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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Back Burning

30-Sep-07

They were burning the bush in our valley yesterday to reduce the debris load. I’ve seen the results of this at other locations and it’s amazing how all the feral species of plants get knocked and and the natives all seed and grow. It’s a great way of de-weeding the bush and reducing the fire [...]

Olive Snake Eating A Kangaroo

28-Sep-07

We received an amazing email today. It’s old news now but worth a run because it’s real, not a fake. Nature is amazing, nothing goes to waste even this dead kangaroo is getting eaten by an Olive Python. Here’s the original story on ABC. The picture was taken by a “Jody” who is a bush [...]

An old bird but still looking very cool

25-Sep-07

I always have mixed emotions trying to admire engineering designed to kill people. I took this photo up at Iluka in northern NSW Australia. These old rockets with wings do Mach 2.5 making the F/A-18′s we have look a little slow at Mach 1.8. Don’t worry you military heads out there because Australia is buying [...]

Dominant Species

05-Sep-07

Couple of photo’s I took yesterday, one taken looking outward from the Zoo and one looking inward  

Restoring Customer Satisfaction

05-Sep-07

I went with my daughter Ella on a school excursion yesterday to Taronga Zoo. However the winds were so strong that they closed down the cable car for the day so to restore satisfaction with their customers the zoo gave the kids a free mini-train ride around the zoo. Nothing ever goes absolutely perfectly in [...]