He has been sculpturing and fine-tuning the rugged hillside site since he acquired it three decades ago, earning a place among the 49 gardens featured in Connecticut.
At both of those rugged, mountainous sites, salvage efforts removed the more accessible and valuable wreckage, but scattered and sometimes substantial portions of the TWA DC-3 and Bonanza Air Lines Fairchild F-27 were left behind, including the DC-3's radial engines.
Average December high: 20C Aphrodite's mythical birthplace near Paphos has much to lure the visitor: white sandy beaches, a rugged coastline, archaeological sites, and nature trails following in the footsteps of the goddess herself.
The site includes rugged topography that makes agricultural land disposal difficult.
Additional new sites in rugged terrain still require ground verification.
"Quaint" doesn't begin to describe the settings: pounding surf, rugged cliffs, splendid isolation, sites of historic rescues and damp derring-do.
Kites nested on cliffs and trees and preferentially near water, far from paths and villages and in rugged and steep micro-sites.
The nearby Tower Creek, the site of a rugged canyon, had a waterfall that dropped into a steep gorge covered with thick forest growth.
Thirty oil companies, nine of them new to Colombia, have signed exploration contracts for nearly 50 oil fields, ranging from an offshore block in the Caribbean to potentially lucrative patches in the country's rugged Andean foothills, like this site in the Gualiva Valley.
Solar radiation was successfully retrieved with a root mean square error (RMSE) of ∼20 W m−2 for both the Terra and Aqua devices over the flat farmland site, whereas the rugged forest site exhibited corresponding values of 40 and 65 W m−2 RMSE values with consistent positive biases (presumably caused by topographic effects).
