Wild Coast. South Africa

Coffee Bay, South Africa

I liked the look of this picture, peaceful, calm, tropical paradise, sunshine, blue skies, the whole kit and caboodle. Google image search* comes back with a long list of places that use this image, for some unknown value of long. I mean, I hardly ever go beyond the first page of Google's search results, and if I do I really have to be in a digging frame of mine. Every once in a blue moon, something on the second page will pay off. 

Google search results all pointed to Hole in the Wall, Coffee Bay, Wild Coast, South Africa.

Hole in the Wall

Looking on Google Maps, I could not find this place. Finally figured out that while all the search results pointed to Hole in the Wall and Coffee Bay, the two places are six miles apart. Looking at the map, I wondered if there were any street view images. I was expecting any, but Google has sent cars down the roads. Pull up a street view image, swing around and boom! There we are.

MTS Oceanos

In 1991 MTS Oceanos sunk five miles off the coast of Coffee Bay. The South African Air Force sent 16 (!) helicopters to rescue passengers. All 571 passengers were rescued, no thanks to the Captain and the crew who were among the first people to abandon ship.

* Google image search - Google's search page looks like this:

Google

Notice that there are two icons at the right end of the data entry line. The first is a microphone and the I believe the second is a camera. Click on the camera icon and you can upload an image, or enter the URL of image, if it's on the net.

Is including explanations like this a good thing? I've been pointing and clicking for 40 odd years and I have probably picked up a few tricks to make my keyboard battles a little easier. I tend to assume that all of these little tricks are common knowledge, but I really have no idea. I am sure there are other methods of doing this, especially if you are using a smart phone, but I am not keen on my smart phone. To me, it's like a wrench. I use it when I need it and then I put it away. I don't spend hours cuddled up it. I have my desktop machine for that. It has a much bigger screen. Looking at pictures on a smartphone is stupid. I don't care how high your resolution is, the image is just too friggin' small. Bring it close enough so that it occupies the same field of view as a desktop display and you are going to be cross-eyed.