Cadbury chocolate Easter Bilby (source: Woolworths) |
The Greater Bilby - Macrotis lagotis (photo: Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage) |
Catch y'all later!
Jan
A somewhat disjointed journal of Jan's adventures during his time abroad
Cadbury chocolate Easter Bilby (source: Woolworths) |
The Greater Bilby - Macrotis lagotis (photo: Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage) |
Long time no see! It has been nearly 9 months since my last post and the blog (and possibly the people reading it) felt quite a bit abandoned. However, with a week of my field work in Western Australia behind me I feel like this would be a good moment to pick things up again. You can look forward to somewhat of a travel account with a few bits of geology thrown in (yaaay, right?).
Also, I'd like to mention the reboot of my personal web page. I finally got around to uploading a few pictures here and there as well. Feel free to check them out if you don't mind the sight of rocky landscapes too much. ;) That's it for now, this is more of a quick notice rather than an actual blog entry, so (hopefully) see you back here soon!
JanP.S. I felt like changing the blog layout as well to match the winterly spirit of the season (although somewhat exaggerated for a city that hasn't seen actual snow in about 20 years).
There is an interesting story about a three tourists who once were walking across a natural bridge which existed between two of these apostels. As luck would have it, just as the group crossed the bridge to the outlying limestone formation the bridge collapsed behind them leaving the tourists trapped. A driver who was passing by the place called for help. The only way to save the isolated married couple and the single man was to evacuate them via helicopter. The nearest available gyroplane belonged to a TV news crew who did not want this opportunity of action news slip by. So when they picked up the three stranded tourists naturally they wanted to interview them. Oddly enough the people behaved very camera shy and reluctant to allow interviews. The reason for this was revealed later. As it turned out, none of them were supposed to be out there that day. The single man was supposed to be at work but had taken the day off being reported as sick. As for the couple, although married, they were not married with each other. Naturally national publicity was the least thing these three people had hoped for that fateful day. Talk about karma!
Catch y'all later!
Jan
Region: | Near SE Coast of Australia |
Time: | 2012-06-19 10:53:30.2 UTC |
Magnitude: | 5.3 (mb) |
Epicenter: | 146.20°E 38.26°S |
Depth: | 10 km |
Status: | M - manually revised |
Top left to bottom right: (1) Swanston Street in Melbourne Central with tram (usually loaded with people during rush hour), (2) Yarra river (viewing westward), (3) Part of Melbourne Skyline (looking NE), (4) St. Pauls Cathedral, (5) Flinders Street (train) Station, (6) State library of Victoria.
In other news the first poll is done and seeing as there is a general desire for a'couple more infos, I'll try my best posting some more in the near future. Hope you're all well. Have an awesome weekend!
Cheers
Jan