9/21/05 | 8:50 pm | Solution: Beach Swan
Hey there roogle kids, I’m cleaning up a little earlier today because I’ve got such Dungeon Siege 2 action coming up soon, hehe! Yep, got my PC up and running at least somewhat… so it looks like I’m both a Mac and PC person now due to using the Powerbook for the last 3 or so weeks.
So here is the Beach Swan in all its glory:
Not as many solutions this time, sort of disappointing in fact given that it was two days long. But anyhow David H was first on the board:
Took a minute or two. I’m a New Yorker, so Fire Island was the first thing I thought of. If it hadn’t been there, I would have been in trouble, though.
I had a feeling being from New York area might give a little advantage. Me, I had never heard of “Fire Island” until this clue!
Judy B mixed music and Scavengeroogle to come up with the answer:
Just a couple of minutes. For some reason, I had a stupid song stuck in my head that had something in it about Fire Island so that was the first place I looked. Good to know those annoying songs that won’t go away are good for something!
Tim J got the pun quite quickly:
Two minutes… I love fire = Isle of fire = Fire Island, NY
as did Mike B:
“I Love Fire” = “Isle of Fire” = “Fire Island”. About 10 minutes.
Almost nil herrings for this one… I guess you either got it straight away or didn’t. Justin also knew about Fire Island from living there:
I lived on Long Island, so my first thought was that this clue would be on Fire Island. It took about a minute or two once I searched the island.
Why do they call Fire Island anyhow? Vic W said:
It took a couple of hours. The “Fire” part of the clue was a little too obvious.
Uh? It was too obvious but it still took a couple hours?
Dan M writes:
Once I took a zoomed-out look at the satellite shot I knew I was in the right neighborhood pretty quickly. 3-4 minutes? Ain’t it grand when they just click??
It is certainly damned grand when it clicks like that, or so I’ve heard from regular ‘rooglers. Regular Rooglers, haha.
Eric W went searching for fire but eventually got fire island:
Just about an hour - got sidetracked reading the news. Once I got away from fire and onto Fire Island, it was easy.
Okee doke. Yep, that’s all she wrote for this one! I’m thinking that with everyone heading back to school and work schedules startin’ up again that not as many Rooglers are stopping by. Which is cool… I’ll just keep putting them up. Oh yeah, and Bounties too… I didn’t get a chance this past weekend so hopefully there will be some more up along with prizes coming soon. See you all later.
September 21st, 2005 at 9:36 pm
the really sad thing is that I looked around Fire Island a bit and didn’t see it…
*sigh*
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:38 pm
Damn, that should have been easy, but just not my luck… But I did find one volunteer fire department (in mississippi? i don’t remember) that is called the ‘i love fire department’ and the area had lots of stranged shaped lakes, so i thought i was just going crazy… never thought to look at fire island, tho i did look at tierra del fuego (land of fire) but there isn’t any high-res there… so yeah there were a couple herrings
September 22nd, 2005 at 6:12 pm
aaron - When looking at the clue, I was wondering if figuring out Fire Island would mean someone would eventually find the swan… i guess that answers it!
jordan - nice herrings, I didn’t know of either of them…I was actually wondering if people would try to search near volcanoes because of the “fire” part of the clue.