This is the “Milton Maize Maze” just north of Cambridge in England. The maze is created differently every year in a field of maize and visitors can pay entry to attempt to navigate it. From the photos on their website it looks pretty tricky as the maize grows quite high!

As one reader put it:

Now we can cheat by looking from above

Except that this is no doubt the maze from a few years ago

Thanks: Dave Holland, Simon Hamilton-Roberts & Donald Allwright

A good couple of hundred metres inland of the South African coast, a ship appears to have crashed right into the middle of Durban Seaworld. Sadly, like the previously posted Whampoa in Hong Kong, this is just a fake ship built to house various bars and restaurants.

As a consolation, I’m pretty sure this is a real helicopter just to the East, flying over a real container ship.

Thanks: woowoowoo & Nijk

This is the Lethbridge Viaduct, better known as the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Crossing the Oldman River valley this steel trestle bridge is up to 96 metres (314 ft) high and 1,624 metres (5,327 feet) long, making it the longest railway bridge in Canada.

Although actually, it seems that some people reckon the Lethbridge Viaduct might be “the longest railroad trestle bridge in the world” or perhaps even “the world’s longest and highest steel railroad bridge”. I couldn’t verify any of this, but its definitely got a very cool shadow

There’s more about the Lethbridge Viaduct at Wikipedia where they have an interesting photo of the bridge being built, and they link to a cool ground level photo too.

Thanks to Jackson, John Fleming and Rob Carlson.

Mulberry Harbours were the artificial harbours constructed by the Allies for the D-Day landings at Normandy. The concrete structures in the sea are the remains of Mulberry Harbour B which was at Gold Beach near Arromanches in France. Mulberry A was located at the infamous Omaha Beach but was mostly destroyed in a storm. The Mulberry Harbours were made up of large hollow concrete blocks that were simply floated across the channel and then sunk into place. With these harbours in place the Allies could un-load armour and supplies much faster than with conventional landing craft. The disastrous Dieppe raid of 1942 had driven the Allied planners to come up with this non conventional tactic that proved essential for the success of the D-Day landings.

Thanks: David de Hor, Dan McD, Clayton Jenkins, Brian Lyles, Patrick, LodgeKeeper, John Regehr, Daniel Sparing, Paul, Tom Lithgow, M. Domoradzki & Gwaer

This post is a continuation of Aruba Revisted Pt. 1 which was posted earlier today.

During our honeymoon we stayed at the Tara Beach Suites in Buciti Beach resort, which is situated on the exquisite Eagle Beach. I can almost make out the shape of the “Pirate’s Nest”, Bucuti’s pirate ship restaurant, but you can usually see the mast of the restaurant on Bucuti’s Live Webcam. You can also see the warm golden sand and that crystal clear blue sea…

A sight we didn’t manage to see is the California Lighthouse at the Northern tip of the island. Apparently the lighthouse is pretty run down these days.

There are a few examples of Natural bridges, where the sea erodes the limestone rock to create an arch over the water, around Aruba. The largest of these, in fact the largest example in the whole Caribbean, was referred to as the Natural Bridge but sadly collapsed at the beginning of September last year (just a few weeks before we arrived!).

The satellite photo is out of date so you can see the bridge as it once stood. There is a smaller natural bridge just to the north, which is still quite impressive.