In Which Al is Humbled

Well it has been days since I posted my WIIW (we are now closer to next Wednesday than last).

But having sulked for most of the week I will have to stir myself to post an answer.

(Actually I have been working on the cottage such long hours outside my day job I just haven’t had a moment to post.)

In my arrogance last week I posted this Image for WIIW and said  “I suspect no one is going to get 100% on this one”

Only someone did! And in the first comment!

So in a vain attempt to salvage some pride I will run through the not quite correct answers.

Linda G. said... “It's grating of some sort, possibly on some old historic building?”

Not on a building, but I guess it can be called a grating so that earns 60%

 Old Kitty said... “Erm.... it's an extreme close up of a waffle! “

Not food, nope. But I guess that earns 50 bonus points for creativity.

Dawn Simon said... “It's a building! Or...maybe a close-up on an electronic device?”

No, it is neither, and unlike so many WIIW this is not a close up.

Which brings me to Marcy who commented first with “Looks like metal or possibly wood grating, like on a drain in the street or on a boat or maybe a jail. That's my guess(es).”

Well it is, as I said above, a grating and your scatter-gun approach hit dead on with “on a boat” so I have to award 100%

I took this piccie of a paddle steamer on the Murray River. Boats like this towed barges laden with agricultural produce across the whole Murray-Darling river basin from the late 1800s until the early 20^th Century. They almost passed into history with the arrival of the railways in the 1900s, but enthusiasts saved this vessel, and indeed a flotilla of others at the Murray River town of Echuca.