Pictures ! Anything goes, it is the camera corner after all !!

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

The first picture is of his Avro Baby, with a watercooled Green engine. The other is his Avro Avian, with an aircooled ADC Cirrus engine. The Cirrus engine used parts from a WW1 Renault V8 engine to build a four cylinder engine, and was effectively an ancestor of the DH Gipsy (DH Moth) and Gipsy Major (DH Tiger Moth, DHC Chipmunk, DHA Drover and many others) engines, and through them, of the Gipsy Six (DH Dragon Rapide, DH86, Dove, etc) and Gipsy Twelve (DH Albatross).

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Geez you know your stuff. You would enjoy the Hinkler Museum at Bundy. They even have his house from England.

Good morning https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/07/227.jpg

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Originally Posted by cuppabillytea

Sorry Mick. Fatigue and predictive text will cause me a serious mischief one day.
I meant Bargara. It nearly got me a second time.

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Bagara - where there's bagar-all to see and bagar-all to do ;)

except maybe a short trip up the road to the hummock for some strawberries.

Actually - a lot has changed in 20 years. There's a woolworths there now. I remember wongarra scenic drive used to be a racetrack after the causeway.... there are houses everywhere there now - I just googled it... [bigsmile]

And rifle range road - many a drag race for decades along there..... including the odd off-duty 'public safety official' in years gone by...

wow I can't even see the old restaraunt Galleon cave ?? I think it was... friends of mine owned it after it closed in the 90's - did they knock it down?

Lot of change in Bargara in the eight years since my last visit.
Bundy has grown too. The rum factory has a much bigger range too, including rum with coffee!

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Originally Posted by jx2mad

I didn't think they burned sugar cane any more seeing it is mechanised harvesting.

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The same gear is used to cut the cane whether it is burnt or green. Obviously no "trash" if they burn it first and if cut green then a trash blanket is left on the ground. One of the issues of cutting green is that the harvester blades don't last as long.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I read about 10 percent of Bundy growers still burn. Most till it in instead.

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Some farmers rake the cane trash into rows after harvesting and burn it. Some leave it on the ground supposedly to protect the soil.

whats this critter thats going round stinging all my veggies ?
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orangeinsect1 by Dave Blears, on Flickr

Looks a bit like a European wasp... but I don't think I've ever seen them cross their wings like that.

it's about 22-25mm long

not seen one like it before

Sumatran Tiger at Melbourne Zoo

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That is really good Photography Mark. [thumbsupbig]