Day Two – Dookie to Euroa – Sunday 28 November
Official Distance 84km
Gerry’s Cateye Statistics:
Riding Time: 4:50hrs
Distance: 89.30 kms
Avergae Speed: 18.4km/h
maximum Speed 56.3km/h
Calories Burnt: 1344.9
ODO: 167.2
Shite man, check out the hill on this day, long continous and painful hill, but boy was the downhill part fun
Weather: Nice sunny day with some cloud, there was some headwind breeze on the final leg into Euroa, but not too bad.
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Day One – Yarrawonga to Dookie- Saturday 27 November
Official Distance 69km
Gerry’s Cateye Statistics:
Riding Time: 3:47hrs
Distance: 77.92 kms
Average Speed: 20.5km/h
maximum Speed 41.1km/h
Calories Burnt: 1145.1
Weather: Nice sunny day to start off with and a brisk breeze, rained steadily for the last couple of km’s into Dookie Campsite
The Full map etc;
The Good Oil Newsletter:
So, your blogs feeling a bit left out, your web directory resembles a 12 year olds bedroom and its time to pull up your pants, well with the worlds most popular blogging software (amoungst other uses) things are not necessarily that easy to shuffle and move around, especially when you want to change the URL and also the fullweb directory path! Nontheless it can be done, but be prepared, its not a five minute job, probably a half hour one 🙂
Onwards and upwards…here are my notes, cause I am gettign old and I will forget this after lunch : -/
Relocating blog to another directory!
log in to the blog and change the URL for the blog under the settings
WordPress address (URL) Â Â Â https://blog.avernus.com.au
Site address (URL)Â Â Â https://blog.avernus.com.au
save, then relocate the files to the directory – in this case it is the root directory for the virtual host.
There is an interesting history regarding the famous James Bond Island (Ko Tapu) besides being one of the locations for the James Bond Movie ‘ The Man with teh Golden Gun’ – the island is the location of the famous duel between Bond and Scaramanga where after being directed to take 20 paces Bond turns and fires only to find Scaramanga has dissapeared.
The movie was slated to be shot in Cambodia, however the conflict at the time prevented this, it certainy would have been interesting to see what location in Cambodia became a major tourist attraction if it was shot there!
What a bizarre place this is! I gotta say I travelled all the way to Thailand and did not even get in the ocean water, excluding dabbling my toes. Really the beaches are nice, but nothing compares to beaches on the mid north coast of NSW, you can get on most beaches and be the only one there!
It is also a hot spot for gay people to visit, man did not know that when I took this picture of the dude in the budgie smugglers!
The nightlife is something else apparently, never hung around long enough to see thank goodness!
Patong Beach – History
Official permanent population is 14797 (2006) persons but the real number is probably as high as 60,000 in high season.
1827 Baan Kathu and Baan Patong are small villages without convenient transportation
1898 The Island is organized into five grades of local administration.
1947 The government approves 60,000 THB for a basic road over the hill to Patong
1969 Patong is upgraded to a “sanitation district” and taxes of 20,000 THB a year are collected.
1976 A sealed road is built to Patong.
1979 Electricity arrives
1994 Patong sanitation district is upgraded to a municipally
2004 Patong was hit by the Asian Tsunami 26 December
2005 Recovery year, tourism back to 80% at end of the year. Opening of Patong OTOP Shopping Paradise, Thanon Rat-U-Thit 200P (south end).
2006 Jungceylon, Patong’s first full-fledged modern air-con shopping mall, complete with 200 shops, integrated hotel, etc. Still under construction and the opening has been postponed several times, but will probably launch some time in end of 2006
Well, its been just about 12 months since the last coogee sunrise session, it is very interesting to see how things have changed in my photography.
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and for saturdays effort…
What a way to welcome in the spring months and of course Daylight savings – with a mere 3 hours sleep under my belt this is what I do for fun!
Formalised baths, a little south of the Bronte Bogey Hole and the large and beautiful Bronte Park that attracts crowds on the weekends. Also known as the Bond Ocean Pool after lifesaving pioneer and swimming teacher, Major Bond. This nineteenth-century pool was adapted for lap and competition swimming by using a turning board to define a rectangular course within the pool.
Well almost, we are in the throws of upgrading, hardware and software! so some things may not work and others may work better…
Interesting evening with some OK shots, however once again – I have re-enforced the fact that the PP is elementary once a good frame and composition is made – that is where the hard work lies!
What a cracker of a show eh! Saturday was the day to be there, nice mix of blue sky and some cloud, it was a little hazy but all in all one could not ask for better conditions
It will most likely take me the better side of the next few months to trawl thru the images, however at this mpint a 25% keeper ratio is looking fairly good.
The following are some of the first cabs of the rank!
Well it has been several months since logging on to smash a few pimpled faced teens in the cyber world of Counterstrike – so the other day I had a few minutes to spare so I fired up Steam and Gamearena only to find it wanted to update, no surprise really – however the 600mb download was a giveaway that something significant had changed!
So from the official sources;
The #1 online action game in the world, Counter-Strike: Source (CSS) has just received a major update and is now available for the Mac. CSS is a SteamPlay title, so if you own it on the PC – you own it on the Mac. Besides PC Vs. Mac cross-platform play, this update also adds achievements, stats, engine updates and more.
New match and lifetime player stats and summary screens give you insight into how you play. You can tracks your kills, your deaths, and compare yourself against other players. Learn your accuracy with each weapon so no more guessing where you should be spending your money.
Over 140 unique achievements have been added. The achievements cover everything from defusing bombs and winning pistol rounds to dominating your first foe. Can you kill 5 opponents with a blast of C4 to earn the “Clusterstruck” achievement?
Can you earn MVP by getting the most kills or defusing the bomb? Always know who on your team is contributing the most with the end round MVP award. And all your favorite Steam features have been added including avatar pictures, domination icons and more.
A new Death Cam that shows who killed you. The new domination and revenge system makes it personal. We have also included various Source Engine updates, bug fixes, and more.
which is a far cry from the the previous version which I played in July!
which, when compared to a screenie from 2005 ear, things were pretty much the same back then!
and before that, in the stoneages of Dialup internet..wow, that makes my head spin, crazy times eh? CS and dialup, brings back memories of my trick gateway server and my beloved roadstar modem, which by th eway was USB and worked like a dream under Redhat – back before it turned into the Fedora shitfight..now its pure Debian all teh way..but I am getting sidetracked, where was that screenie again?
Something you don’t see that often, uncontained engine failure, this looks pretty darn bad, a hole large enough for a boy to fit thru! yep there is that layer here thats meant to keep all the shredding metal inside.
I can only imagine the fireworks coming out the back of it as it dropped it’s guts!
In preparation fo rteh upcoming Williamtown Airshow, I have been loaned a teleconverter to supplement my 300mm f4, there are plenty of reviews and advice out about the 300mm f4 with the TC-14EII, however, not to be completely convinced until I have tried it myself!
This is a work in progress and hopefully contain some more images as time passes and after the aircraft where I am sure I will use the 300mm f4 with and without the converter.
300mm f4 with TC-14EII attached, uncropped
300mm f4 with TC-14EII cropped
Beautiful conditions on Sunday Morning for some back yard shots, the first with the TC, at obvously a greater distance but still filling up the frame:
The second with out the TC, this was closer, but again filling teh frame.
300mm f4 without TC
300mm f4 without TC
