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Old 12 March 2002, 17:45   #1
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Any Port in a Storm

I mentioned the harbour at Balintore, in the village next to us in Scotland (see www.boatlaunch.co.uk for launch site details). I recently came across the two attached photos.

The first shows the harbour at Balintore during a storm. The waves hitting the outer wall are breaking about three times the height of the wall itself.

However just look how calm it is inside the harbour. Looks a good place to shelter.

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Old 12 March 2002, 17:49   #2
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Here is the same harbour on a nice sunny day. What a difference. If you take a look at the first photo you can just see my little Quicksilver on top of the breaker as I shoot into the harbour!!!

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Old 12 March 2002, 17:56   #3
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Now that's what I call being on he plane ......................
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Old 12 March 2002, 18:00   #4
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Here is the photo of me entering the harbour on the breaker. You can't see me because I had just bent down as the picture was taken!

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Old 12 March 2002, 18:05   #5
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Keith

Bearing n mind your 'day job' 2 things spring to mind:

1. Have you been sniffing some of those chemicals you guys
use?

and

2. As this picture is so obviously real, are any of us safe from the
CPS?
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Looney Toons

You've lost it mate !
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Old 12 March 2002, 19:07   #7
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who me? - or Keith?
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Old 12 March 2002, 20:06   #8
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Crazy...moi? Never. You're talking to the chap who presided over the Fred West post mortem (yes really).

Here is a photograph I took (not at the aforementioned post mortem I should add). Nothing to do with ribs but it shows how crazy I am.

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Keith (head loss) Hart

PS: Note to JK, before you ban me from the forums let me assure you that the head is not real. It is a prop that I had made for my 'Haunted House' nights.
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Hm, you guys got too much spare time on your hands.

That last photo reminds of someone - oh no, my past is coming back to haunt me!
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