The view from my "office"

[drron]

And now a water and light show at Iconsiam.

 

[Flashback]

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

 

[MARTINE]

Tortola, British Virgin Islands
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Love the colors
Reminds me of ‘death in Paradise’

 

[Captain Halliday]

The highest waterfall in Switzerland, Murrenbachfall:



Doesn't look like that much water, until you stand beside the Murrenbach:



Allmendhubel mountain:



Aegertenbachfall:





Paragliders hurling themselves off Schwarzmonch:


Murrenbach valley, Switzerland.

 

[Captain Halliday]

This office is a series of caves inside Schwarzmonh mountain, carved by subterranean waterfalls.

They're the only accessible underground waterfalls in Switzerland.






The photos just don't capture the power of the water, the roaring sound, mist and just how spectacular it is.

This was easily in the top three things we did during our five-week trip.



From the entrance you can choose seven flights of stairs, or the miners carriage that cuts through the mountain.



Where the falls emerge:




Trummelbach falls, Switzerland.

 

[Quickstatus]

Forget about the Salmon. The other big export for the State
This year's crop looks good

 

[VPS]

Forget about the Salmon. The other big export for the State
This year's crop looks good


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I think I know where you are but can you enlighten us

 

[Steady]

I think I know where you are but can you enlighten us

Looks very familiar to me but not my place to say

 

[VPS]

Looks very familiar to me but not my place to say

that was what I was thinking - I think I have photos of that lighthouse with lots of tulips

 

[Steady]

that was what I was thinking - I think I have photos of that lighthouse with lots of tulips

My actual office is surrounded by very Similar views this time of year

 

[MARTINE]

Looks very familiar to me but not my place to say

Opium poppies?

 

[Captain Halliday]

Forget about the Salmon. The other big export for the State
This year's crop looks good


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I’m surprised demand for Lighthouse exports have held up so well since GPS was introduced.

 

[MARTINE]

Opium poppies?

Tasmania

 

[Quickstatus]

I think I know where you

Table Cape

 

[Quickstatus]

Looking back at Burnie and Penguin

 

[Quickstatus]

lots of tulips

Dangerous tulips
They do look like tulips and Table Cape also has tulip farms.

Half of the Worlds legit supply come from Tassie.

 

[RB]

Dangerous tulips
They do look like tulips and Table Cape also has tulip farms.

Half of the Worlds legit supply come from Tassie.


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These were from a crop we walked around in India in 2023

 

[RB]

We had a new lorikeet baby introduced to us today

 

[drron]

Dangerous tulips
They do look like tulips and Table Cape also has tulip farms.

Half of the Worlds legit supply come from Tassie.


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That used to be true but no longer. Tasmania had an exclusive right to grow Opium poppy in Australia. From 2014 - 2018 the rest of Australia was allowed into the market. Many Tasmanian poppy farmers left the business.
The majority of the crop was produced for Tasmanian Alkaloids with the big green factory on the Western side of Westbury. It was however a unit of Johnson & Johnson.
A quarter of the crop was processed at Glaxo’s factory at Latrobe where I often worked. Glaxo have sold out to an Indian pharmaceutical company.

Then the double whammy. The US consumed 75% of the world’s opioids until they hit the consumption by regulations.

But don’t worry Tasmanian Alkaloids has changed it’s name to Extractas Bioscience and as well as their alkaloids business now are a producer of Medical Cannabis.

 

[latawiec]

The actual Bangkok office now.
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half the wardrobe.
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And the bathroom.
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....and what an amazing view