tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36025718386840921882024-03-14T15:17:19.392+11:00Publish or PerishAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.comBlogger783125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-37874761587449258482014-09-14T16:58:00.000+10:002014-09-14T17:10:44.652+10:00An Answer: Cute and Sad<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Well there were a number of guesses for this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>week’s WIIW.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Some were way off, some pretty close and one basically
right on the money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Susan guessed: “Hmmm, a close-up of some flowering
vines growing on a rock?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Sorry Susan that is way off beam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Marcy guessed: “I was going to say a close up of
some animal's skin...?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It is a close up of an animal’s skin. I can award
that 75%.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lisa Guessed: “I thought animal hide but the purple
is throwing me off.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Well hide probably earns 75% too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Linda
Guessed, “My first thought was the skin of some animal. Hmm. Not sure what
kind, though. Some sort of reptile? “</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It is an
animal and it is skin, but the reptile guess loses you points so 50%</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Kristen M
(a zoologist) guessed “It looks like maybe an animal nose?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I guess I
have to pay that guess 100%. It is indeed a nose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So what is the critter in question?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Recently we have had some work done on our track out to civilization.
Along the edges where the soil has been disturbed the Blue-Gums are doing what
they do best, taking over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">In many spots the disturbed ground is being covered by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seedlings already competing to race for the sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Blue-gums are one of the favoured foods of a much loved Oz icon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">One night coming home just after dark I spotted this guy to one side
taking advantage of the tender new growth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Perhaps it was dazzled by my car headlights, but whatever the reason it let me get out and get really close. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A less charitable idea is that it didn't quite understand what was happening. Average Oz marsupials are intellectual midgets. Many deal with a low energy environment by having very small brains (brains are energy hungry ours account for about 20% of our calorie use).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The bulk of Oz has poor soils and dry conditions, meaning little plant food available to form the basis of local food-chains. Koalas are almost literally "empty-headed" when compared to their closet living relative the wombats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Of course where Deb and I live is unusual being a rainforest area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I had a Deb’s pocket camera with me so I had to use the flash (it was
really dark in the forest) hence the odd appearance of the eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Despite the flash going off in its eyes it continued eating, letting me
get off a few more shots</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Then it had enough, turned </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">and shot up a nearby tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A real treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Usually you never see much of koalas in the bush. At best
they are usually a furry lump right up near the top of a 200 foot high tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Now to the sad part of the post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Although in areas like where we live koala populations are undisturbed
and strong. In much of Oz, particularly South East Queensland, the spread of
suburbia and farming has destroyed much koala habitat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Some conservationists argue koalas are becoming endangered. A sad truth
is around 4,000 are killed each year from being hit by cars or being attacked
by people’s pet dogs.</span></div>
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-50214320002841450052014-09-10T21:37:00.003+10:002014-09-10T21:37:59.473+10:00Old Routines?Well this makes two posts in two days.<br />
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I am keeping this short because my writing is calling (I am nearing the end of a revision of my current novel Veil of Iron).<br />
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But before I move on, a quick thank you to those of you who commented welcoming me back.<br />
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Now for the first time in months a "What is it Wednesday".<br />
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What on earth do you think this might be?<br />
(I am not sure how hard this one is my only test subject got it half right)<br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-27401383285801639702014-09-09T18:52:00.001+10:002014-09-09T18:52:34.032+10:00Long time no see<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JhPwJUgs-ec/VA6-a27ql7I/AAAAAAAAHwI/D5rFqkXNSts/s1600/Allan6009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Well, it has been around two months since my last post.<br />
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I never wanted to abandon the blog so here I go again.<br />
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Tonight is a "Super Moon", I didn't have a tripod with me so unfortunately this isn't perfect, but I just had to try.<br />
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My brother Ian has come home from England for his first visit in 18 years, so I have been rather busy catching up.<br />
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One thing we have been doing is getting out in the bush, something he has missed.<br />
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Ian and I were out and about soon after dawn yesterday. Winter has finally really bitten down this way so it was cold and frosty.<br />
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One of the things I pointed my camera at was this grass in an attempt to catch the icy feel.<br />
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I also caught some extreme close-ups of the frost crystals coating the grass.<br />
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And even closer<br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-80443461427783151612014-06-22T17:57:00.003+10:002014-06-22T17:57:49.029+10:00Trying again<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DbP_Yg059kk/U6aK91OO53I/AAAAAAAAHhE/hdnodqaP-Vk/s1600/IMG_5858.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Well it is once again weeks since I last posted.<br />
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Life has been hectic since then.<br />
I was sick (with the cold/flu/bronchitis whatever it was) for nearly four weeks in total.<br />
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Then my mum had to go back into hospital for a few days (thank goodness for the universal health care we have in Oz).<br />
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Since she has been out Deb and I have been spending a lot of time helping mum and Stan (mum's husband) with basic chores like meals etc.<br />
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On the plus side, my mental health continues to improve. My depression/anxiety is almost under control. Apart from the occasional moment (usually quickly controlled with my CBT techniques) I am pretty much well.<br />
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Also I am writing again, working on revisions of my second novel Veil of Iron. It is going slowly because life is so busy, but it is going again.<br />
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The novel is part of the reason this blog has been on hold. I have been loath to spend my precious writing time anywhere other than on the book.<br />
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So where to from here?<br />
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Well I am going to try posing here at least once a week (hopefully more often).<br />
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Finally I want to share a few piccies I took this evening.<br />
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Late this afternoon we had a shower of rain. that soon cleared off. <br />
Then as the sun got close to the horizon our valley began to fill with mist.<br />
It began to be a wonderful display so of course I had to get the camera out.<br />
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This is a sample of what I caught <br />
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Then as the sun sank lower it created some amazing patterns of light through the Blue Gums on the western side of our paddock.<br />
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This final shot as a moment later, but wider to show how deep blue the sky above the mist was getting.<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-035bxi5cgTc/U6aLBrJzu5I/AAAAAAAAHhQ/kWc1ZmJnDr0/s1600/IMG_5920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-035bxi5cgTc/U6aLBrJzu5I/AAAAAAAAHhQ/kWc1ZmJnDr0/s1600/IMG_5920.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a>Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-9643273626150264792014-05-05T17:09:00.000+10:002014-09-14T17:56:51.613+10:00Still hereGiven my post of a couple of <a href="http://publish--or--perish.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/tale-of-black-dog.html" target="_blank">weeks ago</a> I thought I should find the energy to explain my sudden silence.<br />
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In fact my mental health continues to improve, but since mid last week both Deb and I have been struck down by a nasty virus.<br />
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I hope to be back on deck over the next few days.<br />
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Before I go I have to say something about Lilli.<br />
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A usual family joke has been that she is called Lilli because she is lilly-livered.<br />
Well she seems to have discovered that we have a dingo around (weeks after we first spotted it).<br />
Somehow Lilli has decided she is in fact a guard dog and has taken to patrolling the garden fence and barking at said wild animal.<br />
Something that has been totally out of character before. In the past she has been only too happy to flee dangerous animals - like kittens. <br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-24152405268518803202014-04-29T18:49:00.000+10:002014-04-29T18:49:11.090+10:00An answer (and more wildlife)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well it is Tuesday so I had better get round to answering last week's WIIW.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/04576828490765434497" rel="nofollow">Linda G.</a> Guessed: "An extreme close-up of a camel? (Hey, a girl can hope!)"</dt>
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<dt class="comment-author " id="c757184092940690160">It certainly is camel colour, but as much as I enjoy your camel posts it is a much smaller creature!</dt>
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<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836">What a creative guess, but it is not elephant sized.</dt>
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<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836">Well this image came from this extreme close up piccie</dt>
<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oQJx_ENFhP0/U19lJZiuNOI/AAAAAAAAHf4/USNNXBG7hwA/s1600/IMG_3678.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oQJx_ENFhP0/U19lJZiuNOI/AAAAAAAAHf4/USNNXBG7hwA/s1600/IMG_3678.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a></dt>
<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836">Still can't see?</dt>
<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836">Well does this help? Isn't it odd looking?</dt>
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<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836">Here it is, a moth lured out of the rainforest by our lights. As you can see it is excellently camouflaged for hiding in a forest.</dt>
<dt class="comment-author " id="c2863084228844763836">It doesn't work quite as well on our fly-screen! </dt>
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Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-41958923335003695072014-04-27T18:23:00.000+10:002014-04-27T18:23:19.529+10:00The CentauressJust a quick post tonight as I have spent all weekend at the Inaugural Dorrigo Grassroots Writers' Festival and am rather tired.<br />
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But I wanted to say my friend <a href="http://kathleenjonesauthor.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/a-book-and-journey.html" target="_blank">Kathleen Jones </a>and long time commenter on this blog has just published her latest book the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Centauress-Kathleen-Jones-ebook/dp/B00JUAJRH8/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398235959&sr=1-1&keywords=the+centauress+kathleen+jones" target="_blank">Centauress on Kindle</a><br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-16444066603960697792014-04-25T13:39:00.000+10:002014-04-25T13:39:54.701+10:00ANZAC, Ghost town and a tunnelToday is ANZAC day in Oz.<br />
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Held on the 25th of April it commemorates the day in 1915 when soldiers of
the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) went into action in
the ill fated Dardanelles Campaign of World War One.<br /><br />A mere 14
years after Australian Federation the casualties that fell in that
campaign and the rest who fell before the end scarred our fledgling
nation. Of a population of just over 4 million people in 1914, 330,000
Aussie soldiers served (all volunteers). Of those 330,000 who served
221,000 were killed or seriously wounded.<br />
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Deb and I went for a drive along the Old Glen Innes Road which runs from Grafton one of our local towns up through the Nymboida Valley to Glen Innes.<br />
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The road has been bypassed by the new highway further north so it is pretty much in the same state as it was when it was opened in1867.<br />
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Much of the way it runs along a cutting perched above the Nymboida River.<br />
At one point where a spur comes down to the river side it dives through a tunnel that was excavated by hand!<br />
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I paused at the other end to catch this piccie of a vehicle coming through. To give an idea of the size of the tunnel and just how narrow this old road is.<br />
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Further along we turned off up a side track which took us up to "Tommy's Lookout"<br />
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The view from about 1,000 feet above the river gives an idea of what the country is like. You can't see the road from up there but it snakes along parallel to the river.<br />
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The track up to the look out is suitable for 4x4 vehicles only and is not for the faint hearted.<br />
Deb snapped this piccie through the windscreen on the way back down. <br />
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Back to the subject of ANZAC day. At the ghost town of Boyd Newton stands a lonely ANZAC memorial.<br />
The local tale is that all the military age men volunteered and not one returned. Whatever happened the village was abandoned soon after, leaving nothing but the memorial.<br />
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Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-31208234573226678212014-04-23T19:49:00.001+10:002014-04-23T19:49:34.715+10:00What is it WednesdayWell here is my first WIIW in ages.<br />
What on earth do you think this is?<br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-82906106905168343472014-04-21T21:13:00.000+10:002014-04-21T21:13:56.286+10:00Wildlife and sleepWell our young dingo is still around. It seems to have taken to howling at all hours just up the hill behind our house.<br />
I suspect it is trying to carve out its own little territory between those of other dogs.<br />
Or maybe it doesn't know the etiquette yet? <br />
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I like to hear it is around, but random howling in the dark of night is not good for my sleep.<br />
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Speaking of sleep... last night there was a noise something like a fizzing-chattering noise (if that makes sense) coming from the roof of our back porch.<br />
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I had to investigate and this is what I found.<br />
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No, this sweet little creature is not a mouse. She (and I am fairly sure it was a she) was arguing with this fellow.<br />
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What are they?<br />
They are Antechinus, probably Brown Antechinus (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_antechinus" target="_blank"><i>Antechinus stuartii</i></a>). Despite their mouse-like appearance they are actually a marsupial (like kangaroos, koalas, wombats and other Oz animals).<br />
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They are common in Oz forests, but most Aussies have never seen one (or perhaps realised they have). They live in forests and are nocturnal and mostly people who see one think they have seen a mouse. Hence they don't really have a common name and get stuck with their scientific moniker.<br />
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So how does an Aussie tell the difference?<br />
Well these guys are a little bigger than a mouse, their ears are rounder and they have much pointier noses.<br />
Plus in terms of behaviour they are like mice on speed!<br />
They leap and bounce around as if they have no tomorrow. Which is kind of true, male antechinus only live a single year dying of stress related disease before their first birthday.<br />
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Unlike mice they do not gnaw. Instead of the big incisors mice have, these guys have a mouth full of little needle like teeth. They make their living as predators, mostly eating insects and spiders.<br />
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Oh and they don't squeak! They fizz and hiss at each other far more loudly than such a little creature should.<br />
Here's to an unbroken night's sleep.Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-68146893635142274622014-04-21T00:12:00.001+10:002014-04-21T00:12:28.215+10:00Another DogFirst up thank you all for your supportive comments about yesterday's post.<br />
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Today's post is also about a dog.<br />
Again Lilli is not the topic of conversation, but this time it is a real animal rather than a metaphor.<br />
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I have caught glimpses of this young Dingo (<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_dingo" title="Canis lupus dingo">Canis lupus dingo</a></i>) around our place a couple of times but only as a streak disappearing into the rainforest .<br />
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This time it didn't realise I was around and I got close enough to get some piccies.<br />
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Dingoes were seen as damaging to livestock and were listed as pests except inside national parks. In earlier times there were quite substantial bounties offered for dingo scalps. Farmers and trappers, trapped, shot and poisoned so by the 1970s they were very rare in this area.<br />
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But things have changed in this area. While these animals are still listed as pests the traditional farming community has declined. Much farmland has either been sold to more 'alternative' incomers, or converted from pastoral land to forestry plantations.<br />
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The net result is local dingoes have been left comparatively un-molested.<br />
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Things are changing even in the 1990's it was rare to see or hear them. <br />
Now though their numbers have crept up to where on a night of a full moon we can often hear a dozen or more howling along the ranges. An eerie and simultaneously thrilling sound.<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Despite
the title this post is not about our Labrador Lilli.</span>
<br />
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<br /></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0RbrG4zQVHM/UkaQk3T0EII/AAAAAAAAHOc/KUct26-m_M4/s1600/IMG_0868.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0RbrG4zQVHM/UkaQk3T0EII/AAAAAAAAHOc/KUct26-m_M4/s1600/IMG_0868.JPG" height="640" width="476" /></a></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It is
instead about me and why I haven’t been posting for sooooo long.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Since
before Christmas, I have been battling an episode of depression. Hence the
title of this post, Winston Churchill called his bouts of depression a “black
dog”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sad truth is posting has been
a casualty of my illness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Still
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I
suffered with repeated episodes of major depression (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder" target="_blank">clinical depression</a>)
from my teens until my mid to late thirties - to the extent that I was
frequently suicidal. Fortunately, I never attempted, because I always retained
some inkling of what my death would do to those around me. I did the typical
male thing and hid much of what I was going through all that time.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Then
around 2000 I was introduced to a psychotherapy called cognitive behaviour
therapy (CBT) and achieved amazing results - from about 2001 - 2002 until
recently I had been well. I was essentially controlling my illness using CBT
techniques.But I guess like a recovering alcoholic there is always the risk of
a relapse...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Then, as readers
of my blog will know, I have been putting myself under a fair bit of stress
with a new job (ironically working in mental health) and rebuilding our house
etc. etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The final straw was my mum
getting very ill. We have always been very close and her condition deteriorated
to the point where I thought we were going to lose her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The end
result was last year I became unwell. Perhaps surprisingly given my history it
took me some time to realise that I was ill again.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It was quite a strange experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I knew depression well and it
seemed that my bag of mental tricks was still working. I experienced nothing
like the despair I had known in the past. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What I
did experience was a growing sense of anxiety, which got so bad that it became
virtually crippling. As an example I spent 36 hours worrying about how to
cancel an appointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly, at the
same time I was still positive. I didn't understand what was happening but
I knew I had beaten mental illness before, so I assumed I could do it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This time
I did the right thing, talked to Deb about it, made an appointment with a GP
and got a referral to a psychologist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After
discussion with the GP and Alice (my psychologist) we decided not to medicate,
but to hit me with CBT. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all I am
an expert at using CBT on myself after all these years.<br />
<br />
I was seeing Alice nearly weekly from December until February and have dropped
the frequency of visits now. In terms of diagnosis, Alice has plumped for
depression rather than anxiety. I have some of the other symptoms such as
exhaustion, lethargy etc (hence no blogging) so she argues it is the best fit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not quite sure I agree, because my
experience of depression was always agonising despair. And as I said I have
felt surprisingly positive the whole time, I guess that part of CBT never
stopped working for me. In any case CBT seems to be working for this new
species of dog I have had visiting me. I would not say I am well again, but I
am very much on the mend.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I am back
at work and more or less functional there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We have
the house to the point where it is comfortable enough to allow me to ease up on
it. There is still a lot to do, but we won't freeze in the coming winter and
the kitchen and bathroom are fully functional. In fact I have barely touched it
for weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We have also been deliberately
taking it easier, making trips so I can point my camera at things, visiting our
girls who live only a couple of hours away now, spending more time with mum
while I still have her (her health is improved at the moment). </span></div>
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involved with her medical journey. That has, I think, been positive. I think
when it happens it will be "simply" grief. Part of my problem has
been grieving in advance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As a measure of my improved mental
state I am even thinking about my writing again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven't written a word for months, but the
creative juices are beginning to churn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think I have worked out how to solve the problems I was having with my book <i>Veil of
Iron. </i>I have also been composing this return to my blog. </span></div>
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it is a case of one step at a time, and hopefully most of those will be
forwards.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
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Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-64114895691004827202014-01-02T00:28:00.000+11:002014-01-02T00:28:17.384+11:00And Happy New Year!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It was a relaxing time a fair bit
of lazing around, going to the beach and hanging with the girls. I love the
fact that in Oz our Christmas break is in summer!</div>
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One of the things Deb and I did
do was to get back to our old pastime of jumping in the car and going for an
explore.</div>
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We chose to have a look around
the lower reaches of the Clarence River. As I have mentioned before Yamba is on
the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Clarence, and the Clarence is an
impressive river.</div>
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The first leg of our trip was to
head upstream 18km (about 12 miles) to the little town of Maclean where we
crossed this Nineteenth Century bridge across the south arm of the Clarence
onto Woodford Island</div>
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From there we followed Lawrence
road about 10km (6 miles) across the island to the Bluff Point Ferry . </div>
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I snapped this on the ferry
crossing the river. The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority runs the ferry 24 hours/seven
days a week and its free!</div>
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From Lawrence we turned off the
main road to follow back roads along the North Arm of the River.</div>
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I just had to pause to capture
these abandoned dairy bales. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Like many
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On one of the side channels I
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Unfortunately,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as I stalked closer to get a good shot a
couple of ducks I hadn’t noticed took flight and spooked the Brolga, so all I
caught was some shots as it flew away.</div>
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A truly beautiful bird.</div>
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About ten minutes later we came
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At about 90cm (3 feet) this Lace
Goanna (<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Varanus varius)</span></i>
is about half grown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I went as close as I was
comfortable to capture some nice shots.</div>
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But not too close, these guys are versatile predators and even a smallish one like this is armed with razor
sharp inch-inch long claws.</div>
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If I was silly enough to hassle
it, it would show me it was a bad idea. </div>
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Having said that, their defensive
tactic is usually to run up a nearby tree.</div>
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Unfortunately, not being very
smart, if there is no tree they have been known to panic and run up the nearest
vertical object, that is the person they are afraid of!</div>
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Ulmarra Ferry where we crossed back to the south side before heading back to
Yamba.</span><br />
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So tonight I will just post a quick piccie of the dawn of this Christmas Eve and wish you all a Merry Christmas!<br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-4665835117524241892013-12-11T21:53:00.000+11:002013-12-11T21:53:57.014+11:00Away again, but a quick WIIW anyway.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n_yDp1ZheI4/UqhBv8l7OKI/AAAAAAAAHZk/fLXCplEVEhU/s1600/Coffs0121.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>I am away in New England at the moment (the Australian New England, not the American region) so I will keep this quick.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago I posted this WIIW.<br />
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For those of you who said "feet" - well you were half right.<br />
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The feet are Lu's (my youngest)<br />
As to what she was standing on - it is a tree root.<br />
The tree is a lovely old (maybe 300 years) Blackbutt (<i><b>Eucalyptus pilularis) </b></i>that leans out over Coffs Harbour Creek. Lu kindly agreed to be a scale.<br />
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Which leads to this week's WIIW.<br />
What on Earth do you think this might be?<br />
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Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-18334570972361908092013-12-03T19:40:00.002+11:002013-12-03T19:40:47.085+11:00Not Dead - Just AwayMy blog has been rather quiet for the last week or so.<br />
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The reason is just under a week ago I was up well before dawn to head down to the regional airport at Coffs Harbour.<br />
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I snapped this with my phone before I boarded, yes that is the sun coming up behind the De Haviland Dash-8 I flew to Sydney for a conference.<br />
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A Dash-8 is about the smallest plane I ever want to fly in. The smaller they are the bumpier planes seem to be.<br />
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So I was in Sydney for a few days before heading home on Friday. My conference ended a couple of hours before my home-bound flight.<br />
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Things got a bit stressful for a while as I tried calling a taxi. A rainy Friday afternoon and after 30 minutes I was still on the phone queue.<br />
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A quick change of plan, I jumped on an express bus which went into the CBD across the Coat-hanger (Sydney-sider slang for the HarbourBridge)<br />
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From Wynyard station in the city centre the airport is a convenient train ride.<br />
A bad piccie I know, but it does show that Sydney suburban trains are double deckers.<br />
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The flight back to Coffs was in another Dash-8, an even smaller one! Just a thirty seater<br />
It was a miserable flight; turbulence most of the way with ice forming on the propellers which flew off and banged on the fuselage with a real racket.<br />
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Then to add to the joy it was pouring at Coffs and you have to walk across the apron to get into the terminal.<br />
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Thank goodness we had a relaxing weekend with our girls at Yamba to celebrate our Lu's 20th birthday. It is hard to believe our baby is 20!<br />
Lu our baby, when she was still a baby (more or less)<br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-38585617958228227472013-11-22T18:40:00.000+11:002013-11-22T18:56:28.507+11:00Shameless ComercialismWell, as you know I have posted the odd piccie on this blog over the years.<br />
Like this:<br />
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I have decided I am going to try to make my camera habit begin to contribute to its own upkeep.<br />
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With that in mind I have been looking for a way to sell some of my piccies. <br />
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What I have hit on is a site called Redbubble.<br />
The way it works is you upload your work, tell them what format you want to sell it in. They manage sales, printing and postage and then pay you a royalty.<br />
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The upside is it is a very easy way to make your work available.The downside is like any product on the web you pretty much have to market it yourself, and your images are likely to be drowned in a sea of other people's work.<br />
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So with nothing to lose I have made a start.<br />
I have put together two calendars (figuring Christmas is near) and so far most of the images in the calendars are available in various other formats from prints, to greeting-cards, to posters.<br />
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The first features piccies of sunsets I have taken along the southern Oz coast.<br />
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The second features some of my favourite waterfall piccies<br />
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If you click on either it will take you to the Redbubble site where you can have a look at them and the piccies I have added to my portfolio.<br />
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If you don't want to pay for the calendars, the cards and small prints are much cheaper.<br />
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I'll also be adding some more photos from my archive - things like cute Oz animals. If you "follow me" on Redbubble, you will automatically be sent updates on what I add. Go on, you know you want to :-) Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-7291894644964490982013-11-20T21:19:00.000+11:002013-11-20T21:19:07.479+11:00Two answers, one question.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-no-proof: yes;">we had four guesses for this week’s
WIIW</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sMOelwgrzgo/UoyLMV27oSI/AAAAAAAAHXU/FR8O2-FHmBE/s1600/IMG_0481b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sMOelwgrzgo/UoyLMV27oSI/AAAAAAAAHXU/FR8O2-FHmBE/s400/IMG_0481b.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-no-proof: yes;">Linda G guessed: “</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Hmm. Looks like sunlight shining on a rock
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It is
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Marcy
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Well your
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">But your
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Dawn
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Alas No.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">50% for
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Susan
guessed: “The first one looks like a layer of frost or snow on a windshield,
and I have no idea what the second one is. But it sure is interesting. I
especially like that prismatic patch of color.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Alas the
first is wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The surface those
colours are refracting on are probably going to surprise you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">First to
the older WIIW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The
shadow on this paper daisy petal was cast by another petal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pi7sB5HbJTA/UoyLO3bHaAI/AAAAAAAAHXk/KreAJUAwEVU/s1600/IMG_1013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pi7sB5HbJTA/UoyLO3bHaAI/AAAAAAAAHXk/KreAJUAwEVU/s640/IMG_1013.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So what
is the smooth shiny surface?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">This
handsome fellow is a Land Mullet (</span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Egernia
major)</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they
are a giant skink lizards that are fairly common in the rainforest here.
Although you don’t often see them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I snapped
this fellow crossing our track a few weeks ago. He was a large fellow about 60cm (2 feet) long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JplrBBfxQ6c/UoyLMonVrtI/AAAAAAAAHXQ/dJeLUr50Hms/s1600/IMG_0481.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JplrBBfxQ6c/UoyLMonVrtI/AAAAAAAAHXQ/dJeLUr50Hms/s640/IMG_0481.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Which
brings us to this weeks WIIW.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">What on Earth
do you think this might be?</span></div>
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Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-29677341948229162592013-11-13T20:51:00.000+11:002013-11-13T20:51:00.287+11:00WIIW?Well no one had a guess at last weeks WIIW.<br />
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So I haven't provided an answer.<br />
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Which leads me to this week: What on Earth do you think this might be?<br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-69323320844838689252013-11-11T15:52:00.001+11:002013-11-11T15:52:50.485+11:00Choking, Dodging, and In The WeatherWell, as you know we have been hot and dry down this way. We hadn't had rain of any kind since June.<br />
I posted a few weeks ago about a nervous few days and nights as a bushfire got very close.<br />
Ever since then we have been living in a cloud of smoke.<br />
Not from that fire, but from other much larger fires about 16km (10miles) to the west.<br />
Not really close but not far in deteriorating conditions.<br />
The main fire is in pretty inaccessible mountains and despite RFS crews and water bombers it grew from 800 hectares (2,000 acres) to 2,000 ha, then 5,000, 8,000 and is reported today at over 11,600 ha (29,000 acres).<br />
With prevalent winds in the west the smoke was frequently choking.<br />
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To give you an idea of what it is like: I took this piccie just after dawn on Saturday. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O2DeOUDMRNE/UoBhWL0NA2I/AAAAAAAAHWc/WTqb7av1uxo/s1600/DPP_0042.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-O2DeOUDMRNE/UoBhWL0NA2I/AAAAAAAAHWc/WTqb7av1uxo/s640/DPP_0042.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
That isn't a morning mist the sun is shining through. It's a blanket of smoke! <br />
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Then the promise of relief, rain was forecast for yesterday and today.<br />
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Only it didn't just rain. Instead we had pounding hail and spiking lighting. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SAzMU2rjXE0/UoBhWm-AmmI/AAAAAAAAHWg/9oXgSXhffNc/s1600/DPP_0040.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SAzMU2rjXE0/UoBhWm-AmmI/AAAAAAAAHWg/9oXgSXhffNc/s640/DPP_0040.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
Poor Lilli alternated between hiding under Deb's desk and trying to climb onto my lap.<br />
Labradors are not lap dogs!<br />
<br />At the height of the storm lightning struck very close and blew our land-line phone off the wall!<br />
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As I write this this afternoon, clouds are moving in again, this is one of my favourite shots, looking down the valley. As you can see one of the joys of being in the mountains is that you are really up in the weather.<br />
A joy, but a bit unnerving sometimes.<br />
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So, finally some longed for rain, and hopefully goodbye fires (for a while at least) <br />
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Postcript: Poor Lilli is under the desk again, and lighting is stabbing down all around! <br />
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<br />Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-29678965951028931102013-11-06T21:04:00.000+11:002014-09-25T17:50:48.060+10:00Beauty or Beast?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I did
mean to post before now. Ah well such is life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I
had better answer last week’s WIIW before I post this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZDbFw4RA0w/UnoSbolXudI/AAAAAAAAHVk/EpexSzX2hKo/s1600/IMG_1039b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZZDbFw4RA0w/UnoSbolXudI/AAAAAAAAHVk/EpexSzX2hKo/s640/IMG_1039b.jpg" height="472" width="640" /></a></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">There
were two guesses:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Marcy
guessed “Either a close up of a picture frame or maybe it's the edge of a
railing looking down to water. That's what comes to my mind though I suspect
I'm way off the mark.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> It is a
close up, but it is a living thing not a frame or railing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Old Kitty
said: “A hermit crab's leg encrusted with sand.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It isn’t
a crab, but it is another kind if arthropod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I shot
this mosquito like insect last weekend, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wGo-MYEdLnU/UnoSfUYYdLI/AAAAAAAAHV0/10wlRk1oTM0/s1600/IMG_1040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wGo-MYEdLnU/UnoSfUYYdLI/AAAAAAAAHV0/10wlRk1oTM0/s640/IMG_1040.jpg" height="640" width="426" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Although
it is mozzie shaped it is gigantic in comparison, that piece of timber it is
sitting on is a 2 inch thick bench-top. </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MuFR1nKCm98/UnoSuyczPpI/AAAAAAAAHV8/zy7dyq8q3IA/s1600/IMG_1039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wGo-MYEdLnU/UnoSfUYYdLI/AAAAAAAAHV0/10wlRk1oTM0/s1600/IMG_1040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span>Which
brings me to this week’s WIIW, what on Earth do you think this might be?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a8kEXCxXMPo/UnoSbnj9KVI/AAAAAAAAHVo/-TaFDcfxhEo/s1600/IMG_1013b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a8kEXCxXMPo/UnoSbnj9KVI/AAAAAAAAHVo/-TaFDcfxhEo/s640/IMG_1013b.jpg" height="640" width="564" /></a></span> </span></div>
Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-31637933412956671672013-10-30T21:08:00.001+11:002013-10-30T21:08:09.213+11:00A quick WIIWIt is Wednesday so: what on Earth do you think this might be?<br />
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I suspect this is a tricky one :-)<br />
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Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-44819433319555248792013-10-29T19:12:00.000+11:002013-10-29T19:12:16.710+11:00Kinda' Cute, Kinda' Ugly and Damn CuteIn a shameless exploitation of Oz wildlife tonight's post is of some of the wildlife I "captured" while on our recent weekend with our girls at Yamba.<br />
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First up is a tiny hermit crab I found while we were exploring a tidal rock-pool. <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WUa3WLJBPAU/Um9shAmpjUI/AAAAAAAAHUw/vsTK4l4iJxU/s1600/IMG_0685.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WUa3WLJBPAU/Um9shAmpjUI/AAAAAAAAHUw/vsTK4l4iJxU/s640/IMG_0685.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
I would never have seen it other than as I walked past its shell "ducked" in a way that these common sea snails never do. The odd movement made me look closer. <br />
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Second is these two Australian Pelicans (<i>Pelecanus conspicillatus</i>) which were lazing around by the water. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mXcJzB05Uts/Um9sdM-_poI/AAAAAAAAHUg/2mlrto2wtOo/s1600/DPP_0027.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mXcJzB05Uts/Um9sdM-_poI/AAAAAAAAHUg/2mlrto2wtOo/s640/DPP_0027.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
I think they are rather beautiful, but it is a kind of beauty that is very much in the eye of the beholder!<br />
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Finally in the nearby Yuraygir National Park I snapped a few shots of this lazy mob of Eastern Grey Kangaroos (<i>Macropus giganteus</i>).<br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cPeV3aS1yVk/Um9sh9QSwFI/AAAAAAAAHU0/GgAUesKNqgQ/s1600/DPP_0036.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="390" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cPeV3aS1yVk/Um9sh9QSwFI/AAAAAAAAHU0/GgAUesKNqgQ/s640/DPP_0036.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
No that isn't a six-legged Kanga'.<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KSL7-qNQGs4/Um9sdG8gQCI/AAAAAAAAHUc/_74CwSNyclA/s1600/DPP_0034.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KSL7-qNQGs4/Um9sdG8gQCI/AAAAAAAAHUc/_74CwSNyclA/s640/DPP_0034.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
She has a joey who is nearly too big for the pouch.<br />
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As she obligingly stood up to have a scratch baby 'Roo swivelled around to pop his/her face out.<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1YblJI2Trmk/Um9siBpf0SI/AAAAAAAAHU8/61yvGY_sbfk/s1600/IMG_0845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="394" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1YblJI2Trmk/Um9siBpf0SI/AAAAAAAAHU8/61yvGY_sbfk/s640/IMG_0845.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
He/she must have been hungry because when mum bent over to graze again baby picked at the grass too.<br />
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Like I said damn cuteAlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15625543235578144620noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3602571838684092188.post-36776331633635148972013-10-27T14:27:00.001+11:002013-10-27T14:27:16.953+11:00Fishing and High Drama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jrZMIq_lo30/Umxr87nzgyI/AAAAAAAAHTg/gl1qZclv-FY/s1600/DPP_0026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>This week three people had a stab at WIIW.</div>
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There were a couple that were close-ish </div>
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Linda G guessed: “<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Hmm. My first thought was a shadow. But it could
also be some sort of niche cut into a ... I don't know, maybe a stone wall?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Your first guess is pretty close, it is a silhouette rather than a
shadow so I guess that earns 80%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">John guessed: “A musical instrument”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It isn’t, but that is a creative guess I could see the gold as a finish
on a guitar or some other wooden instrument.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Marcy was with Linda on the shadow: “it looks like the shadow of a
cross. On what surface I'm not sure...”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As I said above it is a silhouette, and it isn’t exactly a cross, but it
is a cross-beam, so I guess you hit 95%!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So what is the mystery object?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Well last weekend Deb and I headed down to Yamba to spend a couple of
nights on the coast with our girls. Did I mention that our baby Lu has heard
the call of the beach and has moved in with the other two for the next couple
of months?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Anyway her plan is to spend the summer break with the girls and then
take up her studies again but enrolling in Brisbane, which is an awful lot
closer to the rest of us than Melbourne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Lu is a mad keen fisher-person so we decided to spend Saturday evening
having a BBQ on the bank of the Clarence River and casting a line in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jrZMIq_lo30/Umxr87nzgyI/AAAAAAAAHTg/gl1qZclv-FY/s1600/DPP_0026.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jrZMIq_lo30/Umxr87nzgyI/AAAAAAAAHTg/gl1qZclv-FY/s640/DPP_0026.JPG" width="640" /></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So the mystery image is part of a fishing platform. The two fishing people
silhouetted by the evening light are Deb and Lu. We only caught a few Flatheads,
which are beautiful eating fish, but they were undersize so we threw them back.
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