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Statue of C.Y. O'Connor in the surf

This statue is permantly positioned in water of the Indian Ocean approximately 10 metres off shore from C.Y.O'Connor beach. The beach was named after C.Y.O'Connor who rode his horse in to the surf and committed suicide because of the accusations arising from the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme . The horse then returned to shore with his body, the statue is there as memorial to him.

Reason

its a wonderful choice of timing for the photograph, the serenity of the Ocean contrasted by the orange sky which is reflective of turmoil that surrounded his engineering of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme

Articles this image appears in

• C. Y. O'Connor
• Goldfields Water Supply Scheme

Creator

User:Fancyfootwork

• Support as nominator — Gnangarra 13:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. I can barely tell what this is even when looking at it full-size. —Psychonaut 14:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. Who is the artist? And when was this installed? This very basic information is missing from the image description page, and the image is incomplete without it.--Pharos 19:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose Interesting way to commit suicide, but I'm not too keen to the animal abuse/endangerment. Anyways, a silhouette of the statue doesn't illustrate the subject very well (very artistic and moving, but not encyclopedic). Maybe one taken in broad daylight? Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 20:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose In the thumbnail it looked like two legs sticking out of the water. After checking the full-sized image I have to conclude this is a bowling pin on a horse. ~ trialsanderrors 22:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose. It would be nice if the statue was actually visible.

Plus the horse has purple fringing or something on the left side.--Uberlemur 05:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

• oppose- sorry. it is a very nice picture though, but it's hard to tell if it's a picture of the water or the statues. alsoapon first glance, I thought they were real annimals/people--Penubag 08:17, 13 April 2007 (UTC)penubag
• Comment. Here is another picture of the statue for reference. Nachoman-au 09:44, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose due to color problem Uberlemur noted. — The Storm Surfer 01:18, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 06:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)