Tag Archives: lighthouse

In the background…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2012

I’m still messing around with (literally) about 1000 photos that I’ve taken over the past two or three weeks – you’ll get to see them in due course. In the meantime, here’s one of the lighthouse at Cape Agulhas that it has been suggested might make a nice desktop background. If you want it as [...]

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Roman Rock

By 6000 | 6000 | August 1, 2009

One of a great many photos that I took at Boulders Beach this morning, more of which I will upload tomorrow morning as there is a rugby and curry evening starting 4 minutes ago and we’re hosting. Oops. This is the Roman Rock Lighthouse, just outside Simonstown Harbour, thus satisfying my lighthouse fetish. And, in the [...]

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Abandoned Russian Polar Nuclear Lighthouses

By 6000 | 6000 | June 5, 2009

More lighthouse stuff, via @ChrisRoperZA. Does exactly what it says in the title. Dmitriy Vyacheslavovich lighthouse, Taymyroslavich Peninsula* …the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar night across uninhabited shores of the Soviet Russian Empire. So it has been [...]

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Isle of Man Quota Photo

By 6000 | 6000 | June 3, 2009

Since the organisation of the upcoming 2009 Kids in Tow Tour has been dominating much of my free time of late (not to mention that of Mrs 6k), I figured that it was about time I looked forward to the actual event, rather than cursing the eternal paperwork and pondering over what drugs to give [...]

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Is Zuma appealing?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 13, 2009

Well, not to a lot of people as our future President anymore, since fraud and corruption charges were re-instated against him yesterday, following the National Prosecuting Authority’s successful appeal against Zuma’s previous appeal to get the charges against him dropped was overturned. It remains to be seen whether, having considered the NPA’s successful appeal against Zuma’s [...]

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