Peter Fuller’s remarks are effectively what I would have recommended , following an occasion on which an acquaintance drowned the computer of his Range Rover in a swamp (mounted under the driver’s seat). After he was pulled out it was time to make camp anyway. The black box was removed and stripped, and everything sloshed … Read more
More good news for inland waterbirds with 120mm of rain in Blackall into a wet catchment which should send yet more water down Cooper Creek into Lake Eyre and stop it drying out until well into 2011, also from the BOM: * Flood Warning – Gawler River, * Flood Warning – Torrens River, * Flood … Read more
Dear Phillip, thanks for your response about Tuckfields cards. I too must have a full set and many more besides. Since having a look at my latest requisition. I have not looked too closely at the wording on the oldy cards. Are they a bit dodgy? The PAGE I found was the only reference on … Read more
Last weekend my DSLR camera (Canon EOS 7D &100-400mm zoom) and I had an underwater encounter at Michaelmas Cay (the moron responsible (guess-who?) fell off the back of the ‘rubber-ducky'[?]) and it has been non-functional since. As expected my household insurance policy does not cover ‘unspecified’ equipment. I know most readers of this list are … Read more
Good Morning Everyone I have just returned from an amazing trip to the Subantarctic Islands of the Southern Ocean and was overwhelmed by the quantity and diversity of the seabirds that I saw. My first group of birds that I have posted on to my website are from the family Procellariidae http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup http://barraimaging.com.au/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastup&cat=0 &cat=0 and … Read more