Oh nothing really just wanted to share

Didn't the Australian government recently restrict tourist access to Uluru so as to preserve it for the aboriginals? If I'm remembering it correctly, good for them!

 

Hmm…Not the government it’s Aboriginal land…The problem is tourists…and their toilet habits. Can you imagine Asian people walking up to the statue of Lincoln and taking a dump? Or St Paul’s Cathedral? You don’t need to climb the rock to appreciate it. Plenty of heart attacks avoided a year too…It doesn’t seem like the Indigenous playing hard ball this time…They have asked people not to climb for decades, now they have taken all the climbing infrastructure down and banned it. You can see that this IS a cultural icon…And not just by the Aboriginals.
“Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people, the traditional landowners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park.”

 

Picture contains indigenous people who may have died.

 

Its difficult to get southerners to understand that the Sun in the tropics is "Bigger" in the sky...The Earth's atmosphere bunches up in the middle creating a "bulge"...This can act as lens and makes the sun appear larger...(And the moon)


This helps to create awesome sunsets that people gather at dusk with a champagne in hand and watch the sunset...And clap afterwards! Weird...


We do get some stunners though, appreciated by locals when driving in the late afternoon...

 

Turn on, tune in, drop out...Sounds like Darwin.

 

OK i have dyslexia when quoting...

 

I was just on Google Earth looking at Duxford Airfield and Museum, Cambridgeshire. The airbase for the World War II Battle of Britain fighter station. Very interesting with the fighter museum, an American fighter outside further down, the original Memphis Belle I presume, sitting beside the airstrip and a Spitfire on a raised pedestal outside the museum. I would think the control tower and many of the buildings are original also. A list of World War I and World War II airfields……….

Here’s a list of historic First & Second World War airfields in the UK

 

Reminds me of the highly underrated Glen Campbell...An excellent guitarist among other things.


Oh Biak!
Skip says "Thats not cool mate...Beers in the fridge"

 

Who would have thought.

 

Viewers criticise BBC WWII drama World On Fire over 'inaccuracies' (msn.com)

 

The 'Banjo Boy' from Deliverance looks unrecognisable decades after quitting showbiz (msn.com)

Not his actual arms or hands!