Bioluminescent Algae in Jervis Bay - Australia
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Today's little excursion was a trip to the northern headland of Jervis Bay, the Beecroft Penninsular.
This is the view from Currarong (looking northish).
Currarong beach even had a couple of surfers (learners by the look of it), but I hadn't planned to stop there . . . I had to kill some time before the road opened to take me to my intended destination.
Point Perpendicular Lighthouse.
The old one (built in 1889 and decommissioned in 1993) is much better looking that the new one - a steel tower with a solar powered light.
This is the view across to the southern headland, Cape st George.
Walking through the area I spied a lot of banksias and grass trees (or Blaga - otherwise known as Black Boy trees)
The walk down the track, heading basically west to the Outer Tubes had some spectacular views across Jervis Bay.
And the trees were hiding the birds that twittered and sang, the puddles contained very vocal frogs that I could hear but not see, and the coastline in this area is pretty spectacular.
The area called Outer Tubes - I believe so named for torpedo tubes installed here to protect Jervis Bay during WWII - is now a popular fishing spot.
And at this point my camera was warning me the battery was low, but I needed to get some close ups of the cliffs!
I won't further spam you with photos (taken on my phone) from the antique shop I stopped at on the way home . . . unless you ask!
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@katblu42 The one beach in Jervis Bay, NSW, I have been to. March 2007. It was a beautiful white beach with turquoise Pacific Ocean. One thing that was remarkable to me was that the forest went right up to the edge of the beach - something we don’t really have in South Australia. We tend to have heath or sanddunes, or if we did have it, it is now farmland, because I haven’t seen any.
This is a gorgeous corner of Australia and I’m very envious. We also visited Granite Falls, somewhere in the vicinity (I say in the Vicinity because on that holdiay, we did the entire coast between Adelaide and Sydney and I only have vague recollections where things were without a map :D )
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What I'm learning from having joined a book club and reading lots of different books I wouldn't have normally picked out for myself, is that your book could be a NY best seller and be pop fluff and people will still read it and talk about it. This is to say I shouldn't be such a perfectionist about my unmarketable book because people who enjoy reading new books might still find it and have something to say about it.
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sydney anon idk if you’re still around but im heading south of sydney all the way down to jervis bay :)
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While nothing like the suffering being experienced as a result of fuel shortages in Sri Lanka, this is ludicrous and shameful. It is also remarkable ― one usually thinks of domestic coal as a reliable energy source, for all its other defects.
Some of the coal-fired stations which generate three-quarters of the country’s electricity are off line for scheduled maintenance. Others have suffered “unexpected outages” (breakdowns, of a kind nuclear stations rarely experience, because of the high standards of technical excellence they are held to). And coal production has been disrupted by flooding and other problems. Between the problems involved with transporting the huge tonnages demanded, and the specialized equipment used for handling and burning different grades of coal, fuel cannot simply be shifted from stations which have been idled for other reasons, to those which are idled for lack of it.
Add in the current worldwide demand for the fossil fuels which Australia exports, plus what passes for a cold snap Down Under, and what is the result?
All of this has helped drive up power prices on the wholesale market to above the A$300 (£173; $210) per megawatt hour price cap set by the market's regulator, the Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo).
However, that cap was below the cost of production for several generators, who decided to withhold capacity.
On Wednesday, Aemo took the unprecedented step of suspending the market and said it would set prices directly and compensate generators for the shortfall.
Forgive us for suggesting that these “power market” mechanisms seem unreasonably fragile in the face of foreseeable problems. Oh, and when it comes to stabilizing the electricity supply, weather-dependent wind and solar installations, even with colossal batteries, leave something to be desired.
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