Australia MAXICARD - Hornby, Inner South Head, NSW

Thank you Lisa for the great lighthouse maxicard.

"The Hornby Lighthouse at South Head was built by public demand after the tragic shipwrecks of the Dunbar and the Catherine Adamson

The light was opened by Sir William Denison, Governor of New South Wales, in 1858. It was named after the family of Governor Dennison’s wife, whose father became Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby, Commander in Chief of the British Pacific Fleet in the 1860s. However it was known as the Lower Light to distinguish it from the nearby Macquarie Light, New South Wales’ first." Read more interesting history here.

BULGARIA Maxicard - Watercolar Painting Rooster

Thanks to Zenny for the maxicard.

SWEDEN - Stockholm

Thanks to Betty for the card.

"Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, encompasses 14 islands and more than 50 bridges on an extensive Baltic Sea archipelago. The cobblestone streets and ochre-colored buildings of Gamla Stan (the old town) are home to the 13th-century Storkyrkan Cathedral, the Kungliga Slottet Royal Palace and the Nobel Museum, which focuses on the Nobel Prize. Ferries and sightseeing boats shuttle passengers between the islands."

RUSSIA Maxicard- Lighthouse

Thanks to Anastasiya for the maxicard.

NETHERLANDS - Windmills

Thanks to postcrosser Soraya for the card.

GERMANY - Lighthouse

Thanks to postcrosser Iris for the nice lighthouse card and matching stamp.

WASHINGTON - Cape Disappointment Lighthouse

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, built in the mid-1850s and originally named cape Hancock, shown here with gun batteries from the Civil War era.  Located at the SW tip of Washington state. Thank you dear Debbie for the great card.

"The Cape Disappointment Light is a lighthouse on Cape Disappointment near the mouth of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington." Find more info here.

The area got the name from a fur trader named John Meares. He saw the headland and tried to cross over the bar into the Columbia River. When he missed, he named the area Cape Disappointment. Given that the Columbia River is the second longest river in the US at over 1200 miles long. By the time the current reaches the Pacific, it crashes creating a hazardous bar that mariners must cross. Due to this fact, the area has become known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. Originally, locals cut the tops of trees and used a white flag to create a daymark. At night they would set trees on fire to mark the entrance. By 1848, the Government agreed that a lighthouse was needed, but it would still be almost another eight years before a lighthouse was built."

MAXICARD - Estonia Lighthouses

Awesome maxicard from postcrosser Evgenlia from Russia. She bought this card from her trip to Estonia. Thank you!

TUNISIA - Old Town of Tataouine

Rached sent me this card of old town of Tataouine with the Berber architecture.

"Tataouine (Arabic: تطاوين‎ Taṭāwīn), also transliterated as Tatooine, Tatahouine, Tatahouïne, Tatawin, Fum Taţāwīn, Fumm Tattauin, Foum Tatahouine, Fum Tatawin, or Foum Tataouine, from the Berber Tittawin, literally meaning Eyes, with the figurative meaning of Water springs (see Moroccan city of Tetouan), is a city located in southern Tunisia. It is the capital of the Tataouine Governorate. The below ground, "cave dwellings" of the native Berber population, designed for coolness and protection, render the city and the area around it a tourist and film makers attraction."

LITHUANIA - Mapcard

Lithuania, is a country in Northern Europe, one of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 3 million as of 2013, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius."