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Winter offshores coming
I was up in Bourke at the end of March 2012 for a week for work. A conference for a few days and then a workshop presentation for a few local services.
As usual, I took some time to travel around the area to see the sights.
When I arrived, there was ankle deep water over the road for 2km before the town's levee and plenty on the flood plain.
The watre had come down from the late January flloods upstream from Moree and the St George area.
The water level fell while I was there, but in 15 years of going to Bourke I had never seen the river so high.
I took photos mainly from the wharf in Bourke and from the old Darling River bridge at North Bourke.
Oh, and mosquitoes.
I worked down on the Vic border most of last week in Wodonga and then in Tumbarumba.
Took the opportunity to travel over the Snowy Mountains from Tumbarumba over Elliot Way to Cabramurra and then a loop to Jindabyne, with the plan to do the Mt Kosciuszko Walk from Thredbo.
Tumbarumba is a timber and cattle town nestled in the western foothills of the Snowy.
Cabramurra is a Snowy Hydo town, the highest town in Australia, really a village.
It rained all Thursday night in Jindabyne and I wasn't keen to do a really wet and cold walk as I was on my own.
The last time I was up that way I did the Main Range Track from Charlotte's Pass with some friends - It was cold and wet enough then, even in mid-January, and the next day there was a blizzard blowing through Thredbo.
Anyway, I headed to Thredbo on Friday morning just to see and next went up the express chairlift to the Eagles Nest. All looked OK - Some people heading off and it just looked like cloud.
Off I went ...
Tumbarumba
Cabramurra
The Mt K Walk - Photos from the summit and back
The summit
From the summit walk
From the summit walk
From the summit walk
From the summit walk
Lake Wakatipu and Queenstown
Lake Wakatipu
Lake Anau from Te Anau
Saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with the BILs earlier in the week - Entertaining although a few scenes too long, even forgot that Tom Cruise was the lead actor. Suspend belief.
59 seconds by Richard Wiseman on Kindle - An update on research about human behaviour. Some good stuff on classic experiments. Recommend.
Ides of March
Saw the Ides of March tonight. Best movie I've seen all year. I've been reading Julius Caesar with Son3 who is doing it for the HSC.
Zero History
This is the third of a trilogy. Liked his one. Interesting.
Three Kingdoms
This one was interesting but not recommended.
Battle LA
Can't help but wonder if the US and the West were the aliens invading to suck up the resources
Endless Summer II
Fast forward to the long board bits, through the hokiness.
Enemy of the State
Just finished Spook Country which I enjoyed.
The genre of speculative fiction fits this novel nicely as it is not quite science fiction but is close to it in the feeling I get of it being the near future or a possible near future. All the elements are there.
It's speculfative fiction ... suspend belief ... go with the ideas.
Expert procrastinator
