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The cemetery of Taormina has something singular, it contains stories that you do not imagine, when I go to visit my dear departed, I invariably extend the tour "of visits" to the old part, with the various niches located on a long "outdoor tunnel" with tombstones arranged on two wings facing each other, narrow and high, where people, entire families, stories of lives suddenly broken ... because many of these people-families perished under the bombing of Allies of Taormina on 9 July 1943 (the day of the Patron Saint San Pancrazio, who, for not having prevented such bombings on his feast day, was punished for many years, and was no longer celebrated; only recently the recurrence as patron saint has returned); I then go to find the grave of the German photographer Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, who lies not far from his studio assistant, the photographer Gaetano D’Agata, who was also my great-grandfather; but ... almost as if it were an act of devotion ... I always go, invariably to lay a bouquet of flowers on the tomb of a Jewish family (I also take my children there, they must know and remember): there lies a mother with his three children, they, at the end of the ultimatum of the racial laws in the fascist period, decided to take their own lives all together, closely tied with a rope between them ... in the waters of Taormina, in that of Mazzarò beach.
For several years now, on the occasion of the anniversary for "the day of remembrance" of January 27, I recall on Flickr the tragedy that struck this unfortunate family; until recently I knew nothing about them, except the facts that led to their death: they took all four of them rowing on a boat, until they reached the bay of Mazzarò, they all tied themselves together, they stones in the pockets to weigh themselves down, and thus tied, were thrown into the deep waters near a rock off the coast called "Scogghia Longa" (translated from the Sicilian, High Rock).
Finally, after much research, I was able to find traces of their past lives, it was enlightening to find an online article of the site
"NewSicilia.it", which I report here (in addition to the link), also reporting some discrepancies that appeared in the article on the names and surnames, because it would be necessary to understand who made the mistake, if in transcribing the article, or who recorded the names on the tombstone, for example on the tomb one reads "Lindenfeld Elconorr", while the article talks about "Lindelfeld Eleonor", even the surname is slightly different, where is the mistake?
here the article, the Autor is Aurora Circià:
"Taormina, racial laws and suicide at sea: the story of the Kuerschner family"
TAORMINA - The extreme choice of suicide to escape those who wanted to have the will to decide their death. This is what the Kuerschner family did 81 years ago.
It was March 11, 1939 when 73-year-old Eleonor Lindelfeld and her three children Arthur, Eugene and Renèe, rented a rowboat in Mazzarò to get away from the shore and, offshore, put an end to their lives. They did this by throwing themselves into the water together, weighing their clothes with stones to make sure they wouldn't come back to the surface.
The "fault" of the Kuerschner family? Being Jewish.
For a few weeks, mother and children had been guests in the Flora hotel in Taormina. They tried to escape the racial laws and escape the cruelty of the Nazi and Fascist regimes. Right in their room, following the discovery of the tragic act made by the four, the police at the time claimed to have found a letter according to which the mother and children would have chosen suicide because they were tired of life because they were alone and without friends. A version denied by the letter dated 2 March 1939, which Arthur, a radio journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, had sent to a dear friend, to whom he had entrusted the real reasons for the painful decision taken by the family: "Today the time has come: we all four we will die voluntarily-involuntarily. The deep sea will welcome us more kindly than all the high governments of the countries around us. We will fill our pockets with stones, so as not to return to the surface. Our decision was made half a year ago. It was made easier for us by the awareness of having always led an honest life and happy to work, sometimes crowned with successes and never having done any harm to anyone ”.
The Kuerschners had moved to Germany after the end of the First World War, which Arthur had fought with the rank of captain on the Italian front: a feat that had earned him decorations and medals. In Berlin, having become a German citizen, Arthur had held an official role in the government radio station for 15 years. His life and that of his whole family were, however, turned upside down by the arrival of Adolf Hitler. Racial hatred, in fact, forced them to move to Austria, where they obtained citizenship. In 1938, however, the Austrian country also came under the aegis of the Nazi leader. It was at that point that the Hungarian Jewish family retreated to Italy, where Eugene had already found a job, active in the world of German cinema until the advent of Hitler.
In Italy, Eugene worked as a producer and supervisor on two films: “But it's not a serious thing” (1936), directed by Mario Camerini and the screenplay by Ercole Pattie and Mario Soldati, with Assia Noris and Vittorio De Sica; and “È tornato carnevale” (1937) directed by Raffaello Materazzo, with Armando Falconi and Mario Pisu.
Not even in Italy, however, the Kuerschner family was safe: the decree law of 7 September 1938 n.1381, in fact, provided that the foreign Jews present in the national territory would leave the country by 12 March 1939. It was thus that, on the eve of that ultimatum, mother and children put an end to their lives. The news of their tragic death was reported in the New York Times edition of March 23, 1939 by the Rome correspondent of the American newspaper.
Eleonor Lindelfeld, Arthur, Eugene and Renèe Kuerschner are buried in the non-Catholic section of the Taormina cemetery. On the plaque placed for their memory is engraved: “Under the rose garden we rest, we were placed there when the sad days correan for us poor Jews. We were welcomed to this golden island, we left our future at home. Tremendous is for the mother to choose death for himself and for her. The four of us went by boat, then one after the other we dived into the water. When they found us, the ropes still encircled the body ”.
post Scriptum
- the photo with the inscription "6,000,000 were few" I saw it made many years ago with a black spray can, next to the street name "alley of the Jews" of Taormina, when I was a 16 year old boy, the writing was from me made in post-production, to bring back what I saw in the image;
- see the story by Massimo Gramellini, Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter, who tells of what happens a few kilometers from the borders of Italy, of which I report the link (At 01:20:09 - on a total of the broadcast lasting 01:24:35 - Gramellini in memory of the "day of remembrance of January 27", to remember the victims of the Shoa: Gramellini tells of a tragic event (an event that is a symbol of who knows what unknown tragedies) 400 km from the border Italian, happened to "Ali the crazy".
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Il cimitero di Taormina ha qualcosa di singolare, vi sono racchiuse al suo interno storie che non ti immagini, quando vado a trovare i miei cari defunti, immancabilmente allargo il giro “delle visite” alla parte vecchia, coi vari loculi situati su di un lungo "tunnel all'aperto" con le lapidi disposte su due ali tra loro affacciate, strette ed alte, ove giacciono persone, intere famiglie, storie di vite spezzate all'improvviso...perchè moltissime di queste persone-famiglie perirono sotto i bombardamenti avvenuti a Taormina, da parte degli aerei Alleati, il 9 luglio 1943 (giorno del Santo Patrono San Pancrazio, il quale santo, per non aver impedito, proprio il giorno della sua festa tali bombardamenti, per tantissimi anni fu messo in castigo, e non fu più festeggiato; solo da poco si è tornati a celebrarne la ricorrenza come Santo Patrono); vado poi a trovare la tomba del fotografo tedesco, il barone Wilhelm von Gloeden, che giace a poca distanza dal suo aiutante di studio, il fotografo siciliano Gaetano D’Agata, il quale era pure il mio bisnonno; ma…quasi fosse un atto di devozione...vado sempre, immancabilmente a deporre un mazzolino di fiori sulla tomba di una famiglia di ebrei (ci porto anche i miei figli, loro devono sapere, e ricordare): li giace una madre insieme ai suoi tre figli, essi, allo scadere dell'ultimatum delle le leggi razziali nel periodo fascista, decisero di togliersi la vita tutti insieme, strettamente legati con una corda tra loro... nelle acque di Taormina, in quel di Mazzarò.
Sono diversi anni che, in occasione della ricorrenza per “il giorno della memoria” del 27 gennaio, rievoco su Flickr la tragedia che colpì questa sventurata famiglia; fino a poco tempo fa nulla sapevo di loro, tranne i fatti che portarono alla loro morte: si portarono tutti e quattro remando su di una barca, fino a giungere al largo della baia di Mazzarò, si legarono tutti tra di loro, si misero delle pietre nelle tasche per appesantirsi, e così legati, si gettarono nelle profonde acque in prossimità di uno scoglio al largo detto "Scogghia Longa" (trad. dal siciliano, Scoglio Alto).
Finalmente, dopo tante ricerche, sono riuscito a trovare traccia delle loro vite passate, illuminante è stato trovare un articolo online del sito
"NewSicilia.it", che qui riporto (oltre al link), riportando anche alcune discrepanze apparse sull'articolo sui nomi e cognomi, perchè sarebbe da capire chi ha commesso l'errore, se nel trascrivere l'articolo, o chi ha inciso i nomi sulla lapide, ad esempio sulla tomba si legge "Lindenfeld Elconorr", mentre nell'articolo si parla di "Lindelfeld Eleonor", anche il cognome è lievemente differente, dove sta l'errore?
qui l'articolo, la cui Autrice è Aurora Circià:
“Taormina, le leggi razziali e il suicidio in mare: la storia della famiglia Kuerschner”
TAORMINA – La scelta estrema del suicidio per sottrarsi a chi voleva avere l’arbitrio di decidere della loro morte. È quella che 81 anni fa fece la famiglia Kuerschner.
Era l’11 marzo del 1939 quando la 73enne Eleonor Lindelfeld e i tre figli Arthur, Eugene e Renèe, affittarono una barca a remi a Mazzarò per allontanarsi dalla riva e, al largo, porre fine alle loro vite. Lo fecero gettandosi in acqua insieme, appesantendo i propri vestiti con delle pietre per assicurarsi che non sarebbero tornati in superficie.
La “colpa” della famiglia Kuerschner? Essere ebrea.
Da qualche settimana madre e figli erano ospiti nell’albergo taorminese Flora. Cercavano di sfuggire alle leggi razziali e sottrarsi alla crudeltà dei regimi nazista e fascista. Proprio nella loro stanza, in seguito alla scoperta del tragico gesto compiuto dai quattro, la polizia all’epoca sostenne di aver trovato una lettera secondo la quale la madre e figli avrebbero scelto il suicidio in quanto stanchi della vita perché soli e senza amici. Una versione smentita dalla lettera datata 2 marzo 1939, che Arthur, giornalista radiofonico espulso dalla Germania nazista, aveva inviato a un caro amico, al quale aveva affidato i reali motivi della dolorosa decisione presa dalla famiglia: “Oggi è arrivato il momento: noi tutti quattro moriremo volontariamente-involontariamente. Il mare profondo ci accoglierà in maniera più gentile che tutti gli alti governi dei paesi che ci circondano. Riempiremo le nostre tasche con pietre, per non ritornare più a galla. La nostra decisione è stata presa già mezzo anno fa. Ci è stata resa più semplice dalla coscienza di aver fatto una vita sempre onesta e contenti di lavorare, a volte coronata anche da successi e di non aver mai fatto a nessuno del male”.
I Kuerschner si erano trasferiti in Germania dopo la fine della Prima Guerra Mondiale, che Arthur aveva combattuto col grado di capitano sul fronte italiano: un’impresa che gli era valsa decorazioni e medaglie. A Berlino, diventato cittadino tedesco, Arthur aveva ricoperto per 15 anni un ruolo ufficiale nella stazione radiofonica governativa. La sua vita e quella di tutta la sua famiglia venne, però, stravolta dall’arrivo al potere di Adolf Hitler. L’odio razziale, infatti, li costrinse a trasferirsi in Austria, dove ottennero la cittadinanza. Nel 1938, però, anche il Paese austriaco finì sotto l’egida del capo nazista. Fu a quel punto che la famiglia ebrea ungherese ripiegò in Italia, dove aveva già trovato lavoro Eugene, attivo nel mondo del cinema tedesco fino all’avvento di Hitler.
Nel Bel Paese Eugene lavorò come produttore e supervisore a due film: “Ma non è una cosa seria” (1936), per la regia di Mario Camerini e la sceneggiatura di Ercole Pattie e Mario Soldati, con Assia Noris e Vittorio De Sica; ed “È tornato carnevale” (1937) diretto da Raffaello Materazzo, con Armando Falconi e Mario Pisu.
Nemmeno in Italia, però, la famiglia Kuerschner era al sicuro: il decreto legge del 7 settembre 1938 n.1381, infatti, prevedeva che gli ebrei stranieri presenti sul territorio nazionale abbandonassero il Paese entro il 12 marzo 1939. Fu così che, alla vigilia di quell’ultimatum, madre e figli misero fine alle loro vite. La notizia del loro tragico decesso venne riportata nell’edizione del New York Times del 23 marzo 1939 dal corrispondente da Roma del giornale americano.
Eleonor Lindelfeld, Arthur, Eugene e Renèe Kuerschner sono sepolti nella sezione acattolica del cimitero di Taormina. Sulla lapide posta per la loro memoria è inciso: “Sotto il roseto noi riposiamo, posti vi fummo quando i giorni tristi correan per noi miseri ebrei. Fummo accolti in quest’isola dorata, lasciammo in patria il nostro avvenire. Tremendo è per la madre sceglier la morte per sé e per i figli. In barca tutti e quattro andammo, poi uno dietro l’altro in acqua ci tuffammo. Quando ci ritrovarono, le corde ancora il corpo ci cingevano”.
Post Scriptum:
- la foto con la scritta "6.000.000 sono stati pochi , io la vidi molti anni fa, realizzata con una bomboletta spray nera, accanto il nome della via "vico ebrei" di Taormina, quando ero un ragazzino di 16 anni, la scritta è stata da me realizzata in post-produzione, per riportare in immagine quello che io vidi;
- vedi il racconto di Massimo Gramellini, giornalista, scrittore e conduttore televisivo italiano, che racconta di ciò che avviene a pochi chilometri dalle frontiere dell'Italia, del quale riporto il link (Alla ora 01:20:09 - su di un totale della trasmissione della durata di 01:24:35 - Gramellini in ricordo della “giornata della memoria del 27 gennaio”, per ricordare le vittime della Shoa: Gramellini racconta un tragico evento (avvenimento simbolo di chissà quali tragedie non conosciute) a 400 km dal confine Italiano, accaduto ad “Alì il pazzo”.
The Ghan is an Australian experiential tourism passenger train that travels the almost 3,000 km between the cities of Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin in the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor. Operated by Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions, its scheduled travelling time, including extended stops for passengers to do off-train tours, is 53 hours 15 minutes to travel the 2,979 kilometres (1,851 mi). The Ghan has been described as one of the world's great passenger trains.
The service's name is an abbreviated version of its previous nickname, The Afghan Express.
The nickname is reputed to have been bestowed in 1923 by one of its crews. Some suggest the train's name honours Afghan camel drivers who arrived in Australia in the late 19th century to help the British colonisers find a way to reach the country's interior.
The train usually runs weekly.
Each train has 16 to 38 stainless steel carriages, built by Comeng, Granville, in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the Indian Pacific, plus a motorail wagon. The average length of the train is 774 metres (2,539 ft). A Pacific National NR class locomotive, plus a second locomotive if necessary, usually hauls the train, but occasionally another locomotive assists, such as an AN class or a DL class.
I can't remember such an extended period of duff weather up on the moors. Rain, mist and high winds being the order of the day. The few decent days being ruined by strong sunshine and weekend footfall. This was the perfect day forecast wise. Snow late in the previous day, a top up in the early hours and then good light..... yes, I should have known better. A smattering only on the very highest ground, a dearth of friendly hares and fine mist taking the edge off the day.
Pink Cockatoo (male)
Lophochroa leadbeateri
Vulnerable in Victoria
October 10th, 2017
Wyperfeld National Park, Big Desert, Victoria, Australia
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One from an unforgettable Mallee experience with a flock of Pink Cockatoos putting on a show right on dusk.
Photographed in Qatar.
The citrine wagtail (Motacilla citreola) is a small songbird in the family Motacillidae.
This species breeds in the central Palearctic in wet meadows and tundra. It migrates in winter to South Asia, often to highland areas. Its range is expanding westwards, and it is a rare but increasing vagrant to western Europe. Vagrants seem to extend the migration rather than straying en route; in Bhutan for example, though along with one of the species' migration flyways, the citrine wagtail has been recorded as an extremely rare passer-by rather than staying even for a few days or weeks
Thank you for extending the deadline. I had to rush the photo a bit because I've been so busy with school these past two week. I think things will ease up next week so, if I stay, I'll definitely give it my all.
"I can't believe it's already down to the top seven. To be honest, I didn't think I would make it this far when I first auditioned but I've been really proud of most of my photos. I just wish I got higher placings for some of them.
When it comes to life in the model house, I must say that things have gone pretty smoothly. There hasn't been much drama, and if there has, I've managed to avoid it entirely. I'm honestly not that close with the girls but I do talk to Carmen sometimes.She's really sweet and very down to earth. I love how she's not afraid to speak her mind. When it comes to modeling, I think she's a really good model, but I feel like her bangs really get in the way of her versatility. Sage keeps to herself a lot of the time but I think that might be because she's so focused on the competition. I would really love to get to know her 'cause she seems like a nice girl and she's an amazing model (such a chameleon). I really feel she doesn't get enough credit in the competition. Noah's pretty up beat and very positive. She and Carmen get along really well but I haven't really talked to her. I also love how she, like Sage, switches her look up so seamlessly each week. When it comes to Lea, I honestly don't know too much about her. I do know that the girl can take some great photos though. May is really sweet and quite friendly but I've just never really clicked with her. When it comes to modeling though, I don't think she's really showed that much. I don't see her as that strong of a model and she hasn't even changed her look up that much from week to week. Finally there's Anahi. She tends to keep to herself but I do really love her look. Model wise, I would say she doesn't change her look up enough. It's always pretty much the same look; black and a pony tail. I do love her eyes though.
So for the girl who I feel deserves to go overseas the most, I would have to go with Sage. I just think she's had some of the best shots of the cycle and she's been the most consistent from week to week (something I know I need to work on).
On the opposite side, the girl who I feel doesn't deserve to go overseas, would have to be May. I think she hasn't really shown much variety in her photos and her look has been the same from week to week."
Mit dem aufblühenden Handel seit Ende des Mittelalters war die Bevölkerung der alten Reichsstadt Augsburg stetig angestiegen. Um das Jahr 1600 wohnten im Stadtgebiet bereits 16.000 Menschen, die umgebenden Stadtmauern hatten zu dieser Zeit bereits mehrfach erweitert werden müssen. Um die Versorgung der Bevölkerung mit Fleischwaren sicherzustellen, beschloss der Rat der Stadt Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts den Bau einer zentralen Schlachterei zur Verteilung des Fleisches an die Metzger der Stadt. Zwar gab es bereits zuvor eine solche „Stadtmetzg“, doch deren Kapazität reichte nicht mehr, um die verarbeiteten Waren ordnungsgemäß und hygienisch zu lagern.
Auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Standort für das Bauwerk entschied sich der damalige Stadtbaumeister Elias Holl für das Lechviertel, wo er ideale Bedingungen für eine Zentralschlachterei vorfand: das Gelände lag inmitten der Stadt und war durchzogen von Lechkanälen, die sowohl die Wasser- und Energieversorgung als auch die Abfallbeseitigung sicherstellen konnten.
Schon bei den Planungen war Elias Holl mit einiger Raffinesse vorgegangen. Das prächtige vierstöckige Gebäude mit dem schmalen Giebel sollte der bis dahin modernste Bau der Fleischerzunft werden. Der Vordere Lech, einer der Lechkanäle, wurde offen unter das Schlachthaus geleitet, was einerseits eine ausreichende Kühlung der Fleischwaren ermöglichte, andererseits den Metzgern erlaubte, Abfälle von der Schlachtbank direkt in den Kanal zu entsorgen.
Nach dreijähriger Bauzeit wurde die neue Stadtmetzg im Jahre 1609 eröffnet. An der Fassadengestaltung der südlichen Giebelfront des dreigeschossigen Satteldachbaus dürfte Johann Matthias Kager mitgewirkt haben. Im unteren Bereich waren 126 Fleischbänke als Verkaufsstände untergebracht, der obere Bereich enthielt Zunft- und Amtsstuben. An der Hauptfassade zierte ein von Hans Reichle geschaffenes und von Wolfgang Neidhardt gegossenes bronzenes Stadtwappen das Bauwerk.
In der Stadtmetzg selbst wurde nicht geschlachtet, sondern in unmittelbarer Nähe ein Schlachthaus errichtet. Heute wird der Bau als Verwaltungsgebäude genutzt.
Quelle: Wikipedia.de
With the flourishing trade since the end of the Middle Ages, the population of the old imperial city of Augsburg had risen steadily. Around the year 1600, 16,000 people were already living in the city area. The surrounding city walls had already had to be extended several times at that time. To ensure the supply of meat products to the population, the city council decided at the beginning of the 17th century to build a central slaughterhouse to distribute the meat to the city's butchers. Although such a " city butchery " had already existed before, its capacity was no longer sufficient to store the processed goods properly and hygienically.
In his search for a suitable location for the building, the then town architect Elias Holl decided on the Lech quarter, where he found ideal conditions for a central slaughterhouse: the site was located in the middle of the city and was criss-crossed by Lech canals, which provided water and energy supplies as well as waste disposal.Elias Holl had already proceeded with some finesse during the planning. The magnificent four-storey building with its narrow gable was to become the most modern building of the butchers' guild to date. The Front Lech, one of the Lech canals, was led openly under the slaughterhouse, which on the one hand enabled sufficient cooling of the meat products, and on the other hand allowed butchers to dispose of waste from the slaughterhouse directly into the canal. After three years of construction, the new Municipal Butchery was completed. Elias Holl had already proceeded with some finesse during the planning. The magnificent four-storey building with its narrow gable was to become the most modern building of the butchers' guild to date. The Front Lech, one of the Lech canals, was led openly under the slaughterhouse, which on the one hand enabled sufficient cooling of the meat products, and on the other hand allowed butchers to dispose of waste from the slaughterhouse directly into the canal.
After three years of construction, the new Municipal Butchery was opened in 1609. Johann Matthias Kager may have been involved in the façade design of the southern gable front of the three-storey gable roof building. The lower section housed 126 butcher's shops as sales stands, the upper section contained guild and office rooms. The main façade was decorated with a bronze coat of arms created by Hans Reichle and cast by Wolfgang Neidhardt.
In the Stadtmetzg itself, there was no slaughter, but a slaughterhouse was built in the immediate vicinity, which is now used as an administrative building.
Source: Wikipedia.de
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The hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes) is a passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. Its closest living relatives are the evening grosbeak (Hesperiphona vespertinus) from North America and the hooded grosbeak (Hesperiphona abeillei) from Central America especially Mexico.
This bird breeds across Europe and temperate Asia. It is mainly resident in Europe, but many Asian birds migrate further south in the winter. It is a rare vagrant to the western islands of Alaska.
Deciduous or mixed woodland, including parkland, with large trees - especially hornbeam - is favoured for breeding,. The hawfinch builds its nest in a bush or tree, and lays 2-7 eggs. The food is mainly seeds and fruit kernels, especially those of cherries, which it cracks with its powerful bill. This large finch species is usually seen in a pair or small group.
The 16.5–18 cm long hawfinch is a bulky bull-headed bird, which appears very short-tailed in flight. Its head is orange-brown with a black eyestripe and bib, and a massive bill, which is black in summer but paler in winter. The upper parts are dark brown and the underparts orange.
The white wing bars and tail tip are striking in flight. The sexes are similar. The call is a hard chick. The song of this unobtrusive bird is quiet and mumbled.
The hawfinch has an overall length of 18 cm (7.1 in), with a wingspan that ranges from 29 to 33 cm (11 to 13 in). It weighs 46–70 g (1.6–2.5 oz) with the male being on average slightly heavier than the female. It is a robust bird with a thick neck, large round head and a wide, strong conical beak with a metallic appearance. It has short pinkish legs with a light hue and it has a short tail. It has brown eyes. The plumage of the female is slightly paler than that of the male. The overall colour is light brown, its head having an orange hue to it. Its eyes have a black circle around them, extending to its beak and surrounding it at its edge. Its throat is also black. The sides of its neck, as well as the back of its neck, are gray. The upper side of its wings are a deep black colour. The wings also have three stripes from approximately the middle till their sides: a white, a brown and a blue stripe. Adults moults between July and September.
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Skirted WVL385 is seen about to head up Brixton Hill on route 118 towards Morden. From tomorrow this route will be completely withdrawn, replaced by an extended 45.
This bus is now with Go-North East.
The Kalkadoon People, also known as the Kalkatungu, Kalkatunga, or Kalkadungu, ruled what is called the Emu Foot Province and have been living on these lands for over 40 thousand years. The Kalkadoon People owned vast tracts of land extending from McKinley’s Gap in the east where they joined the Goa tribe of the Winton district to Gunpowder Creek which was the territory of the Waggaboongas. On the southern side of their territory the Kalkadoons were touched upon by the Pitta-Pitta tribe of the Boulia district, and on the northern side by the Mittakoodi of the Fort Constantine country.
The Kalkadoons would mark their territory boundaries with an emu or cranes foot that was either painted onto rocks and trees or carved into the hard granite rock. This was also a warning for other Aboriginal clans not to pass these boundaries.
The Kalkadoon (Kalkatungu) are descendants of an Indigenous Australian tribe living in the Mount Isa region of Queensland. Their forefather tribe has been called 'the Elite of the Aboriginal warriors of Queensland'. In 1884 they were massacred at "Battle Mountain" by settlers and police.
The first Europeans to visit the area were explorers Burke and Wills who crossed the Cloncurry River in 1861. Though their journals make no mention of the tribe, their passing through is said to have been recorded in Kalkatungu oral history, and in their language they coined the term walpala (from 'white feller') to denote Europeans. Three parties sent out to search for Burke and Wills, led respectively by John McKinlay, William Landsborough, and Frederick Walker, passed through the general area. Walker, a former commander of the Dawson native police, shot 12 natives dead and wounded several more, just to the north east of Kalkatungu territory.
Another early European settler, Edward Palmer, who was described by George Phillips as 'one of that brave band of pioneer squatters who in the early sixties swept across North Queensland with their flocks and herds, settling, as if by magic, great tracts of hitherto unoccupied country', settled on the edge of Kalkatungu country in 1864, at Conobie, on the western bank of the Cloncurry River. Decades later, Palmer described the natives as a peculiar people of which little was known. Palmer was critical of the use of native police and interested in indigenous tribes. His station lands did not cover any Kalkatungu sacred sites, he did not object to their presence in the vicinity, and found no problem in his relations with the Kalkatungu. He tried to learn their language. Ernest Henry arrived in 1866, discovering, with the assistance of Kalkatungu guides, copper deposits the following year, and founded the Great Australia Mine. He successfully enlisted some Kalkatungu people to work one of these mines. A short attempt at settlement by W. and T. Brown at Bridgewater in 1874 experienced, like Palmer, no difficulties with the indigenous owners of the land.
The Scottish settler Alexander Kennedy then took up land in the area in 1877. He had managed, since his arrival in 1861, to accumulate land holdings of some 4,800 sq. miles, holding 60,000 cattle, and established himself in a residence he built, called Buckingham Downs. Kennedy is thought to have begun the troubles with the native peoples of the area by instigating murderous assaults on the Kalkatungu. Iain Davidson describes him as 'the man who led the destruction of the tribes of North West Central Queensland.'
The traditional white heroic narrative version of what then occurred drew on the account provided by Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh in 1933. According to this version, the Kalkatungu was by nature a hostile and bellicose tribe, exceptionally brave with 'primitive' military cunning and guerilla-like tactics of strategic withdrawals to the mountains to evade reprisals for their savagery. They were eventually vanquished and broken after a last stand against men like Alexander Kennedy.
Afghan History In Northwest Queensland:
The area around Bulonga and Ballara, North West Queensland, was once dotted with small going concerns of copper mining early in the 1900s. However, only a couple of smelters were available to process ore, namely Bulonga and Kuridala. Afghan camel drivers came to Australia with camels and proved critical to the transport of the ore from the small mines to the processing smelters. They left their mark through small sets of remains across the district and the herds of wild camels that can still be seen in the area today.
Source: Cloncurry Trails, & Kalkadoon PBC (www.kalkadoonpbc.com.au)
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Not had much time to get out recently, so it's Woody again I'm afraid. Taken yesterday testing the new camera with my 1.4x Extender, which tbh was very hit and miss.... more miss with the 1DX MKi, but with the Mkii it performs so much better in my view.
A7, Empire Builder with 300, 301, 53 hang out in Lakota, waiting for a couple of service interruptions at Leeds, North Dakota…Shelby Crew with BNSF Pilot Crew was vanned to Lakota from Minot as the St Cloud crew died HOS..The Shelby Crew made it to Minot before they also died HOS..great day on the Devils Lake Sub… not what I had wanted, but what are you going to do…at Minot, BNSF furnished a new leader to move the extremely late A7 to Lines west
Still mucking about testing my capability to make effective use of the 2x extender and 300/2.8 combo for handheld raptor photography. A few of us have been sharing experiences and I think progress is being made.
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This was taken during an hour of good light this morning. Handheld, not cropped 'cept for the slightest wafer off bottom and left side. This bird was at top pace - so firstly the AF did well ( I took a number of shots, not multi-burst, and 70% were sharp); and secondly I was lucky to keep him in the frame. The most noticeable thing in using the 2x instead of the 1.4x extender is how much harder it is to initially get the bird in the frame. Still I guess that part just comes down to practice.
Black-shouldered Kite, A.C.T.
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Spurn is a very unique place in the British Islands. Three and a half miles long and only fifty metres wide in places.
Extending out in to the Humber Estuary from the Yorkshire coast it has always had a big affect to the navigation of all vessels over the years. Help to some and a danger or hindrance to others. This alone makes Spurn a unique place.
Spurn is made up of a series of sand and shingle banks held together with mainly Marram grass and Seabuckthorn. There are a series of sea defence works built by the Victorians and maintained by the Ministry of Defence, till they sold Spurn to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in the 1950s. The defences are in a poor state, breaking down and crumbling. This is making Spurn a very fragile place wide open to the ravages of the North Sea.
One of the most striking features of Spurn is the black and white lighthouse near to the end of Spurn. Now just an empty shell not used since it was closed down at dawn on the thirty first of October 1986.
There have been many Lighthouses on Spurn over the years the first recorded at around 1427. The present light was built from 1893 TO 1895. The small tower on the beach on the Estuary side was originally the low light. It was built and put in to operation at around 1852. This light was no longer needed when the present lighthouse was opened in 1895.At a later date the light was removed and it was used as a store for explosives and later as a water tower. The tank can still be seen on the top. When it was operational there was a raised walkway from the shore to the lighthouse so it could be reached at all stages of the tide.
The present lighthouse was built to replace an old lighthouse that was positioned just to the south of the present one. You can still see the round perimeter wall surrounding the old keepers cottages and the base of the old lighthouse which had to be demolished due to it settling on it's foundations making it unsafe.
The only light on Spurn today is a flashing green starboard light on the very end of the point and the fixed green lights marking the end of the Pilots jetty.
Because of Spurns ever moving position there have been many Lighthouses over the years. There is a very good book by George.de.BOAR, called History of the Spurn Lighthouses, produced by the East Yorkshire Local History Society. This is one of a series of books on local history.
www.spurnpoint.com/Around_and_about_at_Spurn.htm
Around and about there are plenty of places to eat and drink. Starting from the north of Spurn at Kilnsea there is the Riverside hotel offering good quality food drink and accommodation. Coming south towards Spurn and still in Kilnsea there is the Crown and Anchor pub. A welcoming place serving bar meals fine beers and offering bed and breakfast at very reasonable rates. At the crossroads before you turn towards Spurn there is the Spurn heritage coast visitors centre. Where there is a small cafe and exhibition. At the entrance Spurn point nature reserve is an information centre and bird observatory selling books pamphlets, etc., and the last toilet on Spurn.
Past the lighthouse is the last car park. Two hundred metres further on you find the Humber Lifeboat and Pilot stations. Near the houses is a Small caravan selling tea, coffee, cold cans, hot and cold food, crisps and sweets.
All are open all year round apart from the heritage centre which is open thought the season.
BIRD WATCHING.
Is a very popular pastime as Spurn is internationally famous for birds. There are up to two hundred species recorded at spurn every year. Some of which are extremely rare. The Marmora's Warbler seen at Spurn In June 1992 was only the third recorded in Britain.
SEA FISHING.
The beaches of Spurn provide some of the best sea fishing in the area, with Cod and Whiting and Flats being caught through the winter and Skate, Flats and Bass through the summer. There is sport to be had all the year.
At the very end of Spurn is deep water ideal for Cod but this only fishes best two hours either side of low water, the tide is to strong at other times. All along the seaward side of Spurn is good for all species of fish at all times though over high water being the better. The riverside of Spurn is very shallow and only produces Flats and the bass over high water.
THE BEACH.
The beaches at Spurn are of soft sand and shingle. Whichever way the wind is blowing you can just pop over the dunes to the outer side. There are fossils and all manners of things to find beach combing. Swimming is not safe any were near the point end as there are very strong tides at up to six knots at times. But in side Spurn around the point car park is perfect at high water. The beach does not shelf to fast and very little tide. You can have the place to your self at times, as Spurn is never really busy weekdays.#
A very popular pastime at Spurn is Fossil hunting. There is a good abundance of fossils to be found in amongst the pebbles and shingle.
The Shark Trust has a very interesting PDF file tell you all about Shark Skate and rays the mermaids purses you find on the beach are egg shells from sharks and Rays. Click the link to down load the Shark Trust Brochure.
WALKING.
Walking or strolling at spurn is very easy, as there are no hills. There are various sign posted paths up and down the point. For the fit a complete walk round the whole point is about 8 miles, taking in all the point round the point end and back to the "warren" information place at the start of Spurn. You will need good footwear, as much of the paths are sand. There is limited access for disabled, but not to the point end, as you have to go via the beach.
You can park your car at the point car park and walk round the point end and back to the car park about a mile, or just stroll around the point were you choose. The only place you are not allowed to go are down the pilot's jetty and the centre square of the Lifeboat houses.
In spring and early summer Spurn is covered with a large amount of wild flowers of all species.
There are common to the not so common; from Orchids to bluebells. I must remind you Spurn is a nature reserve and the picking of all flowers is prohibited. When visiting please enjoy Spurn, as it is a very beautiful place and leave only your footprints.
Horse Riding.
There is riding available nearby at the North Humberside Riding Centre. The stables are ideally located with rides along quiet country lanes, by-ways, plus miles of sandy beach and riverbanks. The cross-country course offers a variety of fences for both the novice and the more experienced rider.
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A Brief History of Spurn Bird Observatory
Following visits to Spurn by several members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union in the late 1930's, a communal log for ornithological observations was instituted in 1938. This included a roll-call of species, the beginnings of a recording system, which later became standard in bird observatories. Realising the potential of the Spurn peninsula for the regular observation of bird migration a group of enthusiasts, notably Ralph Chislett, George Ainsworth, John Lord and R.M. Garnett, had the idea of setting up a bird observatory, with the Warren Cottage at the northern end of the peninsula as an ideal headquarters. Unfortunately the outbreak of war forced them to put their plans on hold but shortly after hostilities ceased a lease for Warren Cottage was obtained from the War Department and the observatory was established shortly afterwards under the auspices of the Y.N.U. with the four members mentioned above forming the first committee. A preliminary meeting was held in September 1945 to decide on the site for a Heligoland trap, work on which was begun almost immediately and the first bird (a Blackbird) was ringed on November 17th. The first minuted committee meeting was held on March 9th 1946 and the observatory was opened to visitors at Whitsuntide that year.
Initially coverage was limited to the main migration seasons, being extended to winter weekends in the early 1950's to trap and ring some of the large numbers of Snow Buntings which used to occur at that time of year and gradually coverage was increased (whenever possible) to cover the late spring and summer. In 1959 there was an important development when the Yorkshire Naturalists' Trust (now the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust) became the owners of the peninsula and thus the observatory's landlord. In 1960 a full time warden was appointed by the Trust, and although having no official connection with the observatory the fact of having an observer on the peninsula year-round inevitably helped to improve the ornithological coverage. This was especially the case from 1964 when the current warden, Barry Spence, was appointed, in conjunction with the fact that an interest in birds and their migrations was steadily growing and more bird-watchers were staying at the observatory, often for longer periods.
When the observatory opened there was accommodation for seven visitors in Warren Cottage and facilities included two chemical toilets, the Warren Heligoland trap and an ex-army hut as a ringing hut. Over the next ten years a further five Heligoland traps were constructed along the peninsula, although today only three remain in existence. In 1959 the observatory gained the use of the Annexe, one of two ex W.D. bungalows built at the Warren during the early 1950's, thus increasing the accommodation capacity to seventeen and providing much improved toilet facilities. Over the years the accommodation and facilities have been gradually improved to try to make the visitor's stay at Spurn as comfortable as possible. Other improvements have also taken place, in 1968 part of one of the derelict buildings at the Point was converted into a ringing laboratory ready for the first B.T.O. Ringing Course, held in autumn of that year and in 1971 part of one of the derelict buildings at the Warren was also converted into a ringing laboratory. The other part of this building became a laboratory for the use of students of Leeds University but this also became available to the observatory in the mid 1980's when the University no longer had a use for it. Subsequently it was converted into a self-contained accommodation unit for two, complete with kitchen facilities, and although officially known by the somewhat unimaginative name of Room F (the rooms in the Annexe being known as Rooms A, C, D & E, - whatever happened to Room B?), it was somewhat irreverently christened "Dunbirdin" by regular visitors to Spurn.
In 1965 a sea-watching hut was erected east of the Warren beyond the line of the former railway track. Due to coastal erosion it became necessary to move this in late 1974, when it was hoped that it would last at least as long as it had in its first position. Alas this was not to be, as the rate of erosion increased dramatically in the mid 1970's, necessitating a further move in early December 1977. In that year a clay bank had been built across the field behind Warren Cottage (Clubley's field) to prevent the flooding of arable land by wind-blown sea water, but on January 11th 1978 Spurn suffered its worst flooding ever when a strong to gale-force north-westerly wind combined with a spring tide. In late 1981 due to extensive construction works at Easington a large quantity of boulder clay became available and this was used to build up and extend the bank across Clubley's field, south towards Black Hut and north beyond Big Hedge to join up with an existing bank (which had been built in 1974) behind the scrape. In 1982 the sea-watching hut was repositioned on top of this bank, where it remained until the bank itself was washed away in the early 1990's.
A number of other changes to the observatory recording area began to take place from the early 1970's, including extensive building operations at the Point, commencing in 1974, with the construction of a new jetty for the Humber Pilot boats, new housing for the Spurn Lifeboat crew and the conversion and renovation of various existing buildings for use by the Coastguard and the Pilots. In 1978 following damage to the existing road south of the Warren area a new tarmac road was laid to the west of the original one, this lasted until 1988 when a second "new road" loop had to be laid, followed in 1991 by the construction of the existing loop road running along the Humber shore from just south of the Warren to just beyond Black Hut. The construction of this road resulted in the destruction of the actual Black Hut, although the area still bears the name. In 1981 the lines of wartime concrete anti-tank blocks running from the seashore to the Canal Zone were removed to fill in a breach at the Narrow Neck. This resulted in the southward extension of the Scrape field by the farmer up to Big Hedge and the start of a gradual decline in the condition of this hedge and its attractiveness to birds. In 1982 a local resident excavated a pond for shooting purposes in the wet area adjoining the Canal Zone. This never really proved successful and the land was later purchased by the Y.W.T. and the pond enlarged to become what is now known as Canal Scrape. In 1984 a famous Spurn landmark, the Narrows "Hut", a wooden migration watch shelter which had stood at the Narrow Neck for twenty-three years, was set fire to by person or persons unknown and completely destroyed, it was replaced the following year by a more solid construction made from breeze-blocks.
A period of considerable change began in 1988 when the Spurn peninsula was designated as part of the Spurn Heritage Coast. Projects undertaken include the enlargement of the Canal Scrape mentioned above and the erection of a hide overlooking it, a hide overlooking the Humber wader roost at Chalk Bank, a public sea-watching hide alongside the observatory one, provision of additional car-parking space, the restoration of the short-turf habitat in the Chalk Bank area, provision of footpaths, etc. A major project was the renovation of the Blue Bell in Kilnsea for use as offices, an information centre and a small cafe, which became fully operational in 1995. Another fairly recent project has been the creation of another scrape/pond on Clubley's field.
In 1996 the observatory celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, and for the first time in its history SBO employed a full time seasonal warden. This position has since been expanded and the observatory now enjoys the services of a year- round warden. In 1998, with a view to the future, a small bungalow in Kilnsea was purchased with money bequeathed by the late John Weston, a long time committee member, who regrettably died in 1996. This was followed in 1999 by the purchase of a strip of land adjacent to the property and is now known as the ‘Church Field’, this is planted with a sacrificial crop every year, and has also had several groups of trees planted and a feeding station placed in the north-east corner. Access to this field is available by becoming a member of ‘Friends of Spurn Bird Observatory’, a venture set up in 2003 to eventually help with the building of a new observatory when the old one falls way to the sea.