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Snapshots from our five week Summer Intensive at both White Lodge and Upper School.
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Bribie Island is the smallest and most northerly of three major sand islands forming the coastline sheltering the northern part of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. The others are Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. Bribie Island is 34 kilometres (21 miles) long, and 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) at its widest. Archibald Meston believed that the name of the island came from a corruption of a mainland word for it, Boorabee meaning 'koala'. However, the correct Joondaburri name for the island is in fact Yarun.
Bribie Island hugs the coastline and tapers to a long spit at its most northern point near Caloundra, and is separated from the mainland by Pumicestone Passage. The ocean side of the island is somewhat sheltered from prevailing winds by Moreton Island and associated sand banks and has only a small surf break. The lee side is calm, with white sandy beaches in the south.
Most of the island is uninhabited national park (55.8 square kilometres or 21.5 square miles) and forestry plantations. The southern end of the island has been intensively urbanised as part of the Moreton Bay Region, the main suburbs being Bongaree, Woorim, Bellara and Banksia Beach. A bridge from Sandstone Point on the mainland to Bellara and Bongaree was completed in 1963.
Buckley's Hole, at the southern tip of the island, is an important bird habitat and refuge.
The inhabitants of Bribie Island at the time they were encountered by Matthew Flinders in H.M. colonial sloop Norfolk in 1799 were the Djindubari people.[10] broadly part of the 'Kabi' or more correctly Gubbi Gubbi people of South-East Queensland. Meston recorded the pre-contact population of Aboriginal people as 600–1,000, but by 1891 none remained on the Island and only four lived on the mainland.
Joondaburri lifestyle
The comparatively rich coastal country allowed permanent residence. Natural resources of land and sea were abundant and harvested according to the seasons. Winter mullet schooled from May to July. Dolphins were trained to herd the fish into waiting nets and spears. Winter was the best season for bream, followed by tailor in September and October. In summer mud crabs and oysters were plentiful and dugong were hunted. Summer whiting and flathead were speared or netted. Bungwall Fern was gathered for its starchy roots all year round. Kangaroo, eels and carpet snakes were rich in protein and fat. The dominant shellfish used as food was the oyster known today as the Sydney Rock Oyster known locally as tibir, at that time growing naturally on the seabeds. The oyster middens, many metres thick, were plundered by early settlers for lime. A significant midden site, now lost, was located not far from Bongaree jetty. It contained discarded shells, marsupial bones and stone tools. The biggest of the oyster middens was at White Patch, where dugong were also plentiful. The Ugari (pipi) on the coastal beaches was also eaten.
James Cook, 1770
Lieutenant James Cook sighted the Glass House Mountains west of the Island on Thursday 17 May 1770 while sailing up the east coast of Australia in HM Bark Endeavour. He called these hills the Glass Houses as the reflections and the shape of the hills reminded him of the glass manufacturing houses back in England. James Cook named the area Glass House Bay and was the first European to name this stretch of water.
Matthew Flinders, 1799
On 16 July 1799 Captain Matthew Flinders left Glass House Bay about two miles (3.2 kilometres) east of the shore in the Norfolk. He sailed south-west between Moreton Island and the mainland parallel to the southern shore of Bribie Island until spotting an opening in the low western shore. He anchored at 8:15am and transferred with a small crew and Bongaree to a smaller craft. He landed on Bribie Island unaware that it wasn't the mainland and met a small group of Aborigines who had gathered on the beach. Although Bongaree didn't speak the same dialect as the local aborigines the meeting was peaceful until one attempted to remove Flinders' hat. Flinders refused and the Europeans and Bongaree returned to their boat. As they left the man who had tried to remove Flinders' hat threw a spear that missed the small boat and crew. Flinders fired his musket at the men on shore and wounded the man who had thrown the spear. The Aborigines fled the beach. Flinders named the southern shore and site of the confrontation Point Skirmish. There is an area on the modern map marked Skirmish Point but should not be confused with the actual place of the incident which is known as South Point.
Flinders needed to repair leaks in his boat and pulled it ashore some five miles (8.0 kilometres) north of the area he had the incident with the locals for those repairs. Once his boat was repaired he explored the mainland side of the passage and scaled Mt. Beerburrum to get a view of the area. He spent 15 days in the region.
It was not until some time later it was determined that this was an island and the changing of the name of the waterway between Bribie Island and the mainland was made at some other point.
19th century
Passenger steamship service, 1912
The origin of the name Bribie are believed to be linked to a convict named Bribie or Breiby who gathered basket-making material on the island in the 1830s.In his memoirs, Tom Petrie wrote:
In those days there was a prisoner among the others who made baskets for the Government called Bribie, the basket maker. He was not chained, and was allowed to go about in a boat to get cane from the scrubs for his work. It was from this man Bribie, my father thinks, that Bribie Island got its name. He cannot remember distinctly on this point, but has some vague recollection of a connection between the man and the island – whether he was blown ashore there, or what, he does not know.
However, author Libby Connors in her book "Warrior", notes that there was a Joondaburri Elder, from Yarun (Bribie Island) by the name of Bribé, ca 1830. Bribé is recorded as taking part in a large intertribal armed conflict, during the 1820s, on a plain near Mt Coot-tha. Other notable aboriginal members present on this occasion were Eulopé, Daki Yakka, Mulrobbin, Moppé, and Gorowamba. This pre-dates the period of the convict "Bribie". It is possible that the convict in fact received his name as a name-exchange from the Joondaburri Elder, Bribé. The indigenous practice of name-exchange between "brothers", could on occasion be extended to a non-indigenous member of their community, under certain circumstances. Tom Archer, Durundur Station owner, wrote of the view of "Briby's Island" from the top of Mt Beerwah in 1841.
In 1890, the Queensland Aboriginal Protection Association established a mission station on Bribie Island. A school and a teacher's residence was established, with two dormitories designed to accommodate 20 residents. By September 1892, suffering financial difficulties and with the site described by Archibald Meston as "mainly ti-tree swamps", the mission was abandoned and residents moved to Myora Mission on North Stradbroke Island.
World War II
Woorim Battery
Bribie Island fortifications were constructed from 1939 to 1943 as part of the defence of South East Queensland during the Second World War, and to provide artillery training for Australian soldiers. Other fortifications throughout Moreton Bay during the war, included at Caloundra, on Moreton Island at Cowan Cowan Point and Rous. Together with the existing installations at Fort Lytton, they provided a coordinated series of defensive batteries for Moreton Bay.
In February 1939, six months before the start of WW2, a review of the defences of Moreton Bay called for two 6 inch Mark XI guns at north Bribie.
Soon after Australia declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, 6 inch guns previously carried by the World War I-era cruiser HMAS Sydney were taken to the present location of Fort Bribie (26.859763°S 153.129656°E)to guard the northwest channel, which ran close to the shore near Caloundra, across the bay in a southeasterly direction towards Moreton Island, and then southwesterly towards the mouth of the river, forming a Z-shaped route. The most effective sites for guns were the closest points to the channel bends.
The mounting and placement of the guns was hopelessly inadequate and according to Major General Robert E Jackson, Officer in Charge of Northern Command in July 1940, Fort Bribie was no value from a defence point of view and had to be fixed.
Before this could happen an argument about the location broke out, costings being sought for both Bribie and Caloundra. It was argued Caloundra was higher, better equipped and cheaper to build, whereas Bribie was flat, hot, infested with mosquitos and sandflies, had no freshwater, no bridge and would be much more expensive. The decision came down to Fort Bribie's ability to cover both entrances to the northwest channel, while Caloundra could only cover the most northerly entrance. The guns had a range of about 19 kilometres (12 mi).
Colonel JS Whitelaw designed the layout of the fort on Bribie and recommended its completion, receiving the go ahead by early 1942. By April—hastened by the December 1941 attacks by the Japanese forces on Pearl Harbour, Malaya, Hong Kong and Singapore—construction of the gun emplacements was almost complete. The construction cost of all of Fort Bribie's concrete structures was £55,000, about $2.5 million in 2010 dollars.
On 19 February 1942, Darwin was bombed in two raids killing at least 243 people and wounding between 300 and 400 more. By November 1943 Darwin was bombed 64 times, with other towns also attacked including Townsville.The ferocity and success of the attacks suddenly created a very real dread in the Queensland population.
In July 1942 after failing to take Port Moresby by sea in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese landed on Papua New Guinea's north coast and moved south, capturing Kokoda on 29 July. This was the first time any Australian territory had been occupied by an enemy force.
Reinforcements were sent to Fort Bribie and Fort Cowan Cowan, strengthening the existing defences at the two forts. A number of 155 mm (6.1 in) guns from the First World War were provided to upgrade Australian coastal defences, and new forts were constructed during 1942-43 at Skirmish Point on south Bribie Island and Rous on Moreton Island. The Skirmish Point Battery at Woorim contained two fixed 155-millimetre (6.1 in) gun emplacements on Panama mounts.
The Pacific War also brought the Americans soldiers.
It was widely believed at the time that the American and Australian armed forces and governments had conspired on a plan to abandon Australia north of Brisbane to the Japanese in case of invasion. The plan, known as the Brisbane Line was never official policy, but the alleged strategy gained support after General Douglas MacArthur referred to it during a press conference in March 1943, where he also coined the term 'Brisbane Line'.
Many historians of the WW2 period on Bribie island refer to Brisbane Line and draw it from Fort Bribie due west to Charleville, then south-west to a point just west of Adelaide, as recounted by Warwick Outram in Bribie Memories 2nd edition 2009 ISBN 978-0-9751971-4-1. George H. Johnston, War Correspondent for the Argus newspaper was present when MacArthur mentioned the Brisbane Line on 16 March 1943, but later clarified the matter by writing it was Gen. MacArthur who abandoned the Brisbane Line concept and decided that the battle for Australia should be fought in New Guinea.
At Fort Bribie itself, two mine control huts were used by Royal Australian Navy during 1942 and 1943, known as RAN 2. These monitored and controlled the guard indicator loops and mine loops set in the North West Channel. The indicator loops relied on a moving magnet or any large mass of metal, which naturally acquires magnetic field, to induce a current in a stationary loop of wire. If a submarine was detected by the guard loop, the operator would wait until there was also a swing mine loop before detonating the mines by sending a current down the mine loop.[28] RAN 2 was moved to Cowan Cowan on Moreton Island in September 1943. When the mines in Moreton Bay were decommission at the end of the war, six were missing. One was found at Tewantin in 1945.
The mines weighed 1,430 kilograms (3,150 pounds) and were buoyant, so needed to be moored with sinkers, up to 25 metres (82 feet) below the surface. Every 5 minutes hour perturbations due to the tides known as perts had to be recorded. Daily and weekly tests were carried out on all equipment. In three years of operation, the mines were never detonated.
Another minefield with guard loop built in 1942 protected Pearl Channel and Main Channel south of Bribie Island. The guard loops ran from the Loop Control Hut at the end of North Street, just north of Woorim to Combouyuro Point, Moreton Island. Three Harbour Defence Asdics, sea-bed mounted submarine detection devices now known as sonar, were position down-channel from the guard loops, as a second means of detection.
Post-World War II
The Bribie Island library opened in 1976 with a major refurbishment in 2016.On December 14, 2020, a king tide broke through the northern tip of the island, causing severe damage.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribie_Island
Image Source: www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM1872458
Snapshots from our five week Summer Intensive at both White Lodge and Upper School.
©2022 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry.
Snapshots from our five week Summer Intensive at both White Lodge and Upper School.
©2022 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry.
Thanks to all the intensive training during lockdown and lockdowns 2 and 3, and possibly 4 (I seem to have lost count). We proudly announce that Bear and Scruffy won joint Gold Medals in the Chocolate Eating Event.
*applause*
Snapshots from our five week Summer Intensive at both White Lodge and Upper School.
©2022 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry.
Finding My Way (View large if poss as FB really darkens the blues especially)
This piece started out as just playing with some of this month's content from the course - putting the butterflies on poles seemed to call to me for some reason! As did the little bird!
I thought at first it was a going to be a representation of me, still trying to find my way in the world, being pulled from all angles by different causes, different needs of others...
But then, as the light and colour developed I realised it was more than that.
The little bird is alone - the only one of his kind left. His home, behind him, burns - sparks rain down. The red smoke drifts into the dark blue night sky and the glow from the fire lights his path.
He walks away from his home, towards a new life. not knowing what he will find.
He expects the best.
What will he find? A land where all of nature,all life is valued, loved and protected?
Or a land where animals are seen as merely entertainment for others? Seen as food, as nothing more than objects to be used and abused?
The butterfies on poles are so unnatural. Butterflies should be flying free! Flitting around where they please! Imstead they are pinned to sticks in an attempt to create some kind of weird beauty from somethng that is entirely false and contrary to beauty.
The innocent and vulnerable little bird has no idea what he is walking into...
These were my feelings about the piece. I'm thinking it comes from seeing so much destruction of the planet through fire, human activity, neglect and greed.
Locally, I'm joining with oithers trying to do something to stop the destruction of our green spaces and the loss of wildlife. There are many good people fighting for the environment and awareness is being raised.
Yet there is still not enough talk about the use of innocent animals for food. The intensive farming takes it toll on us all, one way or another, not solely on the poor animals.
The abuse, the death they suffer shames humankind. We should be better. The effects of intensive farming of so many animals drastically affect our environment. And food that could be given to humans has to be fed to the animals instead. Our earth has billions of "farm animals" being fed daily whilst humans sit with empty stomachs and no clean water.
I think this piece was some kind of processing of those thoughts and emotions! I don't feel it is 'dark' or depressing. To me it's a statement of fact in art form.
If you want to help this little fella have a better life in a new home where he is loved and valued, speak out for the animals, for the environment! Attend the protests or support them in other ways, eg sharing information on FB, if you aren't able to attend. Write and send in objections when your local Authority, like ours, repeatedly approves planning for more concrete boxes at the cost of beautiful green spaces with mature trees. Stop eating meat/dairy/eggs - and read up about the emissions, the abuse, the kind of death these innocents suffer. Watch 'Earthlings', 'Forks over Knives' or 'Cowspiracy'. Humans are better than being slaves to their tastebuds! We have strong willpower, strong determination if we would all just use it! If you believe little ones, like this bird, and bigger ones, are here with us not for us, that they deserve a life free from abuse and deserve to be treasured, you can do it!
If anybody would like any help on adopting a Vegan lifestyle, I'm happy to help in any way I can! Just ask! xx
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The private "Inntal Intensivmobil" company maintains two ambulance vehicles in the area around Kufstein, Austria. This Ford is specially equipped for intensive care patients, who get transferred to other hostipals in Austria or other European countries.
Picture taken at the hospital in Schwarzach (province of Salzburg) in January 2013.
Billy relaxing in his private cat pen. He really uses his personal refuge intensively. We have officially established that Billy is a nocturnal outdoor cat rather than an indoor one. For a long time I was able to get him back in when we went to bed, but that gradually became more difficult. Once inside, he would then wake us (read:ME) up a few hours later, forcing me to usher him out again in the middle of the night.
After a lot of broken nights we have now come to a more comfortable arrangement, both for him and for me. We now allow him to stay out at night and he rewards us by offering us a few mice every morning. When I turn the key in the back door in the morning, he mostly comes running from somewhere in the garden. More and more often he's fast asleep in this pen. Let's hope this arrangement will work out well for all concerned.
Photographs of students at the Covent Garden Summer Intensive 2019
©2019 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry
On laughably short notice, I was asked to create a poster based on a location shoot I did last year. More on this here.
I see flickr felt compelled to change their UI again. Testing in production, too. Now it is really nice and slow.
Strobist: Elinchrom Quadra "A" head in the MaxiLite, camera left, f/16 (+1 on the ambient). Triggered by Skyport.
PP in LR5/CC.
Snapshots from our five week Summer Intensive at both White Lodge and Upper School.
©2022 The Royal Ballet School. Photographed by Rachel Cherry.
Natalie Skodova
After a year's hiatus, the prepared models and costume jewellery creations have received a second chance. The jubilee 10th year of the show was unable to be held in 2021 due to government restrictions due to the situation with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The deferred 10th year of the Made in Jablonec fashion show will be held on 21st April 2022 under the auspices of the Association of Glass and Costume Jewellery Manufacturers with great anticipation. Preciosa Ornela has once again supported the regional secondary schools with an artistic focus. Thanks to this cooperation led by the producer Petra Lejsková, beads and seed beads from the PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads™ brand will once again be able to excel not only in embroidery, but also in striking costume jewellery sets. The Preciosa Ornela costume jewellery collection in PRECIOSA Terra Intensive colours will shine on the white models designed by Iva Brabcová from the Styl Iva fashion salon.
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