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Archive for September, 2003

09 Sep

Why are seagulls white?

I was eating my lunch today at Darling Harbour, absent-mindedly watching the Ibis poke in the bins. Now, for those of you not familiar with ibis, they are birds about as big as a chicken with long black curved beaks which Freaked. Me. Out. the first time one started pecking around me for food!
The Ibis [...]

05 Sep

Burn baby, burn…

Wot’s this? Sydney has learnt something from the last coupla years? There’s a dull orange-grey haze all around the distant horizon and a distinct smell of burning trees? Surely not ANOTHER bush fire? No, as it turns out, FINALLY the respective authorities are doing some back burning to make sure we don’t get more major [...]

03 Sep

Who cares about spring?

Well… It looks Sydney is heading for a scorcher start to the season of sunshine and heat… Why bother with a little season like spring when you can go straight from pleasant mild days to searing temperatures heavily drowning in humidity????
Back in 2000, when Sydney was runamok with athletes and people who paid ridiculously large [...]

01 Sep

A weird thing about women hiking…

Has anyone noticed that if you are hiking and you pass a group of people, the women don’t usually say hello? Now, this is not a phenomenon restricted to Sydney or Australia – I’ve noticed this in the jungles of Venezuela, the tracks of Chile, the trails in the Peruvian Andes, the coastal hikes of [...]

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