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I'm hoping to catch up with John (jgra1) today, as he's only in town very briefly. Always interesting to see just how wrong you can be, in guessing what a person's like! :lol:
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Post by addo »

Of what? Female backpackers at Bondi? :twisted:

If John wants beaches, I'll happily run him up to the northern reaches of sydney where the natural vista is better. If he wants mountains, we go west. Should he desire to see Australian countryside, that's easy enough too.
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addo wrote:Of what? Female backpackers at Bondi? :twisted:
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Xac! Did you have to post that. Thats almost as hypnotising as Stempy's avatar :twisted: :roll:
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Stempy's avatar was rather, um, rythmic wasnt it :lol:

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addo wrote
"where the natural vista is better"

is that AUS for beah babys

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Post by addo »

John's no slouch when it comes to being friendly towards good sorts. He found the natural vista in some places we visited, very appealing.

We went to the mountains. It was hot and sunny, hot and cloudy, hot and rainy, cold and rainy, cold and rainy and windy, cold and windy then windy. :lol:

John also needs to stop jumping at Australian lightning flashes (apparently much more dramatic than UK lightning).

All up, approximately 250 miles of touristing. It was a good day out!
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Post by CitroJim »

Great stuff Adam! Sounds like you really gave John a good tour there :D
addo wrote:John also needs to stop jumping at Australian lightning flashes (apparently much more dramatic than UK lightning).
As an ex-resident of Darwin, I know all about Aussie lightning :D Good job John was not there or he'd be a nervous wreck by now.

I absolutely love a good electric storm and those we had in Darwin during the wet were the most spectacular I have ever seen. Our UK ones are pathetic by comparison but I still enjoy them.
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Post by RichardW »

I too like electric storms - but we hardly ever get them up here in Scotland. However, saw some pretty impressive ones when we were in the Alps for a month in 1997 - including one we were INSIDE :shock: - we were climbing up to the Gouter hut on Mont Blanc, which is at about 3800m, and once inside the cloud interesting things started happening. Ice axes buzzing, my mate's hair standing out horizontal from his climbing helmet, shocks off metal rope hand assits - and when we got to the hut, it was like an aluminium Nissen hut and the whole thing was buzzing. Never made it to the summit, as there was a gale blowing the next morning :cry:
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Can't beat that story! :shock:

Forgot to add, we (naturally) travelled by Xantia.
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Post by jgra1 »

a big thanks there to Addo for giving me a day out in a car i recognise :)
it was a nice drive up into the blue mountains, with lots of interesting facts and nuggets from addo.
yes yes lightening bolt overhead, stuck on a rocky ledge, was a bit scary :twisted: all good fun..

will dig out a pic or two, unfortuantley I didn't get many of a typical girl on the street in Bondi ;) slacking!

now in NZ and its freezing! I think it was below 20 today :twisted:
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Post by addo »

Just a related follow-up... I showed John some of the rockfalls and landslides that had occurred in the last hundred years or less. I think the recentness of this history made an impression.

Yesterday, perhaps brought forward by persistent rain, there were more small landslides in areas not far from where we went - it's caused the main western rail line to be shut down. Definitely we timed the day trip well!
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