tiabunna's photos with the keyword: George Cook

From an old slide. These conditions were known as a "Freeze-up", not least because the pipes bringing our water supply from the plateau sometimes did just that. Fortunately this usually lasted only a few days. The row of nissen huts were primarily for storage, the small yellow building with the cross was known as "Chippy's Church" and was the station brewery. In the right foreground is the kitchen/mess, while the main accommodation block is in the foreground, hidden below the brow of the hill.

From an old slide. Macquarie Island has had many shipwrecks over the years. Shortly after the island was first discovered in 1810, the Sydney Gazette carried the report of the discovery and "... several pieces of wreck of a large vessel on this island, apparently very old and high up in the grass ..." . Unfortunately the sealing gangs used any timber as firewood for rendering seal blubber, so any traces of that earlier mystery ship had long disappeared before we visited. How fascinating to have known its age and origin, and what a fertile source for speculation! In subsequent years many ships were wrecked on the island, the most recent prior to our visit being the "Gratitude" which was caught on a lee shore by an easterly gale in late 1898. This section of keel is all that remained in our time - and that, we expected, would be the last shipwreck there. What a surprise when the news bulletins in late 1988 carried reports that our own ship, the "Nella Dan" also dragged her anchor in an easterly gale and, after being stranded on the rocks near the Station, was finally hauled off and scuttled near the island.

Our new WF2 balloon tracking radar in its red radome shows up well in this photo, taken about February in 1968. The "Nella Dan" was stranded on the rocks adjacent to the radar in December 1987 and scuttled offshore on Christmas Eve of that year. You can find some excellent photos of the stranding by entering "Nella Dan Macquarie Island" in the Flickr search box.

Upstream from Luang Prabang there is an impressive view across the Mekong River to the village of Pak Ou from the caves of that name. In the caves there are huge numbers of Buddha statues - some extremely old.

For some reason it was a little fluffed up, though it wasn't a cold day. RMC Tokina 400/5.6

I think it's time I posted another mono shot. Wind farms seem to be either "love them" or "hate them". These are in South Australia

New Holland Honeyeater (Phylidonyris novaehollandiae)

Taken with Pentax SMC M macro 100mm f4.0 on K10D camera - and with an obliging bee. :)

Updated from my original posting and originally on F..r. I'd been copying some old slides. The Nella Dan was carrying a Beaver floatplane aircraft and a Bell 47 helicopter on this trip.