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I had planned to camp here, but it was cold and windy, with quite a few people camped down on those rocks. I figured if I was going to be cold, I might as well hike a few more miles.
Real photo postcard. Postally unused.
Found in an antique shop in Adelaide.
"The program moved towards its climax in late November. On 27 and 28 November South Australia’s school children presented a Pageant of Empire. This extraordinary event was the brainchild of Miss Adelaide Miethke, redoubtable Inspector of Schools, and outstanding organizer. In five acts over the two days, Miss Miethke assembled some 14,000 costumed children in a series of patriotic tableaux, directing the whole and keeping order with her ‘stentorian voice’. There were five tableaux in all – one each for the British Isles, Canada, India and Australia, before a final tableau in which Britannia ‘gathered her different peoples around her’. No stereotype was spared. The children were dressed as roses, daffodils, Scottish thistles, shamrocks, Grenadier Guards and yeomen of the guard. But there were also Aboriginal people, North American Indians, Indian dancing girls, rajahs, bunyips, kangaroos and soldiers answering the call to arms. The culminating piece presented the centenary’s main message, ‘Peace and Goodwill’, in the centre of a huge circle. Some 13,300 children were positioned on the oval for this tableau! Six hundred and eighty ‘Girls of the Cross’ formed the word ‘Peace’, 900 ‘Wattle Blossoms’ made up the year 1936 and 1,100 ‘Roses’ represented ‘Goodwill’. A committee of 700 co-ordinated the thousands of mothers who made the costumes. The whole was described as a ‘brilliant and heart stirring spectacle’." - adelaidia.sa.gov.au/events/centenary-celebrations-1936
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This is the first time I've seen a Sandhill Crane taking a bath. That large bill and huge body size made for a real spectacle. Lucky they have retractable goggle eyes (nectitating membrane) to protect them from the water spray
Street Photography Now Project: #51 'Buildings are like humans and have their own character.' - Alexey Titarenko
National Film Theatre offices, South Bank, London
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DSC_3155. Taken in the wild in Kenya.
The Wildebeest migration in Kenya. Spectacular!
Copyright: Robert Kok 2014.
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On our journey home May 3, 2016 at Lake Pukaki in the South Island of New Zealand.
Lake Pukaki is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north-south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island.
The glacial feed to the lakes gives them a distinctive blue colour, created by glacial flour, the extremely finely ground rock particles from the glaciers. Lake Pukaki covers an area of 178.7 km², and the surface elevation of the lake normally ranges from 518.2 to 532 metres above sea level.
The lake is now part of the Waitaki hydroelectric scheme. The lake's original outflow was at its southern end, into the Pukaki River. The outflow has been dammed, and canals carry water from Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau through the Ohau A power station to Lake Ruataniwha. Pukaki is also fed by the waters of Lake Tekapo, which are diverted through a canal to a power station on Pukaki's eastern shore (Tekapo B station). The lake has been raised twice to increase storage capacity (9m in 1952, and 37m in 1976 ), submerging Five Pound Note Island, which once appeared on New Zealand's five pound note.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pukaki