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[TheRealTMA]

Spruce Goose - Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. McMinnville, Oregon.

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The Spruce Goose

At the center of our museum stands the original Spruce Goose. Built entirely of wood due to wartime restrictions on metals, this massive airplane stands as a symbol of ...

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[RB]

Cares Gorge Walk in the Picos 2015. Cares Trail - Wikipedia

 

[codash1099]

I spend a fair bit of my travelling time in art galleries, so a few more art selections (but two aren't in galleries)

The Chagall centrepiece in the Paris Opera House


Rembrandt - The Jewish Bride in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Renoir - Two Girls in the Art Institute of Chicago


Rodin - The Kiss near the Orangerie, Paris

 

[OZDUCK]

Batu Caves Kuala Lumpur





Pulau Ketam - fishing village built on stilts in the mangroves off Port Klang

 

[TheRealTMA]

North American Pumpkins - Halloween.

 

[RB]

Walk between Virpazar & Godinje in Montenegro. At times some amazing reflections on Lake Skadar

 

[TheRealTMA]

Mona Hobart.

Just a very limited set of art.

Mona – Museum of Old and New Art | Hobart, Tasmania

Mona: a museum, or something. In Tasmania, or somewhere. Catch the ferry. Drink beer. Eat cheese. Talk cough about art. You'll love it.

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[TheRealTMA]

One for @RooFlyer

 

[RooFlyer]

One for @RooFlyer

Noice! Did you go to the wine bar? I took a small AFF group there once, and I think most were a bit under-whelmed.

So, 3 pics per trip? Here's mine for my trip to the 5 Stans last year. Best trip, ever ...

Darvaza Crater, the 'Door to hell', Central Turkmenistan. For scale, you can just make out the glow of a person to the right of the 2 dots of light on the rim to the left. It was a natural gas deposit, drilled and then set alight by Russians about 45 years ago, when the well started crumbling to 'burn the gas off'. The crater has been getting bigger and on fire ever since! My #1 sight I've seen in the world (if for no other reason that its so bloody hard to get there!)



The Registan, Samarkand, Uzbekisan, three madrassas dating from the 15th century. It was specially lit up for a show for the president the next day. Again, for scale, look at the boundary between the dark and light to the left of the central darker box in the foreground. The little ants are people. this place is freak'n enormous!



Termez, Uzbekistan; view across the Oxus River to Afghanistan. Again, an amazing sight considering where you are!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Noice! Did you go to the wine bar? I took a small AFF group there once, and I think most were a bit under-whelmed.

Yes, been there for lunch a couple of times. It was "ok".

More RF territory...

 

[RooFlyer]

Moving along to the Hill Forts of Rajesthan

The Gajner Palace hotel (right) - room looked right over the lake.



The hill fort at Jaisalmer, in the arid west, not far from the Pakistan border



The hill fort at Jodhpur

 

[TheRealTMA]

More "The Land of the wild @RooFlyer"

Robby R44 flight out from Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park.

 

[RooFlyer]

Lake Baikal, Russia, the largest fresh water lake in the world, and deepest. If you took the mud out of the bottom, you could submerge Mt Everest in it.

A corner of Lake Baikal from Olkhon island



Traditional Siberian building in Irkutsk, the regional city.



Autumn colours



Tunka valley, west of Lake Baikal

 

[RB]

Views from travelling on Durmitor Ring Road Montenegro

 

[OZDUCK]

JohnM's recent TR's on Lake Ballard and Sandalwood harvesting out in that remote area induced me to hunt up some photos from long ago. Some of these were taken when I took my father to revisit the Goldfields of W.A. in 1992 when he was 88 years old. A couple were from my brother took him out camping in the same area in 1988. They were mostly taken at the site of what used to be the town of Davyhurst about 120 km northwest of Kalgoorlie, 66 km south west of Menzies and about 90 km south of Lake Ballard.

These photos are in an old photo album and have become stuck to the pages so I have had to take photos of photos. Please excuse the quality.

My father and the '5 head battery' he had helped build around 1925 - 1935. Taken in 1988





By 1992 - the scavengers had been in and this was all that remained. He was a bit upset at the destruction



This looks like just a pile of random ashes but it was actually the remains of a water condenser plant that used to supply fresh water for all the surrounding areas. You can see by the vegetation that there is salty water close to the surface. My father used to be employed to chip scale and rust out of the boiler tubes when he was a young boy around the time of WW1. We would never have recognised what this area was without having him with us.



Here is some information on them plus a photo of a small plant.

Learning Federation - Western Australia Condenser Company, c1895

The main street of Davyhurst in 1992. There had been a lot of recent rain.



Davyhurst in its glory days - probably a few years after my father was born there in 1904.

 

[RooFlyer]

These photos are in an old photo album and have become stuck to the pages so I have had to take photos of photos.

Fantastic. Have you thought about offering copies to the local history society, together with the story?

 

[OZDUCK]

Fantastic. Have you thought about offering copies to the local history society, together with the story?

Thanks - I hadn't actually but maybe I should.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Views from travelling on Durmitor Ring Road Montenegro

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Looks very much like the highland plains in central italy around campo Imperatore.

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[TheRealTMA]

A few Tasmanian Wildflowers.

 

[RB]

Zabljak Montenegro- Black Lake. Our walk was made more interesting/more difficult by the Celine waterfall. Coniferous forest dominates





Little Lake