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Gracing Victorian rails once again over the weekend were SSR's powerhouse units C507, C510 & G514.
On Friday the trio ran 5WJ1 to Yarrawonga where G514 and approximately 30 wagons were left to load while the C's continued on to Oaklands for their loading.
The train is seen here on its return journey north powering up through Table Top.
Saturday 28th April 2018.
I spotted this cute young lady while waiting for a bus on a rainy day this week. And there were two more welly-wearing ladies on the bus! Heaven...
We are going to the County Fair today and Hailey was so excited to go with us. She put her overalls on and grabbed her rubber chicken....then DH said that she couldn't come with us. And since it's his birthday today I guess I can't argue.
With the news full of tornado sightings in Renfrewshire this is the only Tornado I seen all day. Peppercorn, A1, 4-6-2, 60163, Tornado heads 1Z60 0857 Edinburgh to Aberdeen railtour through Blackford at 10:46 some 12 minutes late. The weather was impeccable!
Note this is not a restored locomotive. It is a new build by the A1 Locomotive Trust and was the next engine of its class (with a few permitted improvements which were logically the next evolution of the design). Basically Flying Scotsman as originally built.
A Southern Ground Hornbill strolling through The Kruger National Park, South Africa.
It is a rare sight because in South Africa, where most studies on the species have been carried out, it is listed as Critically Endangered!
The Southern Ground Hornbill is characterized by black coloration and vivid red patches of bare skin on the face and throat (yellow in juvenile birds), which are generally believed to keep dust out of the birds eyes while they forage during the dry season.
They are quite fascinating to watch, having a very stately, deliberate gait and rather superior "expression". When gathering food to take back to their nest they will carry a beak full of insects around which they will carefully put to one side if they spot another tasty morsel (perhaps a large spider or grasshopper). They will pick up the new delicacy, then carefully rearrange all the food items on the ground before picking them back up and stalking away.
This is a photo of a series that originated during the last night of our visit to Tromsø, Norway.
The aurora forcast for that last night was very promising, but unfortunately the sky was overcast and the hourly forecast didn't predict clear sight until midnight. Thrilled about the amazing northern lights we already saw the nights before, we wanted to try our luck again and see it one more time. So we went out around midnight to hunt the aurora at one of our favorite places and yes the sky really cleared up. We wished the aurora forecast would come true, but far and wide no aurora borealis in sight. After more than three hours of waiting and changing locations now and then to warm a bit up in our car, we just saw once a small green shimmer at the horizon. A bit disappointed we decided to head back to Tromsø. We stopped again at our last favourite place on the route back to wait one more time for the aurora.
And then - finally - around four o'clock in the morning the aurora started to appear, weaker and stronger phases alternated. And then as if someone pushed the button: the aurora was so vibrant and fast changing, much stronger than what we experienced the nights before. I was so excited and overwhelmed by the beauty and intense of that spectacle, I nearly forgot to point the lens up into the sky and try to capture this phenomenon of nature. Then after about 45 minutes it started to slow down again and after a while we decided to head back to Tromsø, extremely satisfied with what we experienced, and well knowing how very lucky we were that night. Back in Tromsø there was time left for a two hour nap before we had to catch our flight back home.
Man, that was worth every minute of wait and chill!
See more northern light impressions in my Aurora Borealis Album, hope you enjoy!
Giant crabs, large figurines, each more outlandish than the last.... So tacky that it becomes amusing.
Innisbrook GR (Copperhead Course), Florida, site of the 2020 Valspar Championship.
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Sight"-see`ing\, n. The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.
Thursday Bokeh...didn't get a chance to post it yesterday.
Taken at The Pier Shops At Caesars in Atlantic City, NJ. For some reason, I always seek out these coin operated binoculars. They make the most interesting subject.
One of the more spectacular sights of temperate South American marshes. Here perched on Pantanal wetlands papyrus (Cyperus papyrus).
Pouso Alegre Lodge, Pantanal. Mato Grosso, Brazil