Wednesday; travel to...

Flying over the Flinders Ranges;

Places  in Australia with odd names; I leave you the pleasure of looking them up on the Australian map,
enjoy a nice trip. The names are pronounced in English!

 Oodnadatta,

Pepegoona,

Ararat
 Arkaroola

 Tantanoola

 Wipipee

Above the Flinders Ranges;

 Farina

 Ballarat

 Thackaringa

Taltabooka 

 Murrindindie;

Kalioota
 Winininnie

 Beltana
The Bight,

 Mallee's 

Flinders Ranges a fantastic landscape.

 Darling Downs,

 Yudnapinna,

 Tidnacoordininna,

 Mallacoota

 Baroota

 Yankalilla;

Wallaroo
Wirrawilla

Booboorowie 

Oodla
Wirra, 
Orroroo

Wycheproof
 Wollongong

 Never Never,

Sounding in each mountain rill,

Echoing from hill to hill…

In the lonely, silent places

Men lift up their glad, wet faces,

And their thanks ask no explaining -

It is raining - raining - raining!

Names of  towns used in CJ Den's famous poem  "And it's raining, raining, raining."

C J Dennis, Poet; Journalist, was born in Auburn, South Australia, on 7 September 1876,  he preferred to be known as Den.

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Three Monkeys

Tuesday; Nature's wonders;

Honey Bee collecting nectar and pollen; My Garden;

Lavishly golden,

 liquid sunshine held in tiny, waxen  chambers. 

 The  fragrance of  flowers and harvest, warmed by sun, wind and rain,

 nectar collected diligently, 

transmuted into  the sweetest  of sweets,

 for sticky, little fingers to lick and savour,

  this wonderful alchemy of  nature. 

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Link 

http://www.honeybee.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60

Monday; Aahh...

Aahh… close your eyes and dream of an island in the sun;

 idly succumb  to a delightful dream;  a closed book in your lap,

 the soft tap

 of  a slow day rolling by. Aahh…

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Sepia Saturday 149;

Aptly described as ‘gifts from the earth’, thermal springs occur in many parts of New Zealand. Most are scattered throughout the Taupo Volcanic Zone in the central North Island, but some are in areas of extinct volcanic activity such as Northland, the Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty. Others lie in non-volcanic areas, along faultlines, particularly in Westland and North Canterbury. They are formed when rainwater seeps down through rock towards the heat source deep beneath the surface and then rises again. The hot water dissolves minerals in the rock, and the mineral content as well as the temperature of hot springs varies according to locality.

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/thermal-pools-and-spas

 Mud is bubbling;

Water Steaming;

Hot sulfurous lake;

©Photos/ Ts Rotorua, New Zealand;

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Thursday; Sunrise in the valley;

Morning sings in glowing pink;

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 Lavender and Vanilla;

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Tuesday; nibble; Jaboticaba fruit.

  JABOTICABA

(Myrciaria cauliflora)

The Jaboticaba is  a tree native to Brazil. Fruits are formed directly on the stem and branches. The fruit has a fairly thick purplish black skin, with a sweet white flesh inside. It  is best eaten  fresh or can be used to make jellies and drinks.

A multi-branched evergreen tree, the jaboticaba  is a decorative although slow growing tree. Up to four times a year, the small yellow-white colored flowers followed by the fruit, appear directly from the trunks, limbs and large branches of the tree.  Jaboticabas might begin to bear fruit anytime from 4 to 10 years old

Jaboticaba trees are mostly raised by seed. The seeds are polyembryonic each seed giving rise to 3-4 seedlings.

For more info click

http://www.fruitsinfo.com/Jabotacaba-Exotic-fruits.php

Pop the fruit into your mouth, squeeze out the fruit pulp and discard the skin;

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Sepia Saturday 148; Native Mounted Police;

Native Police Rockhampton, Queensland, 1864

The Native Police Forces were established in Port Phillip in 1842 in New South Wales and 1859 in Queensland. The force was built up of young Aboriginal men who were sent to kill Aboriginal people of different language groups. This was a vital contribution to the defeat of the Aboriginal resistance.

Australian native police like units, consisting of Aboriginal troopers under the command usually of a single white officer, existed in several Australian colonies during the nineteenth century. Yet there were really only two forces formerly budgeted, organized and deployed at the frontier by the government for long term use. The first was the Native Police Corps established in 1837 in the Port Phillip District of the then Australian colony of New South Wales (now Victoria) and the second was deployed in the northern districts of New South Wales, the later colony of Queensland in 1848. However, the latter force, known predominantly simply as the "Native Police Force" (sometimes called the "Native Mounted Police Force") of Queensland, was by far the largest, most notorious and longest lasting of them all. It existed from 1848 to at least 1897.  Other native police like systems were also occasionally used both in New South Wales and in the colonies of South Australia, Western Australia and in Northern Territory (then part of the colony of South Australia), but with the exception (it seems) of a small unit briefly existing in South Australia, they were informally organized often private initiatives, not formerly established and deployed as a government financed frontier force.

More to read  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_native_police

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