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K’gari – Fraser Island – Itinerary staying at Kingfisher Resort 3 Days
To access the Eastern Beach the tides are important to know. You should never attempt to cross Eli Creek 2 hours either side of High Tide. Australia BOM tides http://www.bom.gov.au/ntc/IDO59001/IDO59001_2020_QLD_TP035.pdf For example the weekend of Friday 13 November has the following tides:Fri 13 Nov: Low tide 12:08 0.41m, High tide 18:10 1.86mSat 14 Nov: Low…
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Ipswich Aerial Photograph 28 May 1981
Some aerial photos found while cleaning up, the original prints obtained during work experience at the Queensland Government Photography Department in the 80’s.
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Brisbane Bucket List
Recent Forbes article on how Cool Brisbane is: Brisbane Was Once A Backwater Town. Now, It’s Australia’s Coolest City Update, a great page from Visit Brisbane: Tick off all 93 things to do on Brisbane’s bucket list Be Prepared Always carry some water, easy to get dehydrated. In the wet season it can rain suddenly…
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The Public Fraser Island Weather Station
Some recent activity from a few volunteers and the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation has resulted in the first public weather station on Fraser Island, in Queensland Australia. Not only is this weather station public, but it is ONLINE, uploading data every 20 seconds! You can see all this at: Weather Observations Happy Valley The idea…
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Narrabundah Community Affairs
Robert Menzies was prime minister of Australia from 1949 to 1966, and was Australia’s longest-serving prime minister. Gough Whitlam led the Labour Party to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He went on to win the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John…
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Lake Burley Griffin
My first job in Canberra with the Bureau of Mineral Resources was logging drill core during the investigations for a dam that would turn the Canberra floodplain into a lake as envisaged by Walter Burley Griffin. The Canberra floodplain was about half a kilometre wide and the low level bridges were frequently flooded. In 1911,…
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Googong Dam – Construction
Googong Dam lies to the south of Queanbeyan, NSW, and is a water supply dam for Canberra. Googong Dam is a minor ungated earth and rock fill dam with a clay core and a concrete chute spillway plus a nearby 13 metres (43 ft) high earth fill saddle embankment. It dams the Queanbeyan River upstream…
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The Grand Canyon
The first lecture I attended on Geology at Queensland University was delivered by Professor Bryan on the Grand Canyon. The landscape is geologically young, being carved within just the last 6 m.y. when the East Pacific Rise intercepted the coast of California and uplifted the Basin and Range blocks to form the Rockies. Three “Granite…