68 posts tagged “australia”
Mr FD has just travelled some 6,000 klms around the state of Queensland, going to some remote areas of the north and the south west. He has agreed to share some of his photos, the ones that aren't of grasses, diseases leaves, pastures or cows! Mr FD is an agronomist with a passion for grasses...and me of course!
The softer land surfaces above the solidified magma eroded away over time, leaving the magma's fractured top to be exposed as a mountain of grey granite boulders blackened by a film of microscopic blue-green algae growing on the exposed surfaces. Colder rains falling on the dark, heated granite boulders causes the boulders to progressively fracture, break, and slowly disintegrate, sometimes explosively.
The National Park's "Black Mountains" are a heavily significant feature of the Kuku Nyungkal people's cultural landscape known locally to Aboriginal Australians as Kalkajaka (trans: "place of spear').
Queensland's Department of Environment and Natural Resources has been advised of at least four sites of particular mythologicalsignificance within the "Black Mountains" as follows[3]
There are at least four sites of religious or mythological significance on the mountain. These are the Kambi, a large rock with a cave where flying-foxes are found; Julbanu, a big grey kangaroo-shaped rock looking toward Cooktown; Birmba, a stone facing toward Helenvale where sulphur-crested cockatoos are seen; and a taboo place called Yirrmbal near the foot of the range.
The "Black Mountains" also features strongly in local, more non-Aboriginal cultural landscapes, some of which has also been described by Queensland's Department of Environment and Resource Management as follows[3]:
When European colonists arrived late last century, they added to the many Aboriginal legends of the area with a few of their own. Stories abound of people, horses and whole mobs of cattle disappearing into the labyrinth of rocks, never to be seen again
Numerous people have disappeared from here, never to be seen again - Mr FD came back!
In Australia there is a sixteen year old girl who is planning to sail around the world solo to claim the record of youngest person to do so. She launched a couple of weeks ago under a fan fair of media and public attention. The very first night she collided with a ship and had to be towed back to port and major repairs down to her boat. An official investigation has shown that she was at fault, lacked many skills necessary for the trip and had no fatigue plan etc. She still plans to set sail again.
I hired 3 movies and I am bunkering down in my little house until it is over. Thank heavens we have air conditioners in a couple of rooms and so our air is a little filtered – no windows or doors open. No doubt the filters will need cleaning tomorrow.
All I can think of is: there goes our good agricultural top soil into the ocean….PLANT MORE TREES!
I taught no one today ....well I only have one class on a Wednesday and they were off on a geography excursion so I hid in the little office and worked on a powerpoint presentation on Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
and I have no idea whay kind of flower it is - if any Aussie would like to name it, please do!
http://dl.screenaustralia.gov.au/module/61/
Jack Hazlitt - A World War 1 digger (soldier) reflects on his work as a runner in the trenches at Gallipoli. Hopping across the trenches in full view of the Turkish snipers, the average life of a runner was 24 hours.
When war broke out in 1914, Jack lied about his age and enlisted in the Australian Infantry Forces. He survived the war, serving at Gallipoli and in France and Belgium. Jack Hazlitt was a daredevil, the archetypal Australian of a past era. His interview for Australian Biography was his last. He died in 1993, aged 96
THINK ABOUT IT...
ANZAC - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
I want to kidnap Bernie Fraser and lock in in a room that has just a little slot that I can open and then I would make him speak and I would sit on the other side and listen to that voice. He cracks me up every time.
YouTube - Bernie Fraser
What did he do for the Big Whatever to give him that voice?
Mr FD arrived home tired but healthy from his trip. He was home long enough to allow me to wash his clothes, and for him to open his mail, and wonder where all the money is going (I didn't enlighten him at all) before heading off to North Queensland for the week.
On the way to the airport he was delayed due to a traffic accident creating traffic delays and so arrived 1 MINUTE late for his JETSTAR flight book in time. I exaggerate not, his watch clearly showed it was 1 MINUTE passed the sign in time and so JETSTAR refused to let him board the flight. So instead of leaving at midday, he left at 10.40 PM - and it was a two hour flight. Of course they also charged him a large rebooking fee. How come they don't pay us money when they hold us up at airports?
I think JETSTAR has found itself a nice little way to make extra money in the recession. They aren't a great airline to start with and their staff are always so rude. They charge for everything, so much so that we have been waiting for them to charge for the air that you breath on their flights...maybe they do already. I wouldn't be surprised.
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