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Post by Maarten on Aug 26, 2014 3:13:28 GMT -5
 Flying along the coast of Maine at 8,000 ft in the Douglas DC-6A off Rockport and Camden, where I've just been on (real world) vacation visiting my long lost and recently found American family. Scenery is UT USA for FS2004. Recognised the Rockland region immediately. Brilliant! The plane: CalClassic's Douglas DC-6A (by Greg Pepper and Tom Gibson), paint by David James. Cheers, Maarten
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Post by dacamp66 on Aug 26, 2014 21:08:18 GMT -5
I have been to the area just above engine #1 in real life, it is a tiny little fishing village with an excellent open air seafood restaurant. out in the harbor is a small, rocky island with a fur seal colony on it; on good days, big waves come in off the north Atlantic striking the island and splashing dozens of meters into the air!
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Post by Maarten on Aug 27, 2014 4:13:05 GMT -5
Yeah, it's a beautiful place. My American relatives (their Dutch father was a cousin of my father) grew up in Camden; one of them still lives there. She showed me everything in the region, including the village you mention. We haven't been to that open seafood restaurant (her brother treated us on shellfish in an open air seafood place on a ramp in the Thomaston harbour, called The Slipway) but we sure ate a lot of Maine lobster. I know I will be back in the region in not too long.
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Post by Maarten on Sept 4, 2014 2:57:58 GMT -5
All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
So with my eyes I traced the line
Of the horizon, thin and fine,
Straight around till I was come
Back to where I’d started from;
And all I saw from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood.
Opening lines of the 200 line poem "Renascence" (1912) by Edna St. Vincent Millay. A better description of the Camden landscape could not be given, and you'll all find it back in the UT USA scenery for FS2004.
Cheers,
Maarten
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