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Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 26 Jan 22

In 2016, my husband and I visited Uluru (Ayres Rock) in central Australia. The air there is very ‘clean’. There is no glow from street lights or nearby towns. Neither is there any smog or haze. Skies are mostly cloudless and the...

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It’s raining on the Rock

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Mar 21

In northern New South Wales, Australia, there have been unprecedented floods with a great many people being evacuated from their homes. There have been three deaths so far with people being trapped in their cars and unable to...

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We may not go to Mt Augustus

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Sep 20

The photo is of Uluru, an Australian monolith which is in the Northern Territory. I started off to write about Western Australia’s monolith, Mt Augustus, which I always thought was larger than Uluru. But I read on one site that...

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'Climb-It Change' (Climate Change) affects Australia's Uluru

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 27 Oct 19

The title is a joke but it's true that people can no longer climb Uluru. MyLotter youless (@youless) has just written ( mylot.com/post/3315711/you-cant-climb-uluru-any-more) saying that it is now forbidden to climb Australia’s...

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You can't climb Uluru any more

youless @youless (114117) • Guangzhou, China 27 Oct 19

Uluru is a famous tourism spot from The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in Australia. Now you can't climb it any more after 26 October 2019. I think there must be other interesting spots in this national park. Although we can't...

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No more climbing on 'The Rock'

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jul 19

I’ve written about our trip in 2018 to Uluru or Ayres Rock in Central Australia. If you want to read more about that trip, you can use the search button and type in ‘uluru’. Although it is possible to climb Uluru, the traditional...

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A great word - murmuration

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jan 19

@xFiacre just wrote about a murmuration of starlings and I mentioned that Vince had recently used the word in relation to budgerigars. These are also called love birds and in the USA I think they’re called parakeets. They are a...

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Bad Moon A'Risin'

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Mar 18

Social media has a lot going for it in some ways although I often complain about it. This evening’s ‘share’ from the locals was to tell about four break-ins in a housing estate which is only a few hundred metres along the road...

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Photography jargon - blue hour

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Mar 18

From time to time I’ve mentioned to various readers how every hobby/pastime/career has its own jargon. My husband is very interested in photography and I’ve already written about ‘bokeh’ which fascinates many photographers....

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Songs mentioning kangaroos - #3 - Kanga Roo - Jeff Buckley

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Nov 17

My third song that has ‘kangaroo’ in the title or lyrics is called ‘Kanga Roo’ and the lyrics are by Van Morrison. I can brag a little here and say my son has played bass in a group backing Van Morrison at a gig somewhere in...

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Would you like to be the judge please?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Feb 17

Vince loves his photography and now belongs to a number of photographic groups. Some I guess are Facebook based but maybe not all. I'm not too sure. One is concerned with landscapes and Vince recently put this one up on the...

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Have you heard of Michael Chamberlain?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Jan 17

Michael Chamberlain has died aged 72. Maybe you have never heard of him but he and his wife, Lindy Chamberlain, made headlines in Australia over many weeks in 1980 when a dingo stole their 9 week old baby girl, Azaria, from a tent...

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Healthy and Reasonably Fit - That's Us

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Nov 16

While in the Northern Territory, Australia, recently, we drove out to King's Canyon. The ancient sandstone cliffs are an important conservation area, giving refuge to over 600 species of native plants and animals. Many of these...

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Field of Light, Uluru, Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Nov 16

While we were at Uluru in central Australia recently, we attended the Field of Light, an installation of some 50,000 slender stems crowned with frosted glass spheres. LED lighting illuminates the area from dusk. Lighted pathways...

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The Ancient Rocks of Kata Tjuta

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Nov 16

On our trip to Uluru and surrounds in the centre of Australia, we visited a number of attractions including Kata Tjuta. This is the aboriginal name for what was previously known as the Olgas, a group of large domed sandstone...

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A Place to Rest

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Nov 16

Ironwood as applied to timber can denote any one of a number of hardwood tree species. The photo shows one of a number of seats placed round about the place at Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia. I love the twisted shape...

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The Magic of Uluru

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Nov 16

Uluru or Ayers Rock as it was once known is a very sacred and spiritual place to the traditional owners of the land in that area. They were understandably upset when tourists started pouring into the area and climbing all over...

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Beer or Education - Take Your Pick

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Nov 16

While we were travelling through South Australia and the Northern Territory recently, we came across a huge variety of recreational vehicles ranging from bicycles to very elaborate and huge fifth-wheelers and caravans. We had...

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Heading towards Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381906) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Nov 16

On our recent three-week trip to the centre of Australia, we travelled without too many interruptions to Erldunda which, depending on how the measurement is done, is just about as close to the centre of Australia as it is possible...

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Where Would You Like To Go In This World?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 17 May 16

If you had the money and the time to go, what would be the first and the second place you would like to visit that you have not been to before now? I have always wanted to go to Australia, but it’s such a BIG country, there is no...

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