High-definition vertigo
I was checking out the Mulgrave River yesterday in Google Earth and was stunned to see that much of the surrounding region, including Townsville and Cairns, is now in high resolution.
I then checked out the Mt Elliot area in general, and Alligator Falls in particular. The image below is looking at the face of the falls from the East, and at a slight downward angle. You can see how steep and scary the face of the main falls is, along with how lucky I was to stop where I did!
If this doesn’t send a chill down your spine, nothing will. Writing this post has made me feel slightly ill.
June 21st, 2006 at 5:12 pm
good grief - what were you doing all the way up there?????????
no wonder they had to winch you both up.
thank goodness there wasn’t more water in the falls.
a very lucky escape i think
now to get that leg right.
June 21st, 2006 at 7:23 pm
or was it left?
June 22nd, 2006 at 11:55 am
Oh ya, I had forgotten all about that. How is your leg anyway?
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 pm
it’s great. i can run around, jump off the roof, kick things, stomp as hard as i want, dance like a ballerina, and ride time-trials at the velodrome. it’s also helped me improve my fly-casting to 150ft, and i’m handing in my PhD tomorrow, right after the socceroos win against Croatia. life couldn’t be better
tom “half full” rayner.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:11 pm
So . . . then why are you not also on the field WITH the socceroos? Modesty?
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
is that supposed to be another one of your ‘jokes’?
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Optimism has got you this far I suppose. Speaking of fly-casting, yesterday I was looking at a map of Centenial Park in the hope of plotting a route for a covert rampage through the undergrowth and around the many lakes on my bicycle, when I came across the so-named ‘Fly-Casting Pond’. ‘That’s nice of them’ I thought, to allocate space so city dwellers have somewhere close-by to prepare for the next trip down a river somewhere. It’s not all smog and posh bars in town.
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:05 pm
I recently modelled the Centenial Park pond network (numerical modelling) for hydrodynamic and water quality performance, and I assure you there is nothing unique about the ‘Fly-Casting Pond’. It is, believe it or not, very similar to ‘Duck Pond’ and ‘Busby Pond’ etc.
However, the top ponds, including the Fly-Casting Pond are the nicest, over hanging willows and grassy banks. Very pleasant and Wordsworth-esque on a sunny spring morning. Noice!!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 6:38 am
Gooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:00 am
‘Caaaaarn the ‘Roooooooooos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Harry was upset with the last ref, then this one surely deserved a header squarly in the nose. The better team won on the day though, as they say.