mstdn.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

11K
active users

#spinnakertower

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

We were treated to a wonderful display from the Red Arrows over Ryde last Sunday.

Unfortunately the weather was rubbish and meant that the photoshoot wasn't the best. We have been coerced into making this one public by a few customers in the shop who wanted it on their walls.

The Red Arrows were fab as always, the sun came out within minutes of the display ending. #RedArrows #SpinnakerTower

We've had a pleasant few hours down Spice Island commemorating the life of our friend's wife. Always lovely to meet up with various friends and family for this annual event although that heatwave of the last week vanished in a hurry down by the water. Quite a chilly breeze by the time we parted company with everyone.

Continued thread

From this vantage point, the back of the #SpinnakerTower can be seen.

And here are a few more views of it from a a bit closer.

The tower is 170 m tall with three #ObservationDecks, the lowest of which is 100 m hight. I have to say that my wife was a little underwhelmed by the structure until, that is, we got up to the first #ObservationPlatform. A clue is that dark rectangle you can see on the underside.

As #spring is here, it’s time to resume our own form of #EthicalTourism or #EcoToruism (day trips involving travel only by #bike and #PublicTransport#Trains, in this case). As I’m a #StructuralEngineer, I like seeing interesting #structures and so I picked #Portsmouth. Quite recently, it had a #tower built called the #SpinnakerTower as it resembles a #spinnaker #sail. It is by no means unique, nor is it the tallest, but it’s comfortably within a day trip’s distance of us.

Long post...

Local law prohibits visitors to Gunwharf from not taking a photo of the Spinnaker Tower and posting it online. Technically, I obeyed this law when I posted it on an Instagram story yesterday but I see no reason not to share it here too.

I quite enjoy engaging in the "Add Yours" story photos on these days and one I've just posted there was for "Where are you from?" so I thought I'd share the photo here too.

This is the Spinnaker Tower in our home city of ; a lovely piece of distinctive with a maritime feel on the city waterfront near the naval base. This was taken in 2010 and to the left you can see masts of HMS Warrior and HMS Victory.

This is Portsmouth Harbour, an inlet of the Solent, along with our city's famous Spinnaker Tower from the water for today. Left of the tower you can see masts of HMS Warrior and behind that is the Royal Navy Dockyard. This photo was taken in 2014 from the ferry that runs regularly between Portsmouth and Gosport.