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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: darkbrowneggs on February 24, 2014, 08:37:43 pm

Title: on Orkney now - green flares every ten seconds
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 24, 2014, 08:37:43 pm

Hi all  Made it to Orkney and am park up on high lookout point with fantastic views of islands all round.  Camera batteries went and probs with both phones, but hope for good day tomorrow again.


Sitting here facing north with curtains back I can deffo see a glow above the horizon  so hopefully somthing later.


But every ten seconds or so in the distance a green flare goes off.  Does this mean someone is in trouble out at sea?

Title: Re: on Orkney now - green flares every ten seconds
Post by: SallyintNorth on February 24, 2014, 11:23:19 pm

Lighthouse?  Or buoy?

Title: Re: on Orkney now - green flares every ten seconds
Post by: john and helen on February 25, 2014, 09:33:23 pm

its Red flare for danger… sound s like a starboard bouy

Title: Re: on Orkney now - green flares every ten seconds
Post by: darkbrowneggs on February 25, 2014, 11:09:56 pm

Thanks - I know nothing about the sea  :eyelashes:

Title: Re: on Orkney now - green flares every ten seconds
Post by: shygirl on March 05, 2014, 08:49:00 pm

hope all is ok, its gone quiet....
no internet? or have you blown awa?

 :hug: