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Bundaleer Homestead and Forest.
John Bristow Hughes established this leased run in the 1840s and it stretched from Belalie west to Georgetown. The run was around 200,000 acres (80,000 hectares) and included the present day site of Jamestown. He sold the run to Charles B. Fisher in 1854 and returned to live in Woodville at St Clair. Fisher at that time owned the Hill River Station near Clare as this was before he had sold it to John Howard Angas. Bundaleer Run was later purchased by Robert Barr Smith of Torrens Park and a partner Robert John Maslin. They purchased 60,000 acres of the run as freehold land and from 1886 Maslin was the sole owner of the run. He divided the property just eight years later for his two sons. George Maslin got North Bundaleer and around 23,000 acres. He immediately hired an Adelaide architect and had a magnificent homestead constructed. It was described as the finest homestead in the north.
George Maslin lived in the homestead until he died in 1911 and the government purchased the property for closer settlement. The huge house was left with just 1,500 acres. A succession of farmers tired to make a living here but none succeeded. For around 30 years the home was vacant, falling into disrepair. It was added to the SA National Trust list of registered properties in 1984, but restoration work did not begin till the current owners purchased the property in 1999. The ballroom and the rest of the house has been fully and lavishly restored. It operates as a bed and breakfast starting at $400 a night, twin share.
When the government resumed part of the run in 1873 for closer settlement it set aside 22,000 acres for forestry and it was gazetted as a forest reserve in 1875. The first plantings of trees for forestry began in 1876 signifying the beginnings of forestry not just in South Australia, but in Australia. The Surveyor-General George Woodroofe Goyder was one of those promoting the idea of forestry. He was chairman of the first Forestry Board. The Board later became the Department of Woods and Forests in 1882. The land near Jamestown was very suitable. It was one of the highest rainfall areas north of Adelaide, the soils were deep, the winters were cold, and the summers relatively cool for South Australia. Only the Clare Valley had higher rainfall (600 mm).
The Maple Walk. On this walk you will see Sycamore (Acer Pseudoplatanus), English Oak (Quercus robur), English Elm ( Ulmus procera) ,Desert Ash (Fraxinus oxycarpa), Lombardy Poplar (Populus nigrra Italica ), Aspen ( Populus tremula ) and others. It is a pleasant walk, but with uneven terrain, tree roots and some uphill gradients.
A forest nursery was established in 1876 at Bundaleer to trial a number of species of trees. Early plantings included eucalyptus (Tasmanian Blue Gum, Sugar Gums, and SA Blue Gums), conifers, and broad leafed hardwood trees from Europe. Commercial forestry requires fast growth rates and it was soon discovered that radiata pine from California was the most suitable for commercial forests. Today Bundaleer Forest displays some of the early trials of European trees including English Oak, Elm, Sycamore, Poplars, Willows and Walnuts. We also hope to see some North American Maples. Mt Robertson in the Forest Reserve is 522 metres high (1700 feet). The park has a mean annual rainfall of about 560 mms, compared with around 530 mms (when it is not a drought) for Adelaide.
Every second year in the odd numbered years there is a music festival called the Bundaleer Forest Weekend. The next will be in March of 2009. The last festival included opera, jazz, a concert by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and tenors from overseas. All the concerts are held in the open air. To find out more look at their website www.bundaleerweekend.com.au
Not far away is Bundaleer Reservoir which was built between 1898 and 1903 at a cost of $900,000 to supplement the water supplies from Beetaloo Reservoir. The Bundaleer scheme was designed to provide water for the towns of Snowtown, Redhill, Brinkworth, Blythe and Port Wakefield. Bundaleer Reservoir is contained by an earthen embankment with water supplied by a concrete lined channel from Bundaleer Creek. Construction of the dam was plagued by bad weather and several disasters. Five men were killed and three injured in a cave-in, another man was killed during a gunpowder explosion and 51 men were admitted to Jamestown hospital with typhoid fever.
Bundaleer is the largest of the three reservoirs in this area (Baroota and Beetaloo are the other two), with a capacity of over 6,000 megalitres. By comparison Kangaroo Creek Reservoir is 19,000 megalitres. The reservoir covers 130 acres or 33 hectares
File name: 77103
Title: Panorama of the Molasses Disaster site
Creator/Contributor: Globe Newspaper Co. (creator)
Date created: 1919-01-15
Description: Twenty one people were killed on Commercial Street in the North End when a tank of molasses ruptured and exploded. An eight foot wave of the syrupy brown liquid moved down Commercial Street at a speed of 35mph. Wreckage of the collapsed tank visible in background, center, next to light colored warehouse. Elevated railway structure visible at far left and the North End Park bathing beach to the far right.
Genre: Photographic prints; Aerial views
Subjects: Accidents; Floods; Molasses Disaster, Boston, Mass., 1919
Notes: Verso of print stamped Boston Globe.
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
A C-130 Hercules releases fire retardant over the trees in the mountains above Palm Springs, Calif., July 19, 2013. The unit was activated to assist the community with wildfires. The C-130 is assigned to the 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Nicholas Carzis)
Skater Gabriel Leão fotografado sem saber por Caio Romano, voltando de um "fackie ollie disaster" com a camisa de sua tabacaria preferida, especialista em "smoking culture", com a maior qualidade e variedade da Cidade, a Wilbor Bong, localizada na Travessa Piedade N˚317, fone - (91)3223-8855
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OBS: Em baixo å direita, dois grandes nomes do skateboard nortista, Nelson "cão" e Augusto "formiga".
Nunca habÃa tenido el pelo asà de largo.
Never had my hair this long!
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Using the Guardian as a shield,
to cover my thighs against the rain,
I didn't mind about my hair.
Your jacket may be waterproof,
but knowing the moment you get home
you're gonna get your trousers changed.
Failure is always the best way to learn,
retracing your steps 'til you know,
have no fear your wounds will heal.
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A disaster is the tragedy of a natural or human-made hazard (a hazard is a situation which poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment) that negatively affects society or environment.
In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These risks are the product of hazards and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low vulnerability are not considered a disaster, as is the case in uninhabited regions.
Developing countries suffer the greatest costs when a disaster hits – more than 95 percent of all deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries, and losses due to natural disasters are 20 times greater (as a percentage of GDP) in developing countries than in industrialized countries.
A disaster can be defined as any tragic event that may involve at least one victim of circumstance, such as an accident, fire, or explosion.
The last of the Chardonnay. and my favourite wine glass...Both gone!
For the November MSH - Disaster
i got really shocked by the photo of the 'Yomiuri' newspaper i read on the airplane back to japan.
a 4 year old girl who lost her parents and sister have written a letter to her mother.
'dear mama. i hope you are alive. are you fine?'
she spent an hour to write this letter and fell asleep.
i felt really sad....
in Kyoto , many people took pictures of maiko(geisya) having a box for donation in 1minute walk from my apartment. the only thing i can do now is just donation, but i think every people not only in japan but also in the world are thinking about victims and are cheering you.
be strong!!
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Picture shows a RAF Puma helicopter of 33 Squadron on the beach of Cane Garden Bay to deliver essential aid to local residents.
Ranks from 40 Commando Royal Marines have been facilitating the delivery of crucial aid to areas of the British Virgin Islands difficult to reach by road.
From loading these vital supplies at the port in the capital, Road Town, the Royal Marines transported them by road to the helicopter landing site at the cities hospital, Peebles, making sure the area was secure.
This allowed airmen from 33 Sqn, RAF Benson, to land multiple Puma helicopters for the Royal Marines to load the stores.
The Pumas conducted 3 drops of the aid, assisting communities in the West End, East End and those from Cane Garden Bay. At Cane Garden Bay the helicopter landed on the beach and was met by elated locals in need of the supplies.
Leading Photographer Joel Rouse, 30 Commando Combat Camera Team, was there to capture the moment and said, "Although I was there as a photographer, the opportunity to step aside from this role and help give out these supplies was humbling. I can see how much of a difference our guys are making and it's nice to be part of that".
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Photographer: LPhot Joel Rouse
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Bohemian National Cemetery
"SS Eastland was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915, the ship capsized while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. In total, 844 passengers and crew were killed in what was the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland
Another tale of incompetence and greed. Notice a theme?
...my beautiful piece of glass from Murano, Venice has shattered! One moment it was sitting in its magnificent perfection, next time I looked - it had cracked, all the way round!!!
The conductor of Freeport-McMoRan’s Clifton job prepares to dismount and line the runaway track switch for his train. The steep grades between here and the mines in Morenci will put a runaway rail car or out-of-control train at lethal speeds, potentially in mere seconds. Like many of the runaway truck ramps found on highways and freeways, this spur protects the many town residents below it from a potential disaster.
Look upon the field of snow
To find the desert sea
Under the ice the springs will flow to release
Fecundities like a natural disaster .
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K o d a k P r o E k t a c o l o r 1 6 0 ( e x p i r e d )
Well, you couldn't make it up.
After a week of almost unbroken sunshine in Cumbria the rains returned to coincide with the arrival of nuclear waste from Japan for reprocessing and the running of the attendant twice a year rail movement.
The KXA wagons were taken from Sellafield to Barrow docks last Friday and remained there over the weekend.
The two TN28 VT Highly Active Waste nuclear flasks were off-loaded from the 6800 ton M.V. Pacific Egret in readiness for their transportation from the Marine Terminal to Sellafield as 7X24 ("X" denoting an out of gauge commodity).
This working, together with the earlier light-engine southbound movement, had been showing in the system for a couple of days so I knew it was almost certainly a goer.
Nearly got caught out though; the 0C23 09.23 Sellafield - Barrow light-engines ran all the way to the docks without reporting on RTT.
As there have been previous occasions when the whole shooting match was binned at the last minute I wasn't unduly surprised by the apparent non-running.
It was only when I checked a TOPS list at 11.30 and discovered that 2 loco's were showing at Barrow M.T. that I realised it was all systems go, chucked everything in the car and floored it southward.
The forecast was rain, followed by rain and then more rain so there weren't going to be any heroics in the location department.
Millom station, with its lengthy "up" platform awning seemed the best option so I went there.
With internet coverage being sporadic, to say the least, I was grateful for the back-up from the area's semaphore signals.
I knew that power would be provided by Nos.57007 & 37688 but I didn't know which would be leading.
Sod's Law it was the wrong one!
Ordinarily you'd be able to see the hills across the Duddon estuary beneath the footbridge but not today. The rain was absolutely hammering down as the train rounded the curve.
I've shot four or five of these workings now and never got close to getting one in the sun.
Environmental Disaster.
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something terrible happened yesterday. my camera decided that it wanted to almost bathe the sensor in dust. i am not talking one or two dust spots, i am talking many. so i attempted to dislodge them with a blower. worst. idea. ever. now i have to send away my camera to be properly cleaned :( and will be cameraless for 3-5 days.
as if this wasnt enough, in the morning i went to turn on my computer, and it refused to boot. having some knowledge of computers i attempted a fix, but this issue was beyond me. i enlisted the help of another far greater than i at computer repair, and managed to bring it back from the brink of death. however all of this meant that i didnt have time to post a photo of the day.
now because i no longer have a camera to work with, i have decided to scour through my old photos and re-edit them, and show some of my best work.
this was a shot taken at the beginning of 2015 down at petrel cove SA. i was lucky enough for this photo to be chosen for an editors choice on 500px, so far the proudest moment of my photography journey to date.
i feel i have rambled enough. but if you have happened to have read this far, i thank you. feel free to offer some CC below if you wish
Vintage - FDNY - March 1973
Location: Staten Island, NYC, NY
Smoke billows from the top of the containment tank at the Texas Eastern LNG facility in Staten Island. Workmen inside the tank were refurbishing the tank walls when a worker using a torch set off a massive explosion. The explosion caused the containment roof to collaspe killing all 40 workers inside.
Scanned from the original Kodak High Speed Ektachrome (ASA 160) slide.
Artist: Damian Michaels
Title: Disaster Comes !
Medium: Graphite on paper
Size: 210 x 200 mm
Year: 1994
Private collection, South Australia.
Playlist Song : Disaster - Whiskey Bitches
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVPgeYOieBc
Done at the nature reserve Biedensand in Lampertheim, hesse at one of the old rhine armsat ISO100 73mm F4 and 1/320 sec
The 52,000 tonne Hoegh Osaka has just run aground on Bramble Bank in the Solent at the entrance to Southampton waters.
She was built in 2000, originally as "Maersk Wind" and is 180 metres long and 32 metres wide
Her cargo of 1,400 brand new luxury cars including Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Land Rovers and Bentley's is now beached on a sandbank at an angle of 45 degrees.
Salvage teams, tugs and cranes will be arriving shortly.
The first attempt to refloat her failed and the police launches are guarding her overnight.
There is a 200m exclusion zone around her.
BBC News link
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-30671548
One rumour at the moment is that she was deliberately beached in order to avoid her sinking in the main shipping channel after a major fault arose with her ballast tanks.
Either way, a very expensive disaster.
Update 1: She will remain beached on the sandbank for the next three days until the tides are high enough to refloat her.
Update 2: The owners have confirmed she was beached deliberately to "stop her capsizing"