Swagnit pics

[marie-angelique]

many thanks - looking forward to more :)
funny, i saw an awful lot of skin cancer clinics in OZ.
are you a gold miner?

[swagnit]

many thanks - looking forward to more :)
funny, i saw an awful lot of skin cancer clinics in OZ.
are you a gold miner?

Skin cancer is a bit of a problem in Aus.
I believe we have the highest rate in the world, which isn't much of a 'claim to fame'.
Plenty of awareness advertising goes out over the southern summer.
Horrible shit it is.

No I'm not a gold miner.
I do spend much of my time travelling with work, and if it's in the West, that means coming across a lot of mining and pastoral areas. (dig it up, or grow it is a big part of what goes on in WA)
Plenty of towns were built around mining, although nowadays the trend is to set up camps around the mines and fly people in and out on rosters.
The port towns however have grown rapidly with the increased demand for iron ore.

Kicking around the old abandoned gold areas can be interesting (and if you're working out there, there's stuff all else to do except drink), and the old towns that serviced those areas have some pretty cool old buildings left over from the days when some were striking it rich.

The old freemasons lodge in Cue- built from timber and corrugated iron in 1899.





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Swagnit.

[swagnit]

Lake Lefroy, a salt lake near Kambalda, Western Australia.







This ground is just fucking ideal to drop your camera on. Looks like I've got a lens that's gunna need some work.




Some fella is apparently going to try and break a land yacht speed record on the lake later this year.
http://www.windjet.co.uk/

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Swagnit

[svizzerams]

Enjoyed viewing your great photos...I really like the outback Australian landscape. I spent some time in Queensland (Cairns, Port Douglas (before it got swanky) and Cooktown) and then Alice Springs/Ayers Rock/Olgas and Sydney. The tropics does me in with the heat and humidity - but I felt right at home in the desert. Incredible vistas and the colors are amazing. I'd like to come back and see more of the southern areas (Adelaide) and go west. As flip flop and M-A said - more please :-)

[swagnit]

Enjoyed viewing your great photos...I really like the outback Australian landscape. I spent some time in Queensland (Cairns, Port Douglas (before it got swanky) and Cooktown) and then Alice Springs/Ayers Rock/Olgas and Sydney. The tropics does me in with the heat and humidity - but I felt right at home in the desert. Incredible vistas and the colors are amazing. I'd like to come back and see more of the southern areas (Adelaide) and go west. As flip flop and M-A said - more please :-)

Cheers svizzerams.
I'm also a bit of a fan of the desert and semi-arid areas.
Heading out into those areas and finding waterholes and the like, that are rarely, if ever, visited by people is a great way to kick back. Water means life in those regions and animal and bid life concentrate around them.

And since you mentioned Adelaide.
Sculptures in the Rundle Mall.-









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Swagnit

[swagnit]

And a few more South Aus picks.

Up the Murray River.-


Part of the Flinders ranges-


View, with hangover, from the balcony of the Marree pub.
(Marree is on the edge of a vast desert region.)



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Swagnit

[snaark]

I'm assuming this one is a few years old...?

[flipflop]

The old freemasons lodge in Cue- built from timber and corrugated iron in 1899.





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Swagnit.

I love this 'un, makes a great avatar too

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[swagnit]

I'm assuming this one is a few years old...?

Good pick. It was 3 years ago.

The old freemasons lodge in Cue- built from timber and corrugated iron in 1899.





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Swagnit.

I love this 'un, makes a great avatar too

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Cheers mate.
Reckon it'd make a great house, but there's a shitload of work to do.
And Cue sorta lacks a bit as a place to live,plus hot as fuck in the summer,, although wouldn't make a bad base to take some time out kicking over rocks gold prospecting.


(and yeah i gotta get back to my storage unit and drag out some more photos soon)

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Swagnit

[flipflop]

Good to see you back posting mate, looking forward to those photos

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[marie-angelique]

me too, thanks :)

[swagnit]

For something a little different.
Japan, October November last year. (when the exchange rate was a fine thing)


Kinkaku-ji. A bit flasher than the masonic lodge in Cue ;)






In the forest out the back of Kobe. A beautiful area to spend the day on foot




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Swagnit

[swagnit]

Shinjuku. Some great grub, and good drinking to be had in the bars around the laneways.



Guardhouse at the imperial palace. Makes some of the contractor digs I usually stay in look pretty poor.



Japan. The home of modern consumer electronics.



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Swagnit

[swagnit]

Some wildlife pics.

A camel kicking around on the edge of the desert. Often seen in good sized herds, but this was was on its lonesome.






An orphaned wallaby being hand reared.



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Swagnit

[swagnit]

Looking alert,,ears swinging and ready to take off.


Checking out what's moving around.


And couldn't give a stuff, big enough and ugly enough not to worry.



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Swagnit