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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => Off Topic => Topic started by: Jim on July 14, 2024, 05:25:19 am
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We were so poor growing up that sometimes we didn’t have any food, so Mum would sit us all up at the table and just read out aloud recipes to us all starting with entree, main course and dessert.
My little brother was so hard of hearing and he dang near starved to death.
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Record high jump on Tiger the goat at Blackall, Queensland –
Circa 1905
Blackall, Queensland
Roy Dunn riding a billy goat named 'Tiger' over a record high jump for a goat of that time, at the Blackall Showgrounds in 1905.
The jump was 3 feet 6 inches
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I added a video link....
https://youtu.be/tGurEAJRpk4
My wife thinks it's funny as in "Rolling her eyes and shaking
her head" funny.
We'll see if we're still laughing after his term is over.
I wish the city luck. Pray for us - we'll need it.
Wayne
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I added a video link....
https://youtu.be/tGurEAJRpk4
My wife thinks it's funny as in "Rolling her eyes and shaking
her head" funny.
We'll see if we're still laughing after his term is over.
I wish the city luck. Pray for us - we'll need it.
Wayne
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Strange coincidence....
I usually rip the previous days paper, The New York Post, in half before
throwing it away.
I accidentally ripped today's paper in half. Stupid me. Then, I thought
"Oh well, I can still look at it".
So I'm paging thru it, sometimes back and forth and found this co-ink-e-dink.
I added two pix to show NYC'S new mayor in a different light. And attire.
P.S. - this isn't made-up. As Stuart F. once said, and I paraphrase,
"Some things don't need to be made up".
Today's funny,
Wayne
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We Tried 11 Classic Australian Foods… We Couldn’t Finish THIS
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Sooo....a kangaroo walks into a bar... :D
A kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a beer. He pays with a twenty and the bartender figures, "What does a kangaroo know about money?" gives him a single in change.
Then his curiosity gets the better of him. "You know," he says to the kangaroo, "we don't get a lot of kangaroos in this place."
The kangaroo replies sourly, "Yeah, and at $19 for a beer, you won't be getting many more."
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Sooo....a kangaroo walks into a bar... :D
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Fine havin' a drink or two with the mates, but I wouldn't want to stick around after he gets soused!
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The pie floater is an Australian dish particularly common in Adelaide and Melbourne.
It consists of a meat pie in a thick pea soup, typically with the addition of tomato sauce.
Believed to have been first created in the 1890s, the pie floater gained popularity as a meal sold by pie Carts.
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Smoky The War Dog
Smoky was awarded the Australian Animal Distinguished Service Award in 2025 by AWAMO.
Smoky was a Yorkshire Terrier who served with the Allied Forces in World War II as a mascot and messenger, becoming the first documented therapy dog by bringing comfort to wounded soldiers.
Her most famous feat involved pulling a communications wire through a narrow, 70-foot pipe in minutes, a task that would have taken days and endangered 250 men. After the war, she performed on television and became a beloved therapeutic presence in hospitals.
Her most critical mission occurred during an assault on a Japanese-held airfield in the Philippines. Engineers needed to run a communication cable through an 8-inch-wide, 70-foot-long pipe under a heavily-trafficked taxiway. Smoky crawled through the pipe with a kite string tied to her collar, enabling the installation of the cable and saving a significant construction detail from enemy danger.
When Wynne fell ill with dengue fever, he had Smoky by his side in the hospital ward. Her presence brought joy and comfort to the sick and wounded, inspiring Wynne to continue her therapy work.
Smoky became a local celebrity in Cleveland, Ohio, performing tricks on 42 different television shows, including walking a tightrope and riding a scooter. She is widely recognized as the first therapy dog on record, continuing to visit hospitals to bring happiness to patients.
Smoky has memorials in various locations, including Cleveland, Ohio, and Brisbane, Australia, where she was born.
Smoky was awarded the Australian Animal Distinguished Service Award in 2025 by AWAMO.
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No, not a poo.....a brown snake, one of our deadliest.
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Yummy.....but I'm still waiting for the Vegemite chocolate to make a comeback
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A bit before my time, but my parents used to say that the dunny man used to sing out "Hold on" while he changed the buckets.
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A real Aussie tree house
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I read that to Ang, she got quite the chuckle out of that.
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I read that to Ang, she got quite the chuckle out of that.
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So Jim .... just how many of these mayhem inducing living dinosaurs are there in Oz and how often do you run into any of them if they live anywhere near where you do?
No where near me, they are right up the top in the jungles of Queensland. Seem them when I've been on fishing expeditions and treated them with great respect.
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So Jim .... just how many of these mayhem inducing living dinosaurs are there in Oz and how often do you run into any of them if they live anywhere near where you do?
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Dang prehistoric beastulance.I can see why the Brits made Australia a penal colony, if the fires, heat, floods, hurricanes don't get you, the varmits will ! :D ( I aint forgot about that suicide plant neither)
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A kookaburra eating a tiger snake
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A new dangerous Aussie animal.
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This photograph taken in 1942, during WW2, of an Australian soldier as he holds "Joey" the mascot in his arms.
This young kangaroo was smuggled into Malaya.
Lest We Forget.
Photograph came from the Imperial War Museum.
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Mustering on Barkly Tableland
Rockhampton Downs Station, Size: 4,503 square kilometers
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One of the deadliest snakes in Oz
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Staple aboriginal bush tucker
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Is it Bitey ?
They are opportunistic hunters, can get to 7' in length Bruce.
They would take one of our small dogs in a second.
We're always wary and watchful for them.
The real question is ..... are they any good to eat?
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Is it Bitey ?
They are opportunistic hunters, can get to 7' in length Bruce.
They would take one of our small dogs in a second.
We're always wary and watchful for them.
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Is it Bitey ?
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They like to look for food anywhere!
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The best jaffles!
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'Biscuits' and gravy sound up my alley.....think I'll pass on the grits though!
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Biscuits and Gravy is a true breakfast delight, especially when served up with a couple of eggs over easy and some thick slabbed bacon or ham ..... YUM!
Grits ... that is Hominy Grits is something of an acquired taste, that I have not as yet acquired in my over 3/4 of a century of trying. They are not really bad, but I also really can't call them good, though some folks seem to love them. Hominy is a corn like grain with very large kernels, and Grits is having those kernels ground up and boiled into a mush like bowl of gritty paste with a unique flavor that once again is something of an acquired taste!?!?
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Now.....being a weekend cowboy, I've always wanted to try biscuits and gravy.
Been given a few recipes by some American cowboys on a cowboy forum, but haven't ventured yet.
That other weird thing you call 'grits' ..... sure doesn't sound to darn appealing, but I'd give it a try!
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Excellent news Daniel!!!!
We get them in a whole variety of flavours, below is just a few....BUT original is by far the best!
Aussies (mostly) keep our Tim Tams in the fridge because of the heat.
Nip two diagonal corners off, and use the Tim Tam for a straw and then eat it......heaven!
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Just back with my Lady, from the grocery store, for our weekly foraging expedition.
Low and behold, right there on the self were packages of TimTam's, so I bought some.
Monstrously expensive at $5.49 per pack of either 5.3oz (150g) or 6.2oz (175g) containing 7 & 9 (cookies, bars, biscuits, other ... your choice) in two different flavors (flavours) of either "Original" or "Chewy Caramel". That prices out to well over a half dollar, nearly approaching a full dollar, apiece! The Originals were the smaller package, and I have to suspect that they were not quite "truly" original as they were clearly marked "Gluten Free", so there is that issue to contend with. Meanwhile, of these two available flavors the Originals did not have the word cookie anywhere on the package, but the Chewy Caramel did!?!? They both had the phrase "Irresistible Chocolatey Happiness in a Biscuit" on the wrapper, so I would presume that Jim, and likely other Aussie's would prefer us referring to them as BISCUITS!
I'll rate them as pretty darn good, and somewhat similar to, but not quite up to the standards of the term "Candy Bar", thus cookie seems closer to right on this side of the Big Waters!!!
Out of respect for Jim .... I'll always refer to them, henceforth, as Biscuits!
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If I heard correctly, always questionable these days, these Aussie girls (Shella's) also called them "Cookies" during this obviously tongue in cheek presentation!
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Never heard of a TimTam cookie, but I'd give em a try. 66cnt box for $15,99
OK now that our famous Tim Tams have made it over there as "cookies".....sacrilegious!!!!!
Here's how to eat 'em !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAdZ8PtBsM
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Never heard of a TimTam cookie, but I'd give em a try. 66cnt box for $15,99
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Looks like they call them Cookies too!
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And you call them 'Cookies' ..................sacrilege!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Need a bounty on these imported pests now that their furs aren't worth anything.......they are out of control and what they are doing to native wildlife is really sad.
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Kangaroo Breaks Into Grow Farm Held 4 Days Until He Sobers Up. Farm workers in Australia were stunned this week after discovering an unexpected intruder inside their grow operation: a kangaroo that had broken in and helped himself to the crop.
By the time authorities arrived, the marsupial was stumbling, glassy-eyed, and clearly not his usual self. Rangers said he had been feasting for hours before anyone realized. The kangaroo was safely detained and placed in custody for monitoring. Officials reported it took nearly four full days before he fully sobered up.
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Aren't those the same ones that were featured in a Star-Trek episode so long ago, "The Trouble with Tribbles" or something like that?
They were all cute and cuddly, but multiplied rapidly, and then suddenly became all ferocious with big teeth!?!?
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Aren't those the same ones that were featured in a Star-Trek episode so long ago, "The Trouble with Tribbles" or something like that?
They were all cute and cuddly, but multiplied rapidly, and then suddenly became all ferocious with big teeth!?!?
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Scientists in Australia have discovered a relatively new marsupial species with adorably oversized ears! The creature, found hiding in the woodlands of Queensland, has ears nearly as big as its head, helping it detect even the faintest sounds at night. Researchers say this unique animal could shed light on how small nocturnal mammals evolved to survive in dense forests.
(Yes it would want to kill you :) )
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Wine glass bay Tasmania
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Well, yes it would be, but only if she is willing to admit to it, which I highly doubt!
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Jim, I'm wondering if perhaps that test would be better done using a fine Scotch Whiskey, as it has a much more noticeable smell and taste, so you could likely get by taking only half as many tests of an evening?
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Jim, I'm wondering if perhaps that test would be better done using a fine Scotch Whiskey, as it has a much more noticeable smell and taste, so you could likely get by taking only half as many tests of an evening?
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The Big Merino made a short, but memorable journey 16 years ago. Originally built in 1985 and towering at a spectacular 15.2 meters (50 ft), this 97-tonne giant was carefully moved 500 meters down the Hume Highway in 2007. It stands proud as ever, representing the rich wool industry of the region. If you’re passing through Goulburn, NSW
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Your "Roo's" appear to be as much of a nuisance as the deer population here in Indiana...except as usual, your critters fight back.
If a big one comes through your windscreen at night and is still alive (can be 200lbs+) it's not good.
They do keep panel beaters and car wreckers in business though!
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Your "Roo's" appear to be as much of a nuisance as the deer population here in Indiana...except as usual, your critters fight back.
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That one wants to kill me too they all want to kill me...everything in Aussie land wants to somehow kill mame,eat or gouge my eyes out.whatta world whatta world....
ROFLMAO!!!!
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Not entirely true Bruce .... I'm sure some of them would really rather prefer to eat you, while you're still alive!?!? ;c)
Meanwhile, looks like Jim's Odometer is about to tick over from five & three nines to six & three zeros!!!
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That one wants to kill me too they all want to kill me...everything in Aussie land wants to somehow kill mame,eat or gouge my eyes out.whatta world whatta world....
ROFLMAO!!!!
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That one wants to kill me too they all want to kill me...everything in Aussie land wants to somehow kill mame,eat or gouge my eyes out.whatta world whatta world....
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If I recall correctly, a stingray got him in the chest!?!?
He offered a whole lot of education and entertainment in his short years here among us!!!
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Every kids fav sanga!
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"baby wombats (joeys) are pretty cute."
I know it still wants to claw my eyes out !😊
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"baby wombats (joeys) are pretty cute."
I know it still wants to claw my eyes out !😊
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Is the Wombat nature's original version of a Teddy Bear .... or what???
Baby wombats (joeys) are pretty cute.
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Is the Wombat nature's original version of a Teddy Bear .... or what???
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What is the significance of the potholders on the gate, does it get so damn hot that you need them ?
Yep....in Summer they'll brand you.
Best thing about an Aussie Summer is baking painted steam engine parts in the sun!
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What is the significance of the potholders on the gate, does it get so damn hot that you need them ?
That was my guess, just in case you forgot to wear gloves to open and close the gate.
I can tell you here at the local range, when you go to reset the big black metal animal targets in the summer, you'd darn well better be wearing a good pair of gloves!
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What is the significance of the potholders on the gate, does it get so damn hot that you need them ?
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Hummmm ..... spider on a toothbrush ...... may not quite qualify as funny, depending on who's toothbrush is involved?!?!
Somewhere I read that spiders are likely the most common insect (arachnid actually) that we eat, because they have some tendency to seek out warm moist places, so may occasionally walk into our open mouths while we sleep!
Yikes!!!
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Bonjour Jim,
Is that you ;D ?
LOL no!!!!
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Bonjour Jim,
Is that you ;D ?
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Never had the Witchetty Grubs, when we're kids we tried some the grubs that we 'thought' were ..... didn't end well.
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What is the name of this delish dish Jim ?
The Aussie Cream Bun Bruce....they are really good!!
Thanks Jim, I wonder if I can find this locally ?
WARNING!!
You've been losing a lot of weight the last year, if you do find them......be careful!!!!!
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What is the name of this delish dish Jim ?
The Aussie Cream Bun Bruce....they are really good!!
Thanks Jim, I wonder if I can find this locally ?
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The pink iced fruit finger buns to left are pretty good buttered as well!
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What is the name of this delish dish Jim ?
The Aussie Cream Bun Bruce....they are really good!!
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What is the name of this delish dish Jim ?
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Funny.😊
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Big Stockman at Longreach Hall of Fame
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TRUE THAT!!!
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Leave home !!!!
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Jim.....please tell me the 'Roos' having so much fun are not AI.
I believe it is true but my wife isn't sure.
We are concerned we are on a precipice in this regard. Nothing in
digital format is safe. An 'honest-to-God' printed newspaper is
the only source that cannot be altered after the printing.
And we thought simple old soviet style revisionist history was a
thing of the past. Sorry but I have to say to hard-line lefty liberals,
that horse 'Already done left the barn'. You cannot walk back what you've
said (just because it is 'inconvenient') when it is in print!
I need a good hit of steam fun,
Wayne
AI above.......but this one is real -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3qDprRMdI8
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Jim.....please tell me the 'Roos' having so much fun are not AI.
I believe it is true but my wife isn't sure.
We are concerned we are on a precipice in this regard. Nothing in
digital format is safe. An 'honest-to-God' printed newspaper is
the only source that cannot be altered after the printing.
And we thought simple old soviet style revisionist history was a
thing of the past. Sorry but I have to say to hard-line lefty liberals,
that horse 'Already done left the barn'. You cannot walk back what you've
said (just because it is 'inconvenient') when it is in print!
I need a good hit of steam fun,
Wayne
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Bonjour,
Let's hope artificial intelligence doesn't kill real humor... ;)
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YeeeeeeHaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
That was amazing!!!
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Oh, I sooooooo much want to see the video of Kangaroos on a trampoline!!!
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Oh, I sooooooo much want to see the video of Kangaroos on a trampoline!!!
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Dr Smith, surgeon outside his slab and bark rooms on the goldfields of Victoria 1870-1880.Medical men were always required in these remote areas as accidents and outbreaks of disease were a common occurrence
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The World’s Longest Fence
Extending from Jimbour, Queensland, to the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the Dingo Fence runs a staggering 5,614 kilometres across three states, making it the largest fence in the world. Completed in 1885, the fence was built in an attempt to keep dingoes away from fertile land in the southeast corner of Australia and to protect flocks of sheep grazing in southern Queensland. The fence has been fairly successful, although holes have been found along the fence line, and these days feral camel have damaged several sections in South Australia. The Dingo Fence shouldn’t be confused with Western Australia’s Rabbit-Proof Fence.
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Just chuck it out, no one wants that crap!
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Country Kids they're just different
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my understanding about Aussie Road trains is the necessity of moving goods across Vass expanses of territory with very little civilization in between stops. what say you about this Jim ?
Nailed it in one Bruce -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFkKRh5kcM
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my understanding about Aussie Road trains is the necessity of moving goods across Vass expanses of territory with very little civilization in between stops. what say you about this Jim ?
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Nevada allows triples, as do some other States I believe, but most States only allow doubles.
The thing is that most of Australia is relatively flat, so pulling long "trains" is possible.
Not so in much of the USA!
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Not sure how many other countries have road trains, but Australia sure does.
How'd you like to pass these on the highway? It can be hairy to say the least!
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Adjusting to life in the northern hemisphere can be tough for Aussies
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Now that is SERIOUS CUTENESS right there!!!
But wait ..... if they are a four-legged mammal living in Australia ...... are they dangerous?!?! ;c)
These ones.....only to rats and mice!
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Now that is SERIOUS CUTENESS right there!!!
But wait ..... if they are a four-legged mammal living in Australia ...... are they dangerous?!?! ;c)
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Well ....... he shouldn't be dangling that worm, tempting the shark like it was bait! ;c)
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Now that is frigging hilarious 😂
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The pups look cozy for sure. I sometimes still marvel at the differences from around the world, as you have a nice fire going, we are seeking the AC as the temps are in the 90's for the past week.
We are on the South Coast of New South Wales, West of us (as the crow flies) is the Kosciuszko National Park (Australia's highest 'mountain' Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak, rising to an elevation of 7,310 feet (2,228 metres, a mere bump on the earth for a lot of countries) and Australia's snow fields (we only have a very very small area in Oz that gets enough snow for skiiing, though some years they have to make it at night with massive snow makers) anyway's....this time of the year we get fierce Westerly winds and they are coming straight off the snow peaks in the Kosciuszko National Park hence these cold days.......9-10 months of the year its warm to very hot.
We have already burnt through a fair few tonnes of hardwood already this Winter.
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The Big Tractor in Western Australia
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Ah...you have AI in Australia as well
Not AI Bruce, its real mate -
https://www.westernaustralia.com/au/attraction/world's-biggest-tractor-in-carnamah/670356e07d99e88217a3cba0
Awesome Australia.
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Ah...you have AI in Australia as well
Not AI Bruce, its real mate -
https://www.westernaustralia.com/au/attraction/world's-biggest-tractor-in-carnamah/670356e07d99e88217a3cba0
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Pygmy Possum.....it wants to kill you, it just can't.
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The pups look cozy for sure. I sometimes still marvel at the differences from around the world, as you have a nice fire going, we are seeking the AC as the temps are in the 90's for the past week.
Enjoy your Summer Bruce.
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The pups look cozy for sure. I sometimes still marvel at the differences from around the world, as you have a nice fire going, we are seeking the AC as the temps are in the 90's for the past week.
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All the fire I've needed to warm me today is in the sky ..... just touched 100 degrees F today!
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Enjoying todays Winter fire
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Yes .... it is generally preferred that they do, simply for aesthetic reasons, I'm sure!?!? ;c)
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Bonjour Ji,
Are you the man close to Charlie ;) ;D ?
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Bonjour Ji,
Are you the man close to Charlie ;) ;D ?
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Hey, yeah, I think I see you there Jim ...... way down near the lower right-hand corner!?!? ;c)
I'm waving and have the silly grin :)
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Hey, yeah, I think I see you there Jim ...... way down near the lower right-hand corner!?!? ;c)
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W.H. Hannam wireless operator, Cape Denison, Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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Seen a lot of good Aurora when up in Alaska, but it only rarely makes it as far south as where I live here in the Eastern Sierra.
Still, I do manage to see a fair amount of the phenomena as exhibited by Ipswich, and on a fairly regular basis too boot! ;c)
It was pretty impressive Daniel -
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-30/aurora-australis-southern-lights-may-2025-geomagentic-storm/105357994
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Seen a lot of good Aurora when up in Alaska, but it only rarely makes it as far south as where I live here in the Eastern Sierra.
Still, I do manage to see a fair amount of the phenomena as exhibited by Ipswich, and on a fairly regular basis too boot! ;c)
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Australia's Gold Rushes and "Old West" were true mirrors of the American experience .... with a Distinctive Aussie Flavor!!!
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Cobb & Co was formed in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb, operating horse-drawn mail and passenger coaches between Melbourne and the Victorian goldfields.
The company made their maiden journey, from Melbourne to the Forest Creek gold diggings near Castlemaine, on 30 January 1854. Travelling about 15 miles per hour, they arrived in half the time of their competitors. Routes to Bendigo and Ballarat soon followed.
Cobb & Co was renowned for their speed and reliability, delivering passengers and mail on time despite rough roads and often poor weather conditions.
By the 1870s they operated in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, harnessing some 6,000 horses a day and covering 45,000 kms of road per week.
Unlike their competitors, who often delayed departures waiting for bookings to fill the seats, Cobb & Co ran to a regular timetable. They also offered passengers a more comfortable ride.
Most coaching companies used English vehicles, with rigid bodies and stiff metal springs — ideal for paved city roads, but entirely unsuitable for country Victorian ’tracks’. Cobb & Co imported American coaches.
The coach bodies were suspended on thick strips of leather called thoroughbraces, which helped to ‘isolate the passenger and driver from the jolts and bumps of the rough unmade country roads.’
Finally, Cobb & Co was much faster than their competitors. The company established ‘change stations’ every ten miles along the coach routes, where they changed horses.
Fresh horses meant the coaches could maintain high speeds across long distances. The company employed hundreds of stable hands to ensure the swift and safe exchange of horses at each change station.
With the development of the railway and the introduction of the motor car the horse-drawn coach disappeared, as did the many jobs it engendered.
PHOTO - Cobb & Co coach, Harcourt, Victoria, by Gustav Melbourne Damman, photographer, 1895
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‘CHILDREN LOST IN BUSH’ - 1864
The National Library of Australia. In August 1864, in outback north-western Victoria, the plight of three children lost in the bush for nine days aroused colonists’ primitive fears about nature.
The Duff family lived in a shepherd's hut on Spring Hill station, west of Mount Arapiles. On Friday 12th August 1864, around 9-10am, their mother Hannah sent the children - Isaac (aged 9), Jane (7) and Frank(3½) - to cut and collect broom bush, about a mile from their home.
On this occasion the children ventured further to another patch of broom and wildflowers which lay beyond a brush fence. After gathering the broom the children mistakenly turned north, the opposite direction to home, until they reached a fence (probably the boundary fence between Spring Hill and Heath Hill stations) where they turned north-easterly.
The country was sandy with the bush composed of mallee scrub and vast swathes of heath, in some places dense and almost impenetrable. When they did not return, their father searched on horseback, till near midnight, when the moon went down.
Dozens of local men on horseback combed the cold, harsh Wimmera scrub west of Horsham for days but lost their footsteps in heavy rain.
Three Aboriginal trackers picked up the trail, enabling the children’s father, shepherd John Duff, to spot Isaac Cooper, 9, Jane Cooper, 7, and Frank Duff, 3, emaciated but alive.
It was approaching sunset when Duff rode ahead of the other searchers to higher ground and saw a clump of saplings, closer he saw a covering moving in the wind and found the children asleep, Frank in the middle wrapped in Jane’s dress.
The arrival of the others woke the children, Isaac attempted to sit up and speak but could only groan feebly “Father” and fall back. Frank asked why they had not come sooner. Jane could not open her eyes, only murmured “Cold, cold”. They had walked over 4 miles on the final day.
Emaciated, weak and barely able to speak the children were given crumbs of bread and taken to a waterhole where they were much revived before proceeding to the nearest hut 8 miles away, where they were reunited with their mother about 8pm. Putting the children to bed, Jane was heard saying her prayers as she had each night.
The trackers challenged settlers’ hostile views of Aborigines and they were widely praised.
Dick-a-dick, also known as Djungadjinganook, Jumgumjenanuke, and King Richard, was one of the trackers who found the children on 20th August 1864. Dick-a-Dick was a Wotjobaluk man of the Wergaia language group. After rescuing the Duffs, he would go on to tour England as part of an Aboriginal cricket team that played 47 games between May and October 1868.
The children became well known, inspiring paintings, poems, books and generations of folk stories. The tale was part of the school texts across Victoria from the early 1900s to the late 1960s.
Jane, in particular, was anointed a heroine, for helping carry little Frank and covering her brothers with her dress to keep them warm at night.
Victorian schoolchildren raised over £150 to reward her, and an 1866 British publication, The Australian Babes In The Wood, retold the story as a morality tale for children. When the-then Jane Turnbull hit hard financial times in 1904, Victorians again raised over £360.
After Jane died in 1932 a memorial stone was erected, funded by schoolchildren’s coins, near where the children were found, 10 kilometres from their hut (they had walked 100 kilometres in circles).
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Haha Jim ... but ya know, them "Black Kangaroos" can't be any too rare really, as I see them just like that one, over here all the time, and we don't even have feral Kangaroos! ;c)
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Haha Jim ... but ya know, them "Black Kangaroos" can't be any too rare really, as I see them just like that one, over here all the time, and we don't even have feral Kangaroos! ;c)
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Bruce deer (feral) are a major night time problem here as well and have gotten really bad in the last 20 years with their numbers building up.
Back in the 1800's wealthy Englishman imported a lot of foreign species into Australia to make it more like 'home'.
Lots didn't survive, but unfortunately a lot did and Oz has spent billions trying to eradicate them ever since.
I copied this from Wikipedia, it was easier than me trying to list 'em -
Birds
Acridotheres tristis (Common myna)[83]
Columba livia (Domestic pigeon)[84]
Passer domesticus (House sparrow)[85]
Spilopelia chinensis (Spotted dove)[86]
Sturnus vulgaris (Common starling)[87]
Alauda arvensis (Skylark)[86]
Turdus merula (Eurasian Blackbird)[86]
Passer montanus (Eurasian Tree Sparrow)[86]
Carduelis carduelis (European Goldfinch)[86]
Chloris chloris (European Greenfinch)[86]
Gallus gallus (Red junglefowl)[88]
Gallus varius (green junglefowl)
Pavo cristatus (Indian peafowl)[89]
Anas platyrhynchos (mallard)[86]
Spilopelia senegalensis (laughing dove)[86]
Struthio camelus (common ostrich)[90][91][92]
Turdus philomelos (song thrush)[86]
Pycnonotus jocosus (Red-whiskered bulbul)[93]
Mammals
Bos javanicus (Banteng)[94]
Bubalus bubalis (Water buffalo)[95]
Camelus dromedarius (Feral camel)[96][97]
Canis lupus familiaris (Wild dogs)[76][98]
Capra hircus (Feral goat)[76][99]
Cervus elaphus (Red deer)[100][101][102]
Equus asinus (Feral donkey)[103]
Equus caballus (Feral horse)[87][103][104]
Felis silvestris catus (Feral cat)[76][105]
Lepus europaeus (European hare)[106]
Mus musculus (House mouse)[76][87][107]
Oryctolagus cuniculus cuniculus (Common rabbit)[76][108]
Rattus norvegicus (Brown rat)[109]
Rattus rattus (Black rat)[110]
Sus scrofa domestica (Razorback)[87][111]
Vulpes vulpes (Red fox)[76][112][113]
Funambulus pennantii (Five-lined palm squirrel)[114]
Axis axis (Chital deer)[115][102]
Axis porcinus (Hog deer)[116][102]
Cervus timorensis (Rusa deer)[117][102]
Dama dama (Fallow deer)[118][102]
Cervus unicolor (Sambar Deer)[102][119]
Antilope cervicapra (Blackbuck)
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What are the normal everyday "bitey" critters do you need to be aware of Jim ? I know you have some wicked critters...buy what do you look out for everyday?
Bruce, the main things in no particular order -
Snakes - these are a constant concern and we see them all the time, always have to be on the lookout and be careful of picking anything up in the yard (ALWAYS have to watch the two little terriers (4lb - 5lb dripping wet), so many dogs get snake bit its always a major worry)they swim over from the bushland across from us and come from the bush behind and around us.
Spiders - always careful for spiders and there's so many bad species of them. Just the normal things like be careful picking things up in the yard and outbuildings etc ALWAYS shake boots & shoes. Pretty much let live outside the house (unless they're Funnel Webs, Red Backs or White Tips) any inside the house (unless Huntsman's) its a kill policy.
Goanna's - these are fairly frequent and being 6' - 8' feet long monitor lizards are again a worry for us with the little terriers.
Sea Eagles & Wedge Tail Eagles - these are always roosting in trees across the water from us and circling above hunting.....again the worry is the little terriers. Wedgies are beautifully elegant birds with a wingspan over 9' that can easily take lambs.
Snakes - Did I mention snakes?
Ticks - These are bastards and are a major curse. On the East Coast we have the venomous Paralysis Tick which the roo's, bandicoots, possums, wombats are natural hosts (and are immune to the Paralysis Tick's venom) and because we have so many of those animals around we have a huge tick burden. They kill untold dogs a year (horribly) our dogs are on monthly tick treatments but we still daily search them. There is a tick anti-serum now (its expensive) and if you get your dog to the vet earlier enough there is a good chance of your dog recovering. The Paralysis Tick are just utter bastards, we get on average one or two a week on us. They can take down cows, horses, sheep, all introduced animals they don't have an immunity to the venom.
In the lake and ocean we're always careful of Fortescues (a mini stone fish), stinging jelly fish, Morey eels when we're getting Abalone, Blue Ringed Octopus, Blue Bottles (Portuguese man o' war), Cone Shells, Sea Snakes & Sting Rays......and of course sharks are always, always in the back of your mind.
But remember with all the above.....you're probably got more chance of serious injury at night hitting a big roo in the dark and him coming through the windscreen.
Well daaaang Jim, that's a pretty extensive list ! I was going to pick it apart a little bit and mention just a few, but there is so much more than a few. Thanks for sharing that with me, I was thinking about when I showed all the snow we had and your grandkids said "how can they live there ? ...lol. We all have our area specific issues to deal with. Honestly we have deer that can jump out in front of the car (like your "Roo's) but that's about it.
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Jeezo Jim, that's a rather hectic list .... it's pretty obvious you are not employed by the Aussie tourism bureau nor your local chamber of commerce.
If I lived where you do, I'd be seriously considering a move to .... oh say, Antarctica perhaps, where you'd have none of those nasty concerns, but I don't suppose the terriers would do so good there either!?!?
Bushfire would be our main threat, we learnt five (5) years ago, it doesn't matter how good your bushfire emergency plans that you have in place are.....they go to sh!t in 10 minutes.
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Jeezo Jim, that's a rather hectic list .... it's pretty obvious you are not employed by the Aussie tourism bureau nor your local chamber of commerce.
If I lived where you do, I'd be seriously considering a move to .... oh say, Antarctica perhaps, where you'd have none of those nasty concerns, but I don't suppose the terriers would do so good there either!?!?
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What are the normal everyday "bitey" critters do you need to be aware of Jim ? I know you have some wicked critters...buy what do you look out for everyday?
Bruce, the main things in no particular order -
Snakes - these are a constant concern and we see them all the time, always have to be on the lookout and be careful of picking anything up in the yard (ALWAYS have to watch the two little terriers (4lb - 5lb dripping wet), so many dogs get snake bit its always a major worry)they swim over from the bushland across from us and come from the bush behind and around us.
Spiders - always careful for spiders and there's so many bad species of them. Just the normal things like be careful picking things up in the yard and outbuildings etc ALWAYS shake boots & shoes. Pretty much let live outside the house (unless they're Funnel Webs, Red Backs or White Tips) any inside the house (unless Huntsman's) its a kill policy.
Goanna's - these are fairly frequent and being 6' - 8' feet long monitor lizards are again a worry for us with the little terriers.
Sea Eagles & Wedge Tail Eagles - these are always roosting in trees across the water from us and circling above hunting.....again the worry is the little terriers. Wedgies are beautifully elegant birds with a wingspan over 9' that can easily take lambs.
Snakes - Did I mention snakes?
Ticks - These are bastards and are a major curse. On the East Coast we have the venomous Paralysis Tick which the roo's, bandicoots, possums, wombats are natural hosts (and are immune to the Paralysis Tick's venom) and because we have so many of those animals around we have a huge tick burden. They kill untold dogs a year (horribly) our dogs are on monthly tick treatments but we still daily search them. There is a tick anti-serum now (its expensive) and if you get your dog to the vet earlier enough there is a good chance of your dog recovering. The Paralysis Tick are just utter bastards, we get on average one or two a week on us. They can take down cows, horses, sheep, all introduced animals they don't have an immunity to the venom.
In the lake and ocean we're always careful of Fortescues (a mini stone fish), stinging jelly fish, Morey eels when we're getting Abalone, Blue Ringed Octopus, Blue Bottles (Portuguese man o' war), Cone Shells, Sea Snakes & Sting Rays......and of course sharks are always, always in the back of your mind.
But remember with all the above.....you're probably got more chance of serious injury at night hitting a big roo in the dark and him coming through the windscreen.
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AUSTRALIA’S REMOTEST TOWN.
Kieirrkurra Community.
Without a doubt one of the Remote areas in Australia. Often known as the most remote town in Australia, the Kiwirrkurra Community is situated in Western Australia’s Gibson Desert.
1,200 km east of Port Hedland and 850km west of Alice Springs. Its closest neighbouring community is Walungurru (Kintore). 100km west across state borders in the Northern Territory. This indigenous community of around 170 people is passionate about maintaining its heritage and on the 19th of October 2001 the Kiwirrkurra people gained native title over the 42,900 square kilometres of the surrounding land and waters.
Lying on the flat, red desert, the community is not an easy one to get to. If you are looking to visit the most remote town in Australia, then make sure you go prepared with a 4WD and caravan. Because there is little accommodation and the closest airport is at Tennant Creek around 600km away.
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Its been years since I've been to the town of Mansfeld, I wonder what a 'pizza pie' would be like!
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Nick is still young enough to remember some of these things that some of us have forgotten about. :)
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Nick is still young enough to remember some of these things that some of us have forgotten about. :)
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Even better that it came from June Cleaver 😂
Nick, I wouldn't think you were old enough to know that!?!?
Must have been old reruns you were watching!
Haha even Airplane is quite a bit older than me, but seen it many times :D
Spent many summers at the lake with my grandma watching tv land every night, Beverly Hillbillies is still one of my favorite shows.
Nick, you may be a relatively young man, by this Forum's average for certain, but clearly you have an "Old Soul", which is no doubt why you fit in with all of us old fogies so well!!! ;c)
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Even better that it came from June Cleaver 😂
Nick, I wouldn't think you were old enough to know that!?!?
Must have been old reruns you were watching!
Haha even Airplane is quite a bit older than me, but seen it many times :D
Spent many summers at the lake with my grandma watching tv land every night, Beverly Hillbillies is still one of my favorite shows.
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Hilarious!
Even better that it came from June Cleaver 😂
Nick, I wouldn't think you were old enough to know that!?!?
Must have been old reruns you were watching!
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I am curious how a Tucker equates to food ?
Not sure Bruce, just a word that I've grown up with so it sounds natural to me.
Google says -
"This is some great Aussie slang for food that has been in constant use since the 1850s. The original meaning is of a meal, that is, something to be tucked away (in the stomach)".
Whether they nailed it....not sure, could be a furphy.
I know this is a rather farfetched reach, but we used to bring in food and supplies to the Research Station, when the road was closed to snow, using a Tucker Snow Cat, as long as the lower part of the road was still open. If not, everything including us, was brought in by helicopter!
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Tradesman's jobs and apprenticeships can be a far better path in life, if only you are willing to do something useful, needed and actually work for a living!
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My BIG (5" thick) Webster's dictionary of the English language does list: Tucker = Food (Australian Slang), as the 5th usage.
My smaller (half as thick) Webster's New World dictionary of the American language does not make that listing.
Somewhere, or somehow, I have come across that usage before, so it is understandable to me, though I don't believe I've ever used it myself.
I think from my memory it was, Tucker = Provisions, to mean Food!?!?
Once again, we see that we are two peoples, separated by a common language ...... ;c)
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I am curious how a Tucker equates to food ?
Not sure Bruce, just a word that I've grown up with so it sounds natural to me.
Google says -
"This is some great Aussie slang for food that has been in constant use since the 1850s. The original meaning is of a meal, that is, something to be tucked away (in the stomach)".
Whether they nailed it....not sure, could be a furphy.
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I am curious how a Tucker equates to food ?
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See, this is just the difference between Aussies & Americans, you have a pack of pigs that can eat a person in 10 minutes we have a pack of people that can eat a pig in 10 minutes... :D
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Jim, I have told many of my pickleball friends about the "Gympie-Gympie" nearly everyone looks this plant up with disbelief, then is greatly astonished to discover its true.
Folks seem fascinated with touching them!!!! ,,,,,,, crazy!!!!!
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Jim, I have told many of my pickleball friends about the "Gympie-Gympie" nearly everyone looks this plant up with disbelief, then is greatly astonished to discover its true.
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Do they bite ? they look like they want to bite me...I know he wants to bite/re:KILL me. oh, it looks harmless enough, but he wants to kill me, I'm certain, right proper bastard that is! ;) :D
Nope they don't bite....but as weird as they look they are even weirder.
The males have ankle spurs that are venomous, the venom can kill an animal the size of a dog and cause weeks of unbearable agony for a human.
I KNEW IT ! there is almost nothing in Australia that won't hurt,maim,damage or kill you if given half a chance
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Do they bite ? they look like they want to bite me...I know he wants to bite/re:KILL me. oh, it looks harmless enough, but he wants to kill me, I'm certain, right proper bastard that is! ;) :D
Nope they don't bite....but as weird as they look they are even weirder.
The males have ankle spurs that are venomous, the venom can kill an animal the size of a dog and cause weeks of unbearable agony for a human.
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Do they bite ? they look like they want to bite me...I know he wants to bite/re:KILL me. oh, it looks harmless enough, but he wants to kill me, I'm certain, right proper bastard that is! ;) :D
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Platypus babies are called "Puggles".
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Yummmmm!
I've always especially liked that scene in "Quigley Down Under":
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"Ya gonna shoot it first?"
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‘THE WITCHETTY GRUB’
The witchetty grub is one of the most famous and popular from the nation’s bush tucker menu.
For many generations the larval stage of the large cossid wood moth has been chosen as a key source of protein by the Aboriginal communities.
Growing up to 12cm in length, they bury themselves about 60cm below the ground feeding on the root sap of the Witchetty bush.
However, the name ‘witchetty’ is now used for any ‘fat, white, wood-boring grub’ including swift moths, longicorn beetles and other wood moths found in Australia; and are said to hold a similar taste.
Between November and January, Aboriginal women and children from many tribes would find these grubs by digging around the roots of the Witchetty bush.
Historically, witchetty grubs have been a staple for Aboriginal communities, and today is still an important food and nutritious snack when living in the bush. Acting as a rich source of protein, it has been found that ’10 witchetty grubs are sufficient to provide the daily needs of an adult’.
The liquid centre of a raw witchetty grub tastes like almonds. Witchetty grubs can also be cooked on hot ashes or barbecued. When cooked, their skin becomes crisp like a roast chicken, whilst the inside meat becomes white and chewy.
Depending on your taste buds, these cooked grubs will taste either like chicken or prawns with peanut sauce. Often eaten as an appetiser, they are a quick and easy meal, rich in protein.
Not only are witchetty grubs a staple food, but they also serve as one of the top Aboriginal bush medicines. By crushing the grub into a paste and spreading over injuries, burns and wounds are seen to heal more effectively.
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Whilst rabbit meat sold well at the markets, pelts – at first – attracted little commercial interest. Yet by the 1880s, Australian rabbit skins were being auctioned in their millions in London, a centre for felt- and hat-making.
In Australia, hat-makers established themselves where rabbits were most plentiful: in Tasmania, Victoria (where, according to Warwick Eather and Drew Cottle’s recent study, the number of hat manufactories doubled between 1870 and 1880) and in New South Wales.
Whatever the Australasian pastoralist may think to the contrary, the world cannot do without Australasia’s rabbits.
Percy O Lennon, The Queenslander, 1929.
From the start of the twentieth century to nearly 1950, Australian hatters and furriers bought around one billion rabbit skins, however most were still shipped overseas.
Over this time, the majority of export skins went to North America, where buyers sought rabbits as cheaper alternatives to, and even substitutes for, luxury furs such as sable. With creative preparation, rabbit pelts could be made to look like (and were successfully sold as) fashionably desirable furs.
Accordingly, rabbit skin prices rose dramatically. Australian papers duly reported on potential increases in the cost of hats, then a widely worn item of men’s fashion. Demand was such that anyone able to catch rabbits could make money by selling skins.
PHOTO - About 6,200 rabbits in crates at Woodstock, New South Wales, 1906.
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Man ..... those fangs are something else!
Most spiders are actually at least somewhat poisonous, but few of them have mouth parts capable of breaking your skin for delivery. Obviously, the Funnel Web Spider does not have any problem with that limitation!!!
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Milking Funnel Web Spiders to make antivenom antidote....it saves a lot of lives.
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stylish mates ehh. ;)
I remember my school teachers dressed like this (thankfully only the male ones!).
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Yep its a HOT COUNTRY....and blokes wore this to the office - Thankfully Air Conditioning took off!!!
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Interesting ...... I'll never look at a Drumstick quite the same again!
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1963 Drumstick ice cream introduced
Peters Drumstick was launched in Australia in 1963. It wasn’t invented here though. Like its predecessor the Eskimo Pie, the ice cream was invented in the United States. Drumsticks are now sold in the USA, Canada, Malaysia, Hong Kong and elsewhere across the world. The Drumstick name is owned by Froneri and the product is sold under the Nestlé brand in the US. There have been many variations on the original format of vanilla ice cream in a choc-lined waffle cone, with a chocolate and nut topping.
According to Nestlé, the ice cream was invented in 1928. Their American website says:
At the 1904 World’s Fair, an ice cream maker ran out of bowls. He asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll waffles into cones, turning them into a finger food.
In 1928 the Parker brothers took this great invention even further by adding chocolate coating topped with nuts. One of the brothers’ wives said it looked like a fried chicken leg, thus the “Drumstick” was born!” Today Nestle® Drumstick® is America’s #1 sundae cone.
Yes, it took 35 years for the Drumstick to reach Australia but, with Aussie ingenuity, we managed to make it better. One of the favourite things about the ice cream is the blob of chocolate at the bottom of the cone. It seems this was invented in the Peters factory in Queensland as a way to solve the problem of leaky ice cream cones. In 2020, Peters doubled down on the idea by introducing a range of “Mega Tip” varieties, with twice as much chocolate.
The ownership of the brand caused some problems in Western Australia, where, for five years in the early 2000s, you couldn’t buy a Drumstick. Instead, you had to ask for a Trumpet. (The Trumpet had previously been seen on the east coast as the Toppa Trumpet – another Drumstick look-alike.) When Nestlé bought the Western Australian Peters Ice Cream operation in 2009, the Drumstick returned.
The Streets Ice Cream competitor to Drumstick has a much shorter history. The Cornetto has an Italian-sounding name for a reason – the cones were first produced in 1976 by Spica, an ice cream company based in Naples. Unilever, which owns Streets, bought Spica and began to market the product under their various brands in Europe and around the world
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What makes "Chicken Salt"?
Is it just salt with seasonings added like Spike or other "flavored" salts that we have here???
Its pretty much an Aussie thing, most Americans I've met over the years here have tried it and taken bulk home with them.
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What makes "Chicken Salt"?
Is it just salt with seasonings added like Spike or other "flavored" salts that we have here???
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chicken salt, is that a "thing" there ?
Big time....always was pretty much has been (no one would have that much unless they wanted a coronary).
Be hard to find an Aussie who wouldn't get chicken salt on hot chips at the fish & chips shop.
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This is very interesting to me, and I will certainly have to look up the image of the seemingly amazing eclipse photo that is referred to in the text!
I was born and raised in the veritable shadow of the Lick Observatory, which sits atop Mt. Hamilton immediately east of the Santa Clara Valley, which forms the south end of San Francisco Bay. Originally known by a quote from Jack London, as "the Valley of Heart's Delight". We generally called it "Pruneville grown large" in my youth, as it was formerly perhaps some of the world's finest orchard land before population and subdivision took out all the orchards and replaced them with housing tracts and shopping centers.
It is now known worldwide by the moniker "Silicon Valley" due to the computer based high-tech industries that centered there about the time I moved away!
Perhaps coincidentally, I now live only about 100 yds south and over two hundred miles East, of a due East-West line, that essentially passes through Mt. Hamilton and the Lick Observatory, from the house that I was raised in.
Lick was originally built as a world class observatory that housed what was then known as "The Great" 36-inch refractor scope that was a truly significant instrument in its day. It was also perhaps the first significant "mountain top" observatory ever built. However, like so many other early astronomy sites, its usefulness was eclipsed by light pollution from the ever-growing Santa Clara Valley and other, more modern facilities. Still, its significance did persist as an educational tool in part due to its close proximity to U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University. I do remember taking a couple of school field trips up to the observatory for some great tours and also going up a few times at night for special open house events that allowed viewing through lessor scopes, though once we did get to "look through" the BIG scope, or at least the monitor hooked to it!
It is interesting to note that the observatory is experiencing a sort of Re-birth due to "adaptive technologies" that once again allow it to do real cutting-edge science, and thus new larger instruments have been installed and used in unique ways that overcome the light pollution and low altitude of the site!
I well recall the glint of the afternoon sun shining off of the distant dome of the observatory, easily seen from most anywhere in the valley. Took girls on dates up there as well ... just to show them some stars!!! ;c)
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Image of eclipse totality, captured by 1922 Lick Observatory's Australian Expedition, which proved in part, Einstein's Theory of Relativity!
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THE ECLIPSE ADVENTURE THAT SOUGHT TO CONFIRM THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY - 1922
Atlas Obscura.
It took 35 tons of equipment and a lengthy voyage to remote Western Australia.
On August 30, 1922, astronomer William Wallace Campbell arrived at Wallal, Western Australia, for the solar eclipse that would happen three weeks later. It had already been quite a journey.
In July, Campbell—director of California’s Lick Observatory—had sailed roughly 7,500 miles from San Francisco to Sydney. From there, he crossed Australia by train to reach Perth, then traveled north by ship for 10 days to reach the town of Broome.
At this point his expedition party was around 35 people strong: it included his wife, Elizabeth Campbell, and scientists from Australia, India and Canada. From Broome, two boats carrying 35 tons of equipment sailed to Eighty Mile Beach, the final stop before they could reach their destination of Wallal.
Wallal is in a uniquely remote position. To the east is the Great Sandy Desert, an arid landmass larger than the whole of New Zealand.
In perfect conditions, on the afternoon of September 21, 1922, the sky darkened. Months of preparation—and years of attempts—had led Campbell to these 5 minutes and 19 seconds. What he saw that day is now part of the Lick Observatory Collection.
One of his eclipse photographs shows the sun’s corona burning around a dark moon; around it, the sky is dotted with circles. These circles “denote the positions of stars around the edge of the sun, which are only visible at this position when an eclipse occurs,” says Norton. It’s one of her favorite images in the collection. “
“This photo of the total solar eclipse is stunning both from an artistic and scientific point of view—first of all, it’s gorgeous, but more importantly, it confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity.”
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You've got a spider that rarely bites...& is NOT deadly, send that bastard somewheres else, it surely doesn't belong in Australia !
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The VW Kombi van was a popular choice as a vehicle for surfing safaris in the sixties and seventies in Australia.
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Had one from the early 70's until just a few years ago. Sold it to the right person on the promise that he'd do right by its restoration .... and he has!!!
Here it is now, being shown in events from Lake Havasu to the So. Cal. Coast:
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I thought that was perfectly accurate and appropriate, but Paralee didn't seem to agree with my assessment when I read it to her .... go figure?!?!
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I thought that was perfectly accurate and appropriate, but Paralee didn't seem to agree with my assessment when I read it to her .... go figure?!?!
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If you don't mind the language, you have to watch this short movie. Only 9 minutes long
and funny as heck.
Seen that one before, quite some time back.
Enjoyed it just as much or perhaps even more this time around ..... "the voice said"!!! ;c)
That's cause I posted it here back on Jan. 24. 2023.
It's still funny as hell.
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What a sad story ... man's indignity to man!
Thanks for sharing that thought provoking piece Jim!!!
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‘TAMBO’-Aboriginal Circus Performers
Australian Geographic- 1883
A gruesome discovery revealed the fate of Tambo, an Aboriginal man put on show in the USA in the 1800s.
In the depths of a basement at a nondescript funeral parlour in suburban America, a surprise discovery began the unravelling of a fascinating and convoluted tale stretching all the way back to 19th-century north Queensland.
The find revived an almost-forgotten story of Indigenous history and brought some closure for descendants of a group of Aboriginal men and women whose fates, until then, were unknown.
In 1993, staff at J.C. Smith’s funeral home in Cleveland, Ohio, were clearing out the building after the business closed when one of them uncovered the mummified body of an Aboriginal man.
Tambo, as he was known by his English name, was one of 17 Indigenous men, women and children – including his wife – who were ‘recruited’ as star attractions in Barnum and Bailey’s famous circus during the 1880s and ’90s.
The story begins in 1883 on Hinchinbrook and Palm islands, in Far North Queensland. Robert A. Cunningham, a recruiter for Barnum and Bailey’s circus, had travelled there to find subjects for his next show-stopping exhibition, Ethnological Congress of Strange Tribes. He sought to add to his collection of indigenous people, which already included Zulus from Africa, Toda from southern India, Nubians from southern Egypt and Sioux from the USA.
It is still unclear just how forcefully Cunningham persuaded his subjects, but the records show that six Aboriginal men, two women and a boy from the Wulguru clan on Palm Island and Hinchinbrook made their way to Chicago by ship in 1883.
More than likely, Cunningham tricked them or offered incentives, such as clothing and the promise of adventure. “Displacement and dispossession in the colonies, chance and curiosity” may also have played a role, writes Roslyn. Only two of the first group spoke any English and records indicate they went with Cunningham willingly.
Promoted as ‘Australian cannibals’, they performed – alongside Jumbo the elephant – dancing, singing and throwing boomerangs to delight the crowds. More than 30,000 people came to see these ‘Australian savages’ on their first day in Chicago.
The group toured the dime museums and fairs of the USA, which were famous for their ‘edutainment’ – entertainment and moral education for the working class. Other attractions included bearded women, people with disfigurements, dwarfs and giants, among others.
It’s believed Tambo succumbed to tuberculosis or pneumonia barely a year after leaving Australia – it’s unclear how old he was when he died. Cunningham was persuaded to hand over Tambo’s body for permanent display – and before the traditional death rituals could be completed, the corpse was taken away and embalmed.
“He was subjected to a final, terrible indignity,” writes Roslyn. “His embalmed body was placed on show in Drew’s Dime Museum, and it remained on display there and elsewhere in Cleveland until well into the 20th century.”
One by one, members of the group fell ill and died. By 1885, just three remained: Jenny, her son Toby, and Billy. It’s thought the trio eventually went back to Australia with Cunningham, but the records are unclear.
Cunningham returned to Australia in 1892 to recruit a second group of mostly Nyawaygi people, from Mungalla station, but the heyday of dime museums was at an end and the eight performers were less successful.
Again, many died or disappeared until just two remained. They returned to Australia and were likely taken to a mission or Aboriginal reserve, where they were not heard of again.
Tambo finally came home in 1994, about 110 years after he left for the USA. He was buried in a traditional ceremony led by Walter Palm Island, a descendant of Tambo, on Palm Island.
PHOTO - Tambo (likely the man sitting second from right), was one of 9 Aborigines who were circus performers in the 1800s
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If you don't mind the language, you have to watch this short movie. Only 9 minutes long
and funny as heck.
Seen that one before, quite some time back.
Enjoyed it just as much or perhaps even more this time around ..... "the voice said"!!! ;c)
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If you don't mind the language, you have to watch this short movie. Only 9 minutes long
and funny as heck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWs4WA--eKU
Seen this a few times before....love it!
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If you don't mind the language, you have to watch this short movie. Only 9 minutes long
and funny as heck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWs4WA--eKU
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That's funny for a whole lot of reasons, mainly because WOMEN don't have testicles. 😂. (But wait, they can if they wish them now) & we must all go along with it.😳
I won't go along with using "their" preferred pronouns, for exactly the same reasons that I won't try to talk to a schizophrenic's imaginary friends!!!
I like that 😄
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That's funny for a whole lot of reasons, mainly because WOMEN don't have testicles. 😂. (But wait, they can if they wish them now) & we must all go along with it.😳
I won't go along with using "their" preferred pronouns, for exactly the same reasons that I won't try to talk to a schizophrenic's imaginary friends!!!
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That's funny for a whole lot of reasons, mainly because WOMEN don't have testicles. 😂. (But wait, they can if they wish them now) & we must all go along with it.😳
Our Grandparents wouldn't believe our world now would they Bruce!
Shoot....I don't believe what they're trying to make us all believe. As Candace Owens says " I will not indulge in they're mental dementia show"
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That's funny for a whole lot of reasons, mainly because WOMEN don't have testicles. 😂. (But wait, they can if they wish them now) & we must all go along with it.😳
Our Grandparents wouldn't believe our world now would they Bruce!
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That's funny for a whole lot of reasons, mainly because WOMEN don't have testicles. 😂. (But wait, they can if they wish them now) & we must all go along with it.😳
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St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick’s Day has always been the day for the Irish in Australia. On 17 March 1795 there were rowdy festivities among the Irish convicts, and the cells were filled with prisoners.
Later the occasion gained in respectability, marked by formal dinners attended by the colonial elite, many with no Irish connections.
By the early 20th century, parades were held in capital cities and rural centres. These were demonstrations of connections with an Irish Catholic past, or support for Irish political causes.
Today, St Patrick’s Day in Australia has evolved into a fun day marked by revelry, green beer and comical hats.
On that day, some say that there are only two kinds of people — those who are Irish, and those who wish they were.
Image: St Patrick’s Day Melbourne, 1920
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Bonjour Jim,
I like this topic, It is varied and hilarious ;D
Where do you find all your pictures ?
Thanks Raphael, just here and there on the net :)
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Bonjour Jim,
I like this topic, It is varied and hilarious ;D
Where do you find all your pictures ?
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Its not a fur hat on a pole, its a Pelican :)
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Australia's Baby Boomer Generation the rockers
Circa 1960
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Bruce the Aussie builder was going through a house he had just built for the woman who owned it. She was telling him what colour to paint each room. They went into the first room and she said "I want this room to be painted a light blue."
The builder went to the front door and yelled, "GREEN SIDE UP!" When he went back into the house, she told him that the next room was to be bright red. The builder went to the front door and yelled "GREEN SIDE UP!"
When he came back, the woman said "I keep telling you colours, but you go out the front and yell 'green side up' - what is that for?" The builder said, "Don't worry about that, I've just got a couple of Kiwis laying the turf out front."
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1991 Honorable Mention
Confirmed True by Darwin
One morning I was called to the emergency room by the head ER nurse. She directed me to a patient who had refused to describe his problem other then to say that he "needed a doctor who took care of men's troubles." The patient, about 40, was pale, febrile, and obviously uncomfortable, and had little to say as he gingerly opened his trousers to expose a bit of angry red and black-and-blue scrotal skin.
After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul-smelling, stained gauze wrapped about his scrotum, which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood, extended down the left scrotum.
Amid the matted hair, edematous skin, and various exudates, I saw some half-buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several days earlier, he replied, he had injured himself in the machine shop where he worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun. The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up wallboard.
We x-rayed the patients scrotum to locate the staples; admitting him to the hospital; and gave him tetanus antitoxin, a broad-spectrum antibacterial therapy, and hexachlorophene sitz baths prior to surgery the next morning.
The procedure consisted of exploration and debridement of the left side of the scrotal pouch. Eight rusty staples were retrieved, and the skin edges were trimmed and freshened. The left testis had been avulsed and was missing. The stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal, debrided, and the vessels ligated properly, though not much of a hematoma was present. Through-and through Penrose drains were sutured loosely in site, and the skin was loosely closed.
Convalescence was uneventful, and before his release from the hospital less then a week later, the patient confided the rest of his story to me.
An unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of masturbating by holding his penis against the canvas drive-belt of a large floor-based piece of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive-belt, he was thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work.
I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification.
By Dr. William A. Morton, Jr. MD, a retired urologist residing in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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Jim, is that a wooden blowup doll?
An umbrella :)
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What Trump should have got.
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weren't you the one complaining about political posts about a month ago Tommy... :D
News breaking ..."Volodymyr Zelensky ready to sign US minerals deal" some folks don't understand what real leaderships is & top negotiating skills are.
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What Trump should have got.
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Today's riddle for seniors...Here is the situation:
You are on a horse, galloping at a constant speed.
On your right side is a sharp drop-off.
On your left side is an elephant traveling at the same speed as you.
Directly in front of you is a galloping kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it.
Behind you is a lion running at the same speed as you and the kangaroo.
What must you do to get out of this highly dangerous situation?
Think logically before you track down for the answer.
Quietly get off the merry-go-round and go home!
THEN ......................have a beer or two!
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Now you guys are thinking in the land down under 😃 I think we're working on Upper & lower USA now 😆
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Now you guys are thinking in the land down under 😃 I think we're working on Upper & lower USA now 😆
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
I had one of these, my first car, 1172 cc side valve engine, vacuum wipers, rod operated drum brakes and 3 speed crash gear box (stick shift, no synchromesh). Interesting for a novice driver, learned a lot...
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but...did it make 55mph ?
Never found a downhill stretch long enough!
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
I had one of these, my first car, 1172 cc side valve engine, vacuum wipers, rod operated drum brakes and 3 speed crash gear box (stick shift, no synchromesh). Interesting for a novice driver, learned a lot...
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but...did it make 55mph ?
Never found a downhill stretch long enough!
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Think I'll need to get with a translator on that one!
He's a bogan alright....a bogan is Aussie for 'redneck'.
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
I had one of these, my first car, 1172 cc side valve engine, vacuum wipers, rod operated drum brakes and 3 speed crash gear box (stick shift, no synchromesh). Interesting for a novice driver, learned a lot...
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but...did it make 55mph ?
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"Me mates Mum"....say that 3 times real fast :D
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
I had one of these, my first car, 1172 cc side valve engine, vacuum wipers, rod operated drum brakes and 3 speed crash gear box (stick shift, no synchromesh). Interesting for a novice driver, learned a lot...
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Think I'll need to get with a translator on that one!
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
And that's imperial miles to the gallon, convert that to you guys weird :) U.S MPG and it would be a fair bit more.
Don't quite know what you are getting at here Jim?
The "Imperial" mile seems to be the same as the U.S. mile at 5,280 ft. or 1,760 yds or 8 Furlongs or 80 Chains. Now admittedly, your Imperial Gallon is larger than our U.S. Gallon by about 20% so your ten HP car would be getting significantly less mileage on a gallon of gas than my little Paseo, as if I was using Imperial Gallons in it, I'd be getting neigh onto 50 mpg, whereas if your car was using U.S. Gallons it would only be getting about 32 mpg!
I don't quit get your 20 ounce Pint in Imperial measure as I always thought the old English saying was " A Pint is a Pound (16 ounces) the whole world around"?!?!
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
And that's imperial miles to the gallon, convert that to you guys weird :) U.S MPG and it would be a fair bit more.
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I would be curious to know how a 10HP car pulls a family of 4 around ? The (up to) 40 mpg I can understand, cause it ain't got no dang power 😂
Ten horses, hitched to a wagon, pulled a whole lot of tonnage back in the day.
I have an older Toyota Paseo that makes an excellent little road "skate", and while I'm fairly certain that it has a bit more than ten horsepower, it does get about 40 mpg on a fairly regular basis!
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Another "Bastard" of a plant, I looked this up further & this is an ultra wicked plant to come in contact with ! Is this plant common in your area Jim & have you or anyone you know been in contact with the God awful pain inducing plant ?
Thankfully we're too far South for this species Bruce.
Have a look at this guy!
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I hope this guy made enough money off of this adventure to compensate him for months long pain. I doubt he'll be doing that again.
That boofhead makes a living going around the world and getting stung/bitten by the worst critters imaginable!
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Bruce and Steve , 2 Australians ,flew to England for a working holiday after applying for a few jobs and missing out they saw a job advertisement for a butler and chauffeur for an elderly titled lady. “This is us “ Bruce says to Steve.”
But we have no idea about those jobs” says Steve. “ leave it to me mate, replies Bruce, “ I’ll do all the talking “
So they go along to the interview and it all is going along brilliantly, as the interview is coming to an end ,The titled lady says “ well you young men seem to be perfect for the job all I need to see now is your testimonials.
As they are walking back down the driveway afterwards, Steve says to Bruce “ If you knew the difference between testimonials and testicles I think we might have got those jobs “
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Bruce and Steve , 2 Australians ,flew to England for a working holiday after applying for a few jobs and missing out they saw a job advertisement for a butler and chauffeur for an elderly titled lady. “This is us “ Bruce says to Steve.”
But we have no idea about those jobs” says Steve. “ leave it to me mate, replies Bruce, “ I’ll do all the talking “
So they go along to the interview and it all is going along brilliantly, as the interview is coming to an end ,The titled lady says “ well you young men seem to be perfect for the job all I need to see now is your testimonials.
As they are walking back down the driveway afterwards, Steve says to Bruce “ If you knew the difference between testimonials and testicles I think we might have got those jobs “
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Another "Bastard" of a plant, I looked this up further & this is an ultra wicked plant to come in contact with ! Is this plant common in your area Jim & have you or anyone you know been in contact with the God awful pain inducing plant ?
Thankfully we're too far South for this species Bruce.
Have a look at this guy!
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I hope this guy made enough money off of this adventure to compensate him for months long pain. I doubt he'll be doing that again.
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Thankfully we're too far South for this species Bruce.
Have a look at this guy!
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An outing for this group at an unknown location in South Australia. The vehicle is a 1920 Buick Tourer one of the many cars that had been imported into Australia in chassis form, then the car's body was built by the South Australian company Holden's Motor Body Builders Ltd which eventually produced the Holden car many years later. The company was founded by James Alexander Holden in 1919 and in 1924 the company became the sole Australian car body builder for General Motors with many brands of cars including Chevrolet, Dodge, Durant, Essex, Fiat and Hudson having been imported into Australia.
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Showed Ang this one, she had a good laugh at that one mate.😄
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My photo, a little up the road from our home looking to the West from the Coast.
That peak that you can see in the distance was named 'Pigeon House Mountain' by Captain Cook when he navigated up the East Coast of Australia when he saw it on April 21, 1770.
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I gotta say, that Dingo fence doesn't look all that un-impenetrable to me. Can't a Dingo jump it about anywhere ?
That's a pretty crap pic of the fence Bruce.
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Here is the fiercest animal in St Paul In. the notorious Maui T Rex, you don't dare bother this beast when its sleeping!
https://youtu.be/rC9TfNtYni0
HAHAHA LOL!!!
Elcee is all of 4lbs dripping wet, the loveliest, loving, cutest adorable dog you could imagine.......EXCEPT when she's sleeping.
Move your feet in bed if she's down that end, or move your arms if she's up that end....and you just can't imagine the fierce terrible growls!
Like she'd rip your throat out! The cheek!!!!!!
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Here is the fiercest animal in St Paul In. the notorious Maui T Rex, you don't dare bother this beast when its sleeping!
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Have you ever come across a cassowary Jim ?
They are right up in the North of Queensland Bruce, saw them when I was a teenager with my family on a holiday.
Dad was a soldier in WWII in New Guinea fighting the Japs, there's a lot more Cassowaries in New Guinea and he gave us so many warning about being careful of them.
they seem like right proper "Bastards" just daring you to look at them straight in the eye, so they could then rip a hole in your guts.
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Have you ever come across a cassowary Jim ?
They are right up in the North of Queensland Bruce, saw them when I was a teenager with my family on a holiday.
Dad was a soldier in WWII in New Guinea fighting the Japs, there's a lot more Cassowaries in New Guinea and he gave us so many warning about being careful of them.
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That's a pretty crap pic of the fence Bruce.
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THE DINGO FENCE - 1885
Nature and Parks Coober Pedy.
It is the longest fence in the world, the Dingo or Dog Fence, and you can see a section of this 5,600 km barrier near the Kanku-Breakaways, 15km from Coober Pedy.
Built in 1885 to protect the sheep in the southern states, by keeping out dingoes and other wild dogs. Originally 8,614 km long, it was shortened in the 1980's.
This phenomenal fence spans from Queensland in the north-east to the Great Australian Bight in South Australia in the south to protect the south-eastern farms.
Protection measures against dingoes by this fence, include a height of up to 2 metres and it extends 30 cm into the ground to prevent digging underneath. Other measures along the fence include lighting and poison bait traps.
The Dingo Fence is made of wooden posts connected by wire mesh (electric in some sections) and much of it is lit at night by alternating red and white fluorescent lamps and patrolled by a staff of 23 full-time employees.
It costs almost $750,000 to maintain each year, but it's still not 100 percent effective. Dingoes do get through—sometimes when wild camels smash holes in the fence
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Re; Quokkas, this strikes me as a happy little beast, are they bities as well as everything else in Australia?
Nope these ones are too happy :)
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Re; Quokkas, this strikes me as a happy little beast, are they bities as well as everything else in Australia?
Nope these ones are too happy :)
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Won't be posting for a while.
Just to let you all know, I've been admitted to Hospital. I've just gone and poisoned myself. I ate what I thought was an onion but it was a Daffodil Bulb. They said I'll be out sometime in the Spring.....
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"The box jellyfish" Looks painful as heck...
"but at least they won't kill you."
I imagine its not because of lack of trying...nasty stinging bastards 🤕
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"The box jellyfish" Looks painful as heck...
These aren't much fun either Bruce, lost count of how many times I've been stung by these in the surf.....but at least they won't kill you.
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Of all the Aussie biters & stingers.....these are the things that REALLY scare me
https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/arrived-early-health-warning-for-aussie-beachgoers/news-story/d2bfcc93aa42fadb17b0602ab1a01e71
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Happy Australia day, mate 😊
Thanks Bruce :)
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Happy Australia day, mate 😊
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Ouch...
I remember about 34yrs ago when we took our boat to Dale hollow TN. & Ang got sun burnt pretty bad, she was in extreme pain for the next few days. 😕
I've been there sooo many times Bruce.....my ancestors hailed from the Scottish highlands....my skin ain't made for this UV that we get down here.
You can't go even into the smallest town across Oz and not see a Skin Specialist centre.
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I remember about 34yrs ago when we took our boat to Dale hollow TN. & Ang got sun burnt pretty bad, she was in extreme pain for the next few days. 😕
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THE LONELIEST TOWN IN AUSTRALIA
The tiny outpost has a population of ZERO after pub owner, 88, dies – and he hadn't sold a drop in five years.
With little more than a derelict hotel, broken petrol pump and a vandalised phone box to its name, the abandoned town of Betoota stands alone in the middle of a barren desert plain.
It was once a busy meeting place for farmers and drovers moving their cattle through customs and onto the markets of South Australia.
But the deserted outpost, which lies 170km east of the nearest populated area, Birdsville, in Queensland, is now officially the smallest ghost town in the country.
And with an official population of zero, the town - which sees temperatures soar into the 50s - is also the tiniest by resident and building count in the world, according to the Herald Sun.
For several decades it was home to just one resident - Polish-born Simon Remienko.
He ran the 12-year-old Betoota Hotel, the only building in town, for 44 years before shutting up shop in 1997.
But he continued to live alone in the town until he passed away in 2004 at the age of 88.
Speaking in 2002, he told The Age: 'I own the place - if you own something and it makes you happy, there is no reason to leave it.
'There is always something for me to do here. If I don't look after myself, nobody else will.'
He stocked a full bar in the years leading up to his death, despite not having sold a drop in five years.
Betoota's history can be traced back to to the late 1880s when it was used as a customs post and Cobb & Co change station.
Hundreds of workers were attracted to the area after the building of a Rabbit Proof Fence in 1895, meaning the construction of a police station and a court was necessary.
But when changes were introduced to the customs services in 1901, population numbers began to dwindle.
In 1928, an inspection of the town revealed that in the past five years no one had been taken into custody and so the courthouse and police station closed their doors.
The town started to fall rapidly into a state of neglect and disrepair.
But Mr Remienko breathed new energy into the town when he purchased the hotel for £3,500 in 1953.
Now the ghost town only comes alive on the last weekend in August each year for The Betoota Races.
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Bonjour Jim,
I wish you all the best for 2025 and hope you will go on sharing your humour with us, good resolution isn't it ;)
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"More than two-thirds of the country receives less than 500 mm of annual rain, making it an arid region. The Outback, located in the middle of the continent, is especially affected by this dry climate, making it inhospitable for human habitation." This may be why. 😊
Yes a little bit....but there are people out there. Massive cattle stations (a few of the boarders at my school had 1,000,000 plus acre stations) and there's towns dotted around.
Some parts aren't much different from places like Arizona etc....just people want to live near the coast mostly or at least where its green :)
Oh, come on now Jim and fess up.
The real reason Australia is so thinly populated is that Great Britian just didn't have any more convicts than that to send!?!? ;c)
As I see it, getting kicked out of England (or most any of Europe for that matter) and sent to Australia is about the best trade any sane person could ever hope for. I would have defaulted on my taxes in a heartbeat ..... just so I'd get sent there!!!
We didn't have a 'War of Independence' like you fella's did, but Mother England is long gone!
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"More than two-thirds of the country receives less than 500 mm of annual rain, making it an arid region. The Outback, located in the middle of the continent, is especially affected by this dry climate, making it inhospitable for human habitation." This may be why. 😊
Yes a little bit....but there are people out there. Massive cattle stations (a few of the boarders at my school had 1,000,000 plus acre stations) and there's towns dotted around.
Some parts aren't much different from places like Arizona etc....just people want to live near the coast mostly or at least where its green :)
Oh, come on now Jim and fess up.
The real reason Australia is so thinly populated is that Great Britian just didn't have any more convicts than that to send!?!? ;c)
As I see it, getting kicked out of England (or most any of Europe for that matter) and sent to Australia is about the best trade any sane person could ever hope for. I would have defaulted on my taxes in a heartbeat ..... just so I'd get sent there!!!
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"More than two-thirds of the country receives less than 500 mm of annual rain, making it an arid region. The Outback, located in the middle of the continent, is especially affected by this dry climate, making it inhospitable for human habitation." This may be why. 😊
Yes a little bit....but there are people out there. Massive cattle stations (a few of the boarders at my school had 1,000,000 plus acre stations) and there's towns dotted around.
Some parts aren't much different from places like Arizona etc....just people want to live near the coast mostly or at least where its green :)
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Honestly now Jim ...... is this stuff any good?
I've heard that it is really salty, and perhaps little else!?!?
I can't imagine life without it, every Aussie I've ever known who went o'seas on a holiday packed at least two jars in their luggage to get them through their trip :)
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I've heard that it is really salty, and perhaps little else!?!?
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I just got to tell you this story Jim. When on vacation Hawaii, approx 2007, Ang & I went on a catamaran cruise with about 40-50 other people, it was a come as you are assortment of people, and had a few guest involved shows (I was dressed up in a hula skirt & coconut bra along with a few other guys) well, we ran into this really fun couple couple, and after talking to them for a minute it was obvious they we're Aussies, the lady was dressed to the nines and after chatting a few minutes she asked if we had any grandchildren, we said no, ( didn't have any at that time) she said just as well " they're little Bastards anyway", Ang & I have recounted that story many times over the years, always with a hardy laugh.
That's just a GREAT story Bruce, made me really chuckle :D :D .....appreciate you sharing it!!
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I just got to tell you this story Jim. When on vacation Hawaii, approx 2007, Ang & I went on a catamaran cruise with about 40-50 other people, it was a come as you are assortment of people, and had a few guest involved shows (I was dressed up in a hula skirt & coconut bra along with a few other guys) well, we ran into this really fun couple couple, and after talking to them for a minute it was obvious they we're Aussies, the lady was dressed to the nines and after chatting a few minutes she asked if we had any grandchildren, we said no, ( didn't have any at that time) she said just as well " they're little Bastards anyway", Ang & I have recounted that story many times over the years, always with a hardy laugh.
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Now mind you, generally speaking, I do really like snakes ..................... but that might just be a little too much, even for me!!!
We have 172 species of snakes (not including sea snakes) in Oz......and they're all protected.
I take it that the Aussie Guberment protects just about everything in Oz ............ except the people?!?!
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Now mind you, generally speaking, I do really like snakes ..................... but that might just be a little too much, even for me!!!
We have 172 species of snakes (not including sea snakes) in Oz......and they're all protected.
I take it that the Aussie Guberment protects just about everything in Oz ............ except the people?!?!
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Now mind you, generally speaking, I do really like snakes ..................... but that might just be a little too much, even for me!!!
We have 172 species of snakes (not including sea snakes) in Oz......and they're all protected.
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Now mind you, generally speaking, I do really like snakes ..................... but that might just be a little too much, even for me!!!
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There's been an accident in Broady, but the tow trucks are already on site. Still, traffic is backed up there as yet!?!?
Nailed!!!!!!
You've been a good tutor, Mate! ;c)
Only wish I could come visit someday to take advanced lessons!?!?
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There's been an accident in Broady, but the tow trucks are already on site. Still, traffic is backed up there as yet!?!?
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DAMN ..... That sure is good to know!
I ought to print that out on a card and carry it in my wallet!!! ;c)
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This is a BIG thing in OZ.....and thank you!!!!
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I often wonder how a snake goes about sneaking up on a Kangaroo or a crocodile ? What's the matter with these critters...ain't got no wits about them ?
We never let our little dog out by itself.
We don't let our little poof ball Maltese out to much at night either (she's A scaredy pooch anyway) you never know when a coyote might be lurking in the shadows & they can swoop in & snatch up a small dog in seconds!
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OMG soooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!
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I often wonder how a snake goes about sneaking up on a Kangaroo or a crocodile ? What's the matter with these critters...ain't got no wits about them ?
We never let our little dog out by itself.
We don't let our little poof ball Maltese out to much at night either (she's A scaredy pooch anyway) you never know when a coyote might be lurking in the shadows & they can swoop in & snatch up a small dog in seconds!
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I often wonder how a snake goes about sneaking up on a Kangaroo or a crocodile ? What's the matter with these critters...ain't got no wits about them ?
They'd have to be pretty crook I reckon Bruce. A roo is a fairly formidable opponent.
We are infested with rabbits presently, Jen called me to the window a few weeks ago and there was a large 8' python at the back of the house and it had two very distinct lumps about 3' apart in it.
We never let our little dog out by itself.
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Yeah but ........ Crocs get WAY bigger than Roos!
It ain't no mean feat swallowing a roo.
https://www.mangaloretoday.com/today/Watch-a-python-kills-and-then-swallows-crocodile-whole.html
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They'll easily swallow a roo Daniel.
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Bonjour Jim,
I enjoy your posts and wish there were more from the rest of the world !
Thanks Raphaël :)
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Bonjour Jim,
I enjoy your posts and wish there were more from the rest of the world !
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1978 Ford Falcon Cobra
In the US, the impressive high-performance tire shredders were extinct by 1978.
While the Mustang was now a Pinto-based econocar and the Torino GT was history, in Australia, Ford released an exciting muscle car that oozed Shelby vibes.
Based on the Falcon XC Hardtop, the Cobra received a bespoke Sno-White paint with blue Le Mans-style twin stripes and a series of aesthetic upgrades that made it look far more aggressive than its standard counterpart.
Under the hood, it hid either the 351-ci (first 200 cars) or the 302-ci (last 200) Cleveland V8, capable of 217 and 202 hp (SAE net), respectively.
Far cooler and more potent than the performance-looking, US-built Mustang King Cobra could run the quarter mile in the low-17-second range.
While that wasn't particularly impressive, especially when compared to earlier Aussie muscle cars, by 1978 standards, it was more than adequate for a performance-oriented ride.
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A male patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath.
"Nurse,"' he mumbles from behind the mask, "are my testicles black?"
Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash your upper body and feet."
He struggles to ask again, "Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?"
Concerned that he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers. She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand and his testicles gently in the other.
She looks very closely and says, "There's nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look fine."
The man slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very, very closely:
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Maggie, a blonde city girl, marries an Australian dairy farmer.
One morning, on his way out to check on the cows, farmer John says to Maggie,
"The insemination man is coming over to impregnate one of our cows today.
I drove a nail into the 4 by 2 just above the cow's stall in the barn.
You show him where the cow is when he gets here,
OK?"
Then the farmer leaves for the fields.
After a while, the artificial insemination man arrives and knocks on the front door.
Maggie takes him down to the barn.
They walk along the row of cows and when she sees the nail, she tells him,"This is the one ... right here."
Terribly impressed by what he thought just might be another dizzy blonde, the man asks,
"Tell me lady, how did you know this is the cow to be bred?"
That's simple. By the nail over its stall", Maggie explains very confidently.
Then the man asks, "What's the nail for?"
She turns and walks away, and with complete confidence, says,
"I guess it's to hang your trousers on."
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You know that's a badass shark that can take that big of a bite out of another shark.
The shark got spotted outside our home a few weeks ago (we didn't see) everyone thought it had made its way back out to sea.
Dept of Fisheries have confirmed its a 'juvenile' 8' to 9' White Pointer (Great White).....its going to be a very different Summer
for us this year...really don't know how we're going to swim off our jetty :(
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1979 Chicken salt goes commercial
Chicken salt is as Australian as Vegemite, although with a shorter history. It was invented by Peter Brinkworth in the early 1970s, as a seasoning for the roast chickens he sold in his Gawler, South Australia, chicken shop. The Mitani family bought Brinkworth’s business in 1979 and, with it, acquired the recipe for chicken salt. The seasoning went on to become the preferred sprinkle for hot chips across Australia. In 1979, Mitani began to sell the product commercially to the takeaway food industry.
The recipe for chicken salt has changed since Brinkworth first developed it. He told celebrity chef Adam Liaw that his blend contained onion powder, garlic powder, celery salt, paprika, chicken bouillon and monosodium glutamate. The Mitani version today lists its ingredients as Sea Salt (82%), Rice Flour, Spices, Vegetable Powders (Onion, Garlic Natural Flavour, Yeast Extract and Anticaking Agent (551). It is halal, gluten-free, suitable for vegetarians and contains no MSG and, clearly, no chicken. Brinkworth claims that it’s not a patch on his original recipe.
Although Mitani claims to have been the originator of chicken salt and was no doubt responsible for its progress through the fish and chip shops of Australia, they now have competitors. Not all recipes sound quite so benign. Anchor Chicken Chippy Salt, for example, has a lot more mysterious numbers in its ingredients list: Salt (70%), Wheat Flour, Flavour Enhancers (621, 635, 327), Wheat Starch, Onion Powder, Sugar, Maltodextrin (from corn and tapioca), Food Acids (330), Anticaking Agent (341), Flavours, Spice, Beef Fat, Bell Pepper Powder, Herbs, Soy Sauce Powder, Seasoning, Caramel Colour (150c).
Other manufacturers are Saxa, Masterfoods and Nice N’ Tasty and all their recipes are slightly different. Most don’t identify the spices they use and include a generic mention of “flavours”..
Perhaps most
famous for a special salt mix on fries is KFC (aka Kentucky Fried Chicken). Online forums are full of fans wanting to get their hands on the KFC salt mix and being advised that the only way to do it is to have a mate who works there steal some for you. It turns out that this salt mix is also unique to Australia, with the American KFCs using plain salt.
Perhaps because wandering Aussies tend to lament the lack of their home-grown flavours when overseas, chicken salt is now available in America. Amazon sells a couple of versions, one made in Australia and the other, Jada, carrying the words “An Australian tradition” on its packaging. The Jada version is vegan – so definitely no chicken there although it claims to have a “unique chicken flavour”. It’s also gluten and MSG free, with no soy, no additives, and no genetically modified ingredients.
Like many favourite foods, alas, chicken salt is not good for you, although Mitani claims that “by enhancing the natural flavour of the food during cooking, the use of Mitani Chicken Salt can aid in the reduction of use of traditional table salt”. They recommend that salt, like all other foods, should be consumed in moderation.
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A snapshot of life in the shadow of Mount Owen in Queenstown, Tasmania.
Circa 1948
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I didn't want to see a pooping snake the 1st time, this is obscenely gross & turns my stomach 😫
Not much fun when you find one of those dropping around, you know then that you've got one .............somewhere.
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That cat/snake photo.....daaaaamn.
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I figured that was what that one bloke was working to get under ..... ;c)
Swing the Hills Hoist (famous Aussie clothesline) and if the pegged on goon bag lands in front of you.....you need to do a goodly sized chug from it.
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I figured that was what that one bloke was working to get under ..... ;c)
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So, exactly how would you describe the "rich tradition" that is being depicted in the photo of the circle around the cloths line?
That's Aussie for "lets liven up this backyard barbie"!!!
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So, exactly how would you describe the "rich tradition" that is being depicted in the photo of the circle around the cloths line?
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No self respecting snake would ever let a "COW" catch it! 🙃🐂🐉
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Even your pigs in Australia are "badass" taking on a cow, now what did that cow ever do to the pig....sounds like Animal Farm (😆)
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Even your pigs in Australia are "badass" taking on a cow, now what did that cow ever do to the pig....sounds like Animal Farm (😆)
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Seems there might be some difference between Spirit Animals and a Spirits Animal, the later of which is what your photo and caption are really about.
I've known a dog or three that were pretty good beer drinkers, so you had to keep your brew close in hand when they were around!
Love that old Ford N model ..... what a beauty!!!
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Sums it up well I think!
Primitive peoples seem to ignore the fact that we "White" people were once all tribal, stone age societies ourselves, only we advanced out of that cultural dead-end some ten thousand years ago and continued to advance on into the modern world, which we created, dragging the remaining unevolved cultures along with us where we could, which seems to have been our greatest mistake.
As they say: "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished", and we are certainly living that now!!!
I'll bugger off now mate, and let you get back to the humour that you've been doing so well at getting posted up on here. ;c)
A rather good summation Daniel.
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Sums it up well I think!
Primitive peoples seem to ignore the fact that we "White" people were once all tribal, stone age societies ourselves, only we advanced out of that cultural dead-end some ten thousand years ago and continued to advance on into the modern world, which we created, dragging the remaining unevolved cultures along with us where we could, which seems to have been our greatest mistake.
As they say: "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished", and we are certainly living that now!!!
I'll bugger off now mate, and let you get back to the humour that you've been doing so well at getting posted up on here. ;c)
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Okay now, looking it back up on the Web (which you know must be true), it seems I was mostly correct as the numbers I'm typically seeing are like 50 - 65 thousand years ago for the first Aboriginals to start colonizing Australia.
Here is a fairly typical offering of such information:
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2018/08/when-did-aboriginal-people-first-arrive-australia
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Many of our "Native American" Indian tribes were extremely primitive, true stone age peoples. On the other hand, many of the Central and South American "Tribes" had developed rather advanced Megalithic, and Metallurgical technologies and a far more advanced culture.
Think I'd heard that the Aboriginal migration into Australia was something like 50 to 100 thousand years ago? I'll have to recheck sources and get back to you on that, but I truly thought that they'd been there a long time before we got ours!
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When I went to school we were taught around 12 thousand years they had been here.....its slowly increased over time (mostly woke driven).
They were a very very stone age race, nothing at all like the indigenous North American Indians.
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Arrival of the dingo
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but its history has been uncertain until recently.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator.
The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, 2011:
I have heard the dingoes singing across the cliffs and gorges, across plains and deserts, and I cannot really comprehend that no matter how bright the night, or how sweet the air, there may come a day when we’ll never hear them sing like that, ever. Not to their Sisters in the Sky country, or to the hunter in the Sky and on Earth, or for the love of their own kind, or in celebration of their own way of being in the world.
Walter Beilby, The Dog in Australasia, 1897:
It will be a blessing for the squatters when the brutes are extinct.
Introduced species
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but until recently its history has been uncertain. The fact that there are no dingo fossils in Tasmania indicates that dingoes must have arrived after rising waters separated the island from the Australian mainland about 12,000 years ago.
The 1969 discovery of archaeological evidence in caves on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura, Western Australia, has led to general agreement that the dingo was on the Australian mainland at least 3,500 years ago.
Since the mid-2000s, technological advances have supported new research into the origin of dingoes. A 2011 study utilising DNA testing and sequencing shows that the Australian dingo is closely related to East Asian domestic dogs, and arrived via South-East Asia between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago.
A study published in 2012 has narrowed the introduction of the dingo to a few instances in which a small number of individual animals arrived, most probably through New Guinea. The evidence indicates that dingoes have been isolated on the Australian mainland since.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator. The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Research published in 2011, however, suggests that increased competition and predation from growing human populations, combined with climate change, were also contributing factors to the thylacine’s extinction.
Dingo in First Nations cultures
Academic and author Deborah Bird Rose observes that:
Dingoes provided a companionship that had never before existed in Australia. These creatures were the first non humans who answered back, came when called, helped in the hunt, slept with people and learned to understand some of the vocabulary of human languages ... People gave them names, fitted them into the wider kinship structure and took care of dead dingoes in the same way they took care of dead people. Dingoes have been fitted into the sacred geography as extremely powerful Dreamings, and they now figure prominently in ritual, songlines and stories.
Dingo burials discovered at archaeological sites speak of the length of this ongoing relationship between Indigenous communities and the dingo. Dingoes are depicted in rock art at a number of sites, including the Wollemi wilderness area and the Burrup Peninsula.
Dingoes continue to be considered important to many First Nations peoples. Like other creatures, they feature in many First Nations peoples’ kinship systems. They are hunting dogs, companions and pets, and they guard the camp at night, keeping away malevolent spirits.
Dingoes and Europeans
The first recorded European sighting of a dingo was by a Portuguese sailor who shot and killed one on Thursday Island in 1601.
Other explorers, including William Dampier and James Cook, recorded hearing dingoes or seeing their tracks.
Joseph Banks commissioned George Stubbs to paint ‘A portrait of a large dog from New Holland’ from the skin of a ‘native dog’ that Banks brought with him on the voyage home from Australia.
Violent first encounters in 1788 between dingoes and the sheep that came to Australia with the First Fleet established the ongoing character of British sentiment towards dingoes. Settlers shot dingoes on sight and, from the 1840s, used strychnine to poison them.
The eventual near elimination of dingoes in south-eastern Australia led to the adaptation of the rabbit-proof fence to keep out dingoes from the north. While the fence had failed to keep out rabbits, it successfully excluded dingoes and is still maintained today.
With their main predator excluded, kangaroo numbers exploded in south-eastern Australia in the 1860s and 1870s. Settlers responded by holding kangaroo battues, which involved rounding up large numbers of the animals and slaughtering them, often with clubs.
The Australian News for Home Readers reported more than a thousand kangaroos were killed in one day at a battue held at Joseph Ware’s station on Murton Creek, near Geelong, on 20 February 1867.
Recent research comparing sites in New South Wales with differing degrees of dingo control confirms the relationship between kangaroo numbers and dingo predation. A reduction in the dingo population has a range of impacts on other species too, and the study concludes that culling dingoes is counterproductive in biodiversity terms.
Modern concern
The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain from an Uluru camping ground on 17 August 1980 brought debate about the nature of the dingo into the public sphere.
Few Australians have direct contact with dingoes, and many found it hard to believe that a dingo was capable of taking a baby. First Nations peoples knowledge that dingoes could attack humans, and the supporting tracking evidence they provided, was downplayed during the early investigations into Azaria’s death.
Subsequent attacks by dingoes on children in popular camping areas elsewhere demonstrated that dingoes’ familiarity with humans increased the likelihood of an attack.
Around the same time that the Chamberlain tragedy unfolded, community concern about the longevity of the species also increased. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the dingo as a vulnerable species, and a number of voluntary associations are dedicated to saving them from extinction.
Notes from National Museum Australia
Image; Two litters of wild dingoes caught by dingo hunters
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..... and here I always thought that British Convicts were the first non-native "invasive" species that were "introduced" into Australia! ;c0
Well the Aboriginals aren't indigenous....they walked here over a land bridge that's since disappeared. They were an invasive species as well at that time and made thousands of large marsupials extinct as they had no predators until that point. They also started fires relentlessly that made the inland of Australia the desert that it is now.
Well yeah, ya go back far enough and there ain't much that ended up where they started out. Our North American indigenous tribes were here not even a small fraction of as long as your Aboriginals were there. For that matter, it is looking more and more likely that the first people to "discover and occupy" North America may well have been whitish Europeans from the Iberian pennisula, that being the Clovis and Folsom peoples. Most N.A. cultures in the 19 or so thousand years of occupation have been replaced a minimum of five times in those few short eras since the last Ice Age.
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Arrival of the dingo
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but its history has been uncertain until recently.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator.
The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, 2011:
I have heard the dingoes singing across the cliffs and gorges, across plains and deserts, and I cannot really comprehend that no matter how bright the night, or how sweet the air, there may come a day when we’ll never hear them sing like that, ever. Not to their Sisters in the Sky country, or to the hunter in the Sky and on Earth, or for the love of their own kind, or in celebration of their own way of being in the world.
Walter Beilby, The Dog in Australasia, 1897:
It will be a blessing for the squatters when the brutes are extinct.
Introduced species
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but until recently its history has been uncertain. The fact that there are no dingo fossils in Tasmania indicates that dingoes must have arrived after rising waters separated the island from the Australian mainland about 12,000 years ago.
The 1969 discovery of archaeological evidence in caves on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura, Western Australia, has led to general agreement that the dingo was on the Australian mainland at least 3,500 years ago.
Since the mid-2000s, technological advances have supported new research into the origin of dingoes. A 2011 study utilising DNA testing and sequencing shows that the Australian dingo is closely related to East Asian domestic dogs, and arrived via South-East Asia between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago.
A study published in 2012 has narrowed the introduction of the dingo to a few instances in which a small number of individual animals arrived, most probably through New Guinea. The evidence indicates that dingoes have been isolated on the Australian mainland since.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator. The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Research published in 2011, however, suggests that increased competition and predation from growing human populations, combined with climate change, were also contributing factors to the thylacine’s extinction.
Dingo in First Nations cultures
Academic and author Deborah Bird Rose observes that:
Dingoes provided a companionship that had never before existed in Australia. These creatures were the first non humans who answered back, came when called, helped in the hunt, slept with people and learned to understand some of the vocabulary of human languages ... People gave them names, fitted them into the wider kinship structure and took care of dead dingoes in the same way they took care of dead people. Dingoes have been fitted into the sacred geography as extremely powerful Dreamings, and they now figure prominently in ritual, songlines and stories.
Dingo burials discovered at archaeological sites speak of the length of this ongoing relationship between Indigenous communities and the dingo. Dingoes are depicted in rock art at a number of sites, including the Wollemi wilderness area and the Burrup Peninsula.
Dingoes continue to be considered important to many First Nations peoples. Like other creatures, they feature in many First Nations peoples’ kinship systems. They are hunting dogs, companions and pets, and they guard the camp at night, keeping away malevolent spirits.
Dingoes and Europeans
The first recorded European sighting of a dingo was by a Portuguese sailor who shot and killed one on Thursday Island in 1601.
Other explorers, including William Dampier and James Cook, recorded hearing dingoes or seeing their tracks.
Joseph Banks commissioned George Stubbs to paint ‘A portrait of a large dog from New Holland’ from the skin of a ‘native dog’ that Banks brought with him on the voyage home from Australia.
Violent first encounters in 1788 between dingoes and the sheep that came to Australia with the First Fleet established the ongoing character of British sentiment towards dingoes. Settlers shot dingoes on sight and, from the 1840s, used strychnine to poison them.
The eventual near elimination of dingoes in south-eastern Australia led to the adaptation of the rabbit-proof fence to keep out dingoes from the north. While the fence had failed to keep out rabbits, it successfully excluded dingoes and is still maintained today.
With their main predator excluded, kangaroo numbers exploded in south-eastern Australia in the 1860s and 1870s. Settlers responded by holding kangaroo battues, which involved rounding up large numbers of the animals and slaughtering them, often with clubs.
The Australian News for Home Readers reported more than a thousand kangaroos were killed in one day at a battue held at Joseph Ware’s station on Murton Creek, near Geelong, on 20 February 1867.
Recent research comparing sites in New South Wales with differing degrees of dingo control confirms the relationship between kangaroo numbers and dingo predation. A reduction in the dingo population has a range of impacts on other species too, and the study concludes that culling dingoes is counterproductive in biodiversity terms.
Modern concern
The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain from an Uluru camping ground on 17 August 1980 brought debate about the nature of the dingo into the public sphere.
Few Australians have direct contact with dingoes, and many found it hard to believe that a dingo was capable of taking a baby. First Nations peoples knowledge that dingoes could attack humans, and the supporting tracking evidence they provided, was downplayed during the early investigations into Azaria’s death.
Subsequent attacks by dingoes on children in popular camping areas elsewhere demonstrated that dingoes’ familiarity with humans increased the likelihood of an attack.
Around the same time that the Chamberlain tragedy unfolded, community concern about the longevity of the species also increased. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the dingo as a vulnerable species, and a number of voluntary associations are dedicated to saving them from extinction.
Notes from National Museum Australia
Image; Two litters of wild dingoes caught by dingo hunters
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..... and here I always thought that British Convicts were the first non-native "invasive" species that were "introduced" into Australia! ;c0
Well the Aboriginals aren't indigenous....they walked here over a land bridge that's since disappeared. They were an invasive species as well at that time and made thousands of large marsupials extinct as they had no predators until that point. They also started fires relentlessly that made the inland of Australia the desert that it is now.
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Arrival of the dingo
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but its history has been uncertain until recently.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator.
The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, 2011:
I have heard the dingoes singing across the cliffs and gorges, across plains and deserts, and I cannot really comprehend that no matter how bright the night, or how sweet the air, there may come a day when we’ll never hear them sing like that, ever. Not to their Sisters in the Sky country, or to the hunter in the Sky and on Earth, or for the love of their own kind, or in celebration of their own way of being in the world.
Walter Beilby, The Dog in Australasia, 1897:
It will be a blessing for the squatters when the brutes are extinct.
Introduced species
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but until recently its history has been uncertain. The fact that there are no dingo fossils in Tasmania indicates that dingoes must have arrived after rising waters separated the island from the Australian mainland about 12,000 years ago.
The 1969 discovery of archaeological evidence in caves on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura, Western Australia, has led to general agreement that the dingo was on the Australian mainland at least 3,500 years ago.
Since the mid-2000s, technological advances have supported new research into the origin of dingoes. A 2011 study utilising DNA testing and sequencing shows that the Australian dingo is closely related to East Asian domestic dogs, and arrived via South-East Asia between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago.
A study published in 2012 has narrowed the introduction of the dingo to a few instances in which a small number of individual animals arrived, most probably through New Guinea. The evidence indicates that dingoes have been isolated on the Australian mainland since.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator. The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Research published in 2011, however, suggests that increased competition and predation from growing human populations, combined with climate change, were also contributing factors to the thylacine’s extinction.
Dingo in First Nations cultures
Academic and author Deborah Bird Rose observes that:
Dingoes provided a companionship that had never before existed in Australia. These creatures were the first non humans who answered back, came when called, helped in the hunt, slept with people and learned to understand some of the vocabulary of human languages ... People gave them names, fitted them into the wider kinship structure and took care of dead dingoes in the same way they took care of dead people. Dingoes have been fitted into the sacred geography as extremely powerful Dreamings, and they now figure prominently in ritual, songlines and stories.
Dingo burials discovered at archaeological sites speak of the length of this ongoing relationship between Indigenous communities and the dingo. Dingoes are depicted in rock art at a number of sites, including the Wollemi wilderness area and the Burrup Peninsula.
Dingoes continue to be considered important to many First Nations peoples. Like other creatures, they feature in many First Nations peoples’ kinship systems. They are hunting dogs, companions and pets, and they guard the camp at night, keeping away malevolent spirits.
Dingoes and Europeans
The first recorded European sighting of a dingo was by a Portuguese sailor who shot and killed one on Thursday Island in 1601.
Other explorers, including William Dampier and James Cook, recorded hearing dingoes or seeing their tracks.
Joseph Banks commissioned George Stubbs to paint ‘A portrait of a large dog from New Holland’ from the skin of a ‘native dog’ that Banks brought with him on the voyage home from Australia.
Violent first encounters in 1788 between dingoes and the sheep that came to Australia with the First Fleet established the ongoing character of British sentiment towards dingoes. Settlers shot dingoes on sight and, from the 1840s, used strychnine to poison them.
The eventual near elimination of dingoes in south-eastern Australia led to the adaptation of the rabbit-proof fence to keep out dingoes from the north. While the fence had failed to keep out rabbits, it successfully excluded dingoes and is still maintained today.
With their main predator excluded, kangaroo numbers exploded in south-eastern Australia in the 1860s and 1870s. Settlers responded by holding kangaroo battues, which involved rounding up large numbers of the animals and slaughtering them, often with clubs.
The Australian News for Home Readers reported more than a thousand kangaroos were killed in one day at a battue held at Joseph Ware’s station on Murton Creek, near Geelong, on 20 February 1867.
Recent research comparing sites in New South Wales with differing degrees of dingo control confirms the relationship between kangaroo numbers and dingo predation. A reduction in the dingo population has a range of impacts on other species too, and the study concludes that culling dingoes is counterproductive in biodiversity terms.
Modern concern
The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain from an Uluru camping ground on 17 August 1980 brought debate about the nature of the dingo into the public sphere.
Few Australians have direct contact with dingoes, and many found it hard to believe that a dingo was capable of taking a baby. First Nations peoples knowledge that dingoes could attack humans, and the supporting tracking evidence they provided, was downplayed during the early investigations into Azaria’s death.
Subsequent attacks by dingoes on children in popular camping areas elsewhere demonstrated that dingoes’ familiarity with humans increased the likelihood of an attack.
Around the same time that the Chamberlain tragedy unfolded, community concern about the longevity of the species also increased. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the dingo as a vulnerable species, and a number of voluntary associations are dedicated to saving them from extinction.
Notes from National Museum Australia
Image; Two litters of wild dingoes caught by dingo hunters
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..... and here I always thought that British Convicts were the first non-native "invasive" species that were "introduced" into Australia! ;c0
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Arrival of the dingo
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but its history has been uncertain until recently.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator.
The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Deborah Bird Rose, Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction, 2011:
I have heard the dingoes singing across the cliffs and gorges, across plains and deserts, and I cannot really comprehend that no matter how bright the night, or how sweet the air, there may come a day when we’ll never hear them sing like that, ever. Not to their Sisters in the Sky country, or to the hunter in the Sky and on Earth, or for the love of their own kind, or in celebration of their own way of being in the world.
Walter Beilby, The Dog in Australasia, 1897:
It will be a blessing for the squatters when the brutes are extinct.
Introduced species
The dingo is Australia’s first introduced species, but until recently its history has been uncertain. The fact that there are no dingo fossils in Tasmania indicates that dingoes must have arrived after rising waters separated the island from the Australian mainland about 12,000 years ago.
The 1969 discovery of archaeological evidence in caves on the Nullarbor Plain near Madura, Western Australia, has led to general agreement that the dingo was on the Australian mainland at least 3,500 years ago.
Since the mid-2000s, technological advances have supported new research into the origin of dingoes. A 2011 study utilising DNA testing and sequencing shows that the Australian dingo is closely related to East Asian domestic dogs, and arrived via South-East Asia between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago.
A study published in 2012 has narrowed the introduction of the dingo to a few instances in which a small number of individual animals arrived, most probably through New Guinea. The evidence indicates that dingoes have been isolated on the Australian mainland since.
While the dingo is an introduced species, it has been in Australia long enough to become a functional part of the natural ecological system as a top-order predator. The dingo is widely considered to have replaced the thylacine in that role and was held to be solely responsible for the disappearance of the thylacine on mainland Australia.
Research published in 2011, however, suggests that increased competition and predation from growing human populations, combined with climate change, were also contributing factors to the thylacine’s extinction.
Dingo in First Nations cultures
Academic and author Deborah Bird Rose observes that:
Dingoes provided a companionship that had never before existed in Australia. These creatures were the first non humans who answered back, came when called, helped in the hunt, slept with people and learned to understand some of the vocabulary of human languages ... People gave them names, fitted them into the wider kinship structure and took care of dead dingoes in the same way they took care of dead people. Dingoes have been fitted into the sacred geography as extremely powerful Dreamings, and they now figure prominently in ritual, songlines and stories.
Dingo burials discovered at archaeological sites speak of the length of this ongoing relationship between Indigenous communities and the dingo. Dingoes are depicted in rock art at a number of sites, including the Wollemi wilderness area and the Burrup Peninsula.
Dingoes continue to be considered important to many First Nations peoples. Like other creatures, they feature in many First Nations peoples’ kinship systems. They are hunting dogs, companions and pets, and they guard the camp at night, keeping away malevolent spirits.
Dingoes and Europeans
The first recorded European sighting of a dingo was by a Portuguese sailor who shot and killed one on Thursday Island in 1601.
Other explorers, including William Dampier and James Cook, recorded hearing dingoes or seeing their tracks.
Joseph Banks commissioned George Stubbs to paint ‘A portrait of a large dog from New Holland’ from the skin of a ‘native dog’ that Banks brought with him on the voyage home from Australia.
Violent first encounters in 1788 between dingoes and the sheep that came to Australia with the First Fleet established the ongoing character of British sentiment towards dingoes. Settlers shot dingoes on sight and, from the 1840s, used strychnine to poison them.
The eventual near elimination of dingoes in south-eastern Australia led to the adaptation of the rabbit-proof fence to keep out dingoes from the north. While the fence had failed to keep out rabbits, it successfully excluded dingoes and is still maintained today.
With their main predator excluded, kangaroo numbers exploded in south-eastern Australia in the 1860s and 1870s. Settlers responded by holding kangaroo battues, which involved rounding up large numbers of the animals and slaughtering them, often with clubs.
The Australian News for Home Readers reported more than a thousand kangaroos were killed in one day at a battue held at Joseph Ware’s station on Murton Creek, near Geelong, on 20 February 1867.
Recent research comparing sites in New South Wales with differing degrees of dingo control confirms the relationship between kangaroo numbers and dingo predation. A reduction in the dingo population has a range of impacts on other species too, and the study concludes that culling dingoes is counterproductive in biodiversity terms.
Modern concern
The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain from an Uluru camping ground on 17 August 1980 brought debate about the nature of the dingo into the public sphere.
Few Australians have direct contact with dingoes, and many found it hard to believe that a dingo was capable of taking a baby. First Nations peoples knowledge that dingoes could attack humans, and the supporting tracking evidence they provided, was downplayed during the early investigations into Azaria’s death.
Subsequent attacks by dingoes on children in popular camping areas elsewhere demonstrated that dingoes’ familiarity with humans increased the likelihood of an attack.
Around the same time that the Chamberlain tragedy unfolded, community concern about the longevity of the species also increased. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has listed the dingo as a vulnerable species, and a number of voluntary associations are dedicated to saving them from extinction.
Notes from National Museum Australia
Image; Two litters of wild dingoes caught by dingo hunters
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A classic photo depicting five hard-working indigenous stockman at night camp at Newcastle Waters station Northern Territory. Newcastle Waters is a large cattle station in the Barkly Tableands about 290km north of Tennant Creek ( Date unknown)
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Bonjour,
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https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1342 (https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=1342)
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Guess I'm a "Walkabout Cobber", whatever that may mean?!?!
Certainly, in my time, I've done more than plenty of Walkabout type stuff, for certain and for sure!!!
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Probably shouldn't be combining your last two posts .... but is that a Mega-Bat sausage sandwich?
..... and the real question ...... is there any Vegemite on there mate??? ;c)
Midday Saturday here and just about to have some lunch and that cracked me up Daniel!!!!!! LOL
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Probably shouldn't be combining your last two posts .... but is that a Mega-Bat sausage sandwich?
..... and the real question ...... is there any Vegemite on there mate??? ;c)
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Around here we do have some long straight stretches of road that go on for many a mile, but in this vicinity, we do have some dramatic scenery to help keep the drivers from nodding off.
Of course, one of the causes of accidents and just plain running off the road in these parts is that the drivers often get to "rubber necking" the scenery, instead of watching the road!!!
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Around here we do have some long straight stretches of road that go on for many a mile, but in this vicinity, we do have some dramatic scenery to help keep the drivers from nodding off.
Of course, one of the causes of accidents and just plain running off the road in these parts is that the drivers often get to "rubber necking" the scenery, instead of watching the road!!!
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This croc was eating a graziers cattle....caught and relocated -
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Don't know how Aussie Croc might taste, but American Alligator is delicious, so I'd think about getting my cattle equity back out of that beast by relocating it to the freezer!
I have had it a few times, can't say I care for it all that much (maybe the chef was crap).
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Don't know how Aussie Croc might taste, but American Alligator is delicious, so I'd think about getting my cattle equity back out of that beast by relocating it to the freezer!
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I think the US should allow Mexico to become a state...then there wouldn't be any reason to Cross the border.
New Zealand joining with Australia would be entirely unlike Mexico joining the USA.
I don't believe it would slow down foreigners coming here in the least and please do realize that most of those now coming are no longer from just Mexico!
Of course...thanks for correcting me.(It was a joke)
Not correcting .... simple informing in case you really didn't know .... many people sadly don't!
I can only wish it was somehow funny .......
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I think the US should allow Mexico to become a state...then there wouldn't be any reason to Cross the border.
New Zealand joining with Australia would be entirely unlike Mexico joining the USA.
I don't believe it would slow down foreigners coming here in the least and please do realize that most of those now coming are no longer from just Mexico!
Of course...thanks for correcting me.(It was a joke)
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I think the US should allow Mexico to become a state...then there wouldn't be any reason to Cross the border.
New Zealand joining with Australia would be entirely unlike Mexico joining the USA.
I don't believe it would slow down foreigners coming here in the least and please do realize that most of those now coming are no longer from just Mexico!
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I believe that the best answer to your question about "What the Hell is going on in the Australian outback?" is that the Australian outback is somehow trying its hardest to mimic American politics!!!
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It appears that I could put a sentence together out of that, but it probably wouldn't come off sounding much like anything an Aussie might actually say!?!? ;c)
"I got a tradie mate comin' 'round this arvo for a cuppa who's just fillin' up at the servo on his way here, he's chucked a sickie from his work cause he got bit on the bum by a bloody mozzie, dead set he's always been a bit of a fair dinkum bludger".
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It appears that I could put a sentence together out of that, but it probably wouldn't come off sounding much like anything an Aussie might actually say!?!? ;c)
"I got a tradie mate comin' 'round this arvo for a cuppa who's just fillin' up at the servo on his way here, he's chucked a sickie from his work cause he got bit on the bum by a bloody mozzie, dead set he's always been a bit of a fair dinkum bludger".
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Sorry - I do not understand!!! ;D
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It appears that I could put a sentence together out of that, but it probably wouldn't come off sounding much like anything an Aussie might actually say!?!? ;c)
"I got a tradie mate comin' 'round this arvo for a cuppa who's just fillin' up at the servo on his way here, he's chucked a sickie from his work cause he got bit on the bum by a bloody mozzie, dead set he's always been a bit of a fair dinkum bludger".
Yep ... that confirms my suspicions!!! ;c)
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It appears that I could put a sentence together out of that, but it probably wouldn't come off sounding much like anything an Aussie might actually say!?!? ;c)
"I got a tradie mate comin' 'round this arvo for a cuppa who's just fillin' up at the servo on his way here, he's chucked a sickie from his work cause he got bit on the bum by a bloody mozzie, dead set he's always been a bit of a fair dinkum bludger".
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Oh man does that look good Jim ... or on the BBQ with an "X" of bacon on top. Yeah, venison tends to be pretty lean, and I guess Roo does too!
Based on your delicious answer, I may go ahead and tell my tales of mystery, mystique and mayhem!?!?
It will require more than a bit of typing however, and with my hands, that could take some time. Perhaps I'd best start a different Off-Topic thread, and just link it back here, so I don't do any damage to your cool thread.
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I would assume that means that you eat a lot of venison and keep a freezer well stocked.
Is Kangaroo any good for eating and is it legal to hunt?
I actually have stories along those lines, but I'll judge the prudence of telling them, based upon your answer.
Roo's are shot in their millions Daniel, mostly for commercial dog food processing.
Roo meat is sold in supermarkets and often on restaurant menus but is much harder for consumers to cook (much harder than venison) without drying it out and making it tough.
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My great-grandma was around 85 and did an all-nighter at the casino, on her drive home she heard a loud crash and her windshield shattered. She pulled into a farm yard and asked to use the phone. When the cop showed up she told him “I think I hit a deer”, he goes “yes, it’s laying dead in your front seat”. She didn’t do a whole lot of driving after that… :D
I don't blame your great-grandma Nick, that would have scared her.
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My great-grandma was around 85 and did an all-nighter at the casino, on her drive home she heard a loud crash and her windshield shattered. She pulled into a farm yard and asked to use the phone. When the cop showed up she told him “I think I hit a deer”, he goes “yes, it’s laying dead in your front seat”. She didn’t do a whole lot of driving after that… :D
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Is this an actual everyday concern in Australia ?, (like we watch out for deer around here )
On a drive into town Bruce which is 30 kilometers we could easily see up to 10+ on the side of the road.
They do a lot of damage to cars, if a big one comes through your windscreen and its still alive and kicking and thrashing, you're in big trouble.
The feral deer population has exploded around my area and now they are also a huge problem driving at night.
There's no season on deer, you can spotlight shoot them at night and still their numbers are exploding.
I would assume that means that you eat a lot of venison and keep a freezer well stocked.
Is Kangaroo any good for eating and is it legal to hunt?
I actually have stories along those lines, but I'll judge the prudence of telling them, based upon your answer.
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On a drive into town Bruce which is 30 kilometers we could easily see up to 10+ on the side of the road.
They do a lot of damage to cars, if a big one comes through your windscreen and its still alive and kicking and thrashing, you're in big trouble.
The feral deer population has exploded around my area and now they are also a huge problem driving at night.
There's no season on deer, you can spotlight shoot them at night and still their numbers are exploding.
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Looks like there's something else he couldn't pull out of!?!? ;c)
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In some States in the US, Nevada being one of them, highway trains of three trailers are legal and often seen.
I'm not sure if any of our States allow more than three, however.
I'll bet Bruce would know!!!
Two trailers (Tandem Rigs) are legal and common everywhere!
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Only thing on that map that truly terrifies me, is the one listed down along the Southeast coast, between Big Spiders and Bush Fires!!!
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See the greyish coloured one? They're Paralysis Ticks, they can knock over a child or an adult really badly and are death to most domestic animals (horrible death).
Luckily now there is an (expensive) anti Tick venom antidote, your dog or cat maybe in the vets for a week but there's a fair chance it will live.
We get lots here because of the 'roo and bandicoot population.
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Dang proper Bastard of a bird, mean to the bone & it appears it knows it can kick anybody's arse, I doubt a baseball bat would slow it down...poor dear is probably protected (by the government) as well.
Yes its protected......just like ALL our snakes are!
Australia is home to 20 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world, including all of the top 11. The world's most venomous snake, the inland taipan is found nowhere else on Earth. It is also called the fierce snake, and carries enough venom in a single bite to kill around 250,000 mice.
Seems like your Guberment (Much like ours) wants to protect everything under its purview, except the people and their freedoms! I guess that is getting to be a world-wide phenomenon these days!?!?
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Yes its protected......just like ALL our snakes are!
Australia is home to 20 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world, including all of the top 11. The world's most venomous snake, the inland taipan is found nowhere else on Earth. It is also called the fierce snake, and carries enough venom in a single bite to kill around 250,000 mice.
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Bruce, my ancestors got on the wrong ship they should have gotten the convict transport to Canada instead.
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From what I'm reading here lately Jim, you have many of the worlds most dangerous critters, wildfires that have you fearing for your life, & if the wildfires & venomous (everything) don't get ya' , you have floods that will wipe everything else away. I'm beginning to understand why the Brits sent they're convicts there. 🤔😊
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What are you trying to do here Jim ..... give us all "The Bird"!?!? ;c)
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Looks like a fabulous time Daniel, I bet your often think fondly of those days.
Did you go through many windscreens with your kombi? Every surfing trip we went on someone's kombi would get a shattered windscreen.
Just to be clear, all of these photos above are by the new owner, taken recently, after the restoration.
But yes, my memories of those times and places shared with my old bus, are priceless!!!
To answer your question Jim, only broke the windshields once, both at the same time, as the spare tire I had mounted on the front came back into my lap or tried too anyway. Which is, in part, why the new owner's restoration costs were so high. He had to cut off and replace the whole front end, including the dash and under dash tray!
Here is a rather poor pic of when I still owned her, January 1988 I believe, copied from a slide of my Ol' Bus, the morning I left on an extended trip down Baja Mexico to the southern tip at Cabo San Lucas.
This is many years after totaling the front end, as you will note here that the front bumper is just the remains of an old Redwood 2x8 that had been on there for many years.
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Looks like a fabulous time Daniel, I bet your often think fondly of those days.
Did you go through many windscreens with your kombi? Every surfing trip we went on someone's kombi would get a shattered windscreen.
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About as effective as when they tried having folks with shotguns spread out along 2400 miles trying to stop introduced Starlings from entering Western Australia...............
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About as effective as when they tried having folks with shotguns spread out along 2400 miles trying to stop introduced Starlings from entering Western Australia...............
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You'd think the Dingo's would have taken care of that straight away?!?!
Besides feral deer (many species), donkeys, camels, ostriches, horses, foxes, goats, cats, wild boars, water buffalos etc which are all shot in their thousands everything that we have tried on rabbits from lab diseases, T.N.T, rabbit proof fences, fumigating, trapping, shooting in their tens of millions etc etc, has failed and they are still in plague proportions.
I guess all those bunnies should be referred to as "Austin's Blight"!
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You'd think the Dingo's would have taken care of that straight away?!?!
Besides feral deer (many species), donkeys, camels, ostriches, horses, foxes, goats, cats, wild boars, water buffalos etc which are all shot in their thousands everything that we have tried on rabbits from lab diseases, T.N.T, rabbit proof fences, fumigating, trapping, shooting in their tens of millions etc etc, has failed and they are still in plague proportions.
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‘WOODCHOPPING’
The sport of woodchop has its origins in 1870 in Tasmania, where legend has it a wager of £25 was made between two men, Joseph Smith and Jack Biggs. In the backyard of the Sprent Hotel in Ulverstone they chopped three-foot tall standing blocks, but a dispute broke out over the winner, resulting in a free-for-all-brawl.
Impromptu contests became common, however, and the sport gradually organised, gaining in popularity as it spread to all states. In 1891 the United Australasian Axemen's Association was formed to establish rules.
The first woodchopping event at the Show was held in 1899 in a paddock which doubled as a cattle ring. Programmed on the last day of the Show as an attraction to boost attendance, the match was an instant success with a crowd of 8,000 turning out to watch.
Twenty-six competitors vied for prizes which ranged from £5 to £25. Four of the eight Heckenberg brothers from Green Valley, near Liverpool, were favourites, but the day was won by a Victorian named MacKinolty, who had won championships in three colonies.
Despite their initial defeat, the Heckenbergs were to become stars of the sport, finishing their careers with eleven championships between them. The suburb of Heckenberg is named after them. Family dynasties of competitors have been common ever since.
The Woodchop competition was successfully staged again at the 1900 Show, but was then discontinued until 1906, possibly due to the lack of an appropriate venue. Every year thereafter, Woodchop has been a feature of the Show – except for a brief, unexplained disappearance in 1910.
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with only 139-hp out of a 302 ci, I wouldn't claim that as much of a victory...lol :D
Aesthetically there wasn't even a competition :)
The majority of the Aussie Cobra's were 5.8L 351 Cleveland V8's.
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with only 139-hp out of a 302 ci, I wouldn't claim that as much of a victory...lol :D
139 hp is maybe enough for Australia's speed limits - in Germany you can drive as fast
as your car can - Thats why many people have sportscar up to 700 hp ;D ;D ;D
todays Chevrolet Corvette has 495 hp and you can drive with 55 to 85 (Texas) mph - so
it has 350 hp only for the show
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with only 139-hp out of a 302 ci, I wouldn't claim that as much of a victory...lol :D
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Boy howdy, with twice as many Roos as people, Australia must be really hoppin'!!!
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Boy howdy, with twice as many Roos as people, Australia must be really hoppin'!!!
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Aussie Mouse Trap
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Guns'nd Drugs
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I've definitely seen this very scenario, watching road repair crews working for Caltrans (California Department of Transportation)!!!
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Worldwide labor division - so called TEAMWORK ;D
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LOL Stoker its been years since I've seen Andrew Denton do that skit.....but too bloody right mate!!!!!
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For our Olymic friends, Down Under:
https://youtu.be/q9e1sXt8Jjs?si=GpTTAftMwG1QkeoJ
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;c)