Rocks and bands
May. 7th, 2009 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI've just seen a poster advertising a band called the Potbelleez. That's a terrible name, isn't it?
Does where you live have a name? Not the actual name, I mean, but a name for the region used only by tourism adverts. The City by the Sea, for example, finds itself in the Shipwreck Coast, so named because of the many and pointy rocks that our ocean is so liberally littered with.
But! Our tourism authority has recently decided that the Shipwreck Coast just isn't doing it for the tourists any longer. The name will be changed to the Apostle Coast, in honour of the Twelve Apostles*, a collection of the most famous of pointy rocks in the region. Personally, I think the Shipwreck Coast sounds more exciting, but I'm not much exercised either way (unlike the Letters to the Editor crazies in the local paper, who have gone beserk). What do you think: which coast would be more likely to tempt you for a holiday?
* Reading that website, I've just discovered that our ocean also contains kelp forests. Forests of kelp. What a delightful concept.
Does where you live have a name? Not the actual name, I mean, but a name for the region used only by tourism adverts. The City by the Sea, for example, finds itself in the Shipwreck Coast, so named because of the many and pointy rocks that our ocean is so liberally littered with.
But! Our tourism authority has recently decided that the Shipwreck Coast just isn't doing it for the tourists any longer. The name will be changed to the Apostle Coast, in honour of the Twelve Apostles*, a collection of the most famous of pointy rocks in the region. Personally, I think the Shipwreck Coast sounds more exciting, but I'm not much exercised either way (unlike the Letters to the Editor crazies in the local paper, who have gone beserk). What do you think: which coast would be more likely to tempt you for a holiday?
* Reading that website, I've just discovered that our ocean also contains kelp forests. Forests of kelp. What a delightful concept.