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Last in the series of macro landscapes. These images were taken at Craigie Bushland Reserve. this is a protected conservation area that exists within a feral proof fence.
I like the idea of doing landscape shots in a macro setting. These images were done using a series of approximately 60 stacked images to produce a high resolution image with a high depth of field. Whilst I am liking this technique I'm not sure it works in all instances. For example, the large depth of field somewhat flattens the landscape and it's hard to appreciate distance or depth. Im sure I will improve over time.
It's definitely worth zooming in on these images to see the detail.
The artwork on the silos at Yelarbon in southern Queensland was painted by Brightsiders in 2019 and is entitled "When the Rains Come". They certainly came on the day I was there.
Standard setting, Horizon levelled edit and more dust removed in Thumbs+. Somewhere along here on the Flickr map...
Copy of Graeme's slide with me at the door of #CLM174 On our way home from the ASF Conference at Araluen in Perth and down at Boranup i SW WA early days of #roundaustraliawithSpelio #seeonscreenNOTES
I check the road ahead from north of Mundrabilla HS where we had a few hours chatting to the rabbit trappers from Diamond Ice then camped nearby. ( I have my trip notes from this trip from Perth to home in Sydney.
We had driven north for hours until the Holden boiled and we ran out of trees.
We drove til the track faded out and returned to the homestead. The trappers there chatted about rabbits, shooting and all the caves they knew of. We went to bed 12:30. Night of the 18th Jan 1965.
On the 19th we scrub bashed for ages looking for a blowhole, no luck..
We returned to the camp and the others went down a hole, it went, and we waited. Then we drove to Forrest via a windy and dusty rocky track. Took photos on the way of dust bowls and heat waves. We mucked around at the aerodrome and cleaned the carbi. Then on to Reid during which time the train passed us.
Fiddled with the idle on the carbi then followed a better road south back to Eucla.
We checked out a cave, popped into Eucla for petrol then up to Weebubbie Cave for a long swim.
Dinner of steak, spuds, pudding pears and custard...then down into the cave again for photos and a swim..
To bed at 11:30..
And the little #Victorinox Sunny Side #SAKedc for scale…
. Stopping now there are 5…
Test hashtag for 400 ERROR #leathermanrev
In all my 2-3 million miles or kilometres of #FlickrSpelio> #bushwalking, #SUSScaving, #WASGcaving, #RMLAIDForest life or #GSWANullarbor work, travel #roundAUstraliawithSpelio or in the UK or Europe in #Helga2004, where I bought a #SAKTinker in Switzerland or in #mtus, where I bought the #juiceS2, I never needed a #SAKedc or #Leatherman as I always had a couple of fully equipped toolboxes of #remotegearlist and a trusty #sheathknife.
see my #seeonscreenNotes
Wandering along the Great Ocean Road in Smoky in Oct 2002.
The Darling River (or River Darling;[1] Paakantyi: Baaka or Barka), is the third-longest river in Australia, measuring 1,472 kilometres (915 mi) from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth. Including its longest contiguous tributaries, it is 2,844 km (1,767 mi) long, making it the longest river system in Australia.[2] The Darling River is the outback's most famous waterway.[3]
As of the early 2020s, the Darling is in poor health,[4] suffering from over-allocation of its waters to irrigation,[5][6] pollution from pesticide runoff,[7][8] and prolonged drought. During drought periods in 2019 it barely flowed at all. The river has a high salt content and declining water quality. Increased rainfall in its catchment in 2010 improved its flow, but the health of the river will depend on long-term management.[9]
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_River
Part of the
The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river. The Basin, which includes six of Australia's seven longest rivers and covers around one-seventh of the Australian landmass,[2] is one of the country's most significant agricultural areas providing one-third of Australia's food supply.[3] Located west of the Great Dividing Range, it drains southwest into the Great Australian Bight and spans most of the states of New South Wales and Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, and parts of the states of Queensland (the lower third) and South Australia (the southeastern corner).
The Basin is 3,375 kilometres (2,097 mi) in length, with the Murray River being 2,508 km (1,558 mi) long. Most of the 1,061,469 km2 (409,835 sq mi) basin is flat, low-lying and far inland, and receives little direct rainfall. The many rivers it contains tend to be long and slow-flowing, and carry a volume of water that is large only by Australian standards.
see the Wikipedia map
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%E2%80%93Darling_basin#/media...
and see more on Rick's.. see #onscreenNotes
do a refresh Ctrl+R
Old SUSS bods, shot from Denis. Don Yates top left, lower L Mad Dog, myself with song book, then Erik Halbert, then maybe Bob Ryan SRC
... #seeonscreenNOTES
Heading East at the start of the 2nd Field Season
Hit the Z or L key....
Then..
see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
Maybe #WAGSNullarbor and a bit of #Smoky60Series
Cheers #FlickrSpelio
AI Overview
The vehicle in the image is a Land Rover Series I or Series II. The Land Rover was first introduced in 1948 by the Rover Company as a utilitarian 4WD off-road vehicle.
The design of the Land Rover was inspired by the American-made Willys Jeep used during World War II.
The Land Rover Series I was produced from 1948 to 1958, and the Series II was produced from 1958 to 1961.
The model shown in the image is a "truck cab" style, featuring a steel roof over the cabin and an open tray with a canvas canopy.
The vehicle is known for its versatility and off-road capability, making it suitable for a variety of uses.
AI Overview
The image shows an old, rusty steam shovel, which is a type of mechanical excavator powered by steam.
Steam shovels were used for large-scale earth-moving projects in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as building railroads and the Panama Canal.
They were the earliest type of power shovel, and their development led to the creation of modern hydraulic excavators.
The machine in the image appears to be a derelict or abandoned example, with a person standing on the boom.
The scene is set in a dry, desert-like environment with red soil, suggesting a mining or quarrying location.
New OLIGHT i3E EOS, i3T2EOS, Olight Baton with Rider RX2.0, Milwaukee, SHADOWHAWK S1476 then the little POPLITE…
The i3E EOS produces 90Lumens, 500Candela, for 45mins over 44m. Now have three! #seeonscreenNOTES
The i3T 2 EOS gives out 200-100 lumens for 29mins over 62M or 5lim21 hrs over 10m from its LED and PMMAoptic lens.
From Donngguan Olight in Changan Town in Guangdong in CHINA.
The Olight Baton in Turb mode generates 1,000 lumens for 2.5min then drops to 38% for 92min
Description
Long-Range EDC: The palm-sized light projects a 510-meter beam from a coin-sized bezel, making it an ideal backup for extended visibility.
Flexible Power Sources: Powered by the included rechargeable 18350 battery, with the flexibility to use a single-use CR123A battery for added convenience (with limited brightness).
Extended Runtimes: A 1.5-hour charge provides 50 days of continuous Moonlight mode visibility for worry-free use.
Safety Switch and Intuitive Dashboard: Recessed switch for safe carry, with a sleek dashboard displaying brightness and power levels at a glance.
Easy, Versatile Carry: The custom two-way clip enables deep bezel down pocket carry. You can also clip it to your hat, or attach the included lanyard to your wrist.
Your Dependable Backup for Every Situation: Keep this compact light at home, in your vehicle, or with your outdoor gear to always be prepared for any dark situation.
In High mode we get 300 lumens for 103minthen drops to 2% for 18min.
In Medium mode it gives 60lumens for 10hours..
In Moonlight mode it gives <1 lumen for 50days!!!
Now to practice the settings around the house and garden and on a walk to the shops.
Press and hold 2secs to lock >1 sec unlock
Turbo mode Double-press quickly..
While on press and hold to go thru Low, Medium, High, and Turbo.
Monlight Mode, while off, hold 1 to 2 secs. (trying to avoid a lock)
i3T 2 EOS Tap and hold Momentary on.
Double-press to change brightness.
Press at least 9 times gives Set the initial brightness to Level 2
... #seeonscreenNOTES
AI Overview
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The product shown in the image is the Olight Baton Turbo rechargeable flashlight. It is a compact, long-range EDC (Everyday Carry) torch designed for versatility and extended visibility.
It has a maximum output of 1,000 lumens and can project a beam up to 510 meters.
The flashlight is powered by a rechargeable 18350 battery, but can also use a CR123A battery with reduced brightness.
It features a recessed safety switch to prevent accidental activation and an intuitive dashboard that shows brightness and power levels.
The Olight Baton Turbo has a two-way clip for deep pocket carry, and can also be clipped to a hat or used with a lanyard.
With onscreen NOTES...... hover your mouse over the screen. you may have to refresh the page with a Crl+R or command+R first.
Victorinox Swiss Army Pocket Knife Spartan with 12 Functions, Red www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0001P15CG?ref_=pe_19115062_42960357... with $10 gift off...
Does anyone else visiting here use NOTES like this?
Post one!
Number 388 on Explore by Scout on BigHuge Labs
See a few For sale here.. www.houseofknives.com.au/apps/omega-search/?q=swiss%20army
We must of had Mum, Mary , nearby encouraging the smiles as we got many good shots at this time: many for friends so as not to bore you all,
See on-screen NOTE ed in ThumbsPlus!
Now have 93 in Explore…..
Who cares about national shame?
"Led by Donkeys"
see www.facebook.com/reel/789163393809917?fs=e&fs=e
Photographed on the uPad A(16) then as a scan which produced the high contrast version here.
Saved to Files but could could not get to Photos to edit, so swiped up from lower L corner to copy, and crop, then saved to Photos to check and post here..
... #seeonscreenNOTE
Camera on self timer and I ran back, hence double image of me!
... #seeonscreenNotes
Approx location on useless Flickr map on the Anne Beadell Highway west of Neale Junction near Yeo Lake. #WAG9623
This was the most sophisticated camping I had ever done. I usually slept on the ground near a log, maybe with a groundsheet over me if it looked like rain.
We only bothered with the tent if it looked like rain on the Nullarbor! I didn't use a stretcher for a couple of weeks, then I decide I may as well try it, as you can see here!
Nothing beats "retro" camping under the stars!.
Early #roundaustraliawithspelio trips.. #gswanullarbor
Years before Flickr and hashtags..
… #FlickrSpelio
See this link www.flickr.com/photos/58977655@N06/42885533910/#comment72...
This was not Glamping, as described by Andrew, in 4xoverland at about 4:00 here... youtu.be/WsjWjhBUlYk
Hopefully, there are still camps here just for me, not listed on the web..
cruisemaster.com.au/trip-in-a-van-free-camping-the-nullar...
Not sure when my employment with the #gswanullarbor ended..
This was near the end of our lovely Xmas #roundAustraliawithSpelio trip...
This slide was accidentally scanned at a higher resolution so hit the Z key a couple of times on a large monitor or just the L key for a full-sized image. All the scans are good for a zoom-in..
Too large a file to edit here and give it more Gamma, but it was a dull day. Typical Nullarbor.. #seeonscreenNOTES
AI Overview
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This image shows a vintage Volkswagen Beetle parked in a dry, outback landscape, likely in Australia, with a person attending to a campsite.
The scene depicts a form of car camping or a road trip, with a tent and laundry hanging on a line in the background.
The car's hood is open, suggesting a possible repair or maintenance check.
The vehicle is a classic Volkswagen Beetle, a model that has been popular in Australia for decades.
The landscape, with its sparse vegetation and arid ground, is characteristic of the Australian outback, potentially in a region like Corner Country.
Evening setting SilverFast 3200dpi Standard or landscape was BLUE!
It is getting to be an effort to remove dust..
It often only becomes visible in the scanned image!
From a 36Mb TIF file. Zoom in a few times!
TIFF Directory at offset 0x8 3842w
Subfile Type: (0 = 0x0)
Image Width: 3826 Image Length: 2990
Resolution: 300, 300 pixels/inch
Bits/Sample: 8
Compression Scheme: None
Photometric Interpretation: RGB colour
Not sure how I scanned this to a TIFF
from C:\Users\Bill Crowle\Pictures\Other Pictures\Slides\Box6 1982-85
I have 1,491 tagged scan! Many sent to Vintage Groups 26-01-24
Our first picnic lunch together, in 55 years... we met a few nights earlier at the WASG meeting after a slide show of NSW caving which I presented on 9-09-65, it is now 9-09-20 I then asked who wanted a lift down to the SW for a caving trip, Mary raised her hand, Ian said she is a nice girl, and the rest is history...
It is now 60 years later on 09/09/25… #roundAustraliawithSpelio
from C:\Users\Bill Crowle\Pictures\Other Pictures\Slides\Box2 1965-67
Mary was just 19 and I was 21…
Cheese and bickies together for the first time. I still have the sheath knife for travels…
Not far from the Deepdene Cliffs.. flic.kr/p/eaWJ69
Color Temperature up 30
Sharpness up 20 in Flickr Editor... 12-09-23 and cropped in.
which wrecked the skin tone!
Our first picnic lunch together, 58 years ago... we met a few nights earlier at the WASG meeting after a slide show of NSW caving . I presented.
9-09-65, it is now 9-09-20 I then asked who wanted a lift down to the SW for a caving trip, Mary raised her hand, Ian said she is a nice girl, and the rest is history...
It is now 60 years later on 09/09/25…
from C:\Users\Bill Crowle\Pictures\Other Pictures\Slides\Box2 1965-67
Mary was just 19 and I was 21…
Cheese and bickies together for the first time. I still have the sheath knife for travels… #seeonscreenNOTES
Not far from the Deepdene Cliffs.. flic.kr/p/eaWJ69
One of my test flights over the suburbs in the Cessna with the hole in the floor for the Hasselblad.
I may have been on the way back from a shoot over the ACT Forests or a Regional pine plantation...
Now there is even a Department of Drone Technology..
Night 70 on 19th June 2011
There is insufficient detail on the Flickr map to locate it.. see the GDT Hema maps if you have the time. You certainly will need some time to get to this spot!
Search on Flickr map for Ngaanyatjarra-Giles to locate approx area!
This shot has 62 views, while the one with the story about this nice spot has 7 views. Don't people ever check out the images next door? I often find this! Interesting.... Now it has 23,354 views! 11-09-25.
Also #seeonscreenNOTES
See the shot to the left for the notes about Öffbeat Australia".
@ 24° 46' 06" 128° 46' 38" on the NatMap Raster Map as Malagura Rockhole, but Bungabiddy on the Hema GDT maps p.201
See my updated comments on LandCruisers4eva at
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I didn't have a GPS waypoint for this, so at home now, I just located Mt Ant on my Galileo App (which showed co-ords), and moved N to near the unmarked Pangkupirri RH to get the approx position of Bungabiddy, on the vector map, as the App showed no rockholes.
I emailed the position from Galileo to myself, and opened the email and the KML file in Google Earth, It was way out, so I scrolled N on Google Earth to an image that looked like your Sat view on the Flickr maps, and there it is in glorious 3D.
It seems to correspond to your Flickr map location Sat image, but.. Google Earth shows the Longitude as 24d 39' 24" 128deg 45' 5" for the campsite valley.
The Flickr sat image needs to be zoomed in to the max to see the camp area and track, but then it puts your photo location N of the creek and W of the grass area. The Flickr Sat image changes between Sat acquisition images, unlike Google Earth's smooth zoom-in.
Did you have a GPS on your camera or use a Garmin or something to fix this photo? No!
My Memory Map App shows the Bungabiddy RH as Pangkupirri Rockhole in the Walter James Range, this is where the Great Desert Tracks Hema maps place it!
Len Beadell mentions on p189 in "Beating About the Bush", that they, "after clearing Bungabiddy and the Walter James Range, we camped again on our old area by Rebecca Creek, right between the two main range systems", which could put him between Anne Range and Bloods Range at Malagura Rockhole...
Now I have panned Galileo to closer to the co-ords visible at the cursor in Memory Map, zoomed in, or it did as I panned, and the track into the rockhole showed up!
I adjusted the cross-hairs as well as I could in Galileo then sent the KML file to the iPad again, which when opened in Google Earth, zoomed to the grassy campsite..
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This is at the Eastern end of Anne Range. Len camped here at the end of his trek down the Sandy Blight Junction Road, at the end of 800km, "the longest towing operation ever in the history of Central Australia".
This creek flows into the Rebecca Creek where Len, Scotty and Quinny found a water soak near their old camp. See p 189 in "Beating about the Bush"
Next, further north, night we had a bush camp off road at 24d 10' 22.5" 128d 35' 15'5"
Giles Met station..
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.
At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]
Images screenshot from the slideshow made by Stuart for David’s Funeral service. 13th Sep 2024
With NOTES..
You may have to do a refresh reload Ctrl+R to see or add a NOTE...
Try THE Bush RADIO with the GRIFFIN transmitter as we did in Smoky..
Now I also have two Cygnet ChargeUp III 10k 10,000mAh/370Wh power packs.
Also add the Sony HDR VIideo camera
It works but as as good as to the Bose via cable. Used 100MHz on FM, which was empty in CBR.
I ran out of WiFi cameras so grabbed Mary's iPad Mini, and sent this shot to my server, WD MyCloud over the network where I could access it with the HP PC and upload it to Flickr..
Now will cover the image with NOTES so you can see what is going on, on the office spare bed..
Check when the MyCloud Server light is pulsing and cant connect App or WD Discovery..
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Another to load!
On the "street" down to the beach..
Now have 37,005 images on flickr!!
Now 70,879 images. 18-08-25. and #seeonscreenNOTES
this can be viewed on full widescreen with no map and list of Groups down the right side using an iPad
this image has NOTES all over it
One of my several "sheltered workshops", I occupied over 30 years with ACT Forests, under a number of Directors and bosses.
Mark Edgerley was my first Director, who I met before being hired, and taken out by Ian Gordon to meet some of the staff and Foresters of Stromlo, Pierces Creek, and Kowen.
A history of ACT Forests was written for a web site that never eventuated, in the very early days of the web. Then all the stories were lost in the 2003 fires!
A later Director was Tony Fearnside of FACTA and the Westbourne Woods.
Brian Pratt, of Pratt's Tackle Box, then Graham McKenzie Smith, then some of the redundancies started under the Chief Minister for the ACT, Kate Carnell.
Then Tony Bartlett, when many of the rest of us were made redundant in 2001, during which we had the first fire around Stromlo, then the Forests and most of the ACT was burnt in the 2003 fires!
My desk on Facebook..
www.facebook.com/WellRoundedLifebyattn/videos/65097601523...
I introduced CAD and computer mapping to Forests, on a NEC APC IV, 80286-80287, in 1987, using AutoCad 2.52.
The NEC APC IV was delivered on 25th Feb 1987 with the 20” GTCO Digitiser. Working back till 6:36 then rode home!
Notes from the purchase quote from Peter and the Warranty filed in ACT Forests docs bag. 05/08/19. Purchased in 1987.
I have notes from Canberra MICROWORLD, Digital Business Systems from Chapman amongst these papers..
During 1987 I bought an IBM clone from Peter Harris, of Digital Business Systems and the PCUG. This was a DBS Turbo Plus XT V20 processor, 8086 with an (8087 maths co-processor, bought later) PC Users Group, still running..
640k of RAM, and a huge 30Mb hard drive.
Just for the record.. Purchased on 30 July 1987.
It was a 4.77/10MHz, with 2 RS232 ports, 2 Centronics, "Tactile Auditory keyboard"!, Games Port, 1x360kb drives, 4 layer System Board, $1450 with 8086 Intel chip.
14" Dual Frequency EGA colour monitor, $899
The 30Mb drive was an extra $799!
EGA card $170
EGA Monitor $899 blew fuse 18/8/87 replaced 06/12/87
V20 chip $29 not long later I added an 8087 Maths-coprocessor
Mouse $119
Peter phoned 15/08/87 to check on it.
All up I paid about $3338
Bought the Epson wide dot matrix printer from a chap at University House 25/07/87 $430 (before the PC)
It was still running this year, 2009, when I gave it away to the Computer recyclers at Charnwood!
The computer here was the last in a series of PCs I ran, a Total Peripherals Pentium IV running NT. A Miro graphics card enabled two monitors to run, a rarity then.
I had an HP A0 plotter, HP pen plotter, and HP inkjet printer. AutoCAD 14 and Map, was controlled from a GTCO 20" digitizer, buried under maps and papers on the desk.
The desk was a typical National Mapping/BMR desk, built by the Government carpenters in Kingston, in 1971. All long gone...
This is the NT System.. photographed above.
System Information
Norton Utilities 8.0
System Report
Friday, 28 May 1999 12:16
Bill Crowle's Nimrod 486-33Mhz
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* System Summary *
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--------------------- Computer ---------------------
Computer Name: IBM AT or compatible
Built-in BIOS: AMI, Sunday, 7 July 1991
Main Processor: 80486DX, 33 MHz
Math Co-Processor: (Built-In)
Video Adapter: VGA, Secondary: None
Mouse Type: Serial Mouse, Version 9.01
--------------------- Disks ---------------------
Hard Disks: 2 x 39Mb check!
Floppy Disks: 360K, 1.44Mb
--------------------- Memory ---------------------
DOS Memory: 639K
Extended Memory: 7,168K
Expanded Memory: 1,024K
--------------------- Other Info ---------------------
Bus Type: ISA (PC/AT)
Serial Ports: 2
Parallel Ports: 3
Keyboard Type: 101-Key
Operating System: DOS 6.22
I even have a screengrab of the desktop display saved.
See below..
Many views are coming from a share on Tumblr..
decoratingwithhouseplants.tumblr.com/post/118796023970/by...
A little LISP code I used or modified or compiled..
;;;
;;; This code assumes that any other S::STARTUP function is defined with defun-q
;;; Place this code in AcadDoc.Lsp
;;;
(defun-q MY_STARTUP ()
(vl-load-com)
(setq acadApp (vlax-get-acad-object))
;; This code assumes the .dvb file is in the AutoCAD search path
(setq advbFil (findfile "PromptUser.dvb"))
(if advbFil
(progn
(setq avbaMacro (strcat advbFil "!Module1.RunDialog"))
;;; (vla-loadDVB acadApp advbFil)
(vla-RunMacro acadApp avbaMacro)
(vla-unloadDVB acadApp advbFil)
(if (setq reply (getvar "USERS1"))
(if (or (equal reply "ON") (equal reply "OFF"))
(princ (strcat "\nCheck Box is: " reply))
)
)
)
(princ "\nPromptUser.dvb was NOT found !")
)
(princ)
)
(setq S::STARTUP (append S::STARTUP MY_STARTUP))
(princ "\nAcadDoc.Lsp loaded ...")
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BACKUP for GMcKS Notes.. 05-08-2019
Draft history of the mapping at ACT Forests by Bill Crowle from July 1971
I arrived at ACT Forests in the Electricity Bldg on London circuit. On 1st July 1971, From the BMR in Dept. of National Development.
Most of my experiences are covered in the Oral History recorded by Brendan O’Keefe.
Mark Edgerley was my first Director, who I met before being hired, I visited him in response to the job ad. I was taken out by Ian Gordon to meet some of
the staff and Foresters of Stromlo, Pierces Creek, and Kowen.
An interesting first week was spent meeting staff and touring the forests with Ian and Kevin Willis.
The Springboks came to Australia under protest, and we were asked by the Minister to build a fence around the Manuka Oval. Then we had an afternoon at the match… I was not political or a football fan!
A history of ACT Forests was written for a web site that never eventuated, in the very early days of the web. The files were stored on the ACT Gov. INTACT system..
Then all the stories where lost in the 2003 fires!
I commenced my days touring the forests with Kevin Willis or Bill Bateman. I sketched a bolster for a truck at Kowen, visited the Assessment Section under Peter Tinson at Forestry House, and met Roger Fenwick, who introduced me to the walk across Civic to the Griffin Centre and the Plan Printing section. Spent many hours there over the years printing various drawings with Joe Costa.
Assessment building was part of the Forest and Timber Bureau in Banks Street.
I observed the many wooden map cabinets or drawers, and few metal drawers with scattered maps over the depots, Assessment Office or HO. Most had been complied by aerial mapping, Radial line plots, and perhaps by the F&TB and 10chains to the inch and some compiled at 40 or 80ch. Usually there was no author, date or other information. This may be checked perhaps in the Map Library at the NLA where I deposited some towards the end of my career…
Met Ron Vivian, of the admin area, to get some maps for him and Roger and later discussed our maps with Mark Edgerley. He asked about getting mapping done by others and keep him up to-date with ideas.. National Mapping approached us for maps and photos covering Gibraltar and Stromlo. This all happened in my first few weeks as I soon got to meet mapping staff from the Interior Survey Branch, the NCDC and National Mapping. We decided to go metric, 1:10,000, for our base mapping, as the P Series were also converting from 1:9,600 ..
26th July 1971, we discussed compartment numbering to incorporate the year of planting, YOP, in the Cpt number, such as 7101 etc, this would extend in sequence across the estate. Thus 71001, Kowen had many in this year.
The Australian Survey Office had produced the P Series maps at 1:9,600 for a number of years before I commenced sorting out the 10 chain to an inch maps existing in the old wooden drawers at House 13 Stromlo or in some drawers at the rear of the Tudor House in Yarralumla where the Assessment crew were based.
I had approval for getting drafting bench, so approached the Dept. Works carpentry section to build one for me to the design of the Dept. National Development’s desks in the BMR, NCDC, and National Mapping etc This took awhile, during which time I worked from my home, where I had a bench and equipment. I was doing mapping and drawings for the ANU and then later Fortech, with Keith Grey and Chris Borough..
Then I became involved in the Area Statement. There was no system for recording mapping or history of each cpt, so I built up and index system with the help of a new temporary assistant, Roslyn Woodyer.
Her initials, RS, appeared on many cards…
ASO
At some later point, the Department of Interior Survey section was amalgamated with the Australian Survey Office, which moved into the new Cameron Offices at Belconnen. I visited them about Air Photos and digitising on 2nd Feb 1990.
Also spent the day getting the PC to go faster with the Autoexc.BAT and Config.SYS files and the Extended Memory. (Not sure which PC!)
More optimizing on the 9th.
Manual mapping systems were still at a high level. We kept abreast of techniques using methods of overlays, colour and screen printing at the BMR, which I used in Vegetation mapping of the Bullen Range for John Hicks, publications for the ANU, such as the Rambles Around Canberra and mining sites.
I checked About photogrammetry and digitising the ACT Forests Plantations and incorporating into my proposed AutoCad mapping system .
I did all my early survey calculations with Log tables and slide rules until ACT Forests purchased a Sharp 363P programmable calculator..
I was using it in Feb. 1973 with 22 programs stored on read and write magnetic strips it came with. See list in my Survey Calcs. Book Vol. One.
Listed in the back cover of Vol One are 50 programs used on the Sharp.
Several programs would write data to a magnetic card to be read from another loaded program. Where you can see the details. (Can’t believe I could write programs for it!)
Survey Branch was used up to 17-10-73, according to p.40
During early 1974 I started thinking about the accuracy and time taken for future Cpt surveys as requested before logging or planting.
An early request for a survey was for the replant of Cpt 1 in Uriarra, which became 73024. (Check) see FB243,244 (thought I had saved these)
See Vol. 1 Calc p91 undated..
Cpts. 43 & 44 Survey, p94 Stromlo dated 6-3-74
All these calcs were performed on the Sharp.
They were carried out using a compass, Abney level and Eslon 100m tape.
I had established during my week long test during Jan. 1974, surveying Cpt 18 Stromlo there was not a significant difference in the Area of the 5h compartment.
I traversed the Cpt. with our portable T12 Wild theodolite, a Wild RDS theodolite from FRI and steel bands or fiberglass Eslon tape. Suunto and Prismatic compasses.. An outline of the method is on p59. A map was plotted with the Areas and accuracy results.
The closing error varied from 1 in 8769, Area, 4.9617ha to 1 in 359 Area 4.953ha p73
Dated 15-3-74 p74 in the Survey Calculations No1.
These last calculations on p74 were re-done on the new HP 97 Programmable Calculator on 14-8-78 Area 4.9585ha with a closing error incl. of 2.55m
Note in home diary, 23-9-80 using the HP67 to do calcs, till it flat!
Launched by HP in 1976...
So we had upgraded by then to the HP97 calculator with 224 steps and 26 memories, or data storage registers, and several flag or Go-to subroutines or loops using the RPN logic system.
This Cpt. 18 was digitised from Air Photo Run 15 Feb 81 #430 on 22-9-81 and plotted on the Bruce Tafe plotter where I was writing digitising and plotting software on the PDP11-34. I was doing a computing course there and also spent many days using their computer, digitiser and plotter.
In conjunction with a Forester, Chris Lacy, who joined us from the NT for a while between postings, he wrote many HP97 routines to solve Areas by Double Longitudes, Heron and Bowditch Closure and correction. (see tag grimwade)
During June-July 1972 I was doing calculations for areas and coordinates to plot on the FRI HP plotter at Yarralumla, which I had free access to.
Some Calculations where produced by the Australian Survey Office, see Bk 1, p31 for Cpt 73028 in Uriarra p33 Cpt 73017 calcs and print out. & Cpt 73031 and 32.. 1973
They were able to digitise Stromlo as a trial.
They plotted a line 2m out from the pine edge around each cpt. I was then able to correlate these boundaries with the P-Series maps to digitise the roads and fences and any other assets.
I mapped all the euc areas, streams etc to produce a cartographic quality map.
I had commenced mapping of regional pine plantations at this time for Fortech, and after a few manual maps during which time I was researching Personal Computers for surveying and mapping.
During 1990-97 I mapped many areas, Glencres, Knapsack, Martins, Hilleast, (This was a manual compilation on drafting film)
Pinebark, Killen, Wyora, Braidwood, Holbrook, Shoalhaven fire regions..
Area
The Legends, Layers, cartographic symbols and standards, evolved with this mapping and that of ACT Forests..
We were leaders in computer mapping and use of Personal Computers.
The IBM and clone 8086 series of PCs came out. I purchased one, 30 July 1987, $3,338, (see Events.xls) for my contract mapping with Fortech at the time AutoCAD 2,5 arrived. The PC needed an 8087 chip for the computational load of AutoCAD so with demonstrations by NEC and DEC PDP11-34 systems at the Bruce TAFE, where I enrolled in a computing course for Basic and Fortran then CAD mapping, I developed software for digitising maps and plantations from Air-photographs and available Cadastral maps. (see below)
On 18-08-87 I discussed CAD mapping standards with Fortech.
I purchased an NEC APCIV AT 80287 during 1987 with AutoCAD 2.52, which progressed through all the versions to AutoCAD 14 and the GIS version AutoCAD Map..
from a README.TXT file on the No2 CD-COPY..
All old drawings from Rel.10 on APC or ASI 386 floppy
moved to Network G: 10/2/95
Hi Graham,
I remember the WS initials on a few drawings that I sorted and filed.
Someone must have commenced all the base maps, on drafting film, most lacked a legend or title block and publishing details and were 10 chain or 20ch to an inch scale.
Some mapping may have been completed by the F&TB before ACT Forests hired a draughtsman. I don't remember adding this information to my index cards, the drawings usually lacked any publication or author details, or reason for creation.
There were some radial line photogrammetry plots that may have been compiled with the help of The Forestry and Timber Bureau. That may be a good source of some historical material..
There was not any system to the maps except for some old wooden drawers for each forest.
I ordered more steel flat drawers and all the Vertiplan map filing cabinets and commenced a map numbering and card index system.
The forest depots also had their own map drawers and a collection of photocopies.
We had a good collection of historical maps from other mapping bodies, it was a shame they were lost in the 2003 fires. I gave many to the National Library before I left, so many are saved!
I have noted some of my mapping experience on the description or in the comments of a few of my Flickr.com images... where I have Backed up these notes…
I seem to remember a mention that Walter was less keen on surveying or going bush, a part of my job that
I relished. I can't remember why he left or retired.
Sent from my iPad
On 14 May 2018, at 4:32 pm, wrote:
Hi Ron, Pam and Bill
Chatting with Ian Gordon he recalled a surveyor/draftsman before Bill joined ACT Forests in mid 1971. He recalls him as Walter Shaffron (could be different spelling) and he was Ukrainian.
Any comments?
Cheers
Graham
From… flic.kr/p/6H2jGA
I introduced CAD and computer mapping to Forests, on a NEC APC IV, 80286-80287, in 1987,
using AutoCad 2.52. see flickr link above.
Found nearby programmer to write BASIC program to read the survey digital
co-ords data into AutoCAD… Jul 24 1987. *************
The NEC APC IV was delivered on 25th Feb 1987 with the 20” GTCO Digitiser. Working back till 6:36 then rode bike home!
Demo of the NEC to Frank Ingwerson Jul 9th. Brian Pratt here as Dir!
Mar 1st practising ACAD. Windows and DOS..
Apr 7th busy on the new NEC, and doing some Fortech maps after hours on it.
During the week of Jun 2nd tried to get data exchange between HP and the NEC.
Not sure which HP maybe we had the HP150 at this time with the 3 ¼” floppies which I made the Assets Database on.
At the same time, 30th July 1987, I bought an IBM clone from Peter Harris, of Digital Business Systems and the PCUG. Purchased on 30 July 1987.
This was a DBS Turbo Plus XT V20 processor, 8086 with an (8087 maths co-processor, bought later) PC Users Group, still running..
640k of RAM, and a huge 30Mb hard drive.
Just for the record..
It was a 4.77/10MHz, with 2 RS232 ports, 2 Centronics, "Tactile Auditory keyboard"!,
Games Port, 1x360kb drives, 4 layer System Board, $1450
14" Dual Frequency EGA colour monitor, $899
The 30Mb drive was an extra $799!
EGA card $170
EGA Monitor $899
V20 chip $29
Mouse $119
All up I paid about $3338
It was still running this year, 2009, when I gave it away to the Computer recyclers at Charnwood!
The computer here was the last in a series of PCs I ran, a Total Peripherals Pentium IV running NT.
A Miro graphics card enabled two monitors to run, a rarity then.
I had an HP A0 plotter, HP pen plotter, and HP ink jet printer. AutoCAD 14 and AutoCADMap, was controlled from a GTCO 20" digitizer, buried under maps, air photos, prints and E6 120 transparencies, and papers on the desk.
The desk was a typical National Mapping/BMR desk, built by the Government carpenters in Kingston, in 1971.
All long gone..
This is the NT System.. photographed above.
System Information
Norton Utilities 8.0
System Report
Friday, 28 May 1999 12:16
Bill Crowle's Nimrod 486-33Mhz
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* System Summary *
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--------------------- Computer ---------------------
Computer Name: IBM AT or compatible
Built-in BIOS: AMI, Sunday, 7 July 1991
Main Processor: 80486DX, 33 MHz
Math Co-Processor: (Built-In)
Video Adapter: VGA, Secondary: None
Mouse Type: Serial Mouse, Version 9.01
--------------------- Disks ---------------------
Hard Disks: 2 x 39Mb check!
Floppy Disks: 360K, 1.44M
--------------------- Memory ---------------------
DOS Memory: 639K
Extended Memory: 7,168K
Expanded Memory: 1,024K
--------------------- Other Info ---------------------
Bus Type: ISA (PC/AT)
Serial Ports: 2
Parallel Ports: 3
Keyboard Type: 101-Key
Operating System: DOS 6.22
I even have a screen grab of the desktop display saved.
Many views are coming from a share on Tumblr..
decoratingwithhouseplants.tumblr.com/post/118796023970/by...
All old drawings from Rel.10 on APC-IV or ASI 386 floppy
moved to Network G: 10/2/95 I had the ASI on the 14th Feb 1991
Note on that date said I compiled a Job Specs file, maybe like these dot points!
Some jobs to do....
see \\WDMYCLOUD\Bill\ACT Forests Backups\ACT Forests Copy of Bills CD3-01 Disc from Forests\PLANNING
•Document valuable data, maps, photos, spreadsheets. \\FORESTS\public\PLANNING\AREASTAT\APRIL-2000- copy.123
If we can get a copy of Lotus 123 for the Area statement!
•Get backup tape installed, show how to use ZTreeWin.
•Install connection between IMS’s Kayak and Bill’s to enable writing of CDs
??
•Get connection to work to A0 plotter.
We started with a first plot of the Stromlo Map at A0 size by the Survey Branch Of Dept Interior in the T&G building with the help of Graham Lanham of the drawing Office.
I first came across Graham in the MLC building opposite North Building in Civic. see a photo here flic.kr/p/aCheaK
Caption "ACT Forests - more than just a pine plantation.
Surveyor and Cartographer, "Bill ", works on an 'AutoCAD' computer-generated map of Stromlo Forest. flic.kr/p/pTHMRz
with the Hasselblad 70mm/120 camera I used for aerial photography on the right..
I had been in touch with the drawing office of the Department of Interior to see the 'P' Series and the 1:2,400
Detail Sheets which we had a full set of.
THE ASO.
The Australian Survey Office had produced the P Series maps at 1:9,600 for a number of years before I commenced sorting out the 10 chain to an inch maps existing in the old wooden drawers at House 13 Stromlo or in some drawers
at the rear of the Tudor House in Yarralumla where the Assessment crew were based.
This building was part of the Forests and Timber Bureau in Banks Street.
I had been in touch with the drawing office of the Department of Interior to see the 'P' Series and the 1:2,400
Detail Sheets which we had a full set of.
I kept adding to these sets and became involved in discussions to metricate the mapping and commence the
1:10,000 Mapping Series.
At some point the Department of Interior Survey Section was amalgamated with the Australian Survey Office.
Check details with Alex Petrow.. About photogrammetry and digitising the ACT Forest Plantations and incorporating into my proposed AutoCad mapping system... See on screen above.
Hi Graham,
I remember the WS initials on a few drawings that I sorted and filed.
Someone must have commenced all the base maps, on drafting film, most lacked a legend or title block and publishing details and were 10 chain or 20ch to an inch scale.
Some mapping may have been completed by the F&TB before ACT Forests hired a draughtsman. I don't remember adding this information to my index cards, the drawings usually lacked any publication or author details, or reason for creation even.
There were some radial line photogrammetry plots that may have been compiled with the help of The Forestry and Timber Bureau. That may be a good source of some historical material..
There was no system to the maps except for some old wooden drawers for each forest. I ordered more steel flat drawers and all the Vertiplan map filing cabinets and commenced a map numbering and card index system.
The forest depots also had their own map drawers and collection of photocopies.
We had a good collection of historical maps from other mapping bodies, it was a shame they were lost in the fires. I gave many to the National Library before I left, so many are saved!
I have noted some of my mapping experience on the description or in the comments of a few of my flickr images...
I seem to remember a mention that Walter was less keen on surveying or going bush, a part of my job that I relished. I can't remember why he left or retired.
Sent from my iPad
On 14 May 2018, at 4:32 pm, wrote:
Hi Ron, Pam and Bill
Chatting with Ian Gordon he recalled a surveyor/draftsman before Bill joined ACT Forests in mid 1971. He recalls him as Walter Shaffron (could be different spelling) and he was Ukranian.
Any comment
Cheers
Graham
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•Transfer my 3M post-it Notes tips and other reference files to Outlook, or similar database for future use.
•Many files on my H:drive, if moved, will upset the paths to the parent files.
• Move H:drive files to G:Drive??
•Translate Aboriginal/Heritage sites to GIS.
•Translate Nogo areas. And what else??
•Put hardcopy maps, such as U-200 onto GIS.
•Check all fences against Cadastral boundaries for consistency or errors. Check data with PALM.
•Add fences & gates/grids as assets to GIS with attributes.
Ron Murray asked me to create a database of all the Forests Assets.
We were playing with a new HP 150 desktop computer so I spent a few weeks learning the database Program and entered all our assets like PCs cameras, fences and gates. One week was spent documenting a bug in the software and reporting it to HP.
I don’t think we transferred it to Excel or Lotus 123
There were a few new database in the market at the time, like D-Base MS Works and Enable.
In Jan 1988 I spent ages trying to export attribute data from our ACAD DWGS to import into Enable.
I have a note on Feb 1’ 88 that Mike worked on a surveying software bug. This may have been Mike Archer from NG.. That night I attended a PCUG meeting at the ANU on Microsoft Works.
•What other assets, dams, tanks, culverts, buildings.
•Maps for future logging plans.
•Maps for forward roading plans.
•Check existing road network data for consistency and class attributes for use in GIS.
•Locate dwgs covering agistment, and link to agreements.
•Locate dwgs covering RFS fire suppression programs, and link to documents.
•Map Plantation Management Agreements, & link to Spreadsheets or databases.
•Document and/or locate Marvel?? survey maps.
•Document and create Yield Plot Field Books and dwgs.
•Survey cpt 148 Stromlo, with GPS and compare with existing photogrammetric plot and field survey, done with instruments.
•Update map for Annual Reports.
•Update maps of Management areas and its links to spreadsheet and database file. Implications of saving as Excel 5 file.
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•Notify schools of discontinuation of Work Experience program.
•Make new brochures and maps. Print at publication quality. Maybe try it in house, or get Adobe Publish, or Corel?
•Make online maps available for Booking System for Events and Camping.
•On-line maps for Water Quality monitoring.
•On-line maps for Recreation Sites and Public Use events.
•Maps & diagrams for ACT Forests web sites.
•On-line maps for management of Natural & Cultural Heritage sites.
•On-line maps for firewood sales.
•Maps & GIS with on-line maps of environmental weeds.
•.......... etc
Many files on history and Tenure for GMcS..
\\192.168.1.3\Bill\Backups\2001-03-01 Bills_No_2_CD Copy\TENURE
Some notes compiled for Graham McKenzie Smith's history of ACT Forests in an email sent on 19/05/18....
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Pass your mouse over the screen....
A geode (/ˈdʒiː.oʊd/; from Ancient Greek γεώδης (geṓdēs) 'earthlike') is a geological secondary formation within sedimentary and volcanic rocks. Geodes are hollow, vaguely spherical rocks, in which masses of mineral matter (which may include crystals) are secluded. The crystals are formed by the filling of vesicles in volcanic and subvolcanic rocks by minerals deposited from hydrothermal fluids; or by the dissolution of syngenetic concretions and partial filling by the same or other minerals precipitated from water, groundwater, or hydrothermal fluids.
A fake that has travelled all around Australia with Erwin since the early 1960s. Some of its tools are loose and badly made and would never cut a piece of wood or file some metal. #SeeonscreenNOTES for some comments. I used the Leatherman or a real Swiss Army Knife to open all the tools as having most of them open all at once strains the springs, as is the case with any SAK…
On our way to #N37 and Perth and a new life in 1965, With Dick and John.. #seeonscreenNOTES
That is my Beetle, #CLM174 up on the ramp with me checking underneath. I did have to clean the air filter and change the oil in the filter a lot of times on this trip....
Looks like Dick and John walked up the Madura escarpment above the Roe Plain and took this shot while I was checking over my #VWBeetle1965
Emergency Water...Boil before Drinking!
We have a cold shower, cool in the breeze. Not sure of the date!
We left here and drove west awile the I drove us North and then East for awhile. It was still HOT.
Saw a roo so Dave took a few shots. I ran closer and finally got it, a big 'marloo'. I skinned tail and we took photos. see below. Many blowflies around...
We drove on and made camp. The sun looked beautiful in our dust.
Lit fire and and got stew going then took a few sunset photos.
Beaut apricot colours and silhouetts .
We had nice strong stew, wrote to Mum and listened to the radio. A nice starry night! Read some James Bond!
Can't find ref in diary! 28-8-65 .. found.... checked 27-08-25
See #GSWANullarbor on Instagram… early #roundAustraliawithSpelio
#seeonscreenNOTES
IMG_8495 GPS waypoint #658. #seeonscreenNOTES
campsite W of the highway about 140km N of Meekatharra, Pilbara Trip 2011 speedo 419804
Kim and Venita had gone ahead to Bilyuin Pool
see video.. youtu.be/8QhsZS99xzI
Location approx on useless Flickr OpenStreet map!
... #Speliocampsite
... #roundAustraliawithSpelio
Gee, we loved this trailer..
We had some hot nights and a few very cold ones, had to sleep with the windows zipped up, a pillow next to the wall and a beanie on.
Then we realised if we got a powered site we could take the chill off the air with a little fan heater on low all night...
JD old slides from over 60 years ago!
... #seeonscreenNOTES
On the Roe Plain beside the Eyre Highway..
No Madura or Mundrabilla on the pathetic Flickr map of this part of Australia...
and Flickr suggests we drop the location more accurately!!
A hot shared on Instagam and tagged #roundaustraliawithspelio but is cropped there..
LOL not out here....somewhere along the Sandy Blight Track…
see #Smoky60Series links
See where this picture was taken. [?] Approx only by Google and an App
Does not remember the location ...
To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html
A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.
My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.
I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.
see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/
Car and trailer are jack-knifed to make a wind-break!..
Google search With #Smoky60Series ... and see all the videos of the across Australia trip here.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPczLULhUgxFogPpnnsF9zM2B...
Sandy Blight Junction Road"
On the ABC Local ..666 this am....
ABC Radio are running a program on getting your life back?
Moments in your life that were relaxing moments out of the rat race where you were " In the moment" rather than rushing and absorbed in a career or running a family, dashing to work, taking the kids to sport or filling up the car.
I thought of all the 1/125th sec moments at f5.6 that I have in my photo collection
I could select some of my 33,000 images for an album of "Moments in Life" then realised that 95% or so would be suitable.
At least all in my "Faves by others" would be suitable,
Showing my Alox #Minichamp, Classic Alox SD 0.6221.26 on my key chain and the new Classic Color Yellow SD..
see the recommendation here on YouTube… youtu.be/cRVr-8o916A?si=mC8Yf8RsrIPjDWO0
I was visiting Erwin today , no one was home so I followed the rough track down past the dam to Barbara's house till the dog barked and the horses moved a litle. I wandered round taking photos of the scenery and the dams then returned to the main house.
Later Erwin and Barb arrived and I gave Erwin the new bottle of American Honey. As i was going to show him the new Yellow Classic SD and the Alox Mini Champ I found they must have fallen out of my shirt pocket as I removed it on the track.
I searched back the 450m to the old Meters stove, see photo, and back to the house and around the garden and small dam and bench, B said she would keep a lookout. I returned along the track again to no avail. A further fruitless search back down the track and across the creek and a phone home to see if I had actually brought them!
I was about to leave dejected at my loss when E banged on his office window. Barb had found both the SAKs in the grass beside the track near the horse paddock. #AloxMinichamp.
I returned down the track to meet her coming up in the 4WD and she presented me with the two lost new Swiss Army SD knives.
Was I pleased ?.. So I returned home, picking up 16 king prawns and some Barra....
See a few For sale here.. www.houseofknives.com.au/apps/omega-search/?q=swiss%20army
Yes, absolutely. Cutting paper with a sharp Swiss Army knife on a sheet of glass will definitely and quickly blunt the blade.
Here's why this is a very bad idea for a knife edge:
Glass is an extremely hard material. It's much harder than the steel of your Swiss Army knife blade.
The blade needs a softer surface to "bite" into. When you cut on a cutting board, the blade passes through the object and then makes contact with the softer cutting board surface (wood, plastic, etc.). This allows the blade to finish the cut without damaging the fine edge.
When you cut on glass, the blade's edge is pressed against a surface that is harder than itself. This causes the incredibly thin and delicate cutting edge to roll, chip, or deform. It's like trying to cut a diamond with a steel chisel—the steel will lose every time.
Think of the knife's edge as a very fine, microscopic saw. When it hits a hard surface like glass, those tiny teeth can get bent, broken, or rounded over. The result is a dull edge that won't cut cleanly.
The "paper test" for sharpness is a good one, but it must be done with the paper held in the air or on a soft cutting surface. A sharp knife should be able to slice through the paper smoothly without a hard surface behind it.1 The moment you introduce a hard surface like glass, you are creating an abrasive action that will destroy the edge.
In summary: Always use a softer cutting surface like a dedicated plastic or wood cutting board. Never cut on glass, ceramic, stone, or metal with any knife you want to keep sharp.
The next but one weekend was the first Anniversary of when we met on the 9th Sep. 1965.
The Scanner is buggered and won't load slides or the negative holder.
Now working again, and the ebm PC 11-12/10/25
Copyright - All Rights Reserved - Black Diamond Images
Image has Notes - Last Edit 11th June 2019
See the other Mosaic HERE
Two 'Working Waterfront' murals placed either side of the entrance to John Wright Park in Tuncurry were officially opened by Great Lakes Mayor Jan McWilliams on June 9th 2013.
Artists Tracey Lang and Paula Cole were commissioned to design and produce the mosaics.
The 2 mosaics display a collection of symbolic images which represent the ‘piecing together’ of the history of Tuncurry, in particular the early working waterfront history, of Tuncurry. Town founder, John Wright, played a central part by established a prosperous shipyards and associated sawmilling operations which built many wooden ships for the Australian coastal trade from 1876 till 1955 by which time wooden vessels had been largely displaced by steel ships.
The mural also characterises the importance of the fishing industry which was particularly engaged in from the 1890's by the Italian immigrants Vincenzo Fazio, Phillipo Sciacca, Enrico Bonventi and Leonardo Amato families among others.
Centrally located on the mural is the log punt with John Wright's steam driven log punt Nil Desperandum the first to begin service in late 1878. The log punt era ending with the Queen III following the completion of the Wallis Lake bridge on July 18th 1959.
The foreshore buildings depicted in the mural are the Latter Day Saints Church and Tokelau, the home of Ernest Wright. The building further along is the Tuncurry Soldiers Memorial Hall. The ship is the Tuncurry 2 built by John Wright in 1909.
Some History of Tuncurry
John Wright was born on 21st May 1835 in the village of Nether Dallachy, in the Parish of Bellie, County Banff, Northern Scotland.
John Wright was the illegitimate son of 22 year old Margaret Garden and at the time of his birth Margaret Garden declared that Alexander Wright, the son of James Wright, a prominent local identity, to be the father. Alexander always denied this claim and Margaret did not turn up at a hearing to determine paternity.
After doing his trade as a shipwright twenty-four-year-old John Wright departed Liverpool England on 11th Aug 1859 with a dream of building ships in the colonies. After a short stay in Auckland, NZ he with his friend Alexander Croll emigrated to Australia, arriving in Sydney on 8th May 1860. After dabbling in gold mining in the NSW Snowy Mountains they headed north of Newcastle finding building and farming work in the Stroud Booral and Myall Lakes area. John Wright married Catherine Gill on 24th March 1864 in Stroud before moving to Boolambayte/Bungwahl in 1865. In 1867, Wright and Croll built a schooner called The Caledonia for Duncan McRae, a well known sawmiller in the area. The Caledonia was to be John Wright's first ship since his arrival in Australia. It was launched into the Myall Lakes.
This was the beginning of an 87 year dynasty of Wright family shipbuilding that began with John Wright and ended with Ernest Wright & finally with his son John Wright Jnr at Tuncurry with the launching of the Santa Cruz by John Wright Jnr in 1954. (Note - The Santa Cruz was never registered by that name but was registered as the Norfolk Whaler)
In 1872 John Wright in partnership with Alexander Croll and another partner, John Roger, established a sawmill at Bungwahl.
In 1873 John Wright set off from Bungwahl on a journey searching the NSW coast for a place to set up a shipyards. His friend Shipbuilder/Sawmiller John Wylie Breckenridge, regarded as the founder of Forster (Minimbah) **, had arrived in Forster in 1869 and successfully persuaded John Wright that the North Shore of the Wallamba River was ideal. By 1875 John Wright had decided Tuncurry was to be his destiny. He, builder, Harry Colvin, Abraham Mills and 15 year old Andy Delore walked to Forster from Bungwahl and assisted by John Wylie Breckenridge, John Wright took out a 99 year lease on an unsurveyed 200 acres on the North Shore (Tuncurry).
While John Wright sought to establish his ship building and sawmilling businesses in Tuncurry his wife Catherine had remained at Bungwahl, losing 2 young children to diphtheria during this time but also having given birth to eldest girl Marion and eldest boy Sidney Garden Wright.
With John Wright's businesses in Tuncurry doing well, in 1877 he dissolved his partnership with Croll and Roger in the sawmill at Bungwahl selling his share to John Roger and Alexander Croll for 2000 pounds.
In 1878 Catherine Wright moved the family to Tuncurry where the first non aboriginal child born in Tuncurry, Ernest Wright was born on June 17th, 1878.
By August 1878 John Wright had completed the building of his sawmill in Tuncurry as well as his new log punt, the Nil Desperandum, and by the early 1880's had established successful businesses not only in Tuncurry but also at Avalon (Fairview) near Krambach. These businesses included several sawmills, 2 stores, a shipbuilding yard and workers cottages for his employees both on the Tuncurry waterfront and also at Avalon.
John Wright was a patriarchal figure in the fledgling Tuncurry and Avalon communities and was held in high esteem by his workers who he strongly supported, that support being returned in immense loyalty. The aboriginal people called him "Big Boss First Fella".
John Wright had established Tuncurry's first school in a room off the back of his house in 1877 with 7 children and with Miss Susan Smith as the teacher. It doubled as the Sabbath School on Sundays with John Wright conducting the services. In 1881 John Wright, Abraham Mills and RC Kirkwood made application to the Department of Education to establish a School in Tuncurry. As numbers grew to 30 in 1889 the NSW Department of Education built the first government school on land in what became Peel St with the first Department appointed teacher, Charles Snape.
A post office opened in Tuncurry in 1889 and the settlement of Tuncurry was proclaimed a village in 1893, with its first hotel and ice-works built in 1895 and a butter factory established in 1917.
Tuncurry's first church building was constructed in 1888 but the present day Later Day Saints Church was not built until C.1910 by Ernest Wright in the year of his fathers death on 28th May 1910 aged 75.
Following John Wright's death in 1910 Ernest Wright assumed control of the shipyards and continuing the family tradition built many fine ships until he died in 1946 handing control of the Shipyards to his son John Jr. With the decline in demand for wooden ships and the lease on the Tuncurry waterfront land about to end, the shipyards were finally closed down in 1958. The last large vessel built in Tuncurry, the Santa Cruz, a ship of 126 feet and 175 tons was launched on Sept 17th 1954. A sailing boat was the last boat built at the Wright Shipyards.
Wright's Shop established in 1885 finally closed in 1981 and was demolished to allow removal of John Wright House to the end of South Street, Tuncurry on Feb 2nd 1982. Some of the timber from the shop was utilised in construction of the new Tuncurry Golf Club House.
In 1872 John Wright, previously a Presbyterian, became one of Australia's first converts to the Latter Day Saints religion after contact with Claude Roger, his sawmill partner at Bungwahl, John Roger's brother. Claude Roger was an American Mormon missionary visiting his brother in Australia at that time. The Wright's also hosted in their home RLDS missionary, Elder Burton and his wife Beatrice and their daughter on several occasions during 1885. John Wright established Tuncurry's first RLDS Church in 1886. The 1910 built church, situated next door to Tokelau is still in existence and continues to operate as a Community of Christ Church.
In 1891, John Wright, needing a minister for his Tuncurry RLDS church decided to send his Newington educated eldest son Sidney Garden Wright to Lamoni, Iowa USA to train to become Tuncurry's first minister. Sidney Garden Wright was ordained as a minister by Joseph Smith 3rd at Kirtland, Ohio on 6th April 1891. While Sidney was in the US he met the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith's grand-daughter, Ina Inez Smith and they were married in Lamoni, Decatur County, Iowa, USA on the 22nd April, 1891 by minister GP - WW. Blair. Sidney was 21 and Ina was 24.
Sidney Garden Wright returned to Tuncurry soon after with his new wife and raised 10 children in Tuncurry and at Fairview (Later renamed Avalon), near Krambach where he managed John Wright's sawmill, flour mill, and farming operations.
No doubt to his fathers displeasure Sidney did not continue for very long as an RLDS minister for reasons not well documented. It is believed he did not aspire to the much traveled lifestyle of his RLDS missionary father in law Alexander Hale Smith, preferring to be with his family. Somewhat surprisingly, although Sidney and Ina Inez's 10 children were baptised into the RLDS Church none of them became affiliated with the church in their later lives.
The land on which John Wright, and later his son Ernest Wright's, shipyards and sawmill stood, was originally bound by 99 year lease and a condition of that lease was that the site was to be left in original condition at the termination of the lease. In 1960 all buildings, including the log wharves were demolished. The water front land where the mill and shipyard stood was then gazetted as an area for public recreation and in 1962 was renamed John Wright Park. Following reclamation works conducted soon after the bridge opened the area of parkland was actually increased.
The artwork in the above mural has been developed to create a visual representation of the early industries that utilized the Tuncurry waterfront site and the vital role they played in forming the foundations of the town and community of Tuncurry.
Notes - ** George Garlick Godwin and family were the first settlers in Minimbah, later gazetted as Forster. They walked overland with a bullock team
The artwork in the above mural has been developed to create a visual representation of the early industries that utilized the Tuncurry waterfront site and the vital role they played in forming the foundations of the town and community of Tuncurry.
Visit the GREAT LAKES MUSEUM at 1 Capel Street, Tuncurry, NSW, Australia, New South Wales
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Five laptops and Mary... See screen NOTES.... #seeonscreenNOTES
ICE Pano and edit wall in Thumbs+
Z a few times or L key...
See www.flickr.com/groups/sixwordstory/ for more 6WS shots..
My office and my collection of "zot-between-them". The DELL is nearly past it but is an intel i7 with good sound, as good as the MacBook..
The acer Aspire 3 15 has crook sound, only an intel i3, but a full keyboard to do my TAX returns on PlanMaker spreadsheets.
The HP ProBook is getting old but runs the ThumbsPlus+ database to ALL my images and drives the SAMSUNG monitor.
The ebm is just WIN7 with a SCSI card & driver to the Polaroid 4000 scanner. Made up by the ebm shop just to run the scanner and seems to be lacking a few Windows features but can post to Flickr and with a 250Gb SSD card boots fast like the acer... and used to type all this and reply to comments on the dining room table, which was buried for a year under photo albums, books, stuff, lights, and #SAKedc and TAX returns but now cleared for a Xmas party last week... it is good enough for all that....
10243 pix wide Pano of 11 images each 6000 wide!
I use the ebm WIN7 to scan slides, move them via SanDisk USB drive to the Windows 10 HP PC, where I may use ThumbsPlus to rename them and perhaps remove some dust or crop one or two.
Then I can edit and add tags, Albums and to a few Groups as I upload to Flickr.
After a few comments and invites to add to Groups, I use the MacBook Air or one of three iPads to further edit. the Model 4 iPad using the older Flickr App allows adding text and searching for Albums. These functions are not available on the recent App on the iPad Mini or the new Apple A(16)
In North Building Civic
This has now become the ACT Heritage offices.... with a lost web site today!
Edited 15-02-25 @ 5-5:30am
I commenced work with ACT Forests when the Office was on the 4th floor of Electricity House in London Circuit, (according to GMcKS in an email dated 15-12-18).
I was interviewed there for the surveying/drafting/technical Officer position by the Director, Mark Edgerley in 1971.
Note from Graham McK-S... email 15 Dec. 2018
ACTForests Accommodation
"Ian also recalls the office moving to the 4th floor of Electricity House soon after he started, with the BFC Control Room occupying the SW corner which gave a good view towards the mountains. Ron Murray recalls the office being at Electricity House when he got back from USA in August 1967. Tony Fearnside was CFCO from late 1967 so he may be able to comment on the timing of the move to Electricity House.
"When Wayne Lemke started in late 1969, John Way and Peter Tinson were at Yarralumla (garage at the rear of Forestry House).... " The Assessment team were here when Bill Crowle (myself) started in 1971, and worked between there and his home for a year, due to lack of a drafting bench and other equipment. I must have sorted the new bench from Dept Works by the time I moved into North Bldg for the photo above.
Graham McK-S (grimwade) continues...
..."The office remained in this part of North Bldg until after I left in mid 1981. I am not sure but I have heard references to a further move to South Bldg sometime before the move to Homeworld in Tuggeranong in the late 1980s."
"NAA in their description of ACT Forests (Agency CA1312) list the office location 1968 to 1970 as top floor South Bldg and after 1970 as North Bldg.... when I came back in late 1973 I was in North Building. Mark had the SW corner office overlooking the theatre, Ron was next on the Western side followed by Ian Gordon, Peter Tinson and me.
"Along the South side were the clerks, then the BFC Control Room. On the other side of the corridor, (to the North) were Dave Fisher, John Turner with FRIYR and the HP1000 computer; and the plan room and mapping of Bill Crowle.. This part of the building was the part built in the 1970s"
The HP1000 was delivered on the Wed 18th November 1981, The terminal, Plotter and Printer did not arrive...
{ed. 30-09-24 seen in diary)
The surveys I did from July 1972, entered in many Field Books and all the latitudes and departures in books I still have were done on calculator programs for the newly acquired programmable Sharp calculator. It didn't print so I entered the figures in the books. Later I found the Australian Survey Office in the Cameron Offices, Belconnen had calculators that printed the lats and longs and calculated areas.
Chris Lacey was evacuated from Darwin after Cylcone Tracy, Christmas 1974; coming from the NT Forestry Section and helped compile many survey calculator programs for the newly acquired programmable Sharp calculator, about 120 steps.
After a year or so, in Aug 1977, p322 in Book 2, there appear print -outs from the HP97!
We got the HP97 programmable calculator for various Forestry calculations and Chris programmed it for surveying and many were tweaked by me for variations..
None of these pages of calculations were ever plotted until I found an HP plotter at the Forestry and Timber Bureau which enabled me to enter Eastings and Northings in pairs to move the plotter one line at a time...
The HP97 continued printing lists of Eastings and Northings through the first few months of 1978.. to p336.
I (Bill), later moved downstairs in the South building in the same large open plan area with part of the Departmental Drawing office and Mark Fornasiero..
I was able to ride my bicycle to the door and wheel it behind my desk and chair. It looked very much like this layout above... The presence of the FRIYR computer terminal places this photo, upstairs.North Building!
See my office at the Stromlo Depot Planning Office, Duffy....
www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/3746018194/
This was when I started converting our base maps to 1:10,000.
I organised the Australian Survey Office, AUSLIG, to digitise all our plantation boundaries, along the edges of the pine canopy.
I spent a few years gradually drawing the various roads and tracks down between the digitized pine edge.
Major_Roads
Minor_Roads.
Tracks
breaks
streams
fences etc with a 100 other Layers for various assets like gates
Hatch_Bdy
Euc_Hatch
Open_Hatch
Buildings
and many others which I could recover from the LISP file I wrote to create them...
From the 1:10,000 Base Maps, I created dozens and dozens of 1:10,000 base maps of each Block to cover each working Plantation.
ACT Forests was later moved with most of the Dept of the Interior by Ros Kelly in a move to populate Tuggeanong, to the Homeworld Building in the Tuggeranong Valley
Threat to my job by IT in the next century.. 2020 etc
see..
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/could-a-robot-do-your-job-...
Some of your tasks that are easier to automate are...
Build models, patterns, or templates.
Prepare contracts, disclosures, or applications.
Study scripts to determine project requirements.
Monitor current CAD GIS and mapping trends.
Prepare scientific or technical reports or presentations.
Conduct market research.
That leaves
83%
of work time on tasks that are less susceptible to automation.
That’s when you’re doing things like...
Discuss production content and progress with others.
Select materials or props.
Confer with clients to determine needs.
Review plans or proposals for environmental conservation.
Determine design criteria or specifications.
Operate computer systems.
Slide copied September 19 2011
Orig Photo taken with the Hassleblad June 1987.
Quote from Garry Linnell "Comment" CT Mar 11, 2023 p.27
"The pandemic was a boon to sociologists . Countless studies are unequivocally disproving the claim that productivity slumps when workers are not chained to their cubicle .
Flexible working arrangements clearly boost worker satisfaction and efficiency while encouraging higher employee retention rates and staff engagement .."
With the Traeger radio set up to send our regular message to the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Kalgoorlie to report our location and survival to the Geological Survey in Perth.
Mid season on the #GSWANullarbor #roundaustraliawithspelio #seeonscreenNOTES
Books and 30 years on National Geographic Magazines.
On the radiata pine shelves I built with no nails..
On a small Arkansas stone from the BMR mapping and scribing days and a piece of old shaving strop,
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A razor strop or simply a strop (sometimes called a razor strap or strap) is a flexible strip of leather, canvas, denim fabric, balsa wood, or other soft material, used to straighten and polish the blade of a straight razor, a knife, or a woodworking tool such as a chisel. In many cases stropping re-aligns parts of the blade edge that have been bent out of alignment. In other cases, especially when abrasive polishing compound is used, stropping may remove a small amount of metal (functionally equivalent to lapping). Stropping can also burnish (i.e. push metal around on the blade…
A quote from a Fav post… Merely cutting out thin slices of life - with the blades of my aperture
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copied Dec 3, 2011 Date and Time (Digitized) - 2011:12:03 12:05:16
The ruin of Cape St George Lighthouse is perhaps the most significant European site in the park. Nowadays, the lighthouse is the best place to watch the whale migration and return. You can learn about whale-watching here.
Designed by the colonial architect, Alexander Dawson and built in 1860, the 3 storey lighthouse was built of sandstone blocks quarried near the present day Jervis Bay village. The tower was 61 feet high (18.5m) with 8 rooms at ground level. The floor was timber and cast iron girders held up a roof of stone flagging covered with asphalt.
Getting supplies to the lighthouse was always difficult with the nearest landing place over 4 kilometres away at Murrays Beach. Horses were needed for transporting mail and supplies, and taking the children to and from school. Keeping a horse permanently was not easy as there was a shortage of grass
for feed. However goats were better suited to the terrain and were kept for milking, some meat for consumption and bait for catching sharks.
From 1860 to 1877 up to 15 people including the lighthouse keeper, 2 under-keepers and their families lived in this 8 room complex. Oil and supplies for the lighthouse were also stored here so conditions would have been relatively cramped and uncomfortable. In 1877 a 7-room weatherboard cottage was built for the head keeper near the stables.
The kitchen and laundry building was probably erected around 1865 as ‘a store for the men’s provisions, a wash house and an oven, with a boiling copper for the establishment’. It provided much needed space as previously everything, including living quarters for the three lightkeeper’s families, had been housed in the original lighthouse building.
The double latrine (toilet) building drains directly out and over the nearby cliff face, and is an excellent example of the strict attention to sanitation that was required in such a remote location. It is likely that it was divided into male and female sections.
From Parks Australia web site...
Original to add to the other shot we have here!
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they went on the 'Willem Ruys" to the UK via Panama, here we see them after Cec & Lucy returned from a long trip home on the "Galileo"...
18th June 1964 scanned Dad's slides Box 17... 11/08/25
We used that bag on the lower right at the feet of Dorothy, as our billy and saucepan bag for the next 40 years during all our family camping trips.
Forty years before Mary and I flew over, to drive around in #Helga2004
P71, in the Red Album, there is also a slide of Dad's in his Paximat magazine 17 UK to Home in '64 see below!