Telecommunications mast Gabon Jungle

[prenton01]

Well my first post

We recently went for a 2 hour drive along the coast in Gabon and came across this old telecommunications tower which had apparently been hit by lightening and collapsed then left to ruin.

 

[mockingbird]

very interesting cheers

 

[SlimJim]

Very unusual I'm surprised the locals didn't flock down with hacksaws to sell it to the scrapper when it fell!

 

[Onmyown]

Nice find...

 

[flyboys90]

Bet that came down with a heck of a thump!really interesting find,thanks for sharing.

 

[Mikeymutt]

I like this..something totally different..cheers.

 

[oldscrote]

Interesting that,by an odd coincidence I was looking at these pictures of Elmley moor mast collapse yesterday

http://tx.mb21.co.uk/emley/eyewitness/

 

[gingrove]

That's different I thought they expected comms towers to be hit by lightning and built them to stand up to it, are the first 2 shots graves?

 

[prenton01]

That's different I thought they expected comms towers to be hit by lightning and built them to stand up to it, are the first 2 shots graves?

Yes the first 2 are graves about 1km away from the mast apparently they were from 2 people who fought the french and tried to cause an uprising, locals from the village Settee Cama go there get drunk and celebrate once a year but i cannot find any evidence of this at all so it might be total B****cks.