Anywhere Challenge: Win up to 60,000 points over the next 8 weeks
Oct 13, 2010, 10:35 pm
#2731
Join Date: Oct 2008
Programs: US, CO, PC, SPG, Hyatt
Posts: 147
wow, nice find! this should conclude this week's discussion
I think you are right, it sure looks like this photo.
http://gohawaii.about.com/b/2009/05/...t-for-2009.htm
So much for logic!
http://gohawaii.about.com/b/2009/05/...t-for-2009.htm
So much for logic!
Oct 13, 2010, 10:37 pm
#2732
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 1
Here it is
I found a picture to prove it is Hanalei Bay - Look at the vegetation as it matches up to the front part of the point on the Hint Pic....
Thanks
http://z.about.com/d/gohawaii/1/0/L/...lei_bay_04.jpg
Thanks
http://z.about.com/d/gohawaii/1/0/L/...lei_bay_04.jpg
Oct 13, 2010, 10:42 pm
#2734
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 14
I've been in the dry caves on Kauai a couple of times.
It's a lava tube. It takes about 10 minutes to see it. The wet ones are off Tunnels Beach and you can explore them under the water.
Unless I missed something that's it.
It's not seplunking if you don't need a flashlight.
It's a lava tube. It takes about 10 minutes to see it. The wet ones are off Tunnels Beach and you can explore them under the water.
Unless I missed something that's it.
It's not seplunking if you don't need a flashlight.
Oct 13, 2010, 10:43 pm
#2735
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 526
I've really been resisting the Kauai idea because I thought the water was too dark. I just took a look at the pictures I took there last summer and something caught my eye on the black rocks. (I know this may be a real stretch, so don't attack me.) There is a group of black rocks out in the water, forming a protective cove. The water beyond the rocks is darker and the waves crash against them. Since the extracted images show the rocks and water are a separate image from the sand, the rocks from the composite image may actually be in the water and not on the beach. There appears to be a white mark on the 3rd rock from the left that matches a "Keep Off" sign painted on a rock in my photo:
Is there a way to enlarge the image of the rocks from the extracted photo to see if it is the "Keep off" rock?
Is there a way to enlarge the image of the rocks from the extracted photo to see if it is the "Keep off" rock?
If you are right, PC raised the bar in this game.
Oct 13, 2010, 10:50 pm
#2738
Join Date: Sep 2010
Programs: all
Posts: 23
More matches for the headlands in the distance, from slightly different angles. No doubt this is the area:
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-1874...rd-series.html
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-4701...in-hawaii.html
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-4811...ai-hawaii.html
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-1874...rd-series.html
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-4701...in-hawaii.html
- http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-4811...ai-hawaii.html
Oct 13, 2010, 10:55 pm
#2739
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Germany
Programs: IC Spire Ambassador, A3*G, MSC Diamond
Posts: 249
It must be KAUAI, HAWAII, USA!
Oct 13, 2010, 10:57 pm
#2740
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: PHX
Posts: 4,789
Let's assume it is a picture of the bay taken from the St. Regis end of the beach. It sure does look like it. St. Regis Princeville is a hotel anywhere member, but it's a starwood property so it's a direct competitor of Priority Club. Haven't most of the locations so far had at least one priority club location, not simply hotel anywhere properties?
I don't think there are any Priority Club properties on Kauai, which would make it a somwhat suprising answer. But perhaps they are trying to emphasize the fact that you really can book competitors with your PC points. Was the picture from the resort in Sabah a priority club? I mean whichever resort had the massage table picture that was used for the contest -- was that a priority club resort or just a hotel anywhere resort?
I don't think there are any Priority Club properties on Kauai, which would make it a somwhat suprising answer. But perhaps they are trying to emphasize the fact that you really can book competitors with your PC points. Was the picture from the resort in Sabah a priority club? I mean whichever resort had the massage table picture that was used for the contest -- was that a priority club resort or just a hotel anywhere resort?
Oct 13, 2010, 11:01 pm
#2741
Join Date: Apr 2004
Programs: AA, UA, SQ, VA, QF, AF, BA
Posts: 2,867
I think you are right, it sure looks like this photo.
http://gohawaii.about.com/b/2009/05/...t-for-2009.htm
So much for logic!
http://gohawaii.about.com/b/2009/05/...t-for-2009.htm
So much for logic!
I'm just shocked PC used a view from a Starwood property!
Oct 13, 2010, 11:02 pm
#2742
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 432
Crud, I was all set to submit Kauai and I waited too long and now it's at the next clue 
Oct 13, 2010, 11:14 pm
#2744
Join Date: Oct 2010
Programs: UAL PCR
Posts: 12
Pics Seem to Be From Both Poipu and Na Pali...
so the answer is probably just Kauai, Hawaii USA. Take a look at the vegetation in the photo at the bottom of the wikipedia article for Poipu:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poipu,_Hawaii
I am guessing that the extra swath of sand right next to the water in the picture deconstruct Foxberg two days ago will become rock in a day or two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poipu,_Hawaii
I am guessing that the extra swath of sand right next to the water in the picture deconstruct Foxberg two days ago will become rock in a day or two.