Posted by Mike Field on November 26, 2013 at 22:40:21 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: The REAL location of Swallowdale posted by Roger Wardale on November 26, 2013 at 04:00:45:
Sorry Roger, I had no intention of putting you on the spot over this. I agree you could well be right, and that some of the different parts of Swallowdale are to be found scattered all over the place -- just like the harbour on Peel Island and the camping-place on Blake Holme and the lighthouse tree on Friars Crag, brought together to make the fictitious Wild Cat Island.
The key topographical feature of Swallowdale that I don't think has been located physically anywhere yet is that it's very nearly flat, longitudinally. Yes, its waterfall could have come from somewhere else, the cave could have come from somewhere else, but was that longish flat gully only a figment of AR's imagination? Or does it exist somewhere separately too, still waiting to be found?
As Peter says, there are some things that exist exactly as is, and I'm hoping against hope that the Swallowdale gully might be one of them, and that someone, some day, will find it and tell me about it....