Crashing Down
By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
March 13, 2017 4:14pm CST
If you're a tiny island in the middle of a churning sea, in a gale, bits of you are going to suffer.
So it came to pass, on March 8th, that the world-famous Azure Window, locally known by the Gozitans as "it-tieqa tad-Dwejra", succumbed to the pounding surf and collapsed beneath the foaming brine.
Here's what this landmark looked like on video, as featured in many a wedding photo as well as on HBO's "Game of Thrones", courtesy of YouTube™ (below).
The picture above shows how the same bit of the coastline of Gozo, the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago, appears today.
Azure Window collapsed on the 8th of March! Its really sad that this beautiful landmarks does not exist anymore. this is a small tribute to that place as we ...
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@allknowing (135323)
• India
14 Mar 17
I skipped this outing when it was scheduled as per plan. We were very tired after our previous day trip to Philips Island to watch the Penguins' March.
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@allknowing (135323)
• India
14 Mar 17
@JudyEv Being in Australia you have still not seen it (lol) That reminds me of my nephew who is in the States. I was on that US tour when he told me that he had not seen half of what i had seen being in the US for well over 25 years. (lol)
Penguin March is worth your time.
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@JudyEv (338657)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Mar 17
@allknowing I'd love to see the Penguins' March.
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@allknowing (135323)
• India
14 Mar 17
Silly as it may sound just a couple of days ago I promised my friend to take her for snacks to my favourite place. I had not been there in years. I was shocked to see that building had disappeared and we were directed to another place. I did not like that place at all.
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@allknowing (135323)
• India
15 Mar 17
@pgntwo That must have been devastating for you. Was your house sold off?
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
15 Mar 17
@allknowing The house I grew up in was handed back to the owner when the lease was up... Then it became a bar/restaurant. After that, it went downhill. Last time I was there, it was bricked-up and abandoned.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
13 Mar 17
It's sad that with all our modern technolgy we could not bring it back and motherbnature is reallyva force to reckon with, it was getting thinner through the years as this video would show
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
13 Mar 17
@pgntwo I suppose so too, I wonder if they ever thought of reinforcing it while it was still up at least from money coming from tourists visits, now it gone forever
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
13 Mar 17
@louievill It will make even more of an attraction now, as divers and others interested in marine life study how the submerged debris are reintegrated into the seabed, I suspect.
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
13 Mar 17
I've been to Gozo several times and always thought the Azure Window was a bit of a lame attraction. As a geologist by training, I just accept that erosion happens, rocks fall down, that's to be expected. I don't suppose if it wasn't associated with Game of Thrones (which I've never seen) that anybody would be particularly fussed about it.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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13 Mar 17
I love the idea that the sea just takes what it wants without worrying if we care or not!
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