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Australian Sea Lion - Kangaroo Island, Australia
Sea lions differ from seals in a number of ways. They have ear flaps instead of ear holes and they can walk on land by rotating their hind flippers forward and underneath their bodies.
Approximately 15,000 Australian Sea Lions inhabit the southern and western coast of Australia. This sea lion is part of a colony who live on Seal Bay in Kangaroo Island.
Kangaroo Island is the third largest island in Australia after Tasmania and Melville Island. Less that 4,600 people inhabit the island. The island is known for its natural beauty and wildlife.
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'Tis a tale as sad as that of Juliet and her Romeo.
Star- crossed from the start.
Only way to be together is to reduce me by more than a quart!
Light the Explorer and the Barossa Valley.
Colonel Light had his departure from England in May 1836 delayed for several weeks because he was ill. He suffered from dysentery quite often as well as his tuberculosis. Despite his poor health he tramped the Adelaide Plains selecting a site for the city of Adelaide. He explored the Port Adelaide estuary area and the Patawalonga estuary at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg). By ship and then foot he had explored Encounter Bay, Nepean Bay area of Kangaroo Island, checked out Port Lincoln and begun a preliminary survey at Rapid Bay. He also explored the Barossa Valley in December 1837 and again in January 1839. He named the valley after the location of one of his military battles, the Battle of Barrosa (changed to Barossa) in the Peninsula Wars in Spain in 1811; he named Lynedoch (later changed to Lyndoch) after General Thomas Graham with whom he served in the Peninsula Wars as Graham was the first Baron of Lynedoch. His December 1837 exploration party included John Morphett. John Hill and James Fisher, the Resident Commissioner of SA and second in command after Governor Hindmarsh. Light discovered and named the Barossa and Lyndoch within days of leaving Adelaide. He named the river in the valley the Morphett River but that was changed to the North Para River. His January 1839 exploration party included Boyle Finniss and David McLaren. McLaren chose land near Lyndoch for a SA Company Special Survey. Light was very ill as he had been on the first trip and he rested at the North Para River in January 1839 whilst the rest of the party explored further. After the second trip Charles Flaxman took out a Special Survey for George Fife Angas and named the area along the North Para River Lights Pass after Colonel William Light. Light wrote to Flaxman and thanked him for naming the site thus. It was the spot where Light had camped and rested with illness on his first trip in January 1839.
George Fife Angas probably had tenants on his lands as he did on other areas of the Barossa Valley. The first white settlers who were able to purchase surveyed land here were the German Scholz family. They took up land in 1842. Other Germans settlers followed soon after. The Luhr family built their small cottage here in 1848 with its German furnishings and decor. It was restored in 1986. The Lutherans set about building a church soon after settlement. The first teacher was Gustav Rechner, a follower of Pastor Kavel. In 1846 the Lutheran Light Pass community built a combined school room/church and a teacher’s residence. Pastor Kavel conducted services every 6 weeks. In 1850 they built a pug church, followed in 1858 by a manse for their pastor. This early church was replaced by the Kavel Memorial Hall (1949) and a new Immanuel church built in 1886 which still stands. The Immanuel School closed in 1909 and the children then went to the Strait Gate Lutheran School in Light Pass. In 1860 some disgruntled parishioners broke away from Immanuel Church and formed Strait Gate Lutheran congregation, church and school. Their church was built in 1861 with a bell tower added in 1877. This 1861 church was demolished in1960 when a new Strait Gate Lutheran Church was erected but with the 1877 bell tower still attached. The Strait Gate Lutheran School was rebuilt in 1914, before closing in 1917. It re-opened in 1939. A public school began operating in Lights Pass in 1917 in the rented Strait Gate school room. The state school opened when all Lutheran Schools were closed by act of parliament during World War One. By 1931 it had 84 pupils. In 1936 Strait Gate church decided to reopen its Lutheran School and the current fine Art Deco state school was built after that time. The state school was evicted from the Lutheran school site in May 1939 and a new temporary state school opened in June 1939 as world war with Germany approached. The government opened the current school in November 1940. There is a memorial cairn just by the Post Office shed next to Strait Gate Church for a 150 jubilee re-enactment of Light’s visit in 1837. Light Pass state school still exists despite its proximity to Nuriootpa. At the northern crossroads is the major memorial cairn to Colonel William Light and Captain Charles Sturt. It was erected in 1944 as a memorial to these two early explorers. Light in January 1839 and Sturt in August 1844.
Because I'm not brave (stupid?) enough to throw my camera in the air...
This is what my digital radio looked like when I shook my Canon during a long exposure. The red is from the power light and the blue is the backlit LCD display.
“Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money – you cool with that?” - Gable”
― J.M. August
Its because I like dressing up and taking pictures!
Here's my cute little white romper with button front and attached belt worn with a nude bra top waist length shaper from Newport News, Leg Avenue fence net hose, Osé Angel seamless panty hose, and those hot Pleasers thigh high boots with the 5" heels from electriqueboutique.com.
To see more pix of me in sexy boots go here: www.flickr.com/photos/kaceycdpix/sets/72157622816479823/
This was also taken a while ago. I'm so frustrated because when I had initially edited this photo I got it to look awesome and then had opened it again to make a few adjustments and then resized it for internet use and I accidentally saved over the tiff file and now I don't know how I edited it the first time. This was my attempt to replicate the edit but it's not the same and the first version was so much better. Urgh. So I may be replacing this in the future if I can somehow get it to look closer to my first edit.
This photo has been drawn out in my photo journal for a while, so I'm happy I finally did it. Editing that bird in was a pain in the ass! It's not perfect but again, I will probably be replacing it.
And I'm posting a few of my old shots before I start uploading what I took this Saturday, which will be very soon!
... because my sausage exploded.
We're Here: Heavenly blue
Strobist: SB-700 speedlight with home-made softbox camera left; SB-24 through pale blue fabric camera right and slightly lower; window light from right. Triggered optically by on camera flash. Exploding Bockwurst, Lidl.
1/7/2012 - saturday
i could cry because this is so bad.
and i know that i won't make a better one today because it gets darker and darker.
i just want summer :(
and you may see that my ear buds are damaged. my cat thought it would be funny
to play with them. it wasn't.
i hope that i get a better photo tomorrow. i don't want to upoad more pictures like this.
ps. sorry that i delated the one i uploaded before but i thought that it doesn't get better from editing. so this is sooc - and mess :/
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because you're going to get soaked anyway :-) Unknown.
HPPT!!
hybrid tea rose, 'Elle', little theater rose garden, raleigh, north carolina
Because of it's status as the official basilica of the Pope, it's nickname is the "Mother Church."
The twelve niches inside hold massive statues of the 12 apostles.
Because I cleaned my buddy, I put a sticker.
A woman driving YmahaSR400 is the shop of the owner.
Let's go to riders cafe Decomp.
Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they misrepresent. We simply do not attempt to unite with Reality. But now and then that symbolic character is suddenly brought home to us. Some great emotion, some devastating visitation of beauty, love, or pain, lifts us to another level of consciousness; and we are aware for a moment of the difference between the neat collection of discrete objects and experiences which we call the world, and the height, the depth, the breadth of that living, growing, changing Fact, of which thought, life, and energy are parts, and in which we “live and move and have our being.”
This bus was originally purchased in September 2002 to Arriva London South then at some stage the bus was transferred out of the London fleet because it was to old. However climate change aside the bus is sufficient for our local needs and much better the that awful Merc van they tried on the route and although ok for a mini bus service it was not a sufficient size for pushchair, prams and shopping trollies with it's limited internal space.
Dennis Dart SLF
LF52 UOP
Fleet PDL 79
New 9/2002
Arriva South London
Now Arriva Kent & Thameside
Fleet 1594
Depot Ware.
I began my 2016 “Streets Of Ireland” programme with a visit to Kilkenny [9-11 May] and the weather was terrible because it did nothing but rain and at times the rain was very heavy. Based on experience gained in 2015 and 2014 I recently spent a lot of money getting suitable all-weather gear and a more suitable weather-proof camera system and while this investment did help the sky was very grey and impacted greatly on my photography. I had to undertake a lot of work in post to dehaze many of the images so at times the sky may appear a bit strange.
Kilkenny is very much a party town but I wanted to photograph something other then hen/stag parties, nightclubs and tourist-attractions so I asked some local shopkeepers for suggestions and every one of them suggested the ‘Nore Linear Park’ but they all made it sound like a bit of a marathon [maybe they thought that I looked a bit old or unfit].
I made two attempts to explore the linear park, the first was late on Monday but the weather was just so bad that I abandoned the task after I had difficulty exiting a raised-rampway after I came across an arrow pointing to John Street because every gateway that I came to was locked. I had to retrace my route and as a result I did find an interesting old graveyard which I returned to on Tuesday [I will publish those images later in the week]. I asked a number of people about the old graveyard but no one that I asked was aware of it or its history.
On Tuesday I made a second attempt in the morning and while the weather was not good I did manage to photograph all sections within a few hours and along the route I got to meet some very interesting people and one really rude person.
On Monday I used a Sony 28-135mm lens but for my visit the the linear park I switched to a Zeiss Batis 25mm lens [which may have been a bad choice because it is a wide-angle lens]. The Batis is light and much easier to protect from the rain which is why I decided to use it.
The Nore Linear Park follows the banks of the River Nore as it flows through Kilkenny City. The park has a network of accessible cycleways and footpaths on both sides of the river within Kilkenny City and Environs.
The Linear Park can be roughly divided into four sections: -
1. The West Bank (from Bishopsmeadows to the weir at Talbot's Inch): This section is approached from Riverside Drive close to Green's Bridge or from the Sycamores Housing estate. It can also be accessed (by foot only) from steps at Talbot's Inch on the Freshford/Urlingford Road. This section of the park travels through mainly meadow grassland. The footing is easy and level. The section of the park is accessible to persons of limited mobility from the Riverside Drive entrance and from the Sycamores entrance. It should be noted that the Linear Park is located in a floodplain and in periods of high rainfall may be inaccessible.
2. The Peace Park (between John's Bridge and Green's Bridge in the City Centre):This is the most urban section of the Linear park, travelling through town along the eastern bank, parallel to Michael Street. Much of this section is paved and lined with shrub planting beds with plenty of seating areas to sit and enjoy. Access is from Michael Street or from John's Quay in the city centre or from Greensbridge Street.
3. The Canal Walk (parallel to Kilkenny Castle Grounds) :-
The third section of the park runs between the Kilkenny Castle Park and the River Nore and involved the upgrade and extension of the existing 'Canal Walk'. This is an attractive walk lined for much of its length with mature trees especially limes. The walk runs from Canal Square and terminates at Fennessy's Mill . During Kilkenny Castle Park open hours it is possible to access the grounds of the Castle Park from the Canal Walk. See www.heritageireland.ie for Castle Park opening hours.
4. The Lacken Walk: This area has recently been upgraded with bank stabilisation works to restore eroded areas and extended with the installation of a raised timber boardwalk. This walk is accessible from steps on the Dublin Road or from the lower path on Maudlin Street and from a newly constructed ramp linking the area with the Ring Road. The path which is narrow in places runs between HSE grounds on the Dublin Road and the river bank and links to the Nore Valley Walk to Bennettsbridge and beyond.
Because of a hacking seminar, the tour through the Parlement Building was much shorter than usual. Price was adjusted accordingly and reduced to 16 lei (not even €4). Which isn't much but the tour wasn't much either. We only got to see 6 rooms or so on three different floors and we were put on the streets again 45 min later. That was disappointing but we did got to see a little snip of the grandesque of the palace and the hallways with all the marble and chandeliers and carpets did look bananas!
Because it's very nice. You can sit at the benches, in the Zen garden. have some tea... buy a 7Seas Support Ribbon fishing rod & more!
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Welcome to Tranquilla - January 2025. Thank you for viewing these visions.
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Because of its canals, the affluent little city of Annecy in the French Alps is sometimes referred to as “The Venice of the Alps”. This is one of the canals, with the iconic building of the old Mediæval prison built on a small island.
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.” ― Sarah Kay