Judy Evans

@JudyEv (362767)

Rockingham, Australia

Joined myLot 10 years ago

Hi there. My husband, Vince, and I live in a gated lifestyle village in Western Australia. One adult son lives in Melbourne, Victoria and the other in Ireland.

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I found some quandong nuts

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 5h

I was quite excited to see a quandong tree (Santalum acuminatum) while walking round Elachbutting Rock. I thought I took a photo of the fruits on the tree but somehow I missed the fruits and only have some branches. There were a...

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chinese checkers

We paid a fifth of what we expected

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 9h

I’m sure you don’t want a photo of the motor-home or a tyre so you’ve got more photos from the rocks we visited. We have a motor-home. It has dual wheels at the back and we haven’t been able to get to the valve of one of the...

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extension valve

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Photos from Monty's Pass

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 10h

I’ve done a collage of photos taken in Monty’s Pass, a 30-metre tunnel at Elachbutting Rock near Beacon, Western Australia. I don’t know how the pass got its name. A huge slab of granite has broken away from the main rock to form...

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elachbutting rock

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Another big rock - Elachbutting Rock

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 22h

One of the reasons I wanted to go back to the Beacon area in Western Australia was to go to Elachbutting Rock. It’s not far from Beringbooding Rock which I’ve already written about. Elachbutting Rock is another large granite...

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elibachbuttting rock

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Disney on parade at a wind ensemble concert

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Sep

About a week ago we went to a concert put on by the Darling Range Wind Ensemble in Western Australia. The theme was ‘Disney’ and many of the performers dressed up as Disney characters. Maybe some were just cartoon characters but...

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darling range wind ensemble

disney characters

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Photos from Berinbooding Rock

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Sep

I wrote about Berinbooding Rock recently. The granite slabs for the walls were formed by lighting a big fire on the surface of the rock. This was allowed to burn all night. When water was poured on the rock next morning the...

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berinbooding rock

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Berinbooding Rock - built by sustenance labour

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Sep

While we were away, we visited Berinbooding Rock again. I wrote about it in 2019 and 2020 but hopefully, if you’re like me, you’ll have forgotten. The rock is a short distance from Beacon. The rock is huge and during 1937 at the...

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berinbooding rock

sustenance labour

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A shout-out for ChatGPT

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Sep

I know people have trouble with AI, (as in ‘artificial intelligence’ and not ‘artificial insemination’)! We use ChatGPT for getting information about a whole range of subjects. We know we need to check the reliability of its...

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Vouchers from Beacon, Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Sep

I’ve spoken before about small towns coming up with all sorts of ideas to entice visitors to their towns. Having said that, some of the more popular towns are finding themselves overwhelmed with tourists and just wish they’d all...

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Wyalkatchem Museum's pedal organ gets a workout

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Sep

While we were in the Wyalkatchem Museum, my brother-in-law played a couple of hymns on the pedal organ that was there. I think the instrument could also be called a ‘harmonium’. This one had bellows which were operated by the foot...

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wyalkatchem museum

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'Free books' but not quite

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Sep

We’ve been away for a few days with Vince’s brother and his grandson. We visited two of the same museums that Vin and I visited on our last road trip. The grandson is about 14, on the autism spectrum and has ADHD. He couldn’t have...

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Canola crops can be seen from space

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Sep

In our travels over the last three or four days, we saw extensive paddocks of canola. Canola was first introduced into Australia from Canada in the 1960s. It was first called rapeseed but Mr Wiki tells me that canola is “a group...

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broadacre farming

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A rug made from scraps

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Sep

We’ve been away for a few nights and visited some great museums while we were away. I should have said revisited the museums but I was able to get a few extra photos. One item that I missed last time was this plaited mat. These...

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Look what we won

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Sep

I’ve written before about our musical niece who is in a number of bands. Tonight, we went to a concert given by the wind ensemble that she is involved in. It had a Disney theme and most of the musicians dressed up as Disney...

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Cloning is alive and well

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Sep

Dolly the sheep was cloned quite some time ago, in 1996 in fact. I hadn’t thought about it much since but, if I had, I would have realised that was probably just the first of many. And now a news article has come up saying that...

new south wales

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The chihuahua and the rottweiler

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Sep

Some of you may not like this song if you listen to it but it’s just meant to be a bit of fun. It's called Little Gomez and was on the list at Eric Bogle’s concert which we attended on Wednesday evening. Eric said it was based on...

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A garden fit for the birds

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Sep

We spent two nights at my brother-in-law’s place and I took these photos in his garden. The recent rains have been lapped up by the plants and they are all thriving and blooming like you wouldn’t believe. He has a lot of native...

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Does this image remind you of a dolphin?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Sep

The photo is Vince’s. It immediately makes me think of a dolphin with its sleek lines. However, the ‘tail’ seems to be off-kilter. I don’t know what sort of plane it is and I’m not going to ask as I’d have to listen to a...

hectors dolphin

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A beautiful chapel at New Norcia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Sep

The monastic town of New Norcia in Western Australia consists of over sixty buildings, twenty-eight of which are heritage-listed. There are now only seven monks in residence and much of the administration has been taken over by...

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benedictine monks

st gertrudes chapel

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There's something fishy about these slip-ons

Judy Evans @JudyEv (362767) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Sep

We went BCF today. That’s a Boating, Fishing and Camping shop. We needed to get our gas bottle filled. We’re planning to go away in the motor-home next week, just for three nights but it’s better than nothing. The shop has...

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