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Trail or path – Khao Sok National Park, Thailand 1994
From my journal:
"We've been staying in bamboo huts floating on Rajjaprabha Lake - a flooded dam created to generate electricity, provide irrigation, flood control, and fishing - and today we are off on a jungle hike with a guide, a couple of porters, a translator and a single Dutch guy.
Kitted out with leech socks, we begin our trek by wading thigh deep in the river, then up into the hillside. The socks certainly earn their keep, and we should have been covered from head to toe with them, as the little blood suckers get everywhere. A drop of salt gets them to release their grip, but they leave behind a tiny hole which bleeds profusely. My dad looks like he's been shot with a pellet gun, his pale T shit littered with blood stains.
At one stage the path runs through grasses taller than us, and the excitement mounts as we can hear what sounds like the roar of a tiger in the distance. I turn to ask the guide about it. Where is he? And the porter carrying our lunch? The armed ranger is missing too.
Suddenly feeling rather vulnerable, we stop dead in our tracks. Call out. Nothing. We walk back a few yards to see if we missed a turning. No turnings. We call out again. Still no sign of our leaders, and the only sounds are the jungle and the aforementioned roar. After what seems like an eternity, during which we discuss what to do and if anyone can remember the way back to the lodge; the staff appear, laughing. A huge sigh of relief goes out amongst our small group.
We have been walking for around an hour and a half or so when we have to negotiate our way down a steep muddy slope, made treacherously slippery by the recent rain. I take small careful sideways steps, but I can soon feel my lower foot sliding. While the right leg continues downhill, my left foot gets caught in a root on the slope. By the time I land on my posterior with an almighty bump, my leg is grossly bent out of shape, with the left ankle touching my shoulder. Ouch. Convinced my leg is broken, I try to stand up. Nothing. No pain, no problem walking. Phew.
Our destination is a huge cave, where we eat the picnic lunch so lovingly carried by the porter. Amazingly, the food is still warm.
My leg is beginning to hurt a little by now, so I take a rest on a rock while the others explore the cave. By the time we start the walk back to camp, I can barely put any weight on the leg, and my knee has swollen to the size of a football. Oh dear. The others lament on how they are going to get me back to the lodge, and suggestions include making a raft and floating me down the river. I choose to hobble instead.
The trek back feels a hundred times longer that it did getting there, but I do finally make it, collapsing into a chair in the dining room. We'd drunk all the 'jungle juice' the previous night, so I double up on painkillers and lower myself onto the thin mattress on the floor in our little bamboo hut, worrying about how I am going to manage to get up again with a gammy leg.
On return to the UK, my physician confirms that I tore off the ligaments completely in my knee. It sure was one of our more adventurous adventures".
The total views on my photostream reached 7,000,000+ after 7 years and 4 months hard work and midnight oil burnt on August 1st 2014.
While I've tended to steer my photostream and descriptions in the last few years towards an encyclopaedic tone with referrals from the major internet search engines my main objective, the continuing support and comments from my contacts and other Flickr members is very much appreciated and makes all the hard work over the last 7.4 years very much worthwhile.
A special mention and thanks too for my friend, colleague, fellow railway enthusiast and photostream contributor David whose 2358 donated items so far on this date have made a huge difference to my photostream, stats and interest generated.
7,000,000 views ÷ 9136 items = 766.19 views average per item which is a significant improvement on the 703.64 average per item at 6,000,000 views in April 2014.
The most viewed item in my photostream continues to be this one flic.kr/p/6ky5vY with well over twice as many views as its nearest rival. I don't see that changing for the foreseeable future.
Flickr is a huge, time consuming and rewarding project for me personally and I genuinely believe all the effort has been worthwhile.
Thank you so much for all your clicks!
;-)
The industrial origins on Pigeon House Road stretch back to 1899 when Dublin Corporation secured the Pigeonhouse Fort from the army and began work on a new building for ‘extending and improving the electrical lighting of the city’. The scheme was designed to supply ‘100,000 lamps of eight-candle power’ while 412 new arc lights were to be installed on the streets. In 1903, the Corporation transferred its electricity generating operation from Fleet Street to the Pigeonhouse. Over the next ten years, demand grew from 763kW to 5,150kW. In 1927, the Electricity Supply Board was established and the Corporation ceased generating electricity. During the Emergency years 1939 – 1945, Pigeonhouse and the Ardnacrusha hydro-electric power station on the Shannon attempted to supply the whole country. However, the quality of the coal arriving at Pigeonhouse wharf was apparently so poor that grass could be seen growing upon the nuggets. In 1949, the ESB built a new oil-fired generating station on the North Wall. Pigeonhouse Station was nonetheless developed to reach an installed capacity of 95,000kW in 1952. In 1955, the ESB built another new station in Ringsend, powered by either coal or oil.
The Pigeonhouse itself was decommissioned in 1976. Today magpies, kestrels, sparrow-hawks and racing pigeons swoop from the roof of the old hotel and through the grimy windowless power station.
www.turtlebunbury.com/published/published_books/docklands... & Poolbeg/pub_books_docklands_rd_powerstation.html
Both the power station and hotel are protected structures in the Dublin City Development Plan 2005 - 2011 and fall within the Proposed Planning Scheme for the Poolbeg area
www.docklands.ie/files/business/planning/20090202110155_0... Proposed Planning Schem.pdf
Reign of Fire London aka Poolbeg Power Station
At nearly €70 million, this dragon flick directed by Rob Bowman (X Files) became the most expensive film ever shot in Ireland and starred Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. A boy finds a dragon egg in present-day London. Twenty years later, deadly dragons have overrun the world and survivors seek shelter in an old castle in rural Northumberland (aka the Wicklow Gap). The Poolbeg power station and facade of the abandoned Pigeon House Hotel were used as a set and the distinctive chimneys are visible. Part of the original set is included in the studio tram tour in Disneyland Paris.
www.thedubliner.ie/the_dubliner_magazine/2008/02/dublin-b...
Buildings of Ireland, Pigeonhouse Generating Station
www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/rings...
Poolbeg Generating Station on Wikipedia
AI generated trans scene
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Dragon was an experimental high temperature gas-cooled reactor at Winfrith in Dorset, England, operated by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
Its purpose was to test fuel and materials for the European High Temperature Reactor programme, and it was built and managed as an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency international project.
It operated from 1965 to 1976 and is still in the process of being decommissioned
Ben playing around with a site named generated.photos . I wish I looked this good in real life.
The have a large selection of features one checks off and generates an image. Some of the combinations don't work correctly as I got some naked images (which you will never see).
One can upload a photo of a face that is incorporated into the generated human.
This image was automatically generated on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 01 B}o06 PM EDT from a source image by controlarms. For more information about GlitchBot, please visit my homepage.
Generated with actionscript. Test with ribbons, curves and a leaf-like shape. It is moving using perlin noise. I love the results.