Saturday, October 06, 2012

Τηαλαττα, Τηαλαττα!

Νo Photoshop wankery; straight out of the camera. Oooh, sparkly!
And yes, it's the bit down at the lower right of the photo in the previous post, from a different angle and zoomed in a bit. Blow it up and see if you can count the sparkly bits.

5 comments:

Alifan said...

I love this one…it does look like a submarine in the sea ha ha…

dive said...

Alas, Petrea; 'tis too late for the Russians to come.

As for the script; it may be Cyrillic but it's Ancient Greek rather than Russian.
It's not modern Greek, either (in case anyone was was tempted to feed it into Babel Fish); the exclamation of joy and relief related by Xenophon as the ten thousand caught sight of the sea has since been softened to thalassa, thalassa.
Ooooh, I do love alliteration.

Mum, the speed of the rip tide in Sole Bay is nicely demonstrated by the "wake" of the groyne marker (and the oblique waves in the last photo).
NOT a wise place to go swimming unless you want to end up miles out to sea.

Speedway said...

I counted 2 sparkley bits then got pixilated when I enlarged it.

Ms M said...

A sea of diamonds...and perhaps a spy submarine from Elbonia (do you read Dilbert?)

dive said...

We all get a little pixellated at the weekend, Speedway.

Hee hee. Ms.M. A wooden submarine does look like Elbonian technology.