Photography

[Auzgurl]

Cape Leveque WA..Gods own country..(on my last visit.)

[mantra.]

Yes it's beautiful Auzgurl - makes me wish I was there on this cold and gloomy day.

[Jovial Monk]

Drove back to Adelaide via Southern Flinders Ranges, Quorn, Hawker, Orroroo then Clare. Lousy weather for photography with my little digicam, dull and overcast when it wasn't actually raining. Where there is rain there are rainbows:


This was a particularly fine bit of landscape:


Left a bit of dosh there, over $400 for just under a dozen bottles, mostly reds. Jim Barry is in the Clare valley, this is the view from the carpark:


Near Whyalla is a township that I drove up to. What is it about this sign that reminded me, unfortunately, of LOW_IQ?


Could it be the word "Iron", or . . .

[Auzgurl]

Jovial Monk-

Could it be the word "Iron", or . . .

or "knob".?

[Jovial Monk]

Yup nothing of iron about our troll, a mere keyboard warrior hiding behind a proxy address. Knob is much more like it

[Jovial Monk]

Nearly forgot! In Clare itself is a small brewery. I guarantee this picture, of a copper mashtun insulated with wooden slats, will cause any mash brewer to grow wood (and for the rare female mash brewer the female equivalent, erect nipples?)

[Auzgurl]

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[Jovial Monk]

Visited last stretch of Torrens Linear Park yesterday. Due to recent rain everyrhing was green except the bullrushes in the creek bed which had set seed and died off:

You can see we are in the head waters by the sight of the hills in the background.

Saw several billabongs:

On the way back I found out these were artificial, some attempt to harvest stormwater by Tea Tree Gully council.

This is by the last billabong:

I had Demi offlead and she was behaving herself but the sight of all those birds on the banks of the billabongs was too much! Bloody dog!

Because we were up high the river was flowing much more strongly, with little rapids about:


The park itself was beautiful, green, vistas everywhere, some great trees etc but outside the houses built adjacent the TLP were bloody awful. Just look at this half mock half timbered:


Look at the complete lack of grace and imagination in this dump:


But there was this old house:


And this charming old shed:


Dog was completely knackered at the end of the 4.5 hour walk:

[Leftofcentresalterego]

Can't wait till I can log on properly - some great photos there!

The in laws from the Knob are here at the moment JM - they are amused by your photo but definately DON'T want LOW IQ hanging around down there

[Hebe]

Oops, sorry JM.

Yes they're lovely photos, except for that square house - why does everyone want their house to look like a liquorice allsort these days? We've had some really beautiful old houses around here ruined like that in the last few years. They've lost all their character.

The last one is especially nice.