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23 October 2002: We needed a reliable source of water to irrigate all the new lawn, so called in Zizis Paraschis to reopen the silted old well.
We are surveying the inhabitants of the garden for a school project. We have checked the vegetation and now we are digging holes for the pitfall traps.
Most dogs like digging, Meg took it to extraordinary lengths!
this trench had only just been started. The final version was 14 feet long and two feet deep! My ex used to insist on Meg wearing a muzzle in public places. I never thought it was necessary as Meg was a beautifully behaved dog and loved cats,dogs and humans alike .
This is a digital photo of the non digital original
Tractor Pulling is known as “the world’s heaviest motorsport.” The goal of tractor pulling is to determine the strongest machine and the best driver. Different to every other motorsport in the world, it is not about the speed, but distance pulled. The pulling track is a minimum of 30 feet wide by 320 feet long. Today's tractors can achieve theoretical speeds over 125 mph/200 km/h. Today's sleds use a complex system of gears to move weights up to 65,000 pounds/29,000 kilograms. Upon starting, all the weights are over the sled's rear axles, to give an effective weight of the sled plus zero.
Participants standing around the sand-pit box to dig which they may find one of the ball containing the prize during the StarHub road show on the launch of the HTC Diamonds2 at the Plaza Singapura.
I have literally thousands of photos from this trip. If any one wants more of a particular vehicle, let me know.
This is day 2, trip along the Border Track - Dog Fence.
This must be one of the best sand tracks to be found in Victoria/South Australia. It follows the border from near Pinnaroo right down to near the Melbourne - Adelaide hwy.
This track has very large sand hills to get over. Most of these hills have tracks to get around them if you are not able to get over them. Some of these hills are so extreme there's no way anyone will get over them, so this track can very easily be classed as a 'Difficult' track.
Very Important. Check with the SA National Parks and Reserves for information on when the track is closed, and what direction you need to go in.
The track is about 107km. Allow a full day to make this trip. For a more enjoyable weekend, take your time and camp anywhere along the track. Stop in or camp at Red Bluff - scenic red sandstone hill.
(This is where we stopped). Dress warm though as it gets hot in the day, freezing at night.
Make sure you pack all your recovery gear, and travel in a group with other 4wd's. (We had to recover 2 vehicles).
Check the depths of the mud holes. Some for us were over 1 meter deep. Watch out for the holes towards the end, they are really deep!
Momentum is your friend on the sand dunes. We used 15psi tyre pressures. (Try the sand dunes 3x, if you fail, take the chicken path)
We ended up getting lost around the supposed turnoff to red bluff, that according to the maps was "well signposted".
We ended up with broken eggs and bottles.
This is mostly a sandy track with dunes and provides you with a remote location for testing self and equipment without travelling deeper into the outback.
The environment is typical Victorian desert – Mallee country. Expect some scratching from Mallee scrub particularly in the Wyperfeld section and some parts of the Northern Border Track may be overgrown. Soft sand is to be found on the tracks as well as corrugations and hard gravel.
The border track is steeped in history largely due to the dispute which arose from the original survey completed between 1847 and 1850. The result is that the border is actually sighted some 3kms too far West. A fascinating account of this can be obtained from John Deckert at Westprint Heritage Maps if you manage to visit whilst in Nhill.
There is an abundance of wildlife to enjoy whilst undertaking this trip, so watch out for Emu and Kangaroo. Aboriginal rock holes can be found close to the junction with South Bore Track.
We were lucky to reach the top speed of 40 kms/hr.
This photo was taken with a Canon EOS 5D, 70-200 IS L USM 2.8 lens
2011
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Well its another exciting Wild Beast Capture in the Woods of Virginia. I had been seeing this hole developing behind my bird feeder stump and was wondering how it was getting there. At first I thought it may have been the rain water washing it out but this picture sheds the light of day or shall I say the light of night on it :)
Remembering Bill Staines
Alaska Gold Rush
In Search of Night Creatures in the Woods of Virginia.
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This is where I left off at.
I was back here today. Still too much snow in the woods to do any effective digging, except for one tiny spot where all the snow was gone and the ground felt moist. I may try it thursday or friday. It'll be fun to dig again, even if I don't get very much of anything.
The foreman was having a hard time getting traction in the sandy wash. We solved the issue by having Jim and Rachel sit on the front and back of the Foreman, after that I had great traction and the rock moved easily.
Janet digging into the dessert i ordered (forgot the name of this one, too). it consisted of green tea jelly, green tea ice cream, sweet red bean and shiratama (not visible in picture) - similar to the dessert in the previous photo, but placed atop a pile of shaved ice soaked in maccha.
reminds me of ice kachang.
Nuru (13) cannot recall how long he has worked here. He has never been to school and does not know how to read or write. He is upset because his brother, who he works with, is angry at him for not processing enough material through a machine that they have to pay for daily. However, he quickly says that mining is still better than working on the fields back home "you farm the land, but don’t earn anything," he says, adding that he is not afraid of working in the mines.
This little girl was digging energetically in the beach sand, as if she planned to get all the way to China:)
Week 39/52 Theme: "Man vs Nature" MCP Project 52.
A man digging up my lawn for the cable company. Believe it or not he's standing up in the hole. He dug the hole all by himself, which is impressive considering below the first inch or so of topsoil its hard clay and pracitally impossible for me to shovel.
We finally got some snow in Northern Va. It's coming down sideways and the guys are trying to keep up...
In an established gold field, such as this one at Gangaol, the holes are dug closer and closer together. Occasionally, the excess digging creates weaknesses, causing the walls to collapse. Last year, four miners died when a line of pits too close to each other collapsed, burying the miners. Their bodies will never be recovered. Nobody is digging here anymore.
Bani, Burkina Faso
22.07.2014
Voigtländer Ultramatic CS
Voigtländer Septon 50mm F2
Trix 400 pushed to 3200
D76 stock @ 11.30min, 30s inversions
T-Max fix