Where is this?

Two out of three correct, Guillermo. Zephyrhills Bottled Water is owned by Nestle. The water is from the Florida Aquifer which feeds Crystal Springs, which is why the Spring was closed to swimming. But the book is not the correct one. Try once more. Think up, not down.

 

Hoyte´s backyard.

 

I neever could figure out why they closed the spring to swimmers, since the pressure flows water out and into the Hillsborough and it is impossible for swum in water to re-enter the aquifer. More bureaucratic caca de toro.

 

That'll be

Around the world in eighty days, then? Can't remember it, but its been quite a while since I read it...

 

Nope. Higher up. Try again.

 

I don't have time to organize (and answer) the new search so I PM'ed this answer

Cheers!

Angel

 

From the Earth to the Moon, of course!

"It was five A.M. when Barbicane and his party, quitting Tampa Town, made their way along the coast in the direction of Alifia Creek. This little river falls into Hillisborough Bay twelve miles above Tampa Town.
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On that day Barbicane called together his foremen and addressed them as follows: "You are well aware, my friends, of the object with which I have assembled you together in this wild part of Florida. Our business is to construct a cannon measuring nine feet in its interior diameter, six feet thick, and with a stone revetment of nineteen and a half feet in thickness. We have, therefore, a well of sixty feet in diameter to dig down to a depth of nine hundred feet. This great work must be completed within eight months, so that you have 2,543,400 cubic feet of earth to excavate in 255 days; that is to say, in round numbers, 2,000 cubic feet per day. That which would present no difficulty to a thousand navvies working in open country will be of course more troublesome in a comparatively confined space. However, the thing must be done, and I reckon for its accomplishment upon your courage as much as upon your skill."

Cheers.

 

Very nice. The author was, of course, in error in placing Crystal Springs at the Alafia River, but it is a small mistake which can be overlooked. The explorer Cabeza de Vaca actually wrecked his last ship near the Alafia if my conclusions are right.

Next riddle is yours, Guillermo.

 

OK.
I've been there. It's in a coastal city at the mouth of a river from which it takes its name.
Where is this?

 

Belize City.

 

:?: Right map :?:

 

Belize it is, Richard. You've hit the nail in a single move!
Congratulations!
Now your turn.

 

Well, not a big task when you have been there.
Did you see the impressive bridge between north and south B.?


I´ll do one a bit later!

Richard

 

All of us know this place.

Yes really ALL OF US !!! Sure...............

But I doubt any other Forum member has been there.

Where is this?
And what has the watch to do with the place?

 

To start, the watch was the chronometer on the HMS Bounty.