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SP 4449 leads the Cascade Daylight though several tunnels ease of Cooks, WA. It has taken the train a while to get going this morning, but they have had a clear railroad for their run east through the Columbia River Gorge.
After three years, I was fortunate enough to return to Tasmania, literally across the globe and 10 time zones; four flights were needed to get from winter Prague to early summer in Hobart.
Having relatives living in Australia and Tasmania, seeing old friends was easily combined with country exploration and adventurous trips, which is something we tried to pursue and use our 4-weeks time on the southern hemisphere to the maximum extent.
After a few lovely and relaxed family & acclimatization days in Hobart, time has come for us to leave the comfort of warm beds and friendly civilization, and to exchange it for a proper adventure comprised of hiking and travelling around the island.
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The fame of Wineglass Bay, the most celebrated beach in Tasmania, ensures a growing stream of visitors to Freycinet National Park. It is one of the east coast’s poster destinations, and the sublime national park, which is a wild domain of sugar-white beaches, pinkish granite mountains and utterly transparent water, are the reasons everyone is here.
We kept Freycinet National Park for the last days of our Tasmania road trip, saving its beautiful beaches with some lovely walking to a very relaxed adventure we planned for the very end of our journey.
Aiming to beat the crowds, we planned to stay overnight for two days at the more remote Hazards Beach, where there is a reliable fresh water source and which is luckily free of day-trippers posing for selfies at Wineglass Bay, though it's almost equally appealing (and with more calm sea waters than Wineglass).
Yet again blessed with favourable sunny weather, we slowly wandered along the secluded western coast of the peninsula, enjoying its clear sea waters and sandy beaches for numerous swims and relaxed sunbathing.
Another level reached, another chance to rest (as in "not climb") for a while. On this level we found the first of the petrified wood.
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June 11, 2016: Touring Cooks Mesa
Waffle House, Austin, TX
We sat at the counter right in front of the cook. Its always fun to watch a good short order cook that can balance and breeze through multiple orders. This gentleman seemed experienced and had several breakfast meals cooking at the same time. This image was taken outside the restaurant.
Explore #254 | 01/05/2010
Last weekend we had planned to go to one of our favorite restaurants, Cleonice, in Ellsworth for my birthday dinner, but my wife was not feeling up to it ( she is just finishing her chemotherapy). She was feeling better this weekend, so we went. My first time out since last November. It was so good to finally get out. We both had a great meal and a great time out.
Had a hard time adapting to driving on the left side of the road and watching out for all the motorbikes.
Passengers on the Indian Pacific train take the opportunit to stretch their legs during a stop for refueling at Cook, in the middle of the Nullabor desert.
Once a thriving railway town, Cook is reportedly now only inhabited by four people.
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Metropolitan Cook Book
(c) 1953, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Edition of Aug. 1954
I love the illustrations in this little cook book so phamphlet so much. Sadly there is no illustrator credited.
August 1976. NAHX 478060 is painted up for Cook Industries at the C&NW's Proviso Yard in Chicago, Illinois.
one of the guard towers at the old cook county jail, located on the south side of chicago and built in the 1920s.
Here are some pics i was lucky to get with my nikon p900 when i was in the cook islands last year hope you enjoy!!!
Después de la caminata del día anterior a Mueller Hut (1800m snm) se acerca un mar de nubes que cubre todo el valle sobresaliendo Mt. Cook y las montañas de los alrededores.
Scan taken from a very early Cookes hardback book called "Industrial Explosives, intention, development application"
This book was saved from been thrown out by employee Malcolm Jones Tremadog during its closure in the 1990s.
Thanks to Malcolm Jones Tremadog for allowing me to scan the photos in the book.
Tekapo, Canterbury
Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height since 2014 is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet), down from 3,764 m (12,349 ft) before December 1991, due to a rockslide and subsequent erosion. It lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs the length of the South Island. A popular tourist destination, it is also a favourite challenge for mountain climbers. Aoraki / Mount Cook consists of three summits, from South to North the Low Peak (3,593 m or 11,788 ft), Middle Peak (3,717 m or 12,195 ft) and High Peak (Wiki).
I took this for a restaurant in Bountiful called the Mandarin. If you ever get a chance, it's the best chinese food in the west. See their site for more info.
Cook pine (Araucaria columnaris), Cook araucaria, columnar araucaria or New Caledonia pine, not a Norfolk-Island pine.
Cooks' Cottage is rebuilt in the picturesque Fitzroy Gardens to commemorate the voyages of Captain James Cook, discoverer of Australia.
Cooks' Cottage was purchased in 1933 by Sir Russell Grimwade as a centenary gift to the people and State of Victoria. When Melbourne celebrated its centenary in 1934 the cottage was moved, brick by brick from Great Ayrton to Melbourne. It was shipped in 253 crates complete with a ivy cutting which had grown on the original building. Today the cottage is covered by the ivy.
The Captain James Cook Memorial was built by the Commonwealth Government to commemorate the Bicentenary of Captain James Cook's first sighting of the east coast of Australia. The memorial includes a water jet located in the central basin and a skeleton globe sculpture at Regatta Point of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, showing the paths of Cook's expeditions. On 25 April 1970, Queen Elizabeth II officially inaugurated the memorial.
The water jet is driven by two 4-stage centrifugal pumps capable of pumping up to 250 litres per second against a head of 183 metres. The water velocity at the water nozzle is 260 km/h. While running both pumps simultaneously the main jet throws approximately six tons of water into the air at any instant, reaching a maximum height of 152 metres. Alternatively the jet can be run on a single pump reaching a lower height of 114 metres. During special occasions it can be illuminated, often with coloured lights. The design of the jet is based on the Jet d'Eau in Geneva, Switzerland as a result of high-level diplomatic negotiations.
The water jet operates daily from 11 am to 2 pm. In periods of high wind, the jet is automatically disabled as water landing on the nearby Commonwealth Avenue Bridge can be a hazard to traffic. The water jet must also be occasionally shut down when drought lowers the water level of the lake.