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Fig Tree Bay is a sandy beach in the resort of Protaras, Cyprus. The sandy beach stretches for 500m and the waters are clean enough for the beach to have been awarded blue flag designation. The beach, which runs the length of its own cove, takes its name from the fig trees located close to the coast.
sleepover in the backyard, complete with tents, a trampoline, and guinea pigs, march 2001
largs bay, adelaide, south australia
sleepover in the backyard, complete with tents, a trampoline, and guinea pigs, march 2001
largs bay, adelaide, south australia
1st Figtree Joey scouts donating food to the Denny Foundation iand disadvantaged people in Wollongong
Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Cyclopsitta diophthalma Macleayana.
I can not begin to describe how excited this encounter was for me. There where nine birds in total in the one fig tree Pairs and young.
Sixty five photos later.
The Double-eyed Fig Parrot is Australia's smallest parrot.
Their eggs are laid in holes in dead, sometimes perilously shaky, trees.
Seen ideally three or four times each year around the weeping native fig trees which set fruit and attract these parrots.
Both sexes have a red forehead, but the males also have a red cheek patch, as opposed to the females' which is usually yellow.
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Water entering Raintrees from neighbouring upstream properties, as seen in this video, flows via Middle Arm Creek under Figtree Drive culvert and through our property exiting under a culvert across Panorama Drive at Diamond Beach.
There are two dams on neighbouring properties in the catchment above this area and when they fill up and the ground becomes saturated the velocity of water flowing through the Figtree Drive culvert into Raintrees can be very fast and sometimes very damaging, washing out bridge run-ups, moving logs and causing damage to vegetation by eroding soil around their roots.
Ultimately the water flows into a feeder creek which then flows into Moor Creek before flowing on into Khappinghat Creek. It then travels through Khappinghat Nature Reserve, into Saltwater National Park, then to the ocean at Wallabi Point.
Giant Trees In Australian Forests.
Australia lays claim to growing the tallest trees in the world, whilst Californian trees are noted not so much for height as for their girth and diameter. The tallest Californian forest giant discovered was found by actual measurement to be 340ft. high. But Australia's record gum tree beats this by 140ft. Baron Mueller, who was formerly Government Botanist in Victoria said that the Australian gum trees attained a height of 500ft., but the tallest that the Baron every measured was a prostrate one on the Black Spur, ten miles from Healesville, which was 480ft. high. This tree was 81ft. in girth near its root. in 1889 Mr. G. W. Robinson, a civil engineer, of Berwick, in journeying from Gippsland to Mount Bore, measured a tree 471ft. in height, though the same tree had previously been estimated at not less than 500ft.
Remarkable reports relating to timber records have been forthcoming during the last two or three weeks. Mr. F. Colledge reported to the Tenterfield "Courier" recently that he saw a tree growing in the scrub on the Richmond River, near Rous, N.S.W., a Moreton Bay fig, which measured 123ft. round the girth, and was 153ft. high. The area over which it deposited its figs was half an acre. The perculiarity about this tree is that the centre of it is a natural trunk or basin which holds about 500 gallons of water, and which is never known to be dry.
Following close upon this comes a report from Dorrigo, N.S.W., where a huge pine tree felled on Mr. T. Maher's property which, when delivered at the mill in six logs measured as follows:- 12ft. x 14ft. 2in., 1086ft. ; 12ft. x 12ft. 11 in., 1501ft. ; 14ft. x 12ft. 5in., 1681ft. ; 14ft. x 11ft. 9in., 1449ft. ; 16ft. x 11ft., 1452ft. ; 17ft. x 10ft. 5in., 1383ft. ; making a total of 9209ft. of timber from the one tree.
About the same time that this big tree was reported, a pine log 13ft. 10in. long, containing 2870 superficial feet of timber, was hauled into Casino, N.S.W.
While New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania boast of big trees, there are some notable giants in the forest country of North Queensland, between Townsville and Port Douglas. Here magnificent specimens are found, and one man who took up land to the value of £600, paid for it with three trees though he did not even have the trouble of cutting them down, as he sold them to an enterprising timber miller as they stood. Another man has 600 acres, and the timber has paid for the land and improvements, and given him a cash surplus, and now his land is worth nearly £10 an acre. In another place in the same country, says an authority, you can see a cedar tree still standing, and its value is variously estimated at from £300 to £400. Last year at Cangai, on the North Coast of New South Wales, a big cedar tree was felled, and the log measured 70ft., by 30ft., in girth. It was estimated that the timber was worth from about £800 to £1000. The log weighed about 671/2 tons, which would yield roughly 47,250 cubic feet.
Description source: Darling Downs Gazette, 15 March 1912
Image source: Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 1274
The tree was a rescue. It was destined for the composter. The lovely young woman who was going to toss it asked me if I would like to take it home. I got the fig, 2 raspberry & 2 blueberry bushes in the deal.
All day long the version of this that I posted (now down in the comments) was bugging me. I knew I hadn't gotten the edit right, but I wanted to post and SP to introduce Charlie's fabulous guest blog post (go read it already!). I short cutted -- threw a TTV texture on the image to help close it in and went to work.... where I looked at it a few times (I had zero focus today) and tried to convince myself that it came together. Someone who knows me better than anyone else pointed out the obvious, or I should say, had the courage to call me on my bullshit (thankyouverymuch). So now you get the re-edit. I'm normally not a fan of intense, heavy handed vignetting of the faux variety, but this image needs to be contained for the visual effect to work. Hence the instinct to pretend it was shot TTV. But the texture was too phony. I'll break my own rule on the vignetting here because it serves a purpose -- I'm not merely trying to make the photo seem important and dramatic.
WithinaClick is very excited to have the one & only crustydolphin guest blogging today.
Inspired by her revealing article on self-portraiture, I decided it was time to put myself in the photo again.
Go -- read and let us know what you think in the comments: withinaclick.com/2010/03/an-exploration-of-something-othe...