Wow, first time I've ever won anything. I was pretty chuffed at having worked it out, never having been within 200 miles of it, sat on my sofa here in a rain soaked UK.

My method was this. I looked at the shadow on the walker, and it fell on his front, although there wasn't much shadow in the bay, so I figured it was north facing. Then Neil gave us the clue that it was close to one the world's 20 largest cities. I seemed to recall Neil is LA based, and I figured LA had to be in that list, so I turned to Wikipedia which told me that the LA urban area is in the top 20 (although not LA itself). I then thought about the hour's drive and hour's ferry and figured that it was probably not the Catalinas, but could well be the Channel Islands, as I'd noticed them on a map I was studying some days earlier, as we're off to California in October. So I turned to Google Earth and had a look around, and Potato Harbour jumped out (if you use the tilt function in GE you can just about put yourself in the same position as the photographer). The islet at the west end of the bay is the clincher. Then I put 'Potato Harbour' in to Google Images and the first hit was a more or less identical image. There you go, that's the power of t'internet for you. Probably never get another one right, though.

Jim (feeling in equal measure a bit smug and a bit of a nerd).

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