All photos dated 14 Aug 2015 around 8:15pm. All photos as per how good or how bad I took them at the time. No retouching.
1414 Plaza from Dolphin east to Fernando's, Look, and Kelly's. A hot August night, tables out for al fresco. I think I can seen people outside Kelly's, but Kelly's does not serve food.
1415 Same spot to south of the street of little steps. Dolphin (entrance) on the right. Please note which way the diners beside the window are facing. PS That's the dodgy phone calls box on the left.
1416 A family coming down the street of little steps. Dolphin to the left. Fernando's to the right. Woman in somewhat skimpy white outfit coming out the front door of Fernando's.
The big screen TV can be seen through the window.
1417 Heaving with cars. Heaving with people. It definitely looks like people outside Kelly's. That happens to be where they smoke nowadays, but it also happens to get volcano hot in Kelly's if there is a crowd in.
1418 This is at the very south end of the street of little steps. It's Rua Calheta. The Dolphin is to the left. Fernando's is to the right. Line of vision shows an adult can see from the very bottom right up into Primary School Street.
Great photos again Shining. Thanks.
Am very frustrated that they have to be left on the page before. Not at all satisfactory imo.
Looking at image 1416 and at
GE dated 16/22/2007 [just 6 weeks after Madeleine vanished]
1. The large tree outside Fernandos was either none existant or more likely, I think, just a small tree. Difficult to be sure from GE , but it wasn't big anyhow.
2. On the extreme NE corner of the grounds of The Dolphin Restaurant, we can see on GE 16/22/2007 that there was a very tall tree there. We can tell that it is very tall by the length of its shadow.
3. From The Dolphin. this very tall tree was unlikely to have blocked the view of the gate that initially interested me, unless it was VERY Gusty.
4. However, I believe that it would have prevented the view of Smithman coming down the stepped street if he kept to the middle or more to the right as he descended.
5. It also looks as tho he could have turned right [west] into Rua Salgadeiras without anyone seeing him at the Dolphin.
6. Had he carried on past Rua Salgadeiras, I am not convinced that people looking through the side [eastern facing ] windows of the Dolphin would have been able to see him, cos even if you press your face to the glass you cannot see anyone so close to the side and below. Window frames etc get in the way.
I am quite prepared to accept that people might not be sitting out at Fenandos on what would be considered a cool blustery evening in PdL.
So it seems to me that the most likely way he went
***if he came down the steps, is either
1. right [west] along Rua Salg,
2. into a house en route down
3. or just possibly, but less likely, he might have come straight past The Dolphin before presumably turning west along the "sea front"
4. It seems very unlikely that he would have turned left [east] in front of Fernandos, Kellys etc.... where all the action was likely to be.
Wonder if SY are on to something ? Cos that is the general area that they searched
