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The afternoon sun was shining down warmly on Pushaw Stream at Hirundo National Wildlife Refuge, and I found a great calm in this place. Within the image, the reflected sun leaves silver trails that look very much like hair or fine threads.
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Strand van Ooudorp, wolken voorspellen misschien wat nog gaat komen. Toeristen genieten nog van het najaars zonnetje
When it opened on April Fools Day 1892 the Strand Arcade was regarded as the very latest in shopping centre designs and was described as: "The finest public thoroughfare in the Australian colonies."
One-hundrend-and-eighteen years, two depressions, two World Wars and two major fires later, it still stands, a little out of place, in the heart of modern Sydney's CBD.
The early 1900s are remembered by people who travelled to the city from the suburbs by tram especially to see the electric lights in the Strand Arcade – one of the first places in the city to be lit by electricity. It was browsers paradise. Shops crammed onto the ground floor included stamp and book specialists, milliners and jewellers working in the windows of their shops, because there was nowhere else to sit. For twenty years it was a thriving, friendly place, a haven in the heart of Sydney.
An "indiscretion" in the Wentworth Hotel between a "lady in a low cut dress" and a "slightly drunk" party-goer swung the Strand Arcade into the 20s. The details of the incident are sketchy but it led to an unceremonious eviction from the hotel of Sydney jeweller and well known man-about-town, Percy Stewart Dawson and a new racier image for the Strand. Dawson vowed he would never be thrown out of a nightclub again. To guarantee that he decided to build his own: The brightest and the best night spot Sydney has ever seen. He chose the basement of the Strand Arcade for the venue of his club, The Ambassadors Café. The club housed a large, extravagantly decorated ballroom which seated 700, and a small Palm Court used mainly for luncheons and afternoon tea dances.
The twenties roared as much in Sydney and the Strand Arcade as they did around the world. The shops were busy and the dance club attracted fashionable and colourful people.
The Strand Arcade remains a majestic beauty in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Sydney's CBD. Many retailers including The Nut Shop, Elie's leather Repair and Strand Hatters have traded for decades, becoming well known Sydney institutions.
het is nog heel stil op het naaktstrand
ook strand onderhoud is nodig
b.v. mechanisch schoonhouden van de vloedlijn
een zandstorter is op zee en onderweg naar de stortplaats.
Het op diepte houden van de route Vlissingen/Antwerpen
levert veel zand op.
Het bijstorten van zandstranden is ieder jaar nodig.
`a never ending story´
From my first roll of 120 film with my Agfa Click 2. I wrote abit about these on my blog, www.highartlowlife.blogspot.com, if you want to read