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What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:07 am
by Dominic
I am taking a break from my normal blogs to pose a question. On my travels throughout Cyprus, while I have been photographing interesting locations for blogs, I have often stumbled across some mysterious tags. They consist of a date, and an initial or two. I have photographed them as I explored, but have never included the photos in a blog because it doesn't really fit in with the blog's theme. However, I have now amassed sufficient tag pictures for them to warrant a blog in their own right. And my question to you is simple; why are they there?
Read the article and chat about it below...
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:19 am
by trevnhil
Is the first picture, 'in reverse' ??
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:28 am
by Dominic
trevnhil wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:19 am
Is the first picture, 'in reverse' ??
No.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:32 am
by Dominic
Flossie wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:20 am
Surely they're just the Cypriot equivalent of 'Boz woz 'ere'! So much graffiti here these days it's not nice and it seems nowhere is sacred!!
That could explain some of them, but it wouldn't explain the directional arrows, for instance, nor the need to write your initials repeatedly on different dates. Plus,some of the locations are really obscure, yet far easier to access locations remain untagged.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:51 am
by cyprusmax47
I don't want to ruin your Blog as it should go actually into the Puzzle/Quizzes section....
So far only a hint: it all has to do with water...
Anyhow, very nice pics again Dominic.
Max
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:23 am
by trevnhil
Dominic wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:28 am
trevnhil wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:19 am
Is the first picture, 'in reverse' ??
No.
Ah I can see now that it is just writing from all angles
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:46 am
by LouiseCastricum
Dominic, please take into account that the initials are written in Greek, so f.i. where it says Π it means the Greek P and not the N. Also where it says Γ it is not an R but the Greek letter Gamma.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:53 am
by Dominic
cyprusmax47 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:51 am
I don't want to ruin your Blog as it should go actually into the Puzzle/Quizzes section....
So far only a hint: it all has to do with water...
Anyhow, very nice pics again Dominic.
Max
I originally thought that, but it doesn't explain the hospital and the trail in the Akamas. Perhaps there are two reasons?
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:17 am
by cyprusmax47
Dominic wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:53 am
cyprusmax47 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:51 am
I don't want to ruin your Blog as it should go actually into the Puzzle/Quizzes section....
So far only a hint: it all has to do with water...
Anyhow, very nice pics again Dominic.
Max
I originally thought that, but it doesn't explain the hospital and the trail in the Akamas. Perhaps there are two reasons?
It DOES explain the hospital AND the trail in the Akamas..
Fancy a swimm? was one head line of your Blog from the Hospital. And Aphrodite Spring is not very well known but in Akamas
near Blue Lagoon.
Max
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:17 am
by Maverick
Geocache Tags?
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:11 pm
by LouiseCastricum
Water quality checks I guess.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:56 pm
by Dominic
Why would people be performing water checks in abandoned villages who's water pumps no longer function?
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:59 pm
by Dominic
Maverick wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:17 amGeocache Tags?
No, geocaching relies on an actual log book. I had thought it could be a similar sort of game, but it wouldn't explain why somebody would sign the same spot multiple times.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:48 pm
by Dominic
Lincoln wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:44 pm
Hmm looks like simple GRAFFITI to me.
That wouldn't explain the well. It was in the middle of an area of abandoned farmland, and surely beyond the radar of any graffiti tagger.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 5:24 pm
by Dominic
That's different though. Grafitti on the underside of a bridge which you drive under can be seen. You may not know how they got there, but you can see what they scrawled.
Nobody would see this,unless they were exceptionally nosey and possibly a little bored from picking litter.
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:14 pm
by PaphosAL
Dominic wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:56 pm
Why would people be performing water checks in abandoned villages who's water pumps no longer function?
Abandoned in the 1974 turkisk invasion and until now, sadly. But ARE they totally abandoned, or do most of these 'ghost TC' villages still have the odd GC resident or two? Just to keep a watchful eye on wotz going on?
In which case, the Water Company would still want to check the water quality in that locality, ready for an eventual swap of houses to their original TC / GC owners, surely? I think the cunning plan of keeping a GC family in each 'abandoned' TC village makes eminent sense...
Visualize them as watch dogs. As soon as someone turns up in a truck to grab some building take aways from an 'abandonded' TC property, the local GC is there like a shot, asking what the fook he's playing at! Makes sense now, it's all about keeping things ready for a possible hand back, is it not?
Cheers- AL
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:18 pm
by Dominic
PaphosAL wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:14 pm
Dominic wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:56 pm
Why would people be performing water checks in abandoned villages who's water pumps no longer function?
Abandoned in the 1974 turkisk invasion and until now, sadly. But ARE they totally abandoned, or do most of these 'ghost TC' villages still have the odd GC resident or two? Just to keep a watchful eye on wotz going on?
In which case, the Water Company would still want to check the water quality in that locality, ready for an eventual swap of houses to their original TC / GC owners, surely? I think the cunning plan of keeping a GC family in each 'abandoned' TC village makes eminent sense...
Visualize them as watch dogs. As soon as someone turns up in a truck to grab some building take aways from an 'abandonded' TC property, the local GC is there like a shot, asking what the fook he's playing at! Makes sense now, it's all about keeping things ready for a possible hand back, is it not?
Cheers- AL
As the pumps no longer function, what would they be testing?
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:19 pm
by darrow
They are dates and ΠΜ and ΜΜ are morning and afternoon.(loosely speaking) Could they be water levels at different times of the day?
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:54 pm
by grb
I heard that they are to record spraying for mosquitoes/ larvae, particularly in areas where water is stagnant.
grb
Re: What are these mystery tags?
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:58 pm
by cyprusmax47
grb wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:54 pm
I heard that they are to record spraying for mosquitoes/ larvae, particularly in areas where water is stagnant.
grb
Finally, you are right grb. It is the inspectors name and date....
Max