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My sister has a small flock of chickens of various types, including a pair of leghorns one of which is seen digging in the garden.
I have literally thousands of photos from this trip. If any one wants more of a particular vehicle, let me know.
This is day 1, trip along the Border Track - Dog Fence.
This must be one of the best sand tracks to be found in Victoria/South Australia. It follows the border from near Pinnaroo right down to near the Melbourne - Adelaide hwy.
This track has very large sand hills to get over. Most of these hills have tracks to get around them if you are not able to get over them. Some of these hills are so extreme there's no way anyone will get over them, so this track can very easily be classed as a 'Difficult' track.
Very Important. Check with the SA National Parks and Reserves for information on when the track is closed, and what direction you need to go in.
The track is about 107km. Allow a full day to make this trip. For a more enjoyable weekend, take your time and camp anywhere along the track. Stop in or camp at Red Bluff - scenic red sandstone hill.
(This is where we stopped). Dress warm though as it gets hot in the day, freezing at night.
Make sure you pack all your recovery gear, and travel in a group with other 4wd's. (We had to recover 2 vehicles).
Check the depths of the mud holes. Some for us were over 1 meter deep. Watch out for the holes towards the end, they are really deep!
Momentum is your friend on the sand dunes. We used 15psi tyre pressures. (Try the sand dunes 3x, if you fail, take the chicken path)
We ended up getting lost around the supposed turnoff to red bluff, that according to the maps was "well signposted".
We ended up with broken eggs and bottles.
This is mostly a sandy track with dunes and provides you with a remote location for testing self and equipment without travelling deeper into the outback.
The environment is typical Victorian desert – Mallee country. Expect some scratching from Mallee scrub particularly in the Wyperfeld section and some parts of the Northern Border Track may be overgrown. Soft sand is to be found on the tracks as well as corrugations and hard gravel.
The border track is steeped in history largely due to the dispute which arose from the original survey completed between 1847 and 1850. The result is that the border is actually sighted some 3kms too far West. A fascinating account of this can be obtained from John Deckert at Westprint Heritage Maps if you manage to visit whilst in Nhill.
There is an abundance of wildlife to enjoy whilst undertaking this trip, so watch out for Emu and Kangaroo. Aboriginal rock holes can be found close to the junction with South Bore Track.
We were lucky to reach the top speed of 40 kms/hr.
This photo was taken with a Canon EOS 5D, 70-200 IS L USM 2.8 lens
2011
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I'm moving. I had manila folders upon manila folders of various stages of CHUNK 666 "clipart". The time was ripe for a cold beer & some sifting & sorting. Amazing how much of this shit you acquire...
Suleyman (51) is standing on the bottom of a hole which not so long was full of rain water. In the dry season he has to buy the water for panning.
January 2014
On 7th January 17 people started digging on the site next to Carter's House at the entrance to the Valley of the Kings. They are involved in the important task of preserving the tombs in the Theban Necropolis. An exact facsimile of the tomb of Tutankhamun will open to visitors next spring.
The project has been funded by Factum Foundation.
More information: goo.gl/Eb6M29
This Columbian Ground Squirrel was running around everywhere in the meadow near the Logan Pass Visitor Center. He finally stopped long enough for me to catch some shots of him digging for roots and promptly eating them. This area of the meadow has seveal grasses, sandwort and cinquefoil. This little guy had some buddies that wree a bit more brazen, scurrying around the feet of visitors on the path. I was able to snap some shots of one of them at my mother's feet.
Roy, Caleb, John Paul, Pastor Carl move dirt in the foreground while Omar tamps and prepares to receive the next load in the classroom
Demolishing Myer's Lonsdale Street Store, looking at the Caledonian Lane / Little Bourke Street corner
Dirt crew hard at work. 3 wheel barrows running in circles, 2 load, 1 transports. quite the system!
foreground: Roy, John Paul, Ricky, Allen, Caleb.
background: Mike dumping, Pat emptying, Omar watching (behind Pat) and Tom pacing
Before the tank digger goes in, she can assist moving fresh bins under her helpers, digging a hole for her to crawl into.
Both diggers start at the bottom hole and dig their way up to the upper door that opens inward. Then, they can both dig in.
Spent the day chiselling chunks of wayward concrete from beneath the fence, chopping up the cement base exposed when the flags were lifted, gathering up the gravel from the troughs either side of the garden and digging soil that backs up against the breeze block pen.
It's donkey work, but it will open things up. The garden is shaping up nicely.
My sister has a small flock of chickens of various types, including a pair of leghorns one of which is seen digging in the garden.
It is not called Cnoc na Lion (Hill of the Nets) without reason and I have unearthed evidence of its past use. Bits of chain, a boathook head, a rudder pintle, a 1940 penny and the mandatory teaspoon.....
After huge winds in the storms of the past few weeks, Bayshore residents and property managers begin the gritty task of digging out. Sand blows like snow on the Bayshore spit. It just doesn't melt.
Digging the hole to plant this blight-resistant chestnut seedling. This seedling was planted in the open space between the Pennino and Herrity Buildings on the Fairfax County Government Center complex.
More information on trees and forest conservation:
Plenty of Princess Mary's gardening tools were on show in her garden room - and they were needed for the terrace garden.
After digging around online, I've found some information about these ruins out behind the Stockyards in Fort Worth. Apparently these are what remains of the Swift-Armor meat packing plant, possibly destroyed as a result of arson fires in the early 1970s. (Supposedly the high concentration of animal fat made the fires burn out of control.)
The guard tower is apparently left over from the facility's use as the set for a Panamanian prison on the Fox TV show Prison Break. The set is no longer in use, so I guess these are ruins built on ruins.
It was an amazing thing to stumble across simply because I took a wrong turn trying to get out of the Stockyards, after spending some quality time enjoying the majesty and grandeur of watching cows walk down the street in formation.
Excavating at Hierakonpolis, the City of the Hawk, the largest site from the Pre- and Protodynastic period (3800-3100 B.C.)
Here is their website.