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There was a time when Tasmania had its own bank. Well technically it still does, as some institutions have received banking licenses in more recent times, but the Bank of Tasmania was originally founded in 1845. It was later swallowed up into the gigantic Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Now this quaint old 19th century bank building - original sign still in place - is a shop dealing in the local arts and crafts. It stands, as you can see, within a stone's throw of the old Beaconsfield gold mine.
Alas, I have some bad news to pass on in relation to banks in Beaconsfield. In the modern building to the right of the Bank of Tasmania stood the home of the only remaining bank in Beaconsfield. One of those institutions I mentioned at the beginning: Bank of Heritage Isle.
On May 8, 2020, this bank closed its doors and all of its branches in Tasmania. And so now little Beaconsfield is without any banking facilities.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6745409/bank-closure-leave...
Such is the way of life for rural towns in this obnoxious era of conglomerates and Globalisation! You'd think there was a "plan" to get us all to move to cities wouldn't you.
In 1973, after the sudden death of their daughter, Jim and Val Hursey relocated from Dover in southern Tasmania to Stanley. They set up a fishing company, taking over many of the boats that belonged to previous fishing interests and became quite rapidly the major player in the Stanley fishing industry.
But more tragedy struck in 1986. Their son, Patrick "Kermie" Hursey had heard distress calls in Bass Strait from a lone kayaker who was attempting a crossing. The weather was extremely poor and the seas mountainous. Taking his vessel "Moya Ann" along with a deck hand, Patrick set out for the site that rescue aircraft had located. Unfortunately the vessel was swamped by the huge seas and went down. Patrick was lost at sea, but the deckhand Phil Critchlow was able to be saved.
The kayaker adventurer, Tony Dicker had circumnavigated Tasmania in a kayak four years earlier, and this crossing of Bass Strait was to be a final preparation for an around the world attempt. Unfortunately Dicker was also lost in this tragedy. Recently a film has been made about Tony Dicker's adventures (which I haven't seen). But this article neglects to mention that although it is sad Dicker died in the attempt, no mention is made of the death of Patrick Hursey in the rescue attempt.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7251463/how-a-filmmaker-st...
One commentator put it succinctly, "The tragic loss of the fishing vessel Moya Ann brought resounding condemnation for adventurers risking the lives of others while seeking personal fulfilment."
The male (left) of this Australian spider has expanded his flaps and is waving his legs, to attract the female on the right. This species was discovered by Stuart Harris and scientifically described by myself and David Hill a couple of years ago. You can read the story behind it in the description to my set of this species, and in this article in the Canberra Times www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/how-amateurs-discove...
To see similar spiders in action check out my YouTube channel
www.youtube.com/user/Peacockspiderman
More about these spiders on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/PeacockSpider
Canberra "Pill Box" bus shelter.
For those that are interested:
2013
the-riotact.com/act-government-putting-a-stop-to-the-conc...
2018
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6072326/gang-gang-bus-shel...
With some of the #firesnearme smoke from the NSW SE coast..
see google.org/crisismap/australia
We are surrounded, at a safe distance so we get smoke from all points of the compass except NW at the moment..
We had a house full of smoke last night.. 04-01-20
See other latest images for that date.
Here is the map of the devastation over the Blue Mountains.. www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/
See more links below
If the wind changes, we could get more smoke!
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6594812/moruya-and-west-mo...
Posted to www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/50295377816
www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/galleries/72157722981617565/
see image used here...
www.flickr.com/groups/a_personal_viewpoint/discuss/721577...
Link to air quality and weather sensor data. Australian PM2.5 AQI. map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0#11.62/-35.1889/1...
A walk in and around Urban and Suburban Amaroo and back, 14th Oct 2021
Way up the north end of the #livingthedreampaddock
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
some of many species of wild and introduced grasses and weeds producing pollen now!
There is a lot out there in the #Livingthedreampaddock
Got the ANU Pollen App. Now.. but
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7069273/the-graph-that-sho...
See the story in the ANU Reporter...
It is going to be a monster pollen year - ANU Reporter
Copied from a SUSS newsletter.. all safe!
see google.org/crisismap/australia
"This new Year Year is not like the last"
from Nicholas Stuart of the Canberra Times.....
l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/s...
B5R111 Our old yellow canoe in the foreground.
See this photo used here by Tim the Yowie Man.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
I have diary entries for Sat-Sun 11th-12th July 1981
At the confluence of Ginninderra Creek with Victoria, Jillian Graham Trish and Kate.
I worked here casually on weekends as a ranger for a couple of years in the 1980s
The trails and signposting was all laid out by an engineer named Rob Caldwell. He lived at the old Parkwood Homestead.
He constructed the picnic shelters from the concrete formwork used to build the Belconnen Mall Carparks.
He signposted the trails and made a small brochure to hand out with the ticket sales for the entrance fee. See below.
Along the trails are signposted Lookouts, labels for plants and trees and warning signs and handrails.
I used to take the entrance fees near the gate, describe the walks and hand out the small brochure and map you can see below.
When he hired another Ranger to mn the gate I would drive down Cusacks Crossing track, sometimes with the kids and hire out the canoes.
During the warm weather I would sell cold drinks from the beach or a canoe and on colder days I had a fire going from which I would "boil the billy" and sell cups of tea.
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3b
My New Discovery!
I have had to keep this under wraps for some time now but with the official publication of the excellent and detailed study by Tiina Liimets et al and the official press release from Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias - IAC (home of the worlds largest telescope) on 18 May, I can now reveal that as part of a long term study of the symbiotic star, R Aquarii and by using deep imaging techniques from Terroux Observatory outside Canberra, I have discovered new extended features, further out than the previously known hourglass nebula, around this dynamic star system. More follow up analysis of these faint features will hopefully point to new understandings of the early history of eruptions associated with R Aquarri type Symbiotic Stars.
Newspaper Article 30 May 2018: www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/former-strongman-wh...
The paper by Tiina Liimets et al: "New insights into the outflows from R Aquarii": arxiv.org/abs/1801.08209
The IAC press release: www.iac.es/divulgacion.php?op1=16&id=1388&lang=en
Dynamic graphic showing the expansion of the R Aquarii inner nebula and jet, as revealed in this paper:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2rUPOh1ads&feature=youtu.be and www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kgRS9Y05o&feature=youtu.be
The colour image of R Aquarii by itself: www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/167507817/original
While my discovery two years ago of the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 253-dw2, associated with NGC 253, was pretty damn cool, this latest discovery is even a little more satisfying to me because while last time the experts approached me for access to my data because they could see something new in it, this time I found something new in my own data myself and then brought it to the attention of the leaders in the field of Symbiotic Star research, who subsequently did follow up confirmation with data from the largest telescopes on Earth and included my discovery in the paper above :)
To say I am excited about this is an understatement, we amateur imagers go about our nightly lives shooting pretty pictures of our amazing and beautiful night skies but this is not always to the exclusion of making real contributions to science and astronomy.
I am extremely proud to be able to contribute further to our understanding of the cosmos and its incredible and dynamic past :)
Mike
Trails cut and railings all by Rob Calwell..
Agfa film
I worked here casually on weekends as a ranger for a couple of years in the 1980s
The trails and signposting was all laid out by an engineer named Rob Caldwell. He lived at the old Parkwood Homestead.
He constructed the picnic shelters from the concrete formwork used to build the Belconnen Mall Carparks.
He signposted the trails and made a small brochure to hand out with the ticket sales for the entrance fee. See below.
Along the trails are signposted Lookouts, labels for plants and trees and warning signs and handrails.
I used to take the entrance fees near the gate, describe the walks and hand out the small brochure and map you can see below.
When he hired another Ranger to mn the gate I would drive down Cusacks Crossing track, sometimes with the kids and hire out the canoes.
During the warm weather I would sell cold drinks from the beach or a canoe and on colder days I had a fire going from which I would "boil the billy" and sell cups of tea.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3b
Copied from a SUSS newsletter.. all safe at Jenolan...
Jenolan will be closed until 31 January. A number of cottages and the fire shed were destroyed including the caver’s cottage.
They have no electronic communication available and won’t have for some time –
24 structures have been burnt in Buchan Village – plus one death.
There is a hot spot to the west of Wombeyan caves in the Green Wattle fire and Wombeyan itself appears to be within the fire perimeter.
Wee Jasper, Yarrangobilly, Wellington have escaped thus far although a large fire is threatening Cabramurra in Kosciuszko NP to the south of Yarrangobilly. If westerly winds continue this might become a real threat.
The number of non-show cave karst sites that have burnt is very high across NSW.
No information from Yanchep.
Regards .........
see google.org/crisismap/australia
A decade ago, Ross Garnaut's landmark climate change review reported fire seasons would start earlier, end slightly later and generally be more intense.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6567568/ross-garnauts-fire...
I don't know if any of you watched Four Corners (ABC TV) this Monday and The Fight for Planet A on Tuesday (ABC TV) but the problems facing us are much bigger than the pandemic. Waste management, plastic use and misuse, greenhouse gases and energy use.
The science is clear that 8 billion people with the levels of consumption and energy use that we, Australians & others, are expecting cannot continue. The Fight for Planet A will intensify now and will get worse as your children struggle to get jobs.
Our Federal Government's gas led recovery plan will only make us all worse off! Stacking advisory committee's with fossil fuel industry reps is pretty normal for this government who is quietly doing harm while we look elsewhere. Industry asking for public handouts is also normal!
This is a photo of our Recycling Truck. I got a cheery wave from the driver as she expertly manouvered the big blue bins into the truck. Just a pity we neither have the recycling facilities, the products or the clean waste stream to do much about the effort we are putting into the recycling.
The message is clear REDUCE! Rant over!
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/slash-and-burn-program-...
And today's hazard reduction burn pictures and story in the Canberra Times
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/act-firefighters-make-f...
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Quality prints, greeting cards, puzzles and many useful products can be purchased at >> kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/total-lunar-eclipse-blood... OR www.lens2print.co.uk/imageview.asp?imageID=74740
My photography of the Total lunar eclipse, blood moon / supermoon visible from Sydney, NSW, Australia on 26th May 2021. ** The moon rose in the East (bottom right corner) and proceeded in a westerly direction.
I spent a lot of hours on the evening of 26th May photographing the various phases of the earth's shadow moving slowly creating the eclipse effect on the moon. Amazing to see but not so easy to photograph!
The moon, being a super moon was slightly larger than normal (I think around 7% due to its proximity to earth), but once higher in the sky it looked more like normal size.
I did not get great images of the "red" of the blood moon as the red was very dark, but I managed to capture one before the light started to come back.
I took numerous photos and added these photos as a collage in Photoshop to try to show the full view of this total eclipse as I viewed it at Carlingford in Sydney, NSW, Australia.
A lot of work both photographing and making a collage, but well worth it.
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[Wikipedia]
A total lunar eclipse occurred on 26 May 2021.[1] A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are exactly or very closely aligned (in syzygy) with Earth between the other two, which can only happen at a full moon. The eclipsed moon appeared as a faint red disk in the sky due to a small amount of light being refracted through the earth's atmosphere; this appearance gives a lunar eclipse its nickname of a Blood Moon.
It was the first total lunar eclipse since the January 2019 lunar eclipse, and the first in a series of an almost tetrad (with four consecutive total or deep partial lunar eclipses). The next total eclipse will occur in May 2022. The event took place near to lunar perigee; as a result, this supermoon was referred to in US media coverage as a "super flower blood moon", and elsewhere as a "super blood moon".
It will be followed in two weeks by an annular solar eclipse on 10 June 2021 over the northern polar regions of Earth.
Another interesting site to read:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7264307/how-to-see-this-we...
IMG_9336_37 stitch
Also see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
On a local walk with some visiting ACE FOLK...
Gravel pit across in NSW we visited once in 1969 or so... and on li-Los after a float down from Uriarra Crossing
See the search for an historic panorama in a painting by a surveyeor in 1835, or so..
In the mid-1830s, government surveyor Robert Hoddle trudged around much of our region mapping property boundaries. Hoddle also fancied himself as an artist and painted several scenes of his surroundings, especially along watercourses.
However, as Hoddle often exercised a healthy dose of artistic license in his trademark watercolours, some of the landscapes depicted in his art are more recognisable than others.
One painting that has puzzled landscape architects and art aficionados for decades is his dramatic watercolour of the Ginninderra Creek titled, Ginninderry [i.e. Ginninderra] Plains, New South Wales.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6390402/solving-a-long-run...
How does physical activity help your mind?
Immediate results - If you take a short, brisk walk you may feel more refreshed and relaxed. You may also find this benefit will help motivate you to walk more often and for longer.
Improved wellbeing - Being active can help ease anxiety and depression, especially when done in natural environments like parks and gardens. You may find yourself feeling happier, more confident, and sleeping better.
More opportunities to socialise - Being physically active is a great way to connect with others and build a sense of community. As you participate in more activities and exercise you might find yourself socialising more often with friends and family or perhaps joining an exercise class or sports team.
see www.heartfoundation.org.au/Heart-health-education/Physica...
At Ginninderry West Belconnen Canberra ACT
Where to Now for the Bushfire Inquiries?
The catastrophic bushfires of 2019/20 in eastern Australia are likely to be repeated with greater severity, as south-east Australia becomes hotter and drier, and dynamic fire propagation becomes more frequent. The various Bushfire Inquiries will, no doubt, recommend changes to fire-fighting, fuel reduction and building practices which have, in the past, been based on common steady-state forest fire behaviour. When bushfires become powerful enough to generate their own weather systems, however, little can be done to stop them.
The best solution is improved planning practice and bushfire design standards which take account of the latest bushfire behaviour research to locate new residential developments away from possibly indefensible locations, using a precautionary approach. As our cities grow, new suburbs on the urban fringe are increasingly built in areas where fire is an existential threat, as people optimistically choose to live near the bush, unaware of the increasing likelihood of extreme fires.
An example is the Ginninderry-Parkwood Development on the ACT/Yass shire boundary, between the Murrumbidgee River and Ginninderra Creek. This area has steep slopes to its north-west, an ideal site for dynamic bushfire propagation, resulting in wide-ranging ember attack driven by the north-westerly prevailing winds. This has been demonstrated by extreme bushfire behaviour expert, Professor Jason Sharples, and colleagues who, using modelling theory, found ember loads were 13-115 times higher in the Ginninderry area when compared with those for a known 2015 fire on the Mornington Peninsula where 32 houses were damaged all as a result of embers. In a geographic setting similar to Ginninderry, 100 structures were damaged in the Tathra fire of 2018. Ember attack or spotting is the main means of fire propagation in these cases.
The Ginninderry development complies with all current planning and bushfire regulations but these are likely to be inadequate for the bushfires of the future. If so, residents and firefighters may be unnecessarily endangered and the government might be held responsible, since the hazard was known when development was approved. Furthermore, where buffer zones are inadequate, demand by residents for more severe control burning on the steep slopes to protect housing from fires, or backburning in the event of a fire, would compromise the biodiversity values of the gorges of the Murrumbidgee and Ginninderra Creek and the associated fire-sensitive Black Cypress Pine forest, as well as threatened species like the Pale Pomaderris.
In cases like this, there is a conflict between revenue from land sales, the demand for housing blocks, and fire and environmental requirements. Consideration should be given to the extreme risks associated with dynamic fires near potential residential areas before rezoning occurs. Another significant consideration is the possibility that insurance companies will refuse to cover such areas or will make it too expensive to do so. In this situation, the burden will fall on the community as a whole, not on those who have benefited from the development.
from Ginninderra Falls Association
Newsletter: MEDIA RELEASE – 21 June 2020
left over from our last trip. from Shoal Bay and Kendall in May.
Here posed next to an IKEA Xmas decoration bought awhile ago on special.
Not related to these, but
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6565926/losing-everything-...
It's such a special time when the family gathers around to help put up the Christmas tree, but without fail, they all seem to disappear when it's time to pack it all away.
One by one I take the decorations off the fake trees branches and enjoy a moment of peace despite the fact I have a big and lonely job ahead.
The quiet gives me a moment to reflect on how special our family decorations are.
Four porcelain angels each bearing the name of our children. A funny little laminated photo of my daughter covered in red glitter made for me when she was in kindergarten. Then there is the pink angel that's now rather bald that hung on my parents' Christmas tree, a special memory from my childhood home.
Each is beyond priceless to me.
As I hold them in my hands ready to wrap and put away for another year, the TV distracts me from my memories and more images of Australia's bushfire crisis fill my lounge room with the distraught faces of those who have suffered through an extraordinary new year.
If a bushfire threatened my home, I honestly thought I had everything I couldn't bear to lose on the list of what to pack up in the car and flee with.
The kids, the dogs, mementos of my father, paintings from my aunt, cards written by the children, but I never thought to grab the Christmas box...........
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
See this photo used here by Tim the Yowie Man.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3b
See the kids car seat and pouf we used at the movies or in the canoe. Still have the homemade pouf/cushion.
Male of the newly described Maratus harrisi displaying to a female. If you want to see the scientific description for this species you can download it here
peckhamia.com/peckhamia/PECKHAMIA_96.1.pdf
If you want to see a related species in action, I have produced three videos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgAbyYDFeg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppP03ERHbUI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVDolRfgseY
For an article about this species' discovery go to my Maratus harrisi set description or read a front page article in the Canberra Times
www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/how-amateurs-discove...
For equally interesting species of peacock spiders check out my collection "peacock spiders"
www.flickr.com/photos/59431731@N05/collections/7215762742...
Once used in some movie a few years ago. .
You should see the Fantastic ceiling in this little church!
www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html
see Heritage listing site www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/heritagesearch.aspx
P8200366 Church #roundAustraliawithSpelio
See where this picture was taken. [?]
see link on the God problem..discussion by Ian Guthrie..
www.bobbrinsmead.com/t_Distinctions_Part3.html
Sunday school and all that..
If we cut ourselves off from our inherited culture, and are ignorant of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, the hymns, psalms and paraphrases, we are diminished.
What comes into your head when you hear the word ''pilgrim'' - not, admittedly, a frequent occurrence these days?
For some it may be the Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower, but for many it must be: ''Hobgoblin nor foul fiend/Shall him dispirit.'' Or some other lines from John Bunyan's great hymn: ''Who would true valour see/Let him come hither,'' which actually has an alternative first line: ''He who would valiant be.'' Anyone brought up in one of our Protestant churches will have sung that hymn, To be a Pilgrim. As a child I always used to belt out the hobgoblin and foul fiend line, albeit tunelessly.
Even today it's a favourite, and sometimes appropriate, funeral hymn.
Now, a group in the Church of England is so concerned about the seeping away of our inherited Christian culture that - alarmed by the discovery that even the Lord's Prayer and the Ten Commandments are unfamiliar to many - it is offering parishes what it calls ''the pilgrim course'' to teach ''the basic tenets of Christianity''. ''Give us each day our daily bread,'' as you might say.
This seems an excellent idea, whether you are a believer and practising Christian or not. The fact is the Bible, in the Authorised or King James version, the Book of Common Prayer, Hymns Ancient and Modern and the Church of Scotland's Church Hymnary, with the metrical psalms and paraphrases, are as much a part of our culture as Shakespeare's plays, the novels of Scott, Austen and Dickens, the poetry of Milton, Burns, Wordsworth and Tennyson, or, for me and many other Scots, the Border ballads.
All represent a rich treasury on which we draw, often unthinkingly, without premeditation or conscious search. These days I would usually describe myself as an ageing agnostic who is no longer a churchgoer but one whose head, on account of family upbringing, school chapel and years of church attendance long ago, is so stocked with the words, phrases and sentences of Christian literature that they come unbidden to mind.
In the occasional moments of self-reproach, which may disturb even the most complacent of us, I find myself muttering the words of the General Confession: ''We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep ... We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.'' And (if I remember rightly): ''There is no health in us.'' Or the opening line of the Nunc Dimittis: ''Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word.''
They offer a strange sort of comfort, even though one may have no desire at all to depart. This is partly, I think, because we know these words connect us not only to our own youth but to the generations that have gone before us.
Modern culture often seems to be horizontal. By this I mean that in the multitudinous Babel – or babble – of the world today, so copious in information, with our ears battered by sound and our eyes dazzled by computer screens, we may be ignorant of so much that has gone before. This is a form of provincialism. To be confined to one's own time is like being confined to one's own street. There is doubtless much of interest in that street but there is more beyond it.
A true culture is vertical; it reaches back into the past. Our inherited culture is Christian and, even if you cannot accept the message of Christianity or its fundamental premise that God created and orders the world, knowledge of our Christian heritage and literature is an enrichment of experience that may free us from the provinciality of the merely modern.
There is an exchange in James Elroy Flecker's play Hassan that makes the same point in another way. The Caliph says to the poet: ''If there should ever arise a nation whose people have forgotten poetry, or whose poets have forgotten the people, though they send their ships round Taprobane and their armies across the hills of Hindustan, though their city be greater than Babylon of old, though they mine a league into earth or mount to the stars on wings – what of them?''
To which the poet replies: ''They will be a dark patch on the earth.''
Well, today we do indeed mount to the stars on wings and mine a league into the earth or deep into the oceans. We know much that even the best-informed of our ancestors never knew, or even supposed might be known.
Yet, if we cut ourselves off from our inherited culture, and are ignorant of the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, the hymns, psalms and paraphrases, we are diminished. We may indeed be that ''dark patch on the earth''. The 121st psalm says: ''I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.'' The hills we see, range behind range, lead us into the past, and the words of the past, coming unbidden to the mind, bring comfort and reassurance.
Telegraph, London
Read more: www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/the-past-is-always-prese...
Part of the LEGO Festival of Play, I had to make a 2.2m High LEGO Christmas tree, the only challenge was, I could only use 2x4 Green bricks, and 50,000 of them!
Here it is in the workshop before it left to head to the lucky winners.
I ended up making this tree and some Christmas gift boxes.
For a link to the lucky winners who won the tree, check out the links below:
(awesome people too! they were very cool.)
www.festivalofplay.com.au/news/article.php?id=498
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/treemendous-legolads-20...
..You, you give me something ...You're the one I truly know I dig ...
by Jamiroquai
Full moon attracts 'werewolves' (Headline from The Canberra Times - no kidding)
B5R111
See the story here by Tim the Yowie Man.
See story here.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8805949/yowie-man-rediscov...
At the confluence of Ginninderra Creek
Exif lost in copy from EBM to the HP..
Make - Polaroid SprintScan 4000
Software - SilverFast 6.4.4r3bek
Approaching Madura from Eucla, water from a jerrycan and fuel from a drum in the back seat. May 1965, A few years before the Eyre Highway was sealed.
This shot was taken when I was on the way to Perth for a new life, after first exploring the end of the longest cave on the mainland, Mullamullang, N37...see other images..
Read this interesting Blog on auto anthropology…. twoinadequatevoices.com/Auto-Anthropology
...and climbing the Bridge a couple of nights before leaving Sydney!
old cars found in barns in France..
au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/25703701/rare-car-collection-wo...
p120 replaced with original scan 1906x1500 on 31/01/18
there is a bigger uncropped file..
C:\Users\Bill Crowle\Pictures\Other Pictures\Photo Albums\1965
John mentioned on his deathbed, yesterday, 30/01/18, that he thought they bought it in Melbourne!
He remembered on Dick's and my visit the next evening, how dust covered they were from having broken windows and the drum of petrol on the back seat...
Here is the link to the story of John's well lived life in the Canberra Times 50 odd years later......
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/johns-journeys-are-all-...
Ours was a 24/80. Says Mary! email 05-04-20 in a response to a Facebook exchange about what was the first car you drove!
Very tame here, but broken tiles, windows and large hail stones in south Canberra.
Manuka oval covered in hail, power outages, lines down and many damaged cars around the Parliamentary Triangle.
Holes in awnings....
Damaging winds and more to come, 16°C now dropped from 27°
116km gust at Canberra Airport.
Huge dust storms over Broken Hill- Bourke to Dubbo
We only got a few drops of rain.
Date and Time (Modified) - 2020:01:20 13:10:17 ICE file
BUT..
See local press report from the Canberra Times..
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6589994/canberra-storm-dec...
Photos of the damage..
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6589712/photos-of-the-hail...
Read and listen to.. www.rewiringaustralia.org/about
Spencer's Creek Bridge, 1730 metres altitude.
"Kosciuszko's pioneer weather men
...The Kosciuszko project involved a summit station on Kosciuszko and a comparative station at Merimbula. With private sponsorship, Clement Wragge launched the expedition. In December 1897, with tent and instruments Wragge and his companions ascended Kosciuszko. Charles Kerry, a Sydney photographer and Snowy Mountains publicist, was with him. Mountain stockman James Spencer was their guide.
They arrived in freezing conditions and one of the Queenslanders went to bed one night wearing 29 items of clothing!"
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6437424/kosciuszkos-pionee...
Spencers Creek
James Spencer was one of the first people to run cattle on the high country, in the 1840s. One version says that Spencer fell off his horse into the creek. One of his stockmen is claimed to have said "If he wants a swim he can have the creek to himself", and the name stuck.
www.wikiski.com/wiki/index.php/Australian_Geographical_Na...
This year's peak snow depth climbed to 232 centimetres on September 20th, the highest in five years and 35cm above average (2022).
Link below
Behind the loos at Y section in Green Patch..
See note for her watching head location..
See my video of a black snake coiling up for the night....
Madison, who could smell their presence, spirit and "vibes" of the area.
An emotional experience to be assisted by her to hear the noises of the bush here, the goanna and our chat about the bush and ancient people who lived near her...
The snake allowed us to pass and watch her peacefully for sometime... This one is on Video from the ACE Youtube collection..
A Million snake bites around the world, but no deaths in Australia.. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6182067/australian-snake-m...
Christine showing her tree climbing skills...
Here she is at the National Tree Climbing Championships in CBR..
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/australia...
"Honey, who shrunk the house? " as Tim the Yowie man from the Canberra Times headlined his story in Panorama of March 17 2018.
see an update " Panorama " 8th Jan 2022
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7568255/lake-house-gets-th...
The miniature house won first prize at Weereewa the Lake George art festival, twelve years ago. Fro brick, iron, and timber on the then dry Lake bed...
So after a morning drive to see Kate's new lamb, we headed down the Nanima road to Lake George to find it.
The car GPS was hopeless beside the Federal Highway from around Gearys Gap at getting us back down Hadlow Drive and across Brooks Creek to the Bungendore Rd highway crossing! Never trust them in Australia and remote places...
The sunken house, made from conventional materials by sculptor Dave Argaet as his "Sands of Time" entry in the 2010 Weereewa Festival. It won first prize, reports, Tim.
When I saw Tim's photo in the "Panorama" story, I thought the shed must have gradually been buried over the years by the rising and falling of the waters of Lake George...
Many thanks to "Tim The Yowie Man" for his research and story.
200th Anniversary, "Discovery", by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, see Tim the Yowie Man..
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=816300282542739
I didn’t bother walking out to check if I could stand up inside…
#Roundaustraliawithspelio
Walk down the creek to shoot the sun through the smoke from the NSW bushfires.
A decade ago, Ross Garnaut's landmark climate change review reported fire seasons would start earlier, end slightly later and generally be more intense.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6567568/ross-garnauts-fire...
See Troggonk on Instagram
Shut during the Coronavirus..
Actually very dark to peak through the glass, a6000 on auto!
Many hotels and restaurants are preparing to carefully open to limited customers in the coming weeks..
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6761660/googongs-first-pub...
We can even throw torch beams in the lounge now. The evaporative air/con is not filtering out the smoke..
#Australiaburning See fire map.. www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/
also from the BBC..
See the fires via the BBC here..
www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-51338314
"could a climate suit tip the scales?"
l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/s...
A decade ago, Ross Garnaut's landmark climate change review reported fire seasons would start earlier, end slightly later and generally be more intense.
see image used here...
www.flickr.com/groups/a_personal_viewpoint/discuss/721577...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6567568/ross-garnauts-fire...
Speaking of trees, check out the Climate Change chart on a coaster to visualise the climate data in over 100 locations around Australia..
See your region's average monthly temperature, and a graph of the daily temp compared a visualisation of the location's long-term average.
Get your chart or coaster here... gravitron.com.au/climatecoaster/
Seen in my ANUreporter Spring 2018 Vol.49 No.3
An image searching into the ether for Big Data..
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Hadoop Tutorial – One of the most searched terms on the internet today. Do you know the reason? It is because Hadoop is the major part or framework of Big Data.
If you don’t know anything about Big Data then you are in major trouble. But don’t worry I have something for you which is completely FREE – 520+ Big Data Tutorials. This free tutorial series will make you a master of Big Data in just few weeks. Also, I have explained a little about Big Data in this blog.
“Hadoop is a technology to store massive datasets on a cluster of cheap machines in a distributed manner”. It was originated by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella.
What is Big Data?
Big Data refers to the datasets too large and complex for traditional systems to store and process. The major problems faced by Big Data majorly falls under three Vs. They are volume, velocity, and variety.
Do you know – Every minute we send 204 million emails, generate 1.8 million Facebook likes, send 278 thousand Tweets, and up-load 200,000 photos to Facebook.
Volume: The data is getting generated in order of Tera to petabytes. The largest contributor of data is social media. For instance, Facebook generates 500 TB of data every day. Twitter generates 8TB of data daily.
Variety: Also the data from various sources have varied formats like text, XML, images, audio, video, etc. Hence the Big Data technology should have the capability of performing analytics on a variety of data.
Velocity: Every enterprise has its own requirement of the time frame within which they have process data. Many use cases like credit card fraud detection have only a few seconds to process the data in real-time and detect fraud. Hence there is a need of framework which is capable of high-speed data computations.
What my nephew in Paris looks after
see him on LinkedIn
A cool day at last, with a little dam just a couple of 100m down the fairway!
"could a climate suit tip the scales?"
l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/s...
A decade ago, Ross Garnaut's landmark climate change review reported fire seasons would start earlier, end slightly later and generally be more intense.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6567568/ross-garnauts-fire...
Speaking of trees, check out the Climate Change chart on a coaster to visualise the climate data in over 100 locations around Australia..
See your region's average monthly temperature, and a graph of the daily temp compared a visualisation of the location's long-term average.
Get your chart or coaster here... gravitron.com.au/climatecoaster/
Seen in my ANUreporter Spring 2018 Vol.49 No.3
See the 2020 Canberra fires via the BBC here..
A clip from "PS I love You"
maybe this one... www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2742631-ps-i-love-you
or Mary thinks it is one by the daughters of a lady who wrote quotes in the margins...
here are some more.. www.allthelikes.com/application.php?app=131393112793
And more sent from an email.. ownquotes.com/blog/top-albert-einstein-quotes-famous-albe...
I have some listed on my Facebook page... I collected them for years from the desk diary at work! Can't find them at the moment!
Here are a few from an ACE email...
Musings for an approaching Election.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame; two is a law firm and three or more is a government.
John Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul .
George Bernard Shaw
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when government does it.
Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save government.
Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
I used to collect Quotes...
I have a Word doc from years ago with all the desk calender quote for the day.
I used to add a few each day or week, 100s of pages somewhere on the PC
Here are some more I just found...
"Shoot any scene at the time of realization of the highest emotional stress coupled with sense of pictorial form - is a decisive moment". Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.”-Ansel Adams
“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values.”- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Buildings should keep you dry and feed the soul.” - Zaha Hadid .
"Each project is a challenge."- Norman Foster.
"As swift as the wind, quiet as a forest, furious as fire, immovable as a mountain." - Takeda family
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."- Kurt Cobain
"A friend is nothing but a known enemy."- Kurt Cobain
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."- Kurt Cobain
"There's nothing better than having a baby. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world." - Kurt Cobain
"We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves."- Kurt Cobain
"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."- Jimi Hendrix
"Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't."- Alexander Lee McQueen
"You can only go forward by making mistakes." - Alexander Lee McQueen
"I want to empower women. "- Alexander Lee McQueen
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."- Vitruvius
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso
"I am still learning." - Michelangelo
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Salvador Dali
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh
Do something worth remembering. Elvis Presley
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. Elvis Presley
I'am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'am just entertainer. Elvis Presley
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Elvis Presley
People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand. Elvis Presley
You only pass through this life once. You don't come back for an encore. Elvis Presley
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley
I believe the key to happiness is : someone to love , something to do , and something to look forward to. Elvis Presley
When things go wrong don't go with them. Elvis Presley
"Be as you wish to seem." Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder. " Socrates
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live." Socrates
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." Socrates
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." Socrates
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior." Socrates
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." Socrates
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. " Socrates
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. " Socrates
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy." Socrates
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. " Socrates
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us." Socrates
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." Socrates
"I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up." Johnny Depp
"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." Johnny Depp
"When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."
Johnny Depp
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. " Johnny Depp
"Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing."Johnny Depp
"I'm not sure I'm adult yet." Johnny Depp
"There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. " Johnny Depp
"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'airplane food.' " Johnny Depp
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too." Johnny Depp
"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."Johnny Depp
"People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people." Johnny Depp
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Francis of Assisi
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." Francis of Assisi
"For it is in giving that we receive." Francis of Assisi
from the Profile of www.flickr.com/people/masahiro21/
see more quotes below.. I have a 1000!
The winning consortium for Canberra Light Rail was announced today 1 February 2016.
Canberra Metro consortium has won the contract to construct and operate Canberra's light rail line. Construction will commence later this year and trams will be operating late in 2019.
The winning consortium is made up of eight companies, four of which will have an equity stake in the project.
Other than Pacific Partnerships, the government would not detail the project shares:
Pacific Partnerships: consortium leader for operations - 30 per cent stake
John Holland: design, construction, operations and maintenance, - percentage not released
Mitsubishi Corporation: equity partner - percentage not released
Aberdeen Infrastructure: equity partner - percentage not released
CPB Contractors: design and construction
Deutsche Bahn: operator
CAF: tram supply and maintenance
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi: financial adviser
The line is set to become a hot political issue with the Liberal Party opposition vowing to rip up the line, if commenced, if the Liberals win the forthcoming election slated for late 2016.
Illustration: ACT Government publicity material.
Read more:
www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-metro-announce...
From the BOM site using the AUS Rain Radar. storm moving L to R, NW to SE towards Batemans Bay.
We only had 0.8mm in rain-drops, I hadn't heard of the impending storm, I just went out to admire it approaching, next time I will put a blanket over the car. It may have been useful to smash a PV cell on the roof of the van, so we could get a new one...
A friend got every panel damaged on his new car, another, (George), got the garden trashed and has taken a day's work by grandkids to tidy all the work he had just completed.
A lady I had an appointment with at the ANU had her car trashed, then the campus was closed.
Brett had a few small hail stones, but it went in a narow band North of him, and over George and Venita in Bruce-Aranda to Graham i n Queanbeyan!
see www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR403.loop.shtml
See local press report from the Canberra Times..
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6589994/canberra-storm-dec...
Images and video from the storm..
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAPczLULhUgx7RDGVAegpntQEy...
The next day..
My Canberra - on film mainly
around Gungahlin, back in 2014
... Canberra Times ...
Olympus Pen FT, Kodak T-Max 100
Loose in page 118-119 with a crop mounted on p118. in Red Album
We were on our way to the Nullarbor to check out the extension to N37. Paused here for a milkshake and fuel and supplies, while Dick climbed the road direction sign pointing back to Adelaide and forward to Perth! See below...
As we were slowly driving off, Dick may have been having a drive on his L plates, I fired off this shot. Always loved it.. This is an enlargement I have had for years, maybe I will scan the neg. one day! This one has a dimpled surface and a hair burnt in it!
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the content on this page may contain images and references to deceased persons.
(Many of my shots now have deceased or no longer living people)
See an excellent TED Talk here on Deep Listening..
Just wandering through the Red Album and numbering the pages. P118 loose, and copied this for the record..
see also www.environment.gov.au/indigenous/ipa/declared/birrilibur...
Sent from Bill's iPad.
See the Warlpiri welcome wellmob App.
wellmob.org.au/key-resources/resources/38769/?title=Kurdi...
An app about the Warlpiri culture. It helps support wellbeing and prevent suicide by having strong connections to culture.
Who's it for?
Young people and anyone wanting to connect with Warlpiri knowledge and culture.
Where's it from?
Warlpiri Elders in the Northern
Download Kurdiji 1.0 HERE Wantarri Jampijinpa Pawa-Kurlpurlunu (Steve Patrick) is very pleased to launch the Warlpiri Aboriginal resilience building app, Kurdiji 1.0 today. You will see many references throughout the app to Milpirri Festival, a collaboration between Tracks Dance and Wantarri, and the precursor to this initiative. This app is TOTALLY FREE for anyone …
Volunteer at Indigenous communities volunteers for www.icv.com.au/how-you-can-help/volunteer/
See also research using DNA confirming the arrival of Australian Aboriginals here up to 75,000 years ago...
www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/09/dna-confirms...
A story by Ian Warden...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6827172/i-vividly-remember...
See the National Archives site NAA link..
See our first Indigenous Rhodes Scholar
www.adelaide.edu.au/seek-light/stories/rebecca-richards.html
See some thoughts here.. From www.flickr.com/photos/man_is_like_unto_a_tree/
PRETENSE A GLOBAL STOCK EXCHANGE...
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This land sang a different song
Before invaders hands stole it away
Original custodians
Classified demonised savages
Championed genocide beyond all bets
Continuous generations
Standing at their posts
Protecting, nurturing the sacred Land
Is not publicly known
Guessing at by the stealers
Still today pretending they actually know
AND CARE
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Never once asking the keepers
Never once lowering their noses
Listening from grassroots wisdom's, truths
Handed down orally and dressed in story, parable
Ancient living Stone Age spirits still standing
Alongside peoples who had ward continuously
Attained to most advanced civilization status
Unique opportunities
Offering windows of hope through time
Potential to have taken the highest from both
Inhabitant and invader hands
Could have taken another path
Forging marriages
Gestalt past all violence
Exchanged oppression for unity
Banner of equality could have been raised
Instead positive possibilities thrust into chains
Vigilantly styled invaders revenge
Imprisoned for breaking unknown laws
Colonisers still unaware, unconcerned
Of ancient laws needed to survive in this sacred land
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Lovingly still awaiting souls to care
Patient ones to arise from below hatred hearts
Pulling asunder veils anger drenched
Smashing belief they had imagined
To survive this hell hole of a land
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They fight a war still being played out today
Disguised now as corporations
Dressed in camouflage
Still the colonisers just going by another name
Social issues appeared to improve
Smoking mirrors, media spin Doctoring
Only dressed in sweeter words
With highly promoted vain imaginings
Selling belief’s if you play along
You two just might win
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You two can reap from the plunder masked
Within shareholders gowns and dinner hats
Dripping in blood of generational poverty
Sipping from crystal goblets raped from sacred sites
Wine sipped from bulldozed ancient forest earths
Watered from vanishing non-renewable aquifers
University graduates paid an average
Man’s year’s wages for one survey
Informing all non-university graduates
Those extinct plus the next in line
Lists thousands close to the edge
Habitat depletion
Destruction of their homes, food supplies
Abundantly clear if you just take a look around
Oppression dressed as knowledge
Justification they are, have, do all they can
Furthered veiled within deeper blame
Cloaked in “It was your vote that caused it anyway.”
Flocks of women dumping their charges into arms of the state
While bemoaning their harrowing plights
Far too busy still fighting a disguised family nuclear war
Unable to stop
Take focus, see the fantasies they swallow daily
Choking entire globe
Words saying one thing
Actions juxtaposed
Pretense a global stock exchange.
Here some modern Aboriginal singers, 'The Stiff Gins", here..
See the story of a long lost painting of an Aboriginal POW in WWI www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-31/discovered-print-of-lost-p...
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As mentioned in The Canberra Times, two balloons ended up stranded over Lake Burley Griffin and were towed to shore.
George cooks eggs and bacon, and Judy watches Kate make some toast.
Poor old George passed away in November 2012. He will be sadly missed by our family...
We left home 7:30am and headed over Picadilly Circus to Peppercorn Plain. Lots of humps in the road and crossing the swamp that really surprised George, (with the kids watching from the back set), that we just managed in the #HJHolden1975 #YGW109 towing the Cargill Trailer. see 77-81 5-year diary.
Here we are getting breakfast on Sun morning before we walked around the Bluff and looked in a couple of holes.
Lindy, the new black pup was tied up because George's dog Leo, kept having a go at him!
We drove across the dry creek, see below, before walking up to Cooleman Cave. Graham and Kate had a look in, Trish was not keen, & my diary says Jillian screamed all the time! (Jill was 2 & half)
We drove to Murrays Gap trail and attempted the walk to Rowley's Hut, but the map said it was down the other side so we returned to the cars and drove to Adaminaby, where we fueled and drove off without the dog, Lindy!
We came home via Shannons Flat after a try at fishing with George, where he left some fishing line!
Our Family Doctor for the life of our kids...
He commenced at the Scullin Health Service after it was built by the Whitlam Government along with the establishment of Medibank.
George was a great supporter of public health.
We had many pleasant memories of his care over the years, and remember fondly our few camping trips and dinners with George and Judy over those early years..
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George and Judy set up and ran the Florey Health Centre for years..
It was an impressive venture and was a successful and essential addition to the health care in Belconnen.
Death notice...
tributes.canberratimes.com.au/obituaries/canberratimes-au...
Tributes and Guest book unti 2014
www.legacy.com/guestbooks/canberratimes-au/guestbook.aspx...
GEORGE SZMERLER
This Guest Book will remain online until 19/01/2015 courtesy of Judy.
- See more at: www.legacy.com/guestbooks/canberratimes-au/george-szmerle...
B4R93-02
"Give to Help Others"
The f/10 aperture did not improve things, even on a tripod, over the hand-held f/5.6 can't remember setting!
see www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6906748/world-first-coins-...
A history-making plan to motivate Australians to donate to charity regularly will have people thinking twice when they reach for small change.
In a world-first, 25-million one-dollar coins carrying the phrase "give to help others" will be released into circulation over the next three years, in a bid to encourage Australians to donate more money to charities more often.
"Most Australians who are very generous are only usually generous once a year, they think of giving before tax returns and that's a one off," Community Council for Australia chair Tim Costello said.
"This is in our pockets all the time, it's making the routine of giving not just once a year, but every time we pull out a donation dollar we are challenged to say 'Am I spending this on myself or giving it others?'
"It's a mindset change that I think is very profound."
Through the many crises of 2020, charities have found themselves hugely in demand with donations drying up.
See story here...
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6992295/national-museums-1...
The National Museum of Australia hopes to have its historic paddle steamer churning through the waters of Lake Burley Griffin again by as early as next week.
The 1878 paddle steamer Enterprise has been waylaid at the jetty of the museum for the past 10 months, unable to operate because of bushfire smoke and then the coronavirus.
New maritime laws have also strengthened safety rules and forced the museum to seek, for the first time, a manager to oversee the maritime operations of the vessel and help update the training of volunteers who would continue to crew it.
The museum's head of collection care and management, Linda Byrne, said the dedicated volunteers were mostly elderly, and the interior of the vessel was cramped and not made for 21st century social distancing, which had forced a stop to the regular cruises around the lake.
Zoom and pan around.. The original file here is 7969 pixels wide, so you can zoom in a little.
Also see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
There is a good satellite image of the location here... and a detailed map if you wait long enough for it to zoom in!
The location is where the photo was taken from looking down the Mt Whaleback open cut of BHP Biliton's deep mine, which will expand another mile into the distance if China's economy keeps expanding to the detriment of the world's environment!
See book by Paul Cleary.. "Too Much Luck": The Mining Boom and Australia's Future, on the exploitation of the country and its resources by mining companies. Do we need a mining tax, a future fund, a sovereign wealth fund etc..
Fracking and the waste of our underground waters and the Great Artesian Basin..
www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/editorial/again...
See this story on how WA and Australia missed the resource boom..https://theconversation.com/western-australia-provides-a-masterclass-in-what-not-to-do-with-a-resources-boom-67942
Places to go - Mt Whaleback Mine Tour, WA
From Friday Five....
Last year Graeme and I found ourselves in Newman with time to spare. A mechanical mishap had seen us detour from Georgia Bore to Newman for repairs. We had put a temporary fix on the problem with the aid of some fencing wire and a stick to act as a twitch, but it wasn’t going to last the 4000kms home again.
There is no doubt that Newman is a mining town, more suited to FIFO than tourists. Having said that though, it is a neat and tidy town with a good shopping centre and well stocked grocery. You can find plenty to fill in a couple of days here.
Must see:
The lookout. You can even walk up here for the sunrise if you are feeling energetic. It is a fair way to walk up the road, but it is less steep than the walking trail.
Visitor Information Centre and Silver Jubilee Museum Gallery. At the Information centre, check out the Wabco Ore truck on display. Loaded with ore, this truck weighed 200 tonnes, more than the weight of a fully loaded 747 Boeing Jet. Only 30 of these Wabco trucks were produced, with a price tag of $2.5 million each. Mt Whaleback owned 22 of the 30.
If you have a 4WD a trip to Kangan Pool is a must. This is one of the most beautiful camp spots I have ever stayed at. Sunrise over the rocks is spectacular.
Mine tour. My Whaleback Mine is owned by BHP Billiton. Iron ore was discovered in the area by Stan Hilditch in 1957 and after the lifting of a Commonwealth embargo, mining began in 1967. The Mt Whaleback seam of iron ore is predicted to be 1.6 billion tonnes. Currently Mt Whaleback has between 40 and 50 240 tonne ore trucks (known as haul trucks) in their fleet. Tyres measure 3.5 metres diameter and fitted to rims they weigh 5 tonnes. Each tyre costs $40,000 and lasts 9-12 months.
From Newman you might see the railway that runs to Port Hedland. At 426 kilometres it is the longest privately-owned railway in the Southern Hemisphere. The average train length is 2.7 kilometres, consisting of 4 locomotives and 268 ore cars. It has a braking distance of 3 kilometres. Sometimes the trains are linked together forming mega trains. The longest was 7.3 kilometres. The mine tour is a bus tour. You are given a hi-vis vest and safety goggles before commencing the bus ride to the mine. Expert commentary is given along the way and the bus has permission to enter places you and I as the average tourist will never get into. The bus waits for the haul trucks to clear the roads and makes its way to the top of Mt Whaleback where you can look over the mine, again with expert commentary. Pro-tip: it is incredibly windy up here and even when warm in town can be really chilly. Be prepared. When you get to the lookout you understand why you have been issued safety goggles. The wind can blast your eyeballs straight out of your head.
From Friday Five at www.Westprint.com.au. 26th July 2019
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