Planets Revisited

Got up at 5:00am this morning. Those Taylors have got a lot to answer! The planets are still in a line but stretched out from the horizon to overhead. I have fiddled the exposure time to 4 seconds and got some better shots. The Huddle telescope is on the horizon. The SkyView app labels most things in the night sky, very handy for stargazing.

SkyView App

Venus & Mercury

Sunrise

Dog Rocks

Took a detour on the way to the beach via Dog Rocks.  You could call it Wave Rocks but that has been used before in the Territory.  I vaguely remember going there when I was around 20 yar old. I'll  see if there are any photos. However closer to home these are worth a look and are an interesting formation near the Moorabool River at BatesFord.

Dog Rocks

 

More like a wave

 

Roberts Family Sequel

This is the more recent story of Alice and Herbert (My Grand parents) and their travels and also with sections on each of their children.  I now know I have a few more years of travel given that my grand father could pull a heavy old caravan around Australia while in his mid seventies.  A lot of work has been put into this book by my parents who do feature heavily, as their research into the Roberts tree has caught up with their own story.  I am using it as a source to try to add a caption to each of around seven hundred digitised negatives. As well I have a corresponding photo album which reveals that there must be more negatives somewhere.  With all the travels on numerous trips, I think I have been to most places they visited.

Inside front piece

Perth over 50 yar ago, looks like sleepy hollow

Blood Line

Don't think I have read any of Lynda La Plante before.  This one seemed a bit slow for a whodunit but I guess the emphasis was on the who. The crime is enacted in the first paragraph and then 400 pages of detail to unravel the culprit. I did watch some of her TV show Prime Suspect which was OK so maybe I should try one of her other books.

Guy running on car park ramp
not in the book!

SkyCam

No not the drone, although it might be worth a try.  The planets must have aligned as I have managed to get some shots of the elusive munching Black Cockatoos that have been raining pine cones onto our van roof of late. There are only a few trees left in the park so the birds have been concentrating on our tree.  Back to the planets. They really have aligned this week. I saw four in a row pointing out to the East around 4:00 am. There is a picture below but on the compact camera there are only points of light.

Flying Brick

Hello ...

Astral View

Collendina Report

Part of the wash up after the unfortunate plane crash off our beach last week is now starting to come ashore.  A broken watch, sunglasses and some sort of cowling cover have been observed on the sand. The salvage crane was hovering over the spot today. The biggest stink however was a dead seal. I believe it is a gas filled carcass at the moment as each morning it floats to a different part of the beach on the tide. Very eerie. The wind broke our sun shelter but it has been repaired with a coat hangar. Not sure how long it will last.

wreckage - note seal

Grampians

The large number of negatives taken by my grand parents is steadily being scanned and committed to digital.  Knowing exactly where these travels were taken is a bit of a mystery but some sections are recognisable. There are some good clues when signage of some sort is included in the photo particularly plaques on monuments like in the Never Never. I have found a new batch that looks like the Grampians as that weathered rock seems familiar from my own trips there.

These could be late 1950s

Herb and Alice rock climbers



Who is that?

Nerve test Gordon

 These are 1974

Nerve test



Rare Sun

These are 1988

Short walk for short legs

Rest Stop