And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Google Earth Street view shows the waterline between the house in the center of the picture right side of the bay and the rest of the town, so I'm thinking low tide in CW's picture.
Definitely low tide. A perfect place for a smugglers Cove, and it was. Tacking into that inlet would have required nerves of steel. So mostly they rowed the Brandy, Tea, and Tobacco into shore in dory's. All duty free and no interference from pesky government agents. In on the high tide, unload and out on the falling tide.
It appears as if at one point in time a robust river ran down through there...or is it tidal?
ReplyDeleteBlimey! This place has a 4+m tidal range. No wonder we don't see any piers or boats at the head of the inlet...
ReplyDeleteGoogle Earth Street view shows the waterline between the house in the center of the picture right side of the bay and the rest of the town, so I'm thinking low tide in CW's picture.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely low tide. A perfect place for a smugglers Cove, and it was.
ReplyDeleteTacking into that inlet would have required nerves of steel. So mostly they rowed the Brandy, Tea, and Tobacco into shore in dory's. All duty free and no interference from pesky government agents. In on the high tide, unload and out on the falling tide.