Archive for April 11th, 2005

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet

Monday, 11th April 2005 by James

The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is a collection of mothballed warships near Benecia, California (More info).

Warships

Thanks: Harold Check & elsamo

Site News

by James

A quick update before we return to our scheduled postings. In the past 3 days this site has used up 25% of our monthly bandwidth limit so we’d be extremely thankful to anyone who contributed a small amount via the Paypal link in the right hand menu - all proceeds will go to keeping this site online in the coming weeks!

Thanks also to everyone who has posted links to Google Sightseeing on their blogs, forums and social bookmarks, we really appreciate your support. We’d be really grateful if you didn’t hotlink our images though (It would be better if you downloaded images and host them on your own site).

As I mentioned yesterday we have hundreds of great submissions that we’re yet to process. Please remember to search before submitting a link though - that way we can spend less time removing dupes and more time posting new stuff.

Office Space

by James

Top technology headquarters around America: Google, Apple Computer & Microsoft.

Thanks: Eric, Mathew, Ahmad

Mount St. Helens

by Alex

It hasn’t erupted since 1980 March 2005, but apparently Mount St Helens still counts as an active volcano. Not great resolution here yet though.

Mount St Helens

Thanks: Sean Miller, kb and others.

Space Needle, Seattle

by James

Another impressive shadow - the Seattle Space Needle. The red and purple blob next door is the Experience Music Project.

Thanks: Phillip Harrington, Mike, many others.

Space Needle

CN Tower

by James

The CN Tower and Rogers Centre (formerly the Skydome, home of the Blue Jays) are in downtown Toronto, Canada. Look for the tower’s shadow to see its shape.

CN Tower

Thanks: Mike Pegg, many others