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About This GigaPan
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The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661"
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- 115
- Size
- 0.84 Gigapixels
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- 2539
- Date added
- August 01, 2009
- Date taken
- July 31, 2009
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- Description
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This is one of my favourite gigapans from Pembroke. I really like the contrast of the rural landscape and the oil and gas installations.
The eponymous town of Milford Haven (right) used to be a fishing port but there are no fish now.
Geologists may like to look at some nearby rocks here tinyurl.com/lhpt2n
. Normal people can have a look at Pembroke Castle here tinyurl.com/mwtl58 , or to see all my Pembroke gigapans click here tinyurl.com/lp9gqk .
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (August 03, 2009, 08:52AM )
Good point - you win!
David Engle (August 03, 2009, 08:46AM )
People who live in Bath do not know what "lit-up" is. Take a look at this GigaPan, which is very "lit-up" www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id= 27965 :) But then, if you like mackerel, you will not find any of them in these waters :(
The Gigapanographer Currently Known as "Kilgore661" (August 03, 2009, 08:45AM )
I was being pathetic about the fish. I'm sure the place does look amazing at night. The view from further up the coast (tinyurl.com/ks555e
) kept me engaged for
hours. I wonder though, if I was a resident of
Milford Haven, how I would feel about light
pollution.
C Lloyd (August 03, 2009, 07:15AM )
I have caught mackerel around here. Place looks amazing at night, as the refineries are all lit-up. Loads of forts too.
David Engle (August 01, 2009, 01:43PM )
This is a wonderful panorama of a seaside resort community and I admire Milford Haven because of the hills. A similar city, Galveston, Texas, has almost everything we see here except for the Milford Haven hills. Galveston is flat and the Great Hurricane of 1900 swept over the island and destroyed it. As recent as last year [2008] another storm, Hurricane Ike, also swept over Galveston and came very close to destroying it, but Galveston lives on, although still limping. Milford Haven may have suffered some difficulty too as described by Daniel Defoe (tinyurl.com/lp84o3
), and the edited
version is available through bookstores (tinyurl.com/ku6lcs 
). A very powerful
storm, a hurricane, swept over the southern part
of England in 1703. Had it not been for this
storm, which did severe damage, we would not have
Robinson Crusoe or any other writings of Defoe to
enjoy. He was a ruined man financially and in
other ways too, but he was at the right spot at
the right time to write about this storm, which
propelled his career into that of great fame and
fortune.