Tag: travel
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Japan trip pre-brief.
A meet up with the best of friends to discuss our respective imminent Japan trips.
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Japan trip. Update.
The upcoming Japan trip includes visits to Tokyo, Kanazawa, Takayama, Miyajima, Kyoto, and Hakone. The traveler plans to document the journey with a new Fujifilm XT5 camera.
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Observing Stromlo
The Mt Stromlo observatory, near my childhood home, was a favorite biking destination. Despite destruction in 2003, new telescopes and equipment, like the ‘Sky Mapper’ and the Quantum Optical Ground Station, have been installed.
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The Martian Embassy
A 10-year-old’s eerie encounter near a crashed UFO site turns out to be the fascinating story of the Australian Shine Dome.
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The long drive home
After surviving a bumpy road trip filled with potholes and over salted chips, it’s time to tackle the mountain of laundry and plot the next adventure. A brief pause to digest the journey, then it’s full speed ahead to plan the next escapade – Japan!
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The church
Location: ///rambles.mistreat.comforting28°40.93548’S, 153°26.33388’E Out for a country drive and stumbled across this beautiful old wooden church (St Aidans’ Anglican) just outside the town of Eureka. Originally built around 1895, it has obviously had some recent attention and a fresh coat of paint. I love the rich simplicity of this design. Standing on tiptoe I peered…
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Wish you were here.
Location: ///suave.glittered.replica28°38.41446’S, 153°36.73026’E Another postcard day walking the sand at Byron Bay. Sure the town has become the embodiment of everything I hate about over-development. But the beach…the beach remains just as I will always remember it. Seaspray, spirit-scapes and sand in the swim trunks.
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