Friday, March 8, 2024

Glow-worms


Arachnocampa richardsae
Glow-worms

Greater Sydney / Blue Mountains
NSW, Australia



Glow-worms are insects having a bioluminescent larval stage.

The roof of a cave / overhang covered with glow-worms can look remarkably like a blue starry night sky ... due to the collective bioluminescent glow from the larvae.

The larva hangs down sticky silk threads from the ceiling of a cave.  The glow from its head attracts prey and ensnare them in the threads.

Generally glow-worms have few predators.
Their greatest danger is from human interference.

More details are in wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnocampa




Photos/videos here are from my trips:

- 2024-Mar-07  Night walk
Birdwood Gully, Springwood

- 2023-Dec-16  Abseil & swims at night
Grand Canyon, Blackheath

- 2020-Jul-11  Bushwalk
Glowworm Tunnel, Gardens of Stone NP


Almost all are taken by John Graham.
(unless stated otherwise)




1)  Video: Glow-worm moving in UV light.

- Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood

- Note: Slightly clearer videos are in:
YouTube: https://youtube.com/shorts/qHG3q9e_F48
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4Q9FUZCOUK/





2)  Location: Grand Canyon, Blackheath




3)  Location: Glowworm Tunnel, Gardens of Stone NP
Photographer: Yours Truly 😊




4)  Location: Grand Canyon, Blackheath




5)  Location: Grand Canyon, Blackheath




6)  Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood




7)  Sticky threads hanging down from ceiling.
Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood

Photographer: Melody




8)  Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood




9)  Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood




10)  Sticky threads hanging down from ceiling.
Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood





11)  Sticky threads hanging down from ceiling.
Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood





12)  Sticky threads hanging down from ceiling.
Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood





13)  Sticky threads hanging down from ceiling.
Location: Birdwood Gully, Springwood




14)  Sticky threads hanging down from ceiling.
Location: Grand Canyon, Blackheath


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Sunday, March 3, 2024

How to politely tell someone they are stupid


How to politely tell someone they are stupid:

Wisdom has been chasing you.
But you have always been faster.


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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Jonah swallwed by whale; teacher goes to Hell


Teacher: It's physically impossible
               for a whale to swallow a human
               because, even though it's a large mammal,
               its throat is very small.

Student: Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Teacher: Again, it's physically impossible !

Student: Well, when I get to Heaven, I will ask Jonah.

Teacher: What if Jonah went to Hell ?

Student: Then you ask him.

Actually, the Bible says Jonah was swallowed by a big fish.
And whale ain't fish.

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

Coffee - tragic geometry


Tragic geometry :
    pentagon
    hexagon
    octagon
    coffeegon




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Friday, November 3, 2023

Weatherman doesn't need to be correct


Dennis the Menace:
"I want a job where I don't have to right all the time."

Gina Gillotti:
"You want to be a weatherman?"



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Sunday, October 8, 2023

Women outpace men when jogging


One woman to another:
"It's great how we always manage to outpace all the guys when we go jogging !"

Personally ...
I rather run in front ... backward of course !

Although ...
I've always been behind the women's movement.



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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Bumbunga Lake, SA, Australia


Bumbunga Lake
Lockiel, South Australia, Australia

2023 mid September

1)  Red oval: Loch Ness Monster 🙂
No one can find Nessie in Scotland
because it is here in Bumbunga Lake 🙂





2)  Nessie is here in Bumbunga Lake.
That is why no one can find it in Scotland 🙂





3)  Bumbunga Lake.
Can be pink in the right season and salinity.
Water no more than knee deep.
If you don't wish to have muddy feet,
then photoshop yourself to Nessie's back.




4)  And so I photoshopped myself to top of Nessie 🙂
As well as photoshopped the pink colour 🙂


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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Australia enters the space race with a boomerang rocket


One Australian rocket scientist to another:

Yeah, it's a strange shape,
but I guarantee it'll come back !



Australia enters the space race.
With a boomerang rocket !


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Monday, September 18, 2023

Best selfie - ever !


Can you see the beautiful Snowy River (NSW, Australia) ?
Or notice a beanie being pinched ?




The best selfie ever !!! ... by Sunshine An.

From a snowshoeing trip to :
Mt Twynam
Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Australia
2023-August

Trip report:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OJQAruIhigs-e0Mu8ZBzQA-IfN5vgZZB/view

More pictures of Sunshine An:
https://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-day-in-life-of-sunshine-an.html


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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

A day in the life of Sunshine An


Sunshine An's day
Snowshoeing to Mt Twynam


Kosciuszko National Park
NSW, Australia
2023-August

Trip report:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OJQAruIhigs-e0Mu8ZBzQA-IfN5vgZZB/view



1)  Sunshine An,
the red hot sexy flying fox
hanging on a flying fox over Blue Cow Creek.





2)  An can kick high !




3)  Helen, An, Tiffany.
Crazy lovable bunch of people in this trip.
Not afraid of the freezing temperature !!!
- Red arrows, left to right:
      1 Little Twynam,  2 Mt Twynam
      Heading there soon.





4)  An, Ryan, Tiffany.
- Red arrow: Mt Twynam
                     Heading there soon.


Photographer: John Graham



5)  Arrive at Snowy River.
But can you see the beautiful river ?
Or notice Helen's beanie being pinched ?


Best selfie ever ... by Sunshine An



6)  About to cross Illawong Bridge over Snowy River.

Selfie by Sunshine An



7)  An,
the red hot sexy flying fox
hanging on the suspension cables of Illawong Bridge.





8)  Taking a rest at Twynam Creek.
- An playing with snow





9)  Still at Twynam Creek.
- An playing with ice crystals.





10)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- An


Photographer: Sornkin Lam



11)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- Ryan, An


Photographer: Sornkin Lam



12)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- John, Ryan, An
Told you we have crazy lovable people in this trip !!!
Not afraid of the freezing temperature !!!





13)  Summit if Mt Twynam.
- Helen, An





14)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- An, Helen





15)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- An, John, Helen
Look at the grin on John’s face  :-)   :-)   :-)





16)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- An, Paul, Helen
I’m lapping it up  :-)


Photographer: John Graham



17)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- John, An, Paul
Must organize another kissing trip  :-)


Photographer: Sornkin Lam



18)  Summit of Mt Twynam.
- A snow angel making a snow angel



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Sunday, September 3, 2023

Dog driving a car


Is that a dog driving a car ?

It is not every day you see a dog driving a car !



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Monday, August 28, 2023

Mermaid ... She had cosmetic surgery


One dugong to another:
    "I knew her from high school ...
    She must have had cosmetic surgery !"



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Friday, August 18, 2023

Penrose Stairs and Escher's "Ascending and Descending"


Penrose stairs (or Penrose steps) is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937.  Later, independently discovered and made popular by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose.

It is a variation on the Penrose Triangle.
Refer to this link:
https://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com/2023/06/penrose-triangle.html

The "continuous staircase" was first presented in an article that the Penroses wrote in 1959, based on the Penrose Triangle published by Roger Penrose in the British Journal of Psychology in 1958.









M. C. Escher discovered the Penrose stairs in the following year and made his now famous lithograph Klimmen en dalen (Ascending and Descending) in March 1960.

Penrose and Escher were informed of each other's work that same year.




Escher developed the theme further in his print Waterval (Watefall), which appeared in 1961.
Refer to this link:
https://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com/2009/10/maurits-eschers-waterfall.html


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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

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