Category Archives: environment

wide angle

An imagery update – I’ve been getting around to producing some of my own panoramas, as a change from making image mosaics for work…
This one is from Gardner Island, just off Davis Station, Antarctica:

Enjoy…

always learning… something!

This week I’m on a remote area first aid course. There’s so much to learn, and it really is one of those ‘things I should have done years ago’. But it is never too late. So a group of us have been hanging out in a scout camp on top of a hill not far [...]

finally the king is dead…

A blatant ripoff in both theme and content from a recently released tune by the Herd – but all the same, a great way to start a new post.
Tasmanian politics entered a new era last week with the resignation of the premier, Paul Lennon. To all of us, both new, temporary and old tasmanians who [...]

A couple months worth of ramblings.

Its nearly the end of April and I have been slack at updating things again. Trying to escape the facebook plague and get back into this little baby of my own. Sheesh.
That, and I’ve been busy working and lacking a home internet connection. So – what’s going on? A bit more marathon mountain biking – [...]

Holidays and rocks – or holidays rock!

Ah back to the desk I am. Its OK, the tedious stuff always has good results, and thats what I’m paid for. But you all know about working…
The last couple of weeks were filled with a whirlwind trip around Victoria, visiting Bel’s family and my brother. And catching trout in the Mitta river, and [...]

The great global warming what??

Ah joy. In the name of ‘balance’, I guess, the ABC is about to give Australian viewers the privilege of watching ‘the great global warming swindle’ [TGGWS] – a ‘documentary’ that supposedly exposes the ‘fraud’ of global warming, and the great anti-development conspiracy that underpins it.
Oh, and which 99% climate scientists belong to, of course.
‘Global [...]