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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Some more old photos

What to post?????

As they say in all the cooking shows on TV... Here's one I prepared earlier!!!!

More of those old slides.... they sort of fit the theme of my blog.... they're all Australian.

Dont forget to click to enbiggen.

A beautiful waterfall in Tasmania.

The ruins of Port Arthur penal settlement... (penal, that almost sounds rude doesn't it??)

Cradle Mountain, see it in the background and Lake St Clair in Tasmania.

For those who are fascinated by Australia's snakes this is the biggest one I've ever seen, about 12 feet long, but he is anon-venomous python so no need to panick, I DID stay well clear of him just the same.

A giant Poinciana tree in a park in Brisbane Qld.


Way down south to Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, the birds are all flocking around me again.

A lovely red bottlebrush

The sun back-lighting this leaf made an interesting image.

A thatched stable made from "Mallee Roots" when the Mallee scrub was cleared for farming land the last process was to dig up the Mallee stumps (roots) in many cases these were just heaped and burnt but many farming areas still use them as firewood scavenged from the huge heaps (The Foster's keep their house warmed in winter burning them) Mallee BTW is a small variety of eucalyptus tree.
As yet another aside; root is an Australianism for the sex act so mallee root takes on a different meaning in some (lower) circles.


Its important to keep the red posts on your left hand side when this alpine road is covered with snow!!!!


Mount Buffalo ski slopes in spring time, covered with wild flowers instead of snow.

A change of pace... Mount Tom Price open cut iron ore mine in the Pilbara WA.
The ore from this mine is so pure that they have to mix in some of the over-burden soil to make it meet the Japanese steelworks specifications.

The Pilbara is home to some very spectacular gorges, here blissfully unaware of the technology of the zoom lens these three lasses were taking a refreshing dip in the altogether.... they ordered prints when I told them about the technology.