Saturday, February 19, 2011

Fog and gun

Looking towards the Port Elizabeth Harbour from on top of Fort Frederick on a foggy day like this makes one wonder how nervous a lookout stationed here would have been when there was fog over the sea.  The harbour is barely visible, so on a foggy day it would have been quite easy invading the bay without today's modern equipment that could have warned of an invasion.  Luckily the fort never had to fire a shot in anger.

4 comments:

  1. Is that like talking a shot in the dark? Wow, the bay seems too far away for the canon to reach.

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  2. Perhaps it was the sight of the tower and it's cannons that made the possible invaders think again. Nice foggy photo.

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  3. For a moment I thought that you - or your son - had fired a shot. Glad to see its fog and not smoke!

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  4. A very cool photo. It does make one wonder what people did when the fog came in and no one could see the enemy

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