At 305m to the spire and 252m at the main observation deck you get a pretty nice view of the city!
Made especially interesting with the storm from coming in!
oh, and also I think I bent the MLC building..sorry
Sequoiadendrons can be traced to the Triassic Period 200 million years ago when dinosaurs first appeared. Sequoiadendrons were the dominant tree in North America and Europe during the Jurassic Period (180 to 135 million years ago) and the Cretaceous Period (35 to 70 million years ago). Dinosaurs disappeared near the end of the Cretaceous Period but the Sequoiadendrons lived on. The planet was significantly warmer and wetter during dinosaur times and the atmosphere was much richer in carbon dioxide. The earth was more fertile for plant and animal life in those days. The proof is found in the carbon deposits of coal beds and oil fields that formed during those times. Much of the carbon that was once in the atmosphere is now locked up in coal and oil deposits and is now unavailable for plant use. The ancestors of the giant sequoias were fed and watered by a rich and thriving earth.
and do they grow big you ask? yeah they are not too shabby at 115metres! even beats the Tassie Mountain Ash (Tasmania Oak)
Just a taster for whats to come.
well its pretty easy, these cos lettuces are a prime example, these make the world of difference to a caeser salad, crispy freeesh leaves, great!
Coffee? well this was the runt mix from the roast the other week.
Quite frankly, a let down crappy weather and and the same old crap there, gee i wonder what they are gonna do in two years time? dump and burn, hornets and…well the caribous will be retired by then,so no more wheel barrowing those bad boys…
Only do this every 2 or 3 years (could be longer) and I always forget how to change these darn things and hence it ends up taking 2 hours to do one wheel!
So key things to remember, firstly the obvious things, setup the car, loosen wheel nuts before jacking, ensure handbrake is on and the car is resting on the transmission also.
1) Brake Calipers pivot around the top bolt (fwd one), this bolt does not need to be loosened or removed, can’t bloody well budge it anyway:)
2) Remove lower bolt (aft) and pivot caliper about the upper bolt, this requires alittle compressing of the piston to release the pads from the disc. At this point ensure the cover on the brake fluid reservoir is removed.
3) Remove existing pads – note, brake disc dust is bad for ya..do not blow the stuff again 🙂
In addition to the normal Showcase I have cracked out a tassie selection from a recent trip, it can be found here (only link ATM)
See it now while you can – Foresty of Tasmania and respective Logging compnays are ensuring it won’t be there tomorrow….
http://www.stillwildstillthreatened.org/
http://www.myspace.com/stillwildstillthreatened
(must be really important for me to blemish my site with a single myspace link 🙂 )
Cradle Mountain is located in the Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, yes it would appear they were not terribly imaginative when naming this one 🙂
The biggest drawcard for the Cradle Mountain end of the park is the diversity of walks, not necessarily the variation in length and difficulty factor, which most parks in Tassie seem to have anyway (which is awesome for attracting a large range of tourists) but the diversity in the environment in such a relatively small space. Take for example the Ronny’s Creek to Summit walk, you walk through button grass fields and small creeks followed by a section of rainforest and cascading waterfalls, this breaks out to the crater lake and its associated vegetation, more ground hugging and wind swept (that included us:) ). The walk from crater lake to Marions lookout and agin completely different, racky outcrops and small bushes, continuing on to Kitchen hut is bare rock and mossy ground. The finally ascent is a boulder filled funpark with patchs of brush, snow and rock moss stuff (very technical term).
If there was only one place you could go in Tassie and on a time limit, Cradle mountain would be it. It has walks for all types of people, including disabled people (light years ahead of the plebs in NSW). Whether it be a 20 minute stroll through the ENchanted forest of a boulder hopping trip up to the summit, there is a walk catered to you and the weather!
The Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park shares a “Twin Parks” agreement with the World Heritage listed Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve in the People’s Republic of China.
Check out Parks and Wildlife Tasmania for more.
kinda insulting really, something as majectic as this and the best we can come up with is a smiley face…
oh did i mention the clouds don’t help either?
There is one picture from the night before – nice and clear that nite of course…bloody weather…the most i got was a blurrly smiley with a plane thru it 🙂
http://code.google.com/p/open-monica/
MoniCA is a versatile real-time monitoring system originally developed for use at the Compact Array and other radio observatories operated by Australia’s CSIRO.
The server allows data to be collected from an almost unlimited range of devices and archived to disk. A graphical client program allows real-time and historical data to be displayed in a flexible manner, printed, or exported for deeper analysis.
and of course the weather site….
Recent trip to lovely Narrabri awesome place with a awesome funny set of antennae on tracks….don’t look to compact to me 🙂
“The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), at the Narrabri Observatory, is an array of six 22-m antennas used for radio astronomy. It is located about 25 km west of the town of Narrabri in rural NSW (about 500 km north-west of Sydney). It is operated by the Australia Telescope National Facility, a division of CSIRO”
who not to fly with……what to have once per day…. what to do as little of as possible….and whos getting old…
