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Post by Rod on Apr 7, 2024 17:05:46 GMT -8
Rod that's quite a view to take in, what a great tour! I'm so happy the weather finally cooperated and gave you a chance to show us around some more. Were those floods you mentioned due to tidal surges or inland rainfall? We are in a subtropical region and get the tail end of monsoons and Tropical cyclones, so the flooding is from these downpours. A couple of years ago we received 500mm in one day that was enough to flood South Bank and much of the low lying suburbs in Brisbane. These one in a hundred year floods are becoming more frequent..
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Post by Fergus on Apr 7, 2024 20:47:10 GMT -8
Wonderful pictures and place.
Thanks Rod
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Post by inboost on Apr 8, 2024 3:48:43 GMT -8
Rod, that's a terrible sight to see all that flooding. I'd have to move myself to high ground permanently rather than risk such seasonal terrors. Hopefully they don't effect you too much when they come?
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Post by camrok on Apr 10, 2024 2:47:01 GMT -8
So glad to see the bin chicken make an appearance- no trip to a capital city in Aust is complete without a bin chicken encounter. https:// Bin Chicken
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Post by tritto on Apr 10, 2024 19:48:32 GMT -8
So glad to see the bin chicken make an appearance- no trip to a capital city in Aust is complete without a bin chicken encounter. https:// Bin ChickenI think Hobart may be the only Australian capital without bin chickens. Our boys loved the bin chickens and turbo chooks in Adelaide a couple of months ago.
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Post by rossr on Apr 11, 2024 1:53:15 GMT -8
So glad to see the bin chicken make an appearance- no trip to a capital city in Aust is complete without a bin chicken encounter. https:// Bin ChickenI think Hobart may be the only Australian capital without bin chickens. Our boys loved the bin chickens and turbo chooks in Adelaide a couple of months ago. Yes, I think you are on your own there. You do have bumblebees though.
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Post by cd_god on Apr 17, 2024 16:27:59 GMT -8
Where are all of the Northsiders, I mean Bogans?
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Post by Rod on Apr 18, 2024 0:45:24 GMT -8
So glad to see the bin chicken make an appearance- no trip to a capital city in Aust is complete without a bin chicken encounter. https:// Bin ChickenI think Hobart may be the only Australian capital without bin chickens. Our boys loved the bin chickens and turbo chooks in Adelaide a couple of months ago. The Australian Bush Turkey or Turbo Chicken!! What many international tourists find amazing is that ALL Australian native animals, insects, birds, reptiles, and fish are protected by law and several state legislations. You can only fish for certain species, and most have strict bag limits or size limits. To kill an Australian protected species, you must possess a license to hunt that species (commercial fish) or be performing a legal act (driving your car and a Kangaroo jumps out in front) or protecting yourself or your family (crocodiles). There are several caveats within the laws, but essentially, we leave them alone.
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Post by Rod on Apr 18, 2024 1:00:49 GMT -8
I sent the watch off today for its the next exciting adventure! Finally my bikes.. The Husqvarna 2011 TR650 Terra 1995 Yamaha TRX850 1982 KTM 504 1975 Moto Guzzi T3 1970 Laverda 750SF The reason, that's Brisbane in the middle distant horizon and the Great Dividing range to the right thousands of kilometres of amazing roads.
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Post by small on Apr 18, 2024 13:19:42 GMT -8
I sent the watch off today for its the next exciting adventure! Finally my bikes.. The Husqvarna 2011 TR650 Terra 1995 Yamaha TRX850 1982 KTM 504 1975 Moto Guzzi T3 1970 Laverda 750SF The reason, that's Brisbane in the middle distant horizon and the Great Dividing range to the right thousands of kilometres of amazing roads. Is that your home garage space? You have me pretty jealous with that!
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Post by rossr on Apr 28, 2024 20:30:06 GMT -8
The watch has just arrived on the western coast of Australia.
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Post by rossr on Apr 29, 2024 16:14:04 GMT -8
The World Time arrived in great condition from Rod in Queensland. Very nicely packaged Rod! Quite a few goodies on board and tales of its adventures to date. Now it is my turn to show it a good time. I'm not travelling anywhere in the next couple of weeks, so it'll be stuck in Perth.
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Post by dapellegrini on May 1, 2024 20:22:26 GMT -8
A quick tally shows that rossr is number 20 in the line of recipients for this round of the world traveller! Excellent! : )
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Post by rossr on May 3, 2024 23:10:16 GMT -8
The World Traveler (6119-6010 World Time) arrived in Perth from Brisbane in late April. Perth is a small city (population of around 2 million) on the western coast of Australia. We are quite remote from other large cities, and by some measures, one of the most isolated cities in the world (Honolulu takes the crown here), living on a narrow coastal strip adjacent to the Indian Ocean. Our climate is very mild – Mediterranean – and have some of the best weather of any large city in Australia, though we do experience the extremes of heat in summer. On Friday, while our office was getting a tech upgrade – installation of cabling for a 10GB switch or something – I took the opportunity to call in to the nearby Museum of Western Australia. I’ve been here many times, but there are a couple of items on display that have a minor connection to the World Time on my wrist. A small Moon-focused exhibition recently commenced, and I took a peek to see what they had. Quite curiously, there was living room set up, with TV running (Apollo 11 on loop), as it might have been in 1969 prior to the lift-off of Apollo 11. It was pretty well done. At the time of the first Apollo landing missions, the World Traveler was only a few months old (April ’69 serial). There was some good collector stuff there – various models, a famous Apollo 17 moon rock as collected by Jack Schmitt, mission patches, artwork and some VR stuff (which always makes me feel queasy). The next exhibition area was a cracker. This was focused on the Antikythera Mechanism. You may have heard the fascinating story of this piece of technology that was built 1500 years too early. The original lumps of fused bronze certainly weren’t there, but an operating model, made from bronze was on display. This amazing replica was built by Nick Andronis, a semi-retired engineer who lives in Perth. visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/reconstructing-antikythera-mechanismAnd the World Traveler got a good look – meeting the model of a slightly more complicated mechanism!
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