Coffee vs toddler

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May your coffee be stronger than your toddler.

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Blair Athol Coal Mine

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I had a pleasant day out
exploring Blair Athol Coal Mine
in Blue Mountains National Park,
Mount Victoria, NSW, Australia.

It was the 4th mine (now abandoned)
owned by a Queensland based company
called Blair Athol Coal & Timber company.

The mine adit is 300 meters long.
Incline is a steady 15%.
You can walk the first 200 meters.
The last 100 meters is flooded.

At where it is flooded, the water level is steady
at the same level all these years.

It suggests that as water seeps into the mine,
it also somehow seeps out at the same rate.


Pictures - taken in 2019 August

A detailed trip report will be written up one day ...
Watch this space 😊

For now, enjoy the pictures below.


1)  Blair Athol Coal Mine entrance.

2)  Inside Blair Athol Coal Mine.

3)  Seems to be a Sydney Rock Warbler's nest.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Why built a nest inside a mine adit ?

4)  Raphiophoridae.
Common names are:
    -  Cave Weta
    -  Cave Cricket
    -  Spider Cricket
More about it in the next photo.

5)  Characteristics of Cave Cricket (Spider Cricket):
-  long legs
-  extremely looong antennae
-  flightless

6)  Fungus with an intricate fruiting body ...
      hanging on the ceiling of the cave.
If you know the species name, please let me know.

7)  The mine is flooded 200 meters in
      from the entrance.
- Unlike other mines I have visited,
  the water here is extremely clear.
  If you don't watch out, you won't notice the water
  and would just keep walking ! 😊
- The water level is also constant all these years,
  indicating that as water seeps into the mine,
  it also somehow seeps out at the same rate.

8)  Steve strips to his underpants
      to check out the water 😊
Actually, people have dived inside this mine ...
No, not us, not this time 😊

9)  On our way out.

10)  Afterwards, Steve (the guy in photo #8)
       leads us to a ventilation shaft for the mine ...
       about 300 meters east of the mine entrance.
- He discovered it not long ago.
- As the vertical shaft is almost
  covered up with vegetation,
  if you go bushbashing in this area, be careful.
  The shaft is deep.  If you fall in, you'll be dead.
- The National Parks authorities
  may not even know about it !
  As otherwise, they would have sealed it;
  or erect some signage
  to warn you about the shaft.

Comments

1)
Visit the mine if you have a chance.
It is an interesting place.

And with luck, you maybe able to spot
the Cave Crickets (Spider Crickets) ...
photos #4 and #5.

But to me,
the fungus in photo #6 is most fascinating.


2)
Some websites suggest
there are Glow-worms in the tunnel.
We detected none 😭

But if you saw some, please let me know.
I'll check out the mine again
and report the finds here.

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Mosquito with a helmet

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Mosquito 1: "Hey what is that ?"
Mosquito 2: "A mosquito with a helmet."

Mosquito 1: "He looks very stupid, hehehe."
Mosquito 2: "Hey, fat one, for what should this be good ?"

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Knee replacements

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Doctor to millipede:

"The news isn't good.
You need 987 knee replacements."

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Tessellated Pavements - 2

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Organ Pipes National Park

It is a very small national park near Melbourne,
in Victoria, Australia.

And yet, it has many interesting features.
One of them is Tessellated Pavement.

The centre part of previous pic:

Date: 2013 December

This place is not as impressive as other tessellated pavements.  But still, it is not everyday you encounter a scene like this  :-)   And grass is now growing between the cracks.  In a few more decades, you won't notice the tessellation pattern  :-(

Photographs of other features in Organ Pipes National Park will be shown in a separate article one day ... watch this space  :-)

By the way, other tessellated rock patterns I have photographed are in this link:
http://onemanadreaming.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Tessellation

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Antibodies

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Why don't ants get sick ?
Because they have little anty bodies.

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Tessellated Pavements - 1

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Tesselate Hill is a little secret
in the Blue Mountains in NSW, Australia.

Not many people know about this place,
let alone visit it.

But it is well known
to the savvy Blue Mountains bushwalkers
for its tessellated rock patterns
on a large flat platform.

Although it is relatively common
to see rocks with tessellation patterns;
yet it is very unusual to see them
covering such a large area as in Tesselate Hill.

Photos & detailed bushwalking trip report
to this area are in this link:
http://mntviews.blogspot.com/2019/08/tesselate-hill-unnamed-734-meter-hill.html

Some sample picture are posted below.

By the way, there is only one "l" in "Tesselate" Hill.
That is how it is spelt in the maps.


Pictures - taken in 2019 July
Tessellated Pavements at Tesselate Hill

1)  From where the car is parked,
it takes 30 mins to climb
to the summit of Tesselate Hill.
Then another 15 mins to reach here,
Tessellated Pavements.

2)  Tessellated Pavements

3)  Tessellated Pavements

4)  Tessellated Pavements

5)  A human face ... hhmmm ...
- Perhaps ET's face 😊

Aboriginal engraving

Still at Tessellated Pavements area.

6)  An aboriginal engraving.
I can only find one.
If there are more, please let me know.

To unnamed 734-meter hill

7)  Then it is to explore an unnamed 734-meter hill
     north of Tesselate Hill.
- Red arrow: The unnamed 734-meter hill
- Yellow arrows: The way to reach there
- White oval: Wollangambe River

8)  Interesting rock face.
- On the way to the unnamed 734-meter hill

9)  Interesting cave.
- On the way to the unnamed 734-meter hill

At 734-meter hill summit

10)  At summit of the unnamed 734-meter hill.
- There are many patches of
  tessellated rock patterns,
  but not a large contiguous area as in
  Tesselate Hill.

11)  One of the many patches
       of tessellated rock patterns at
       the summit of the unnamed 734-meter hill.

12)  Here is another patch
       of tessellated rock patterns.

There are more patches than the ones
shown above.

Go there and check them out for yourself.


Return to Tesselate Hill and the car

Then it is retracing steps back to the car.

13)  This photo is facing Tesselate Hill.
It shows the route to the unnamed 734-meter hill.
- Left red arrow: Just behind the ridge is
                           where our car is parked.
- Right red arrow: Summit of Tesselate Hill
- Yellow oval: Tessellated Pavements
- Yellow arrows: Route we took
                           to the unnamed 734-meter hill
                           (along top of a ridge)
- White oval: Wollangambe River

More photos & detailed trip report in this link:
http://mntviews.blogspot.com/2019/08/tesselate-hill-unnamed-734-meter-hill.html

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Two clowns

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If you look really closely, you'll see 2 clowns ...

... Staring at each other.

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Phone replaces family

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Your cell phone has already replaced your watch, camera, calendar, and alarm clock.
Don't let it replace your family.

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Cruel male-dominated culture

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Caucasian woman:
"Everything covered but her eyes.
What a cruel male-dominated culture !"

Muslim woman:
"Nothing covered but her eyes.
What a cruel male-dominated culture !"

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Swollen knees :-)

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Husband to wife:

"Are your knees swollen ?
Or are you going braless again ?

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Throwing in the towel

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Sometimes I feel like throwing in the towel .....
But that would only make more laundry for me  :-(

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Lost cities in Australia - 1

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Some photographs of rock formations in Australia that resemble an old decaying civilisation swallowed by the wilderness.

1 - Kings Canyon, NT, Australia

Did the Kings Canyon Rim Walk in 2015 July.

Pictures and trip report are in my blog: http://mntviews.blogspot.com/2015/07/kings-canyon-nt-australia.html

1.1)  Plenty of scenes like this in Kings Canyon ... They look just like a lost city.

1.2)  To enlarge the image, click on it.

1.3)  Continuation to the right of previous pic ~~~
The foot bridge you can see here is the same as the one on the right edge of previous pic.

1.4)  Continuation to the right of previous pic

1.5)  How the domes are formed: (To enlarge the image, click on it.)

The above beehive-like domes make the plateau in Kings Canyon look like a "lost city". They are the result of erosion of vertical cracks in the sandstone.

Aerial photos of the plateau show a grid-like pattern of parallel cracks. One set runs nearly east-west and the other runs approximately north-south.

- 1:  The domes on top of the range started as cube shaped blocks bounded by intersecting cracks.
- 2:  Wind and rain have gradually worn away the sides and top corners in the last 20 million years.
- 3:  The blocks have become domes. separated by flat rock.

2 - Mt Touwouwan, Wollemi Nat Pk, NSW, Australia

Climbed Mt Touwouwan in 2016 February.

Pictures and trip report are in my blog: http://mntviews.blogspot.com/2016/02/mt-touwouwan-wollemi-nat-pk-nsw.html

2.1)  These rock formations are called pagodas

3 - Mt Towinhingy, Wollemi Nat Pk, NSW, Australia

Climbed Mt Towinhingy in 2016 February.

Pictures and trip report are in my blog: http://mntviews.blogspot.com/2016/02/mt-towinhingy-wollemi-nat-pk-nsw.html

3.1)  Pagoda-like rock formations on the north-western side of Mt Towinhingy

3.2)  The northern slope of Mt Towinhingy is full of pagodas.
- Upper pic:  Here is part of the slope on the north-western side.
- Middle pic: Zooming into the left side of the upper pic
- Lower pic: Zooming into the right side of the upper pic

3.3)  Pagodas and more pagodas on the north-western slope  (To enlarge the image, click on it.)

4 - Citadel Spur, Mugii Murum-ban SCA, NSW, Australia

Mugii Murum-ban SCA is Mugii Murum-ban State Conservation Area.

Climbed and walked along Citadel Spur in 2018 September.

Trip report will be written up one day ... Watch this space  :-)

4.1)  Once you have seen this picture of the Citadel Spur, you should have a burning urge to want to climb and walk all over it.  If not, I don't know what will get you excited  :-)

5 - Lost City, Newnes State Forest, NSW, Australia

Visited Lost City in 2019 June.

Trip report will be written up one day ... Watch this space  :-)

5.1)  This place is called Lost City for the obvious reason that the rock formations resemble an old decaying civilisation swallowed by the wilderness.

5.2)  Wonderful scene !

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Pearl teeth in moonlight

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Old man: "In the moonlight your teeth look just like pearls."
Old woman: "Who's Pearl, and what were you doing in the moonlight with her ?!"

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We all love Donald Trump

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US President Donald Trump
- Born 1946 June 14
- 45th president of the United States, elected in 2016 by beating up Hillary Clinton.
- Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

We all love him and want him to kiss our arse every day !

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Meanwhile in Scotland

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Toilet sign in Scotland
(Both male and female wear skirts 😊)

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Skull or Woman

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What do you see here ?
Skull or woman

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