The view from my "office"

[kookaburra75]

Our view from the Breakfast Office

Peninsula Hotel, Port Douglas, Queensland

 

[drron]

Steaming into Halong Bay.

 

[QF WP]

This was the rolling bank of dark black clouds from outside my office last night. The first two are looking towards the east / north east (airport) whilst the last to the west.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Halong Bay this morning

 

[Port Power]

Today was the final journey in the rolling office. The Hungarian train and crew will go on a direct route back to Budapest from Vienna.

This is the bar car, where many enjoyable hours were spent by several.

 

[Port Power]

My final “office” for this trip: Hotel Imperial, Vienna. It is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.

 

[drron]

My office today met another office head on. Mine is the white one. No one with serious issues. About 4 of us with slight knee grazes.

 

[Guvner]

Glad to hear you are both OK.

 

[love_the_life]

My office today met another office head on. Mine is the white one. No one with serious issues. About 4 of us with slight knee grazes.View attachment 351751

A bit of a shock no doubt. Glad to hear no serious injuries and no effect on knee. Will be interesting to hear how SS reacted.

 

[prozac]

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How about your whiplash?

 

[drron]

The DJ onboard was the ship member who was there to assist us. I did suggest to him that we should develop whiplash and PTSD.
Turns out ours wasn’t the worst to happen to an excursion yesterday. Another of the buses ran over a young fellow on a bike who had to be transported to hospital.

As for us there is no need for an SS response as another bus was called and we continued the tour. However at dinner there was a lot of attention paid to us by the staff.

 

[kookaburra75]

View from the Lunch Office

Port Douglas Yacht Club, Queensland

 

[Captain Halliday]

View from my ferry office at Kinderdijk, a Unesco World Heritage site.

Read about it and see more pictures in post 61 of my trip report The Castle.

Kinderdjik, Netherlands.

 

[drron]

Halong bay night views.

 

[drron]

Danang has gone to the next level to impress the cruising tourists.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Views of Amsterdam Schiphol airport you don't see every day.





My office for part of this day was Madurodam in the Netherlands.

There's more of the Schiphol display, and some of the other attraction in post 68 of my trip report The Castle.


Den Hague, Netherlands.

 

[kermatu]

From the water office.






Back at the Tasman Peninsula, SE Tassie.

 

[RooFlyer]

From the water office.

So you scored a rare 'millpond' day! You got right round?

 

[MARTINE]

From the water office.
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Back at the Tasman Peninsula, SE Tassie.

Interesting when I went there I was reminded of Giants Causeway?
@RooFlyer - am I geologically challenged?

 

[RooFlyer]

Interesting when I went there I was reminded of Giants Causeway?
@RooFlyer - am I geologically challenged?

You earn 2 credits to your Geology Masters . (that's an elephant stamp, if you are old enough to remember those). Those bored silly with a geology lesson turn away now.

Both the Giant's Causeway (extrusive basalt) and the pillars on the Tasman Peninsula and the Organ Pipes on Mt Wellington (intrusive dolerite) are made from igneous mafic rock - that is, once molten rock (magma) with a relatively low amount of silica.

This web site explains what happens when molten rock of this composition cools (my additions in << >>):

Imagine a huge flow <<or intrusion>> of hot, liquid magma that is settling <<cooling>>. The outer layer is starting to cool and darken in color from orange to black. As it cools, it needs to shrink a bit, as hot materials usually take up more space than cooler ones. Because of this shrinking, the surface of the lava << inside of the lava flow or intrusion>> starts to crack. But this cracking isn’t always random.

In this case, the lava <<intrusive>> starts to crack into regular shapes. Those shapes are forming because of how the lava cools. It starts at different spots called “centers.” If those centers are evenly spaced, the forces that pull inward toward the centers end up creating different chunks of cooling lava that are hexagonal (6-sided), or close to it. The more uniform the material of the lava is (or basically how smooth and well mixed it is), the more evenly those centers pull. That means it is more likely it will cool into hexagonal chunks.


Hexagonal shapes are also 'low energy' and so are favoured as the final cooling product. If the magma had high silica (like a granite) then the strong silica would help bind the rock tightly together and you tend to get big cracks with cooling rather than regular cracks/columns. The ones @kermatu photographed have obviously been weathered a lot after they have been uncovered after forming deep in the crust,so are no longer nice regular hexagonals on the surface.



There endeth the lesson.