Photography

Cyberlizard · **on:** March 12, 2006, 01:18:37 PM

A while back I said I might post some of my photos of the mountainous back country of Montana. Here are a few photos of the Natural Bridge, 20 minutes away from Big Timber. The river flows into a cave...

Cyberlizard · **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2006, 01:20:51 PM

and empties out into a watering hole with an opening big enough to fit the Empire State Building in it.

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F-14 Ace · **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2006, 02:29:13 PM

Cool! Does anyone ever go inside the cave?

Cyberlizard · **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2006, 02:31:04 PM

No, it's mostly underwater and it's very steep and slippery. the cliffs are about 100 ft high.

F-14 Ace · **Reply #4 on:** March 13, 2006, 08:36:54 AM

That would be awsome if someone actually could go in there. Heaven only knows what is in there. I wish I could find those pictures of the battleship I spent the night on. That was real awesome. If I ever find them, I may post them on here. Just that some of them aren't real good. Visiting that WII battleship was the funnest thing I ever did in boy scouts. Got to sleep in the cots and everything. Only thing was the air conditioner (thatr wasn't origionally on th ship during the war) sounded like a hurricane blowing.

Malte279 · **Reply #5 on:** March 13, 2006, 10:59:21 AM

Those are really nice pictures Cyberlizard

Such landscape elements could fit in really well into an LBT story. One of the stories I'm planning on (altogether that particular story is rather vague so far) involves a cave with an underground river. I could imagine such a cave (provided there is any dry ground inside the cave) to be relatively easy to (involuntarily) access but almost impossible to leave.

What battleship have you been on F-14? The USS Alabama (my best guess because she is not too far from where you live)? The New Jersey? The Texas? The North Carolina? Amazing that there is such a fleet of Big battleships to visit. I've so far been on three submarines, a destroyer, and one heavy cruiser.

F-14 Ace · **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2006, 05:52:35 PM

It is the USS Alabama. She is down in Mobile, about a three hour drive from where we live. Theyhave the battleship, the submarine USS Drum, a gun boat, and a whole bunch of aircraft. Unfortunatly, the aircraft building is still closed due to damage from Hurricane Katrina. I am jelous because the Boy Scout troop I am in now went to Charleston, South Carolina and got to spend a week on the USS Yorktown, a WWII aircraft carrier. That is something I have always wanted to do but they went a year before I joind. :cry2 I have always wanted to see a real aircraft carrier. Which ships have you been on? Were they on display or still active? I heard that when the US NAvy wants to impress people, they give them a tour of a modern aircraft carrier, regardless of wether they were civillians or not. I heard that they stopped doing that after 9/11 though. Now I'll never get to see a real modern aircraft carrier. There aren't any on display except the old WWII ones. :cry2

Malte279 · **Reply #7 on:** March 13, 2006, 06:28:59 PM

I wonder if they meant to name the USS Yorktown which now rests at Charlestown after the 1781 battle or if they meant it to be a tribute to the USS Yorktown sunk at Midway. Maybe everyone could decide for the own preference.
I've been on two German WW2 submarines, one comperatively new Dutch submarine, a Dutch destroyer and the British battle cruiser HMS Belfast (which rests near Tower Bridge).

F-14 Ace · **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2006, 06:52:18 PM

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I wonder if they meant to name the USS Yorktown which now rests at Charlestown after the 1781 battle or if they meant it to be a tribute to the USS Yorktown sunk at Midway. Maybe everyone could decide for the own preference.
I've been on two German WW2 submarines, one comperatively new Dutch submarine, a Dutch destroyer and the British battle cruiser HMS Belfast (which rests near Tower Bridge).

The Yorktown I was refering to was named after the first Yorktown. I know because I read the sip's history. I think I've seen that British cruiser in the background of a picture of Tower Bridge. The Drum is a very small submarine. She only held 18 men. THesub is about 150 feet long. But the Alabama is a cool place to visit. I heard that people were taking shelter on it during Hurricane Ivan, Dennis, and Katrina. Not a good idea. That ship does not float if the mooring cables break. 15 feet of it's hull is under mud because it is in shallow watet and it had a very deep hull. It wouldn't float because too much of it is in the mud. THe Drum was washed ashore and badly damaged on several ocasions. On my first visit back in 1998, she was close and her boarding dock was sticking out of the sub's side.
This is an intresting fact. Did you know that there is aWWII u-boat on display in Chicago? I think it was one that was either captured by a destroyer or the one that surrendered in New York after the war.

Cyberlizard · **Reply #9 on:** March 13, 2006, 07:14:30 PM

Here are some pictures I took yesterday while I was visiting the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. This is a photo of the museum complex. The metal Tyrannosaurus cast has been dubbed "Big Mike".