We always referred to the as the 7 sisters..... According to Sue Hodgson, they were in fact called Stonehenge and were placed there by Hans Kuhnel, The Plumber Foreman in the early 70's.... Does anyone know more about why these rocks were placed here....
Thanks to Aunty Sue... for the topic....
sorry mike, what was refered to as the 7 sisters and where
The rocks on the way into town.... opposite the current bottle store or the old xray dept....
I always thought they were just a bunch of rocks. Must be that 70's blur spinningweed
I know the rocks,,,like Diana i didn't know they had a name idontknow yes Diana it must be 70's blur spinningweed
So now we have.... Stonehenge, The Rocks and the 7 sisters... the mystery that is Oranjemund continues to deepen...
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For me they were always the seven sisters...........
I know them as 7 sisters as well . I think all that were born in the 70 s know them as 7 sisters .
If you were around before then then you will know them as rocks and Stonehedge .
Mike have you got a photo of them forgot what they look like ' old age you know'
There is one somewhere on this site.....forgot where.....'old age you know
There is a pic somewhere on this forum.... gotta find it amonst the other 2000 pics.... but not now, coz I;m drinking and braaing again....
i remember the name....but dont remember the rocks....maybe in thinking of somat else......so i would love to se a photo too.
Thought there was a photo under the 'Gemsbok graveyard' topic?
I thought there was a topic called the stones on 5th. Couldn't find anything.
Here's a photo of the Rocks. Wasn't the police station at the house just on the corner of the street, just opposite the rocks?
Mike - yes, this is one of the photos I took thate day in November '04 when I secretly entered Oranjemund, walked around town like a Japenese tourist snapping shots at every corner, had lunch, visited the library and the school, photographed the swimming pool, etc, with no one seeing me ... iknow
Why do my photos always come out like billboards ... I'm not even blond ... Georg Sr, can you help?
Hi Patricia. I'm jr. but I was listening well hihi
Download Picasa from the google homepage. When you start the programm it'll search all pics. Go to the pic you need. At the bottom right you have several buttons. Press "import" and follow the commands..... Or ask snr. again. hihi
I am using Picasa at home, but can't download it to my work PC. So everytime I post a photo from work, it comes out in SUPER format
I don't use Picasa, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait for Georg.... Sorry!
If you do as in the description above you can take your pics via stick or whatever to work and upload from there. It works. I'm doing it myself.
That's exactly what I did. At home it was perfect, but from work it's huge
Maybe you pasted the wrong image. You'll have the original and the exported one. Make sure the exported one was saved properly.
I'm afraid I cant help you on the posting of pics; but that photo looks great Patricia - funny how in my memory those rocks were so much bigger and I always wondered how we climbed them without any 'climbing gear with ropes and harnesses etc - thought wse were right little dare devils, but unfortunately we were just small...........
The size of your photo is massive.... 600kb..... you can resize the pic down to at least 50 kb.....
That should make a difference, somewhere in here I explained to Bev how to do this...
yeah you did.....lol.....then you changed the size we could up load.......so i never had to do it....lol.....but im sure i could if i needed to........ cookin
Quote from: Rhona on February 26, 2008, 08:53:58 AM
I'm afraid I cant help you on the posting of pics; but that photo looks great Patricia - funny how in my memory those rocks were so much bigger and I always wondered how we climbed them without any 'climbing gear with ropes and harnesses etc - thought wse were right little dare devils, but unfortunately we were just small...........
Rhona, I agree with you. Everything looks so much smaller. It really surprised me when I went back to Oranjemund. Check out this photo of the school sport stadium. I remembered this as being humungous with hundreds of supporters from Red/Blue/Green house singing away and cheering on their athletes. Was it really this small?
oh i loved the sports field and that stand.....i felt like i was at the olympics the first day i was there.......i loved all the singing and cheer leading....dont think i ever was one....only in my bed room................and im gona be one next week at a high school mucial party lol
Oooooh, we want to see photos hoolahoop1
oh not sure id want to see them lol......but sure some one will be taking a camera.... laughpoint
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@ Patricia - that stadium was definitely bigger; sure at any event we had to fight our way for seats - I'm sure half of S.Africa used to come and cheer us on - there was that many people there..............do you think maybe they cut half the stadium away? Mike; was that stadium cut in half???
Thats the cricket Field, which has always been that size, and still is today, Athletics was held there prior to 1978 as there was nowhere lese to hold it, after that it was held at the Odasa track to the west of town.... The cricket field , I believe is once again used for athletics but on a much smaller scale than ever before...Off course cross country running has always been from here..... yesterday afternoon there was a herd of 30 plus gemsboks grazing on it!
Yup, that's where we used to hold our athletics meetings. I left for boarding school in 1980, so never really knew the Odasa track.