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Pic for Gary-Aerial of Hampton Inn Corolla

By: Kimco...
7/18/2003 5:10 PM

This was taken in Spring of 2002 while it was being built. Current one to follow.



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By: Kimco...
7/18/2003 5:16 PM

Well not exactly TODAY- but last week. That's Pine Island private airstrip behind it. There is a shipwreck just off the beach opposite the south end of the airstrip which I could see from the air. Gary, did you by chance see it from the beach? I heard it might be good diving/snorkeling.



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Thanks Kim, I always love the Aerial pictures. No I did not see the shipwreck. Had no idea it was even there.

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7/19/2003 12:44 PM


Kimco, Is the shipwreck in your photo? My eye's must be going cause I don't see it. I think the left side of the picture is South. I do see s dark spot off shore, but it is more toward the middle of the runway.

Can you see many shipwrecks from the air? Any pictures?

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7/19/2003 1:42 PM


By: Kimco...
7/19/2003 5:45 PM

The shipwreck is actually right off the beach just maybe 20-30 yards at the very left edge of this pic, and you probably can't make it out. I have more pics that I took with my 35 mm Nikon in the shop that will probably show more and will post next week, if so. The dot you are seeing mid-field of the airstrip is actually fish! A great big blob of "fatbacks" in a school! Don't see shipwrecks often. I only saw this one cause the fellow riding with me showed it to me. According to him it went down in the late 1800's!

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