Site News May 07

Regular visitors to Google Sightseeing may notice that we’ve made a few tweaks to the layout, so you may have to shift-refresh your browser to get the updated styles. We’re planning a few more exciting new features, which will hopefully…

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Tuesday, 8th May 2007

Manatees

Congregating by this water outlet in West Palm Beach is a whole herd of Florida Manatees, a highly intelligent species of aquatic mammals, also known as Sea Cows. The water outlet is actually from an adjacent power plant, and Manatees…

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Friday, 4th May 2007

Planes on a Train

Driving past the small town of Cathcart is a train, carrying the fuselages of 4 Boeing 737 airliners! As the train is passing a road I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to reference a classic Steve Martin film, so in…

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Wednesday, 2nd May 2007

DUMAC?

In the comments of this morning’s Underwater Explosion post reader Julian found this great large type. Apparently made of trees planted in the water, the word may well be “DUMAC” or Ducks Unlimited de México. Despite the title, Ducks Unlimited…

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Tuesday, 1st May 2007

Underwater Explosion?

Could these be the waves from an underwater explosion? Found in a lagoon in Acapulco, the circular waves could be caused by any number of different events. However, the waves are about 8m peak to peak, and still can be…

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Tuesday, 1st May 2007
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