this little rowing boat is tied down at Portencross near Largs,Ayrshire,Scotland.One can only assume that it's owner is afriad it will be washed away at high tide?
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Submitted by mcaroline on July 21, 2008 - 5:11pm. View all photos…
I thought exactly the same as you about the multiple lashings to stop the boat being tossed around.
Thank you for your comments and ratings-I appreciate them and am always interested to see what you have to say.
ps I am enjoying your back country pictures!
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Thanks! As for the backcountry pictures lately, I've made plenty of photos but have run into the dreaded problem of duplicates of things I have already posted either from the same places or others, recently or in the past as well. Occasionally I will get those one or two shots out of a whole card's worth of photos which are different enough that they're not exactly what I would call a duplicate so I will post them - its not that I'm not taking as many pictures lately but more the fact that I am having to find a subject or a new perspective on a subject I haven't already posted. And of course as with many of the things I like to photograph there are lots of non-photogenic items too (ie: archaeological/historical relics, etc) which I suspect the pool of interested viewers would be quite limited here so I haven't posted many of those, but there are places which I have mapped out into grids and then there are the collection of photographed items found within each section of the grids. As for these sites nothing gets distrurbed beyond the use of a probe to check out subsurface features/items etc and the only things I bring back are lots of photos and notes made (I keep a small log book with my camera) and in the end I get countless hours of intellectual entertainment attempting to reconstruct what was once there. In fact there are some places in the backcountry where just the subtle hints found within the topography of the land itself can tell some amazing stories about the past!
I think all this interest started when I was just a kid and North Carolina had a lot more backcountry just begging to be explored. In almost every wooded area I found there was almost always piles of stones left behind from when farmers had cleared the land more than a century earlier. Now its much more difficult to find any place anywhere especially in Wake County with one stone left upon another, so whenever I find places like these I treat them with due respect.
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It appears not only does the owner not want the boat to be washed away during high tide but also it is tethered in multiple directions to keep it from getting bashed against the rocks when the tide does come in too. This scene is remarkably colourful considering there is so little vegetation present!