6 islands Bridges??
 

I was bored so I took the winnipesaukee quiz on this site.One of the questions was "How many islands are bridged from the main land?"I said 4 the answer is 6. I searched the forum,there was discussion about it but nobody named 6. I have got, Christmas, Governor's, Black Cat, and Long Island.Help me out here thanks.

Worcester Island near Springfield Point is clearly bridged.

Half Mile Islands in Center Harbor look bridged together and to the mainland.

Birch Island and Steamboat Island are clearly bridged together.

Birch and steamboat are not "bridged from the mainland", and the half mile bridge has been down for a long time, I think.Thanks though.Maybe the web master will let us know where he got the answer.

Oak
 

Oak Island?

Oak Island is one of the 5 bridged Islands on the lake and although one of the smallest, there are several homes on the island which belongs to the town of Meredith.

This website claims 5 bridged.

http://www.myislandbroker.com/islandhistory.html

Aha
 

Number of islands that can be reached by bridge = six; Black Cat Island, Long Island, Oak Island, Governor's Island, Worcester Island and Christmas Island

From:

http://www.lake-winnipesaukee-travel...com/facts.html

Thanks for the quick answer
 

Thanks Hazelnut. I knew if I asked here I would get a answer.I searched for a web site.but could not find a answer.I didn't know worcester had a bridge,and I have never heard of Oak.
This summer I will have a excuse for a long boat ride,tour the Winni bridges.
Thanks

There are more, depending on your definition of an island or of a bridge:

Harvard Island: http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=43.700...16&l=0&m=a&v=2

Unnamed island about 450m NNW of Harvard Island: http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=43.704...16&l=0&m=a&v=2

Is it a bridge or a conduit? The water is two feet deep. It's eight feet wide, with a four foot clearance. You could row a boat under the road. http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=43.720...16&l=0&m=a&v=2

There's a walking bridge to this island at Silver Sands Marina: http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=43.581...17&l=0&m=a&v=2

Bridge in Suissevale
 

Three is also a bridge in Suissevale. You can drive a car over it to their public beach. It is also navigatable, as I have paddled a kayak all of the way around it.

OK so we need rules :D

It must be from the mainland, leaves out Birch-Steamboat and others.

It must be to a natural island, not a penisular with a man-made water crossing. Leaves out Bizer's third and Belkins.

The bridge must carry autos. Leaves out Bizer's other three including Silver Sands and a bunch of small docks and foot bridges connecting tiny islands. There's probably ten in the Weirs channel alone.

The bridge must still be here. Leaves out half mile island and Stonedam.

Natural island is the weakest rule because I'm sure that definitive history to prove some of these is lost. Do we need any other rules to get the answer to be six?

Is it ice-out yet ? :emb:

I'm sorry but the real answer is zero. Once you build a bridge to an island it ceases to be a "real" island.

If you drive to your cabin, you are not an islander.... Sorry

Island Question
 

I have one for the history buffs,
On the mapping software I have on my computer at work, the mapping software DeLorme Street Atlas, shows Christmas Island as being named as Plummer Island. Can anyone explain?

To be an Islander or Not to be
 

Bear - I agree completely! To be an Islander you can not drive to your cabin.

Uh oh. I just wanted to find the answer to the Winni quiz. I didn't mean to start
a debate on what is and is not a island or the definition of a bridge.
My son says,If you can't drive a car over it or take a boat under it, it is not a bridge.

Yup...yessiree....that's right, a bridge changes everything, including the type of people that live there.
I believe that Governor's Island has quite a few homes for sale while Bear Island has almost zero. Therefore, that makes Governor's Island a transient type of a neighborhood! Now, ain't that right! :D

Now look what this has turned into...
 

I consider myself an "Islander" and I drive to my camp. I don't use a bridge or my boat to get there.

BT

OK BT, I'll ask it. Then how? Is there an airstrip on the island and you leave your car there? or maybe just a simple ferry?

And BI, is that "islander" distinction only for Winni? I believe the people of Newport RI, Jamestown RI, and of couse Long Island NY at the very least, might want to disagree a bit.

Does that mean you are on Frye Island?

I was talking about Lake Winnipesaukee where we don't have any ferries. I suppose that qualifies as an islander, in some circles. However to be a true Islander, Winnipesaukee style, you can't drive to your place.

The residents of Newport RI, and Long Island NY can disagree all they want, but they are NOT islanders. Cape Cod is also an island, by the "geographic" definition. Just let someone from Hyannis go over to Nantucket and tell people they are an islander! I don't think so!


I'm not talking about geography here, I'm talking about anthropology, socialization, living conditions and state of mind.

Well, that didn't last long. I was hoping to have a little more fun...and IG didn't rat me out!

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By the way get off our Winni page and start your own in Segago!:eek::eek::laugh::laugh:

First of all, this is all just fun and games, killing time waiting for spring.

Well according to the movie Jaws:

Ellen: I just want to know one simple thing. When do I get to become an islander?
Friend: Ellen, never. Never. You're not born here, you're not an islander. That's it

Now equating the "anthropology, socialization, living conditions and state of mind" of living year round on Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard (Amity in the movie) with spending summers on Bear Island is a little silly. How isolated are you really on Bear Island?

Now the Broads side of Rattlesnake in a storm with high winds from the north, you may actually be stuck there for a few days. If someone had a heart attack or fell and broke a leg could you get rescued?

I do believe that hell hath frozen over because...... here it goes....

Bear Islander you are 100% CORRECT, I fully agree with you!!!!! Bridges are cheating. Where's the challenge in that? :laugh:

My very close personal friends who live on Black Cat Island do not refer to themselves as "Islanders." Being on Cow I do refer to myself as an "Islander."

Now that's pleasant isn't it?

So am I.

Reminds me of...
 

When I told one of my neighbors when we first moved here 23 years ago,that while my wife and I were born in Mass., our kids were just babies when we moved here.. at least they would be "natives" to New Hampshire.. I was told they wouldn't be "natives" even if they were born here because.........

"If your cat had kittens in the oven,
you wouldn't call 'em biscuits, would ya" :laugh::laugh:

Neat photo, and sorry I blew the punchline for you. It's a habit from family word games.

I hate to disagree with an unnamed extra in a fictional 1975 movie about a fictional island but.... It has probably been over a hundred years since a baby was born on Bear Island. Great trivia question however!

It's not just about isolation. I have lived on the Winnipesaukee mainland, Cow Bear and Long. Island life is very, very different.

I concur
 

I have also had the privilege of growing up spending summers on the mainland. When I was very young my family had a home in an association and then in my teens they purchased a waterfront home over in Senter Cove. They sold it years later and my wife and I purchased on Cow Island. When Bear Islander made this statement:

"I'm not talking about geography here, I'm talking about anthropology, socialization, living conditions and state of mind."

He wasn't kidding. To any doubters I will equate it to the old Harley Davidson motto: "If I had to explain it you wouldn't understand."

I'm a little late answering this but Stewart from Bizer Lake Charts assisted with the questions on the quiz. Maybe he can clarify this.

When you answer the quiz question wrong the response is:

How many islands in Lake Winnipesaukee can be reached by bridge from the mainland?
Your answer:
Correct answer: 6
(Note: Black Cat, Long, Oak, Governors, Worcester, Christmas (Paugus Bay))

I learned something
 

Thanks for replying.It's a great quiz, it's fun to do, and I learned something about the Lake.

Hazelnut, Bear Island, you obviously know how you feel at your island place better than I do.

Don't misunderstand me though jrc I'm not trying to say it's better or super harsh living or anything crazy like that.... It's just..... different. There are pluses and minuses galore. Big minus is the limited use in the off season due to unpredictable ice conditions. But big pluses are that the sense of community with your neighbors is unparalleled. It's kind of like that "we're all in this together" type of attitude. The boat becomes so much more than a luxury. You find yourself boating on days you'd normally never even pop the snaps off the cover if you lived on mainland. All sorts of great stuff. Again though it's not all roses when you need to haul large items to the camp. But that can be spun into a positive when you grab a neighbor and his pontoon boat and it turns into 4 or 5 other neighbors helping out inevitably leading to everyone playing horseshoes at your house while sipping cocktails which leads to a campfire which leads to..... you get the point. ;)

I was trying to back off before it turned into a "my lifestyle is better than yours".

We spend every summer weekend living on our boat, we gave up the condo and we love it. If you're lucky in life, you can find stuff you like to do. Sounds like you did too.

No no, don't stop on our account, we're all friends here. :D

Totally.. that's kind of what I was getting at. My life on the mainland growing up was some of the best times of my life. I'd never trade that for anything. I guess I am just fortunate enough to have lived many different lives on the lake. First in an association (shared beach, mooring field) then waterfront, now Island. Each has so many pros and cons. Obviously waterfront mainland is pretty awesome if you have the $$$$. Back to my point Island life aint for everyone but it's for me. :D

Weirs Guy, I'd post the rest of the point if it weren't such a family forum.:laugh: Which leads me to a question.

Skip, what's the law on Skinny Dipping at night in front of your house?????

Lewd & Lacivious?????
 

You asked......


Section 645:1
645:1 Indecent Exposure and Lewdness. –
I. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if such person:
(a) Fornicates, exposes his or her genitals or performs any other act of gross lewdness under circumstances which he or she should know will likely cause affront or alarm.


Now, the question is, howd lewd do you intend to be??? :D

Skip

What about a woman topless?

The "naked" truth.....
 

Seriously speaking, I doubt anyone would be bothered by law enforcement in this State for a lil' skinny dipping if done like most folks do....discreetly.

In reference to being topless, once again it would depend on the time & location and how the officer articulated the "offensiveness" of the behavior to the court.

I guess it comes down to realizing that if you are going to be nude in public or within public view you need to use a great deal of common sense and always remember, discretion is the better part of valor! :)

Question
 

Granted this is partially if not mostly my fault.

With that said if we had a vote could this be in the top 5 threads that veered way way way way way off topic???? :laugh:

Island vs. "Islander"
 

Not to argue semantics here but... by definition and island is - according to Webster's - "a tract of land surrounded by water and smaller than a continent". :) So, being that I am the person that Hazelnut referred to in a pervious post that has a place on Black Cat Island, it is in fact an island - bridge or not. HOWEVER - as mentioned, my wife and I do not refer to ourselves as "islanders", and rightfully so - as that is an entirely different situation and lifestyle as we know it. I look at having to drive your vehicle to a mainland location, and needing to use your boat as your primary mode of transport to and from your house, they key to what defines you as an "islander". Not to take anything away from mainland folk, but it takes a heartier soul to be an "islander" vs. a "mainlander" IMO. I think that any islander could transfer to being a mainlander without any trouble - logistically speaking that is. But I know for a fact that not every mainlander could become and islander with the same ease and comfort level. And as I am speaking from personal experience as I have spent many a-days, and nights and weekends living the "islander" lifestyle. Trekking back and fourth by boat to a "real" island in rain, snow, breaking through ice etc... and as much as I love it, it is not for everyone. I love the peace and serenity and almost "survivor-like" mentality that comes with islander living. But at the same time - it's nice to be able to walk out your door, hop in your car and head to the Village Kitchen for breakfast at the drop of a hat! :liplick:

So, there are those that live on an island and those that live on an island AND are "islanders". Either way you look at it, we are all fortunate enough to be able to spend our time on what I would consider one of the greatest places on earth!!! And I challenge anyone to argue that fact! :cool:

I dunno haselnut, we pretty well wrecked that "Canoe buys Black Snout" thread too.

What was the original question? :confused:

Bridges..
 

The orginal topic was Bridges.. I can only come up with 4

Lloyd Bridges was father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges. Beau is father of actor Jordan Bridges :):):):)

Glad I could help get this back on topic. :rolleye1:

I thought we were naming bridges?

Let's see:
Bourne, Sagamore, Tobin, George Washington, Zakim, Tapanzee......

Is it ice-out yet?

What you talking about Willis?Add Todd Bridges.

I love it here!
 

Is this a great place or what? I asked for the names of six bridges on Winni.Not only do I get the answer,but we get a discussion on island life, and the most discreet way to skinny dip. Thanks

It really is a family forum....
 

just like my family. No one listens to anybody else and all speak at the same time. Ya gotta love it.:):)

off-track? off-bridge?
 

How about good movies with the word "bridge (or bridges)" in the title?
--The Bridge on the River Kwai
--The Bridges of Madison County

others?

Mr and Mrs Bridge with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

1977
 

"A Bridge Too Far"... I think James Caan, and bunch of other good actors were in it. Mid to late 70's

Me thinks we all really need spring to get here soon!..

From Wikipedia.. "Cabin fever is a condition that produces restlessness and irritability caused from being in a confined space. The actual term is slang for a claustrophobic reaction that takes place when a party is isolated and/or shut in, alone or together, for an extended period. "

Sorta sounds like the Speed Limit threads. :laugh::laugh: (Please no nasty notes.. I'm just kidding ) ;)

???
 

Does anybody on the forum play Bridge? I prefer Poker.

bridges
 

London bridges falling down falling down my fair lady. Now aren't you glad you don't have sound.:eek:

No, but I have a contractor friend who told me last night that he got a bridge loan for a property in Tuftonboro

Thats more akin to eating your own over there. What about the great jump scene on the bridge in Gone in 60 Seconds (new version)? Classic.

True, I will give you an honorary degree though. After all you and the Mrs. have spent a few overnights out on the Island.

I got it!
 

Originally Posted by SteveA
Sorta sounds like the Speed Limit threads. (Please no nasty notes.. I'm just kidding )

Now I'm not kidding... perfect theme song for the speed limit thread..

"A Bridge Over Troubled Waters.." Simon and Garfunkle would be proud! :emb:

I was looking for a thread to post bridge related items.My Dad just had his bridge replaced at the dentist.On his way in to the office his bridges fell to his feet.This thread helps bridge the gap between young and old!

one more?
 

I coulda saved a lot of time reading an abridged version of this thread!

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How many ways can you say "bridge"....
 

Bridges around the world....;)

Thank you, Bear Islander. With your help, this thread is truly bridging the gap between cultures.

Is it time to build a bridge and get over it?

Only if we lived in Alaska. They'd we'd ask the government to build us a Bridge To Nowhere.

A Bridge for my pool
 

I often use a bridge when I play pool.

I have not yet mastered adjusting the bridge on my violin. :laugh:

I have to post nicely otherwise I will burn my bridges on this forum. :D

OK, do I understand this thread or am I http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/...s/offtopic.gif or what?

We need to "bridge" the gap between the SL supporters and the SL detractors. :)