I wish!
I was, however, close to the BZMX boundary that slices through the
northern part of Ambergris Caye yesterday.
Close, but no Cuban cigar!
Off to Caye Caulker today...
Doug
On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 06:40 AM, m06079 wrote:
> hahaha
> thats jive on the caribbean
>
> gyve is atlantic
>
>
> no gibe mon
> this doesnt jibe
>
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > Hey Doug
> >
> > Since you are now in the area, could you not pop down to
> photograph the point where GYVE hits the Caribbean Sea?
> >
> > Jesper
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: acroorca2002
> > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:16 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: GYVE(Caribbbean Sea)
> >
> >
> > according to this venezuelan border brief in spanish dated
> 2002
> > http://www.monographias.com/trabajos12/liven/liven.shtml
> > the parties are seeking a solution & have announced that the
> > dispute is nearly resolved
> > tho no details have been released
> >
> > special to doug
> > good point
> > & nice biscuit mix
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> > <orc@o...> wrote:
> > > from
> > >
> >
> http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS021.pdf
> > >
> > > at the oceans edge
> > > currents & waves have built a long low ridge of alluvial
> > materials
> > > under the solid stand of tangled mangroves
> > > behind which tidal lagoons & marshes & river floodplains
> > > choked by heavy swamp grass are subject to regular
> > > inundations
> > >
> > > the wet savannah is broken only by narrow tree covered
> ridges
> > of
> > > older alluvium that deflects the sluggish rivers
> > > causing them to parallel the coast
> > >
> > >
> > > starting from the coast at punta playa
> > > where there is a terminal monument in nlat 8d33m22s &
> > wlong
> > > 59d59m48s
> > > the boundary runs 21 miles in a straight line to the barima
> river
> > > at its junction with the mururuma river
> > > where there is a second monument in nlat 8d18m44s &
> wlong
> > > 59d48m10s
> > > & thence along the midstream of the latter river
> > > etc etc etc
> > > eventually up to brgyve at mount roraima
> > >
> > > but this line & its monumentation circa 1900 have been
> > > repudiated by venezuela
> > > in favor of a highly dubious line along the essequibo
> > > which would give venezuela roughly half of what is generally
> > > recognized as guyana today
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002"
> > > <orc@o...> wrote:
> > > > yes i once blew right thru there sailing from port of spain
> to
> > > > berbice guyana
> > > >
> > > > the atlantic there is an incredibly pale green lake
> > > > with hardly a ripple
> > > > against a darker green band of jungle on the coast
> > > >
> > > > the border is in dispute
> > > > but you are probably talking about the guyanese position
> at
> > > > punta playa in the barima estuary rather than the
> venezuelan
> > > one
> > > > on the essequibo river
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/maps/bs2
> > > > 1.php
> > > >
> > > > but what is the question about
> > > >
> > > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
> > > > <jesniel@i...> wrote:
> > > > > I will just come with a border POINT question, which
> may
> > > > involve some border issues.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anybody know how this point looks like (and the
> exact
> > > > course of the GYVE just before it reaches the water)?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mapshells/south_america/venezuel
> > > > a/venezuela.htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Jesper
> >
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