Nice!!! Thanks. :)
-Mike
--- Dallen Timothy <
dtimothy@...> wrote:
> Mike,
> Sorry I forgot to answer your question.
> This is indeed the entire bridge. I'm standing on
> the Dutch side looking
> into French territory. Apparently the border runs
> through the bridge near
> the end where the potted plant is located (shoreline
> border). The plant is
> in France.
> Dallen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kaufman
> [mailto:mikekaufman79@...]
> Sent: Mon 6/23/2003 6:04 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] last of the St Martin
> pics
>
>
>
> one question:
> In picture #3, I can't quite tell...is this the
> entire
> bridge, Dutch side looking into french territory?
> Or
> is this all French territory in the photo?
> -Mike K.
>
> --- Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@...> wrote:
> > This might work finally--Somehow I got kicked off
> > BoundaryPoint. I didn't
> > think I misbehaved quite that badly.
> > Dallen
> >
> > Computer problems holding me back again.
> > Here are four more St Martin pics.
> > 1) This is at the eastern end of Oyster Bay. This
> is
> > what could be a
> > boundary marker, a boundary reference marker, or
> > something else! I think it
> > is represented on the topos with that small
> > triangular point. This little
> > peninsula is Dutch and the one across the water is
>
> > French.
> > 2) Here it is from another angle looking at Oyster
>
> > Bay. In the middle right
> > of the picture you can see a brown bar/restaurant
> > overhanging the water.
> > This is the one that lies on the border with
> perhaps
> > the shortest
> > international bridge.
> > 3) Here's the international bridge. Again, it
> > appears that the shoreline
> > marks the border, so as you enter the bar, you're
> on
> > the French side, but
> > within a few inches you enter the Dutch side. The
> > old 1:50000 seem to show
> > this, but the one Chris turned us on to does not.
> > 4) Here's the change in pavement at the border
> just
> > west of Oyster Bay. The
> > blue sign simply says Philipsburg right, Dawn
> Beach
> > left. There's not
> > welcome to either side sign at this crossing
> point.
> > Oh yeah, by the way, on
> > the far west end of the island, where the road
> > crosses just west of Simpson
> > Bay Lagoon, only the French side has a welcome
> sign
> > (I sent a pic of this
> > earlier).
> > It would be nice to try to work out the exact
> > dimensions of the border, but
> > frankly, I'm not sure anyone knows!
> > Dallen
> >
> >
>
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> > ATTACHMENT part 3 image/jpeg name=St-Martin-14.jpg
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