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Super High Resolution Panoramas of the Toledo Bend Lake Area

Try hooking your computer to your flat-screen TV for REALLY  LARGE  PIX!

We’re now using technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University and NASA and first used on the Mars Rover to produce some high resolution panoramas of the Toledo Bend area. We call it GIGA-BEND because these images are in the Gigapixel class (as your digital camera takes pictures in the Megapixel class)

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Do you have any suggestions for area panoramas?
Special events or places that everyone should be able to see?
Please contact the WebMaster with suggestions: WebMaster@Toledo-Bend.com

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  • Scenic – Hwy 191
  • Cormorant & Egret Rookery
  • Pendleton Bridge – From TX
  • Pendleton Bridge – From LA
  • Hodges Gardens Scenes
  • Red Hills Lake north of Milam, TX
  • Looking North on TB Lake from Dam
  • Cypress Bend Golf Course
  • Emerald Hills Golf Course
Use the BAR SLIDER control to ZOOM IN or OUT
Use the DIRECTION control or your ARROW KEYS to move around in the image

ZOOM  IN  –  EXPLORE  THE  DETAILS!

Scene off Highway 191 South of Highway 6

This is one of my favorite scenic areas on the lake – about 5 miles South of Toledo Town. Can you find the turtles mating in the picture? How about the Great Egret snacking on a minnow? Is that an alligator?

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“Fly” to this location and view the panorama in Google Earth*
*You must have Google Earth installed on your computer to make use of this function

Cormorant & Egret Rookery

Cormorant and Egret Rookery on Toledo Bend Lake. These social birds mix together here every Spring to have and raise their young. Occasionally one can spot a Great Blue Heron among them. In the snapshots, note the birdhouse in the background about 1/2 mile away.

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“Fly” to this location and view the panorama in Google Earth*
*You must have Google Earth installed on your computer to make use of this function

Pendleton Bridge & Causeway From LA

Shot from the Louisiana side, it is 3.25 miles to the Texas coastline at this point on the lake. The snapshot zooms to Pendleton Bridge – the border between Texas and Louisiana is the Sabine River, running under the bridge.

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“Fly” to this location and view the panorama in Google Earth*
*You must have Google Earth installed on your computer to make use of this function

Pendleton Bridge & Causeway From TX

Shot from the Texas side, it is 3.25 miles to the Louisiana coastline at this point on the lake. The snapshot zooms to Pendleton Bridge – the border between Texas and Louisiana is the Sabine River, running under the bridge – in case you didn’t know – the river still “flows through” the lake and under the bridge. There is also a single boat that, because of its speed and direction, managed to get into the panorama 4 times!

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“Fly” to this location and view the panorama in Google Earth*
*You must have Google Earth installed on your computer to make use of this function

Come back and visit…
We will be adding MORE GIGA-BEND Panoramas!

These photos are shot and Copyright © 2009 by Frank Dutton / Toledo-Bend.Com, Many, LA 71449
Please feel free to link to this page – but do not feel free to copy and display these images on other sites – they are Copyrighted and that is called Copyright Infringement – or stealing.