishermans Trophy. In October 1921 the Bluenose won her first race and for the next 17 years, she defeated all contenders. In 1928 the Bluenose defeated the Thebaud in the final race series, and was named Queen of the North Atlantic fishing fleet. In 1937 the Canadian dime was changed to include an Image of the mighty ship. In 1963 Bluenose ll was built from identical plans. She was built in the same shipyard of Smith&Rhuland by some of the same Men who had constructed her Mother before her. In September of 2012 after months of restoration she was relaunched and will continue to sail for decades to come.
 
Gahr said:
Man, do you realize how much work it takes to maintain a ship like that? It kills me just thinking about it...:D But my ancestors might have had one, who knows? What I do know is that one of my ancestors got rich selling wood to ship builders (and then got even richer when he started turning iron ore into cannonballs, selling them to Napoleon's armies in the early 1800s).
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Fascinating! I would have guessed one brewed for Napolean!

Our family history was investigated extensively by a Mormon uncle. I find it quite fascinating.

We originated in the Normandy region of France and came to England during the Norman Conquest. A good part of the family settled in and around Bedfordshire while another group migrated into Prussia. It is the latter group which are said to have added the 'Von' prefix to the last name.

I am told by my uncle that he found a carving of our name upon some arch in Rhodes and upon a stained glass window in some English church, but the specific details escape me.

Here's some data from one of his letters to me on the subject:

"Herndon was among the names inscribed on the roll of the Battle Abbey as having come with William the Conqueror III to the Holy Land, for his escutcheon is carved on a stone gateway in the city of Rhodes. The first Relative Herndon in America, of which we have authentic record, is William Henry Herndon who patented land from 1656 to 1658. Through this marriage to Catherine Digges, the Herndon family was eligible to join many Societies. These include the following:

1. The Society of Daughters of Barons of Runnemede through ancestor Edward Digges.

2. The Society of Colonial Governors through ancestor Edward Digges.

3. The Society of Daughters of the Crown through ancestor Edward Digges to Alfred the Great.

4. The Society of Founders and Patriots through ancestor Edward Digges.

5. The Society of Scions and Cavaliers three ancestor Edward Digges, son of Sir Dudley Digges.

Eventually, the family in Bedfordshire migrated North into Scotland and remained there a few hundred years.

We've been in North America since about 1648, settling in Kentucky where my pop was born...
 
Session 5 said:
Do any of you recognise this Beauty! The original built in Lunenburg Nova Scotia's Legendary Smith& Rhuland shipyard to compete for International Fishermans Trophy. In October 1921 the Bluenose won her first race and for the next 17 years, she defeated all contenders. In 1928 the Bluenose defeated the Thebaud in the final race series, and was named Queen of the North Atlantic fishing fleet. In 1937 the Canadian dime was changed to include an Image of the mighty ship. In 1963 Bluenose ll was built from identical plans. She was built in the same shipyard of Smith&Rhuland by some of the same Men who had constructed her Mother before her. In September of 2012 after months of restoration she was relaunched and will continue to sail for decades to come.
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I lived in nearby Chester, NS for a short while.
 
Here's the beach not far from my house. Looking south past Misery (out of view to the left) and Baker's Islands at Marblehead Neck. Salem and Beverly are off to the right just out of the photo.

If it wasn't supposed to be a monsoon all weekend, I would definitely be down there relaxing some.



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