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Simpson Desert stroll in 2011
Photo credit: Paddy McHugh
This is what it means being stuck, really stuck, without any trees anywhere to try to winch the car out. I don't remember what was done. I think it may have involved some digging, and, some more digging, and then some more. I don't think it occurred to anybody to unload everything in order to make the 4WD and the trailer lighter. Anyhow, somehow or another we got going again 😊
Photo credit: Paddy McHugh
Paddy McHugh is embarking with another lot of desert walkers on a stroll across the Simpson Desert this year and I came across this shot on Paddy McHugh's FB page.
(Paddy McHugh gave me permission to upload the photo on my flickr photostream).
This is us!
As far as I remember, the advice was to use this road, 'Rig Road', due to rain being expected. Being so remote, road condition updates may be a bit late and maybe a bit unreliable. A decision had to be made and it led us to 'Rig Road'. Being caught and stranded by rain in the Simpson Desert area is a disaster.
Some may wonder how it came to this. Well, I guess, when there is not much of a track anymore the driver tries to negotiate driving on whatever is the highest part of the road. The track was firm but, with so many wheels to consider, the task proved to be a bit too tricky.
After a lot of head scratching, walking around the scene, looking under, looking over, thinking, trying to lift, trying to shove, listening to advice by non-mechanics and other smart people, 'we' managed to get the situation under control and got the 4WD and trailer back onto the road. Well, this is a road.
Us walkers continued our walk and proceeded without any other major conundrums, apart from a damaged axle, or something, on the trailer sometime later. I have to try to find the photo of the interesting fix. The trailer was done at Kulgera and was left there, unfit for the 2,000km drive back to Townsville.
Camping at Kulgera was another adventure: Domestic mouse plague!
2011 was another year of a mouse plague and even on the trek we encountered mice scurrying across the tents at night. At Kulgera, I discovered one trying to hide in my tent and so did what we've done when growing up on a farm. There are times when you can't be squeamish and have to be rational. There were mice in the roadhouse dining area as well. Mouse plagues are a disaster for farmers, are a disaster for native desert mice, are a health hazard, and have to be controlled by any means possible.
Every now and then, something spurs me to look back through for an older photo. This past week, I have no idea why I was in a folder from 2014, but I'm glad I was. My progression through knowledge of both photography and the railroad has come a long way since I first took this image. At the time, I had no idea how lucky I was with the timing of these 2 trains in Lilly, PA. But with a new perspective, I sure am now in 2023, and I am so stoked the modern edit held up so well, as this scene is no longer possible with both motive power, or the signals.
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus) digging out as it makes its way over to the safety of an abandoned prairie dog burrow. Image taken in Cherry Creek State Park in Denver, Colorado.
Farley and Ezra excavating at Old Main on the Hamline University campus as part of our neighborhood archaeology project.
I'm still documenting for Challenge #164: People Working
One thing about being a widow is people come to help when you need it. First Jill came with her snowblower. Then Nate and Wendi showed up to get my snowblower working. Raquelle and her daughter walked by and grabbed shovels. Then Raquelle went home and grabbed her snowblower. Five people working with three snowblowers and several snow shovels. Yes, I have wonderful neighbors. And, I couldn't document it as well as I wanted because I had to help with the work.
PT98 gets under way after a brief stop in Moscow, PA. M636 #3643 blasts the long abandoned signal bridge with some of that 251 carbon as the train climbs the Pocono grade.
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The tube is sunk all the way n and the man is digging out the sand. The clammers watch to see the big clam before they might break the shell with the steel shovel..
Thank goodness that most of the digging was done by our contractor. But there is always cleanup plus the next snow of only am few inches, which was too small for the contractor to bother with.
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We seemed to have a little bit of snow last night. Got the boys to do the impossible task of trying to dig us out of our home. They didn't know I was snapping shots of them and I got to hear them saying " I wonder what they are going to do when we move." I surprised them and said I would be calling them to come over and dig us out.
We have had so much snow this year it feels like a wild goose chase shoveling out every time, sometimes I feel like the bears have the right idea.
Our Daily Challenge - Wild Goose Chase - February 18, 2013
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Since the weather has matched my apathy for shooting anything around here I figure I'll throw up some old junk. Heres one to prove I do shoot the orange borg if its interesting enough. First Coast 501 drags a cut of cars out from the port of Fernandina Beach. I had wanted this shot for a long time after seeing this location on a beach trip as a kid and finally did after a several hour wait!
Sheep herding contest at Iowa State Fair to show off dog obedience. The red markings on them were for identification and are not blood.
The sheep will obey but as I observed them, I noticed they never seem to stare directly at the dog as cattle seem to do.
They seem to be glancing away even though they know the dog is there, because the sheep were at a point where they were staring at the herder with a stick in hand at a gate entrance and are actually focused on him. The dog also has his eyes fixed toward the command and not the sheep.
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We got at least 6" of snow. I measured it. However it drifted a lot in the front of the house because it's open, so the snow was around 10" deep out there. This is our driveway that is around 75 feet long, so it's a job to clean it up.
I had an idea to shoot through this window that looks into the sunroom. I'm playing around and feeling generally dissatisfied, when my buddy comes in the room to get some attention. He makes me feel a little better, and I get a better shot in the process. Our animal friends are really a blessing.
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This is one of the best parts of the morning shoot. When the waves and the ocean quiets. No longer worried about getting crushed it is just about capturing the glass like feature of the water. I often wonder how the ocean so rough and powerful can look so smooth and calm.
Tish is so pretty and looks so ladylike, but I do love it when she really gets stuck in...it's a pleasure to watch her enjoying herself. Mind you it would be, as she's not mine and I'm not the one who has to has to clean those paws :-)
Honey Bee trying to get to the pollen in a Granada rose.
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I gave up digging and called a neighbor who owned a grader. Even he got stuck a few times. This was a very heavy wet snow.
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens) on a Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) at the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Next in a set of 3 pictures,now finds the Jaguar digging into the spot determined to find what is buried beneath !
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This black bear was digging under a rock for a salmon that had died there. It dug for about 5 minutes stopping often to check it's surroundings. There were hundreds of salmon carcasses laying around but the bear wanted the one under the rock.