The View From Above: horse

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Friday, May 29, 2009

Clydesdale Horse - Waimate, New Zealand

44°44'41.60"S 171° 0'29.19"E

This white horse is on a hillside above Waimate, New Zealand. The horse was dedicated to the Clydesdale horses which were used to break in the land in the area. It was built in the late nineteen-sixties by Norman Haymanand and his wife Betty. The horse is constructed from over 1000 concrete slabs with a pre-cast head weighing two and a half tons. It measures 60 feet (18 meters) high by 48 feet (15 meters) long.

Giant Horse and Lizard Near Juarez, Mexico

31°39'40.82"N 106°35'26.02"W

This symbol appears on the ground 9.6 miles west of Juarez International Airport, Mexico. Just to the southeast of the horse is a small stylized lizard. There are also some other symbols in the area as well (a big "H" and a word or name spelled out, but pretty illegible). Painted in whitewash on a mountainside by local architect Hector García Acosta and his son Carlos, it is a huge reproduction of the Uffington horse in the U.K.

Why "View From Above"

I have an unquenchable thirst for exploration and mysteries. But that isn't the only reason for "View From Above." This blog exists primarily thanks to the despicable ignorance and laziness of the many, many people who will post a picture of some anomaly and simply make guesses about it, rather than do five minutes worth of research. I can't count the many times I've seen aerial pictures of "UFOs parked in a row on the beach" (They're beach umbrellas, you dork!) or questions like, "What's this aircraft doing sitting in the middle of the desert?" (It's a military firing range. They use junk aircraft as targets. Duh!) The unwillingness on the part of most people to do even a minimal amount of research just boggles the mind.

Another pet peeve of mine is the practice of posting an interesting site without a precise location. I don't know if it's laziness, oversight, or a desire to hoard information, but it's irritating as hell to me. That's why mosts of my posts will always include coordinates to the site.

I hope you'll enjoy perusing the sites I've listed. I can't take credit for being the first to "find" most of them, but I will do my best to let you know what I find out about them!

Michael Makai